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Book Review: This Impossible Light

Author: Lily Myers   Published: 2017 Genres: Poetry, Contemporary, Mental Health, YA By: Ashlin Lily Myers’s novel This Impossible Light is an abstract glimpse into Ivy’s life as she experiences a chain of changes in her life, not all of which are for the better.  This book is beautiful, eloquent and insightful. Ivy is seeing changes in her appearance as she develops a more womanly figure; changes in the relationship she has with … Continue reading Book Review: This Impossible Light

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Book Review: Words on Bathroom Walls

Author: Julia Walton    Published: 2017 Genres: YA and Contemporary By: Ella Julia Walton captures a unique angle on Schizophrenia starring Adam, a teen boy who has Schizophrenia. Through diary entries to his therapist and a new drug trial this book shows Adam struggling and accepting his illness.  When he starts his new school, he meets Maya, and he will do anything to stop his illness being known. This captivating read is a brilliant example of finding the comedy in tragedy, self-acceptance, first love, and the strange … Continue reading Book Review: Words on Bathroom Walls

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