Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See

from eembooks

This novel of mental illness is unlike any I have ever read. The journeys of people with terminal or physical disabilities are numerous but the destructive thoughts which compel anyone with bipolar disorder are exhausting and sometimes disgusting to observe. Eventually the person drives everyone ...

from lovestampmom

I heard this book is Juliann Garey's first book. If the above statement is true, she truly has a gift in writing...or she just know bipolar disorder by heart. I usually avoid books about mental illness, especially the memoir type, but I'm so gracious I stumbled upon this gem, albeit the difficult...

from suetu

"The lie I have been telling for twenty years." The lie that Greyson Todd has been telling for twenty years is, "I'm fine." He is not fine. He has bipolar disorder type I, which first presents in his early twenties, shortly after he gets married. These are facts that readers will glean along the ...

from botkin05

It's crazy that this book is not a memoir because it reads like one. The reader gets to know the thoughts and feelings of the main character so thoroughly that it can only be written by someone who has experienced everything in the book. Except that its not a memoir and that doesn't take anything...

from Beamis12

I think this book has a greater impact when someone you know, either a friend or family member has had to deal with a mental illness. Unfortunately I am very familiar with bi-polar illness, so I found this book very real. The structure was unique, the character in the book has 12 ECT treatments, ...