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Leanne Toshiko Simpson

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Scarborough, Canada

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Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Romance

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Leanne Toshiko Simpson is a mixed-race Yonsei writer who lives with bipolar disorder. Named Scarborough’s Emerging Writer in 2016 and nominated for the Journey Prize in 2019, she co-founded a reflective writing program at Canada’s largest mental health hospital and teaches at the University of Toronto. Never Been Better is her debut novel.

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	Never Been Better 3.51 avg rating — 1,674 ratings — published 2024 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Imaginary Safe House (Dis/Ability Series # 11) by Shane Neilson (Editor), Roxanna Bennett (Editor), Ally Fleming (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Leanne Simpson rated a book it was amazing Who by Fire (A Dame Polara Mystery #1) by Greg Rhyno (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I loved Greg's first novel and although this one is a departure in terms of narration and theme, it's no less compelling! Dame Polara is a heroine you can't help but root for and the way her investigative work is situated within her personal support ...more
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“Sometimes I don't know if I actually have a mental illness or if I'm just a bad person.”
― Leanne Toshiko Simpson, Never Been Better

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“I wondered if perhaps Elinor would understand- in a way my own parents never seemed to- how it felt to carry around the potential to harm the people you loved best, just by nature of your being.”
― Leanne Toshiko Simpson, Never Been Better

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“...I often feel that ugly-sick is the most genuine iteration of myself. Sometimes I am delicately depressed, like a wet tissue-paper flower, and then there are times when I am in my terry-cloth bathrobe screaming at my parents for telling me I'm not well enough to drive and it feels like I have to shed my skin like a snake and I'm burning up in the sun, thinking in sharp cardiovascular spikes, 'This is who I really am, this is why I deserve nothing, this is why you should leave me.”
― Leanne Toshiko Simpson, Never Been Better

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