Showing posts with label character with a mental illness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label character with a mental illness. Show all posts

Friday, June 19, 2020

Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

Hyperbole and a Half by Allie BroshShort stories and comics tell the stories of the author's life. Most are funny but some are rather serious, documenting the author's struggle with depression. The book was well put together with different color pages for each of the stories. It is a fun read that includes stories about her dogs (one of which looks like a German Shepherd to me but I might be biased.) I wasn't expecting the mental health parts but should have guessed from the quote by Jenny Lawson (whose readers will enjoy this book and vice versa).

Four stars
This book came out October 29th, 2013
Hard copy I didn't keep
Opinions are my own

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

The Lady Hellion by Joanna Shupe

Sophia and Quint have both been damaged, yet are moving on with their lives. Well, Sophia is anyway. She's been running around London, often dressed as a man, helping the poor women of the city, the ones who no one else seems to notice.
Quint, on the other hand, has locked himself away in his house suffering with acute agoraphobia and a few other mental issues that make him fear going mad like his father. Yet, the problems with Lady Sophia are driving him mad.
Compounding the issues is the fact that the two are wildly attracted to each other but Quint is just as wildly against marriage and branching out his damaged family tree.
Add to that the problem of several "ladies of the night" who have been disappearing and then ending up dead in the Thames with their right hands cut off....
A thoroughly enjoyable book. I loved that Quint's problems weren't solved just because of Sophie's magic vajayjay, that he actually had to work and hadn't overcome them, even at the end of the book.
It felt like a book with bits and pieces of other things I had read before, but put together in a new and delightful story. Definitely three and a half stars.