Well, that didn't take long: Girl, Interrupted by Suzanna Kaysen. After only a 20 minute evaluation, 18-year-old Suzanna is sent away to a mental institution for a few days, which stretch into 18 months. The author gives us a run down of the various fellow patients, their trials, the staff, and other matters about what life was like in such an institution in 1968. It was honest without wallowing.
I kept having the eerie feeling that I've read this before, but none of the scenes were Ah ha! enough for me to know for sure. One scene I was expecting to happen didn't, so I must have read a similar book or story with many of the same elements. I'm sure there's a combination of the influence this book had on other books that followed, as well as influenced by those that came before.
I kept having the eerie feeling that I've read this before, but none of the scenes were Ah ha! enough for me to know for sure. One scene I was expecting to happen didn't, so I must have read a similar book or story with many of the same elements. I'm sure there's a combination of the influence this book had on other books that followed, as well as influenced by those that came before.
- Laughing Matters: A humorous or satirical book. Nothing to see here – Kevin Wilson
- I spy: A book featuring spies or espionage. Need to know – Karen Cleveland Done
- Local hero: A book by a local author. First cosmic velocity – Zack Powers
- 21st Century, 21st Year, 21st Letter: A book by someone whose first or last name begins with the letter U: House of Broken Angels – Luis Alberto Urrea Done
- Locked up: A book taking place in a prison, mental institution or treatment center. Girl, Interrupted -- Suzanna Kaysen Done
- What your parents read: Any novel from the year you were born. Love in the Ruins – Walker Percy
- Out of this world: A book taking place in space or on another planet. Artemis – Andy Weir Done
- Keep up with the Joneses: A book everyone else seems to have read but you have not. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak Done
- Feisty feline fiesta: A book with a cat on the cover. Cat Chaser – Elmore Leonard Done
- Pixies and Dryads and Elves, oh my!: A high fantasy. Spinning Silver – Naomi Novik
- Run for the border: A book about or taking place in Central or South America. 100 years of solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez Done
- Vast critical acclaim: A book that has won a prestigious award. Discomfort of Evening – Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (Man Booker International award).