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Meg’s 2024 Year in Books
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While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
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| I could read this 10 more times and not get tired of it. Every sentence is a treat. | |
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| Wow. What a tender and poignant book about a daughter’s love for her father, challenged by his schizophrenia. Natasha writes with equal measures of skill and empathy, helping readers really feel what it was like for her growing up. Anyone who knows s ...more | |
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| A sweet, funny, tender book. Just what this world needs. Thank you, Teresa, for opening your heart and filling ours. | |
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| Brilliant. 30 Rock+Abbey Road x the lunar eclipse to the nth degree. So dense in genius you want to read every sentence three times. | |
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| If you want to know what it feels like to watch someone you love be torn apart by mental illness, read this book. Tripp Friedler does a masterful — and heroic — job of having his readers feel every hope raised and dashed and raised again. What a gift ...more | |
“But I was learning that you can’t fast-forward through grief or read a CliffsNotes version of your life and expect to make peace with it.”
― While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
― While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
“Trauma does that to you. It steals your memory. I either couldn’t or didn’t let myself remember her or talk about her.”
― While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
― While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
“the easier I understood that two seemingly contradictory truths can exist simultaneously. My parents could be warm and loving but also reckless and flawed. Our family life could have been happy despite the tragedies.”
― While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
― While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
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| Goodreads Choice ...: Theresa's 2023 Yearly Challenges | 3 | 205 | Jan 01, 2023 08:42PM | |
| The Lost Challenges: November 2023 Stand Alone | 69 | 42 | Dec 06, 2023 02:33PM | |
| Turn of a Page: Michele's Stadium Tour-Complete | 207 | 19 | Dec 08, 2023 09:05AM | |
| The Lost Challenges: November 2023 Scattergories | 80 | 51 | Dec 11, 2023 09:08AM | |
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