My Friends Are All Strange

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Poŝlibro, 230 paĝoj

Eldonita je 30-a de septembro 2016 de Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

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978-1-5372-8581-8
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5 steloj (1 recenzo)

Right now I'm living at Brookside, a place for people like me. I've met a kitty girl, a brooding beautiful boy, one who can't be touched, and others. My new friends. Strange people. People like me. I've always been different, but lately, more so. My hands sometimes don't seem to be attached to the rest of me. I cut up all of my clothes. I'm hot, so hot, all of the time. If I sleep, a wizard haunts every dream. I don't sleep. Sometimes I want to run, but where do you run to when you're trying to escape your own mind? I don't know if I'll ever be the same. I'm smart. I'm nice, sometimes. I just want to be normal(ish). But, right now, my friends are all strange... Like me.

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recenzis My Friends Are All Strange de Margaret Lesh

An insightful novel

5 steloj

I was very impressed with My Friends Are All Strange and think that this novel is far more than just Young Adult fiction. Narrated by seventeen year old Becca, it relates her mental breakdown in a school cafeteria and resultant stay in a Californian mental health facility. Reading this novel from Becca's point of view allowed me understand exactly what she was experiencing, her confusion and fear, and her anger. We get to know Becca well and I liked Lesh's rounded depiction of the other characters too. Kat's situation is particularly poignant. This book doesn't get anywhere near as dark as The Bell Jar, mostly due to the facility having a far more enlightened approach to mental health care! However there are disturbing moments and strongly portrayed characters that I became emotionally attached to as I read.