Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self By Lori Gottlieb - I didn't really enjoy this book. Obviously it was created from the diaries of a eleven year old, but just felt there was a lack of substance and story behind it.
Real Life Issues: Eating Disorders By Heather Warner - quick guide to eating disorders. Maybe a good book for friends or families in understanding the basics of eating disorders before tacking more intense and in depth books.
Hurry Down Sunshine By Michael Greenberg - Excellent book writen by a father about his 15 year old daughters psychotic break and time in hospital. It was a refreshing read. He identifies and recognises the attraction of mania and psychosis and the straight jacket medication supplies but that his daughter needed this to gain the status of 'remission' and stability, even if only for a while. I would recommend it!
You made up your mind to torture mine!
If you read a scar like a book, you will relise the story in which you over look
~ 'Paint the skyscrapers with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and every evening what's left of mankind will retreat to empty zoos and lock itself in cages as protection against the bears and big cats and wolves that pace and watch us from outside the cage bars at night'- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
~ We'll float around, hang out on clouds, then we'll come down and have a hangover... ~ Feel free to PM ^.^
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: 'This glass is half full'. And then there are those who say: 'This glass is half empty'.
The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: 'What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!
I am only about five chapters in, but it is compelling so far and written in an interesting way. The signs are good, I rented it from the library after a lot of people found it a very rewarding read. Will report back as I get further along!
~ 'Paint the skyscrapers with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and every evening what's left of mankind will retreat to empty zoos and lock itself in cages as protection against the bears and big cats and wolves that pace and watch us from outside the cage bars at night'- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
~ We'll float around, hang out on clouds, then we'll come down and have a hangover... ~ Feel free to PM ^.^
I took a short break from reading a very long biography of Allen Ginsberg to read Dying To Survive by Rachael Keogh. Usually I avoid "true-life" stories, but I picked this one up because of the (ahem) eye-catching cover. It was a pretty interesting story about the author's destructive heroin habit, and the lengths she went to in order to get clean.
Currently reading "Now, More, Again" by Elizabeth Wurtzel, it's the sequel to her first autobiography "Prozac Nation" and instead of focusing on her mental health problems, it looks more at her drug addiction problem she had as well as a problem she with a type of trichotillomania.
It's pretty good, if you like her style of writing, personally I always take breaks when reading her stuff, it's a lot to take in.
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen - it's wonderful so far, I'm not far in though. I find it really enchanting despite the troubles the main character faces.
I'm about to listen to the Alice's Adventures In Wonderland audiobook as well :D
Life is about love, last minutes and lost evenings,
About fire in our bellies and furtive little feelings,
And the aching amplitudes that set our needles all a-flickering,
And help us with remembering that the only thing that's left to do is live.
