Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Ambrosia at The Purple Booker. Here are the rules if you want to play along:
- Grab your current read
- Open to a random page
- Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
- BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
- Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
This week’s teaser is from A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel.
I suppose your name is the first thing that ever really belongs to you, but when you think about it, it’s not yours at all. Your parents chose it. A million people might have had it before you. Maybe even a specific person, if you were named after someone.
I’m not quite sure what is going on with the main character in this book so far, or even if she is a “good person” or not, but I am fascinated with how her mind works.
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is a freebie, and since this can be a difficult time of year for some of us (me included), my chosen topic is:
Ten Books That Deal With Mental Health
I was scrolling through my GoodReads lists and found several books that deal with depression, anxiety and other mental health issues. These first five are books that I have read that I highly recommend.
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Turtles All The Way Down by John Green
- Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson
- Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
This second set of five books are books that I have not read yet, but are books that I am looking forward to getting to.
- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga
- The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand
- It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
- How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox
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Please leave your teasers or top tens in comments!
Categories: Teaser Tuesday, Top Ten Tuesdays
Life With No Plot 
I really liked Furiously Happy.
Here is my Top Ten Tuesday post.
I just love Jenny Lawson. She makes even topics that are difficult to talk about more relatable and I love her sense of humor.
Great titles! I love Allie Brosh, she’s so relatable. I also have Furiously Happy on my TBR. It’s not high on the list, but I might move it up because of your endorsement. Thanks for sharing!
Haze @ The Book Haze
https://thebookhaze.com/
I love Allie Brosh so much. Hyperbole and a Half has the best description I have ever seen of what depression feels like. I’ve used it when trying to explain how I feel and it just makes so much sense. Furiously Happy has a similar feeling, so I’m sure you will love it. It’s my favorite of Jenny Lawson’s books.
I’m liking the sound of it more and more! I guess I will read Furiously Happy sooner rather than later. Thank you!
I haven’t read any of these books, but I see several I would like to read.
I decided to put in both books I have read and some I haven’t just to mix things up. Plus I really want to read those in the future.
Interesting topic! I’ve not read any of these, so I’ll have to look them up.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
Thank you! I know it’s easy to think of the holidays as all happiness and joy all the time, for some of us this time of year is hard, so I wanted to add a slightly different spin to it.
It feels like there have been a ton of books about mental health coming out in recent years. I don’t have any struggles with it myself, but reading books about anxiety, depression, etc. has definitely made me more empathetic toward and aware of others who do.
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
I love that it’s being talked about more. I’ve dealt with major depression and anxiety for most of my life and it always felt like something that I had to hide. Having it be more visible and more acceptable is very encouraging and I really appreciate seeing so many books tackling these subjects.