Swan Huntley is a writer and illustrator living in Los Angeles. Her books include Getting Clean with Stevie Green, The Goddesses, We Could Be Beautiful, The Bad Mood Book, You’re Grounded and I Want You More. She earned an MFA at Columbia University and has received fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo.
Our bad mood isn’t just about us. It affects others around us.
The Bad Mood Book and its author Swan Huntley understands that, and he helps us understand that our bad mood separates us from others, as well as our sense of wonder.
One of the things we love most is our sense of wonder and we don’t like not having access to it.
So we are very glad someone got us this book.
The Bad Mood Book doesn’t take a long time to explain important things to us. And it makes it easy for us to understand with a straight-forward style of writing: like the kind your best friend used to use when passing notes back and forth to you in school.
(The notes our best friend might be passing us today would likely say something like “you might fail the next test if you don’t pay attention”)
The Bad Mood Book is a like a good friend trying to help you gain perspective and avoid The Bad Mood Hole (it’s a thing!) with advice and kindness.
The Bad Mood Book also helps you be kind to yourself.
We are sure someone you know (maybe even yourself) could really use a copy of The Bad Mood Book. It would be a great gift that lets someone know you understand, and that you care about them.
In January, I experienced a lot of heartache, so picking up ‘The Bad Mood Book’ by Swan Huntley as February began felt just right.
According to Huntley, the purpose of this book is not to remind you to be happier and more grateful. Instead, it aims to assist you in sinking deeper into your bad mood and asking yourself a few questions that are pivotal in helping you understand the cause of the bad mood better.
It’s an interactive book with no heavy illustrations that can help clear your views as you read.
I punched the book, ripped the pages, and ‘spoke’ to the book by answering the questions in there. It felt good. 🥹
Thank you, @times.reads & @putrifariza, for a book that came in as a warm embrace when I just needed an outlet to ease the storm inside my heart.
This was a delightful book. I follow Swan on instagram and have been a fan of her comics forever. This is a great little read to gift a young person or even a friend going through it. You can breeze through it in about 30 minutes and by the time you’re done, your bad mood has lifted, if not disappeared completely. Great writer. Fun idea for a book.