Fabulous YA debut about mental health/depression, friendship and love, family and our place in the cosmos.
Fabulous YA debut about mental health/depression, friendship and love, family and our place in the cosmos.
This one really resonated! Perfect happysad. I want to give this to every child and adult I know. I‘m starting to expect I‘m always going to want to go out and buy Shaun Tan books after reading them.
Cute sequel
Library book 📖
4/5
Autobiographic graphic novel by a talented comic book artist who has struggled with depression and suicide since childhood. She depicts her various selves conversing about the book and about her past, and also shows the monster that constantly follows her and tries to drag her down. https://cannonballread.com/2023/08/its-lonely-at-the-centre-of-the-earth-an-auto...
A thought provoking little book. More religious that I expected, but some wise advice on how and why to carry on when the very act of getting out of bed seems to be too much.
An inconsequential tiny piece of a much larger picture....
4 ⭐ This book is about childhood depression. Our main character has a dark cloud that is with them most of the time, and that is OK. What is important, is that those around them know it exists and it‘s part of who they are. This book doesn‘t sugarcoat or try to turn that dark cloud into anything else but realizes that there are good days and bad days. Depression does happen in kids, and it needs to be acknowledged.
This was a reread for me, and this time I listened to Heather tell her tale. God, I‘m just so sad; have been since I heard that she died of depression last month. I keep thinking about how she would never leave her kids, how she was so hopeful after this treatment. How things seemed to unravel at such a quick pace. It‘s gutting.
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