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A review by bartlebies
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
3.5
Boy howdy the narrator for the audiobook was awful. Can we ban white people doing bad accents when there is literally no reason to do them?? christ.
The book itself was okay, but I felt like it lacked any deeper meaning beyond “i had this rare disorder and it sucked for everyone and now i’m better” which is unfortunate since she’s a reporter/writer who you would think would be a better writer.
The book itself was okay, but I felt like it lacked any deeper meaning beyond “i had this rare disorder and it sucked for everyone and now i’m better” which is unfortunate since she’s a reporter/writer who you would think would be a better writer.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Mental illness, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Pregnancy, and Alcohol