I am not really sure where this post will end up taking me, but I felt like sharing some of my thoughts about being in lock down in Melbourne. I haven’t been to my office since March this year. I am fairly good at adapting and working from home definitely has its perks, but it … Continue reading
Tag Archives: mental health
Making Sense of Loneliness: a review of Olivia Laing’s “The Lonely City”
Disclosure: This page may contain affiliate links. Clicking through for additional information or to make a purchase may result in a small commission. After living in Switzerland for six years, I have been thinking a lot about loneliness and what it means for us humans. I have been thinking about whether loneliness is ever good … Continue reading
“Anxiety: the missing stage of Grief”: a review and personal exploration of Claire Bidwell-Smith’s grief self-help book
Disclosure: This page may contain affiliate links. Clicking through for additional information or to make a purchase may result in a small commission. When my father died in 2011, my whole world was flipped on its head. I have spent most of my 20s coming to terms with death, loss, and grief, and this is … Continue reading
“Running with Scissors”: a review of Augusten Burroughs’ memoir
Disclosure: This page may contain affiliate links. Clicking through for additional information or to make a purchase may result in a small commission. Running with Scissors is one of those books that I have wanted to read for such a long time, but somehow never managed to find the book at the right moment. When … Continue reading
“This Is Going To Hurt”: a review of Adam Kay’s hilarious medical memoir
Disclosure: This page may contain affiliate links. Clicking through for additional information or to make a purchase may result in a small commission. Bound2Books is no stranger to medical memoirs. I love reading books about the living and the dead and everything in between. If I can combine medicine with comedy, then we have a … Continue reading
(Re)-defining survivor/victim stories: a review of amanda lovelace’s new poetry collection
Her third collection aligns with her previous works and centres on themes of self (re-)discovery, how to find your own voice again, and the struggle with remembering and letting go of the past. Continue reading
“Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?”: a review of Holly Bourne’s novel
Disclosure: This page may contain affiliate links. Clicking through for additional information or to make a purchase may result in a small commission. Writing about mental health and getting it right is tough. Writers need to understand and articulate what mentally ill people are feeling and it cannot read like a cliche. Readers, whether they … Continue reading
A Review of “Idaho”: forgetting and remembering
Disclosure: This page may contain affiliate links. Clicking through for additional information or to make a purchase may result in a small commission. I am not going to lie, the decision I made to read this book was heavily based on the cover. What is that old saying again? Anyway, I found myself drawn to … Continue reading
The Sheldon Effect: ‘funny’ books about mental illness
In the past few weeks I have read two books: Disclosure: This page may contain affiliate links. Clicking through for additional information or to make a purchase may result in a small commission. Brian Conaghan’s When Mr Dog Bites is about a teenage boy, Dylan Mint, and his struggles with going to Drumhill special school … Continue reading