Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity (Revised) | 
#37 and I am reading on the front porch today so I can get some sun in early. I miss going for drives, music blasting, windows down, and being able to go out as long and as far as I want 🙇🏻♀️
pick“Knowing that you‘re crazy doesn‘t make the crazy things stop happening.”
This memoir chronicles Mark Vonnegut‘s life living on a hippie commune farm in Canada; his battle and recovery from schizophrenic breaks. Much like his father, Mark is a talented and engaging writer. This story is open, uninhibited, and kind of bonkers.
#audible
“Apartments were pretty expensive and the job situation was dismal.” This is about Vancouver in July of 1970. The housing situation is pretty much the same.
For #seductiveshakespeare - #prospero and #awesomeautumnbooks - #manicmonday I've chosen Eden Express. Many speculate that Prospero was an autobiographical character for Shakespeare. He was a very complex character. This book being about one man's struggle living at the edge of Sanity/Insanity feels right for both challenges.
@jess7 & @jenniferw88
pickVonnegut went to live off the land and dodge the draft in the hippy era, he went insane and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Fortunately for him and us, he survived. His recollection of his thought processes as his mind lost its grasp on reality is incredibly informative, if sometimes difficult to process as a narrative given his irrationality at the time. He went on to study medicine at Harvard and wrote a sequel. #bestreadsofseptember
A #bookrainbow two days AFTER the rainbow challenge ?: #blameitonlitsy #septphotochallenge #somethingforseptember. "I don't pretend to know any more than anyone else about what happens after death, but if there is such a thing as hell and it's anything like some of the things I went through when I was nuts, and you can avoid it by doing things as pretty as not coveting your neighbour's ass, by all means, DO NOT COVET YOUR NEIGHBOUR'S ASS." ?
Book+drink: water in a plastic cup. With three young people, melamine is how we roll. Vonnegut is as witty and funny as his old man, but with an even greater self-awareness of mental illness. A flower child of the 60s, he pulls a Thoreau and decides to live off the land just as schizophrenia descends. He writes this book years later, as a paediatrician (he applied to 20 schools and all rejected him except for Harvard?!) So far, it's insanely good.
Book+drink: water in a plastic cup. With three young people, melamine is how we roll. Vonnegut is as witty and funny as his old man, but with an even greater self-awareness of mental illness. A flower child of the 60s, he pulls a Thoreau and decides to live off the land just as schizophrenia descends. He writes this book years later, as a paediatrician (he applied to 20 schools and all rejected him except for Harvard?!) So far, it's insanely good.
