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A look at how PTSD (or shell-shock, if you like) is treated during WWI. This is so interesting b/c it delves into subjects that are often quite touchy: mental health, toxic masculinity, treatment of women, the realities of war. It does so in such an introspective, tender way. The agony of a war doctor, to treat his patients simply to send them back into the machine that chewed them up & spit them out in the first place. 221/1,001 #1001Books

I‘ve been reading this 250 page book for two weeks. A “pick” book would beg to be read faster. Right?

I owe the library $17 to “replace” this book. Better get started.

"You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face."

#ConflictedWorlds Day 10 Person Vs #Illness
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Shell shock and attempts to cure it. I cannot imagine the conflict for doctors of making patients well enough so they can return to the battlefield to face further bombardments.

Very interesting book: WW1, experience at the front and at home, how women‘s lives changed, masculinity, class...I think the first book Regeneration is the best and most impactful.

#TBRPile 📚 Craiglockhart Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. It‘s his job to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients‘ minds, the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front.

Goodness, what a portrayal of the WW1 soldiers, their trauma, their poor mental health support.
And perversely, the hideous treatment and attitudes of some in power.
I'm keen to read the next two now.

Perfect timing... this popped up on my library app after being on the wait list for a month 😸😸
I'm a new reader of Barker, only read Silence of the Girls prior to this.

#TBRPile Day 4 📚 Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell shocked soldiers. Rivers‘s job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients‘ minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front.

How much I loved this book really surprised me. I don‘t think I‘ve ever enjoyed (enjoyed feels like the wrong word, but you know what you mean) a war novel. I didn‘t think it was a genre I could get anything out of but this was so eye opening and mind blowing. I‘ll think of this novel and the shell shocked soldiers of World War One every time someone asks me why I‘m a pacifist, I‘m so excited for the rest of the series. #1001books

Book - Regeneration by Pat Barker
Author - Robertson Davies
Movie - Romauld et Juliette
Food - Raspberries

#ManicMonday #LetterR

Excellent novel about WWI set at Craiglockhart Hospital — an asylum for soldiers suffering shell shock. This novel is based on poet Siegfried Sassoon‘s stay there for his objection to the war. The treating doctor Rivers is also a real person. First in a trilogy, nominated for Booker Prize. Can‘t wait to read the rest. https://cannonballread.com/2018/09/not-just-another-wwi-novel/

So far I've only read the first book of Barker's Regeneration trilogy, but I loved it. Siegfried Sassoon, poet & war hero, is sent to a hospital to be mentally evaluated & "rehabilitated" after he declares his fellow soldiers have become #ToySoldiers
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@Cinfhen @BarbaraBB

Finally read it . This copy is a bind up of Barkers 3 WWI novels,quality paperback book club.Remember them?What a stunning novel!It takes place at Craiglockhart War hospital, Barker interweaves characters based on real people such a Siegfried Sassoon & psychiatrist W.H.R Rivers with fictional characters to illustrate madness,duty & class in the conflict & carnage that the Great War brought.The U.S. book,from 1920,Part of my WWI collection. 2 to go

After publishing a declaration condemning the aimlessness & pointless slaughter of WWI, soldier poet Siegfried Sassoon is sent to an asylum for a mental health assessment. His psychiatrist, Dr. Rivers while sympathetic to Sassoon & his other patients, is conflicted between his professional duties & the demands of the government. One of the most powerful & convincing war novels I've ever read. Full of gallows humor, outrage, compassion.

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@TK-421
Day 11 - War

I‘m not usually a fan of WWI/ WW2 fiction. However Pat Barker writes about Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, amongst other real people and brings them together in a work of harrowing fiction. This novel shows the long lasting effects of war and how real people tried to cope. It forms part of a trilogy and they‘re all well worth a read!

Love this whole trilogy!

Can't forget The Great War. I haven't read as much WWI as WWII but I loved this trilogy. Anyone have any other suggestions for WWI?fiction or nonfiction. #war #maybookflowers

After reading and loving Regeneration years ago, I picked up this volume of the entire trilogy for $1 at a book sale. It has sat in a kitchen cupboard ever since. I will read someday. I promise. #war #maybookflowers

Heart-rending and powerful

#authorwhosharesyourname
So, we both have the same full name - Patricia Barker 😀 though I've never been called Pat! Also, her's is her married name and I didn't change mine when I got married.
I'm also ashamed to say I've never read any of her books, though this is in one of the piles somewhere.

First #onewordtitle book I could find on my bookshelf. I have the next in the series The Eye in the Door on the shelf, too, still #TBR! Definitely recommend #Regeneration if you like WWI era novels. #Riotgram #day3 #bookriotchallenge #february

4 stars
Set in 1917 in a hospital for soldiers suffering from shellshock, we meet Wilfred Owen starting off with his poetry, but it's the doctor treating the soldiers who I found most interesting - seeing how treating the soldiers effects him so greatly.

#newbook

"A hundred years from now they'll still be ploughing up skulls. And I seemed to be in that time and looking back. I think I saw our ghosts."
- Wilfred Owen, Chapter 8

As wonderful as I was told it would be. Close to the line but never becoming voyeurism. It's real people, living in a time in history which was a daily nightmare for the men and women on the front line. This is shown to us with an economy of words. Pulling you into a narrative style, slow down your reading, enjoy the pace the author set and feel the despair of these young in age but not in mind and body, who went through hell, time and again.

This set is a good example of my interests. Mysteries, romance, art history, ancient history, WW1. The one book that is not like the others is the tarot book. That's part of the research for the story I'm working on. My favourite of the bunch is Regeneration. One of the most important novel I've read on WW1. #septphotochallenge #shadesofblue

Whose great war?