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onbus_intrain's review
funny
relaxing
medium-paced
4.0
A very light-hearted and entertaining read. I find myself chuckling at Lily’s exaggerated anxiety, the Mexican and New Yorker around her, and most of all, during her phone call with her dad. What a lovely man!
A prominent feature of this diary/journal is Lily’s rampant anxiety. It seeped through the pages and manifested in sometimes very weird, sometimes very distressing ways. I look at a lot of her concerns indulgently and condescendingly (not on purpose I swear), because to me they seem so trivial and first-world privileged. By the end of the book, however, having traversed with her mind through 3 countries and 2 very dramatic tragedies, I understand her psyche a bit more empathetically.
All in all a humorous and chill book!
A prominent feature of this diary/journal is Lily’s rampant anxiety. It seeped through the pages and manifested in sometimes very weird, sometimes very distressing ways. I look at a lot of her concerns indulgently and condescendingly (not on purpose I swear), because to me they seem so trivial and first-world privileged. By the end of the book, however, having traversed with her mind through 3 countries and 2 very dramatic tragedies, I understand her psyche a bit more empathetically.
All in all a humorous and chill book!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Eating disorder
Moderate: Genocide and Antisemitism
meganori's review
4.0
This was not a pleasant book to read. Brett's anxiety is palpable, it made me feel tense the whole time i was reading it. I found her self centredness quite annoying, but that actually added to the impact of the book, rather than detracting.
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