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Ill Feelings | ALICE. HATTRICK
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Ill Feelings blends memoir, medical history, biography and literary non-fiction to uncover untold case histories of medically unexplained and invisible illness. In 1995 Alice's mother collapsed with pneumonia. Her lungs were infected, (…more)
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tenar
Ill Feelings | ALICE. HATTRICK
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Ill Feelings is part illness memoir, part diary of famous women‘s illnesses, part investigation into the medical controversy around chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).

It‘s messy, circular, ruminating. It‘s also the first thing to ever move me to write for myself about my own illness. It put words to things I haven‘t known how to, those words coming not only from Hattrick, but across time, from Elizabeth B. Browning, from Virginia Woolf. Magical.

EvieBee Intriguing! I have to read this! I don‘t stack here but just know that I‘m buying. 3y
tenar @EvieBee Thanks for leaving the comment! ❤️ I‘m at a weird place with this book in that I don‘t think I‘d recommend it to every reader, but at the same time I want everyone to read it. I hope you take something meaningful from it! 3y
EvieBee I know exactly what you mean. 🤗 3y
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keepingupwiththepenguins
Ill Feelings | ALICE. HATTRICK
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I loved Hattrick‘s insight and ideas in Ill Feelings. I was hoping, though, for more of a case study format, which might have made it easier to follow. I‘ll admit I embraced the skim for some dense sections of medical jargon. Ill Feelings is not an easy read, but it‘s an interesting and worthwhile one for anyone interested in the intersection of gender and disability. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/new-releases/

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