Am I Normal Yet? (The Spinster Club Series #1)

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Tiene un estilo ligero y con humor, y quizás por eso choca cuando la autora se pone seria hablando de feminismo y de enfermedades mentales. At times, it made it uncomfortable to read certain passages, because of how hard hitting and raw it was. However, the two books also share unique narrative conceits to capture the protagonist’s voice and mental state. While many may consider mental health a difficult topic to speak about, let alone publish a novel on, this is what makes it so necessary.Because unfortunately, some still don't understand why people don't appreciate their illnesses being the butt of jokes. Really good and a page-turner, helps us to recognize different ways that people deal with their lives, and how some struggle without us noticing. This book is all about feminism and 16 years old cisgender girls realizing that the society isn’t that perfect for them. First and foremost, this is a thoroughly absorbing story about a teenage girl with all the typical preoccupations involving friends, boys and college.

A domestic violence situation is what triggered my mums and many football players have developed it after hitting their head on the field. There are a few feminist YA stories out at the moment, but this is the first I've read that actually talks about feminism and discusses how to be a feminist, and I think it really could be a game changer! By writing this, Bourne acknowledges that mental illness is not something one simply experiences and then walks away from.

I had simultaneously purchased five books by this author just based on the reviews by a few of my friends before I started reading one. I rightly should have started with her earliest works, but I couldn’t resist this first book of the Spinster Club trilogy. She has a plan: not let anyone know she was the 'girl who went crazy', make friends, and maybe get a boyfriend?

We experience its controlling grip on Evie's day-to-day life, the many different possible stages and manifestations, and the vital importance of the right strategies and support from her therapist and family. Bad stuff happens, people are mean, there are no steps you can take that ensure the world leaves you alone.s protagonist, Evie, struggles daily with her OCD and anxiety, but she just wants to have a "normal" life, make good girlfriends, and date cute boys.

She is starting to believe that she could really be on top of things - so she braves a real 'date' with a boy from her sociology class.And for all the good it’s brought people like me who have been given therapy and stuff, there’s a lot of bad it’s brought too. There were moments that made me laugh way loud and made me punch-the-wall angry and just heartachingly sad. I didn’t know anything about it, expect that this book is well loved in our community and that it talks about mental health. In real life, that absolutely infuriates me and I loved how Evie got so irate about it and it was one of the few things that made her swear in the book, which I really think is the perfect context to use harsh language and is something I can really relate to. She worries about all the usual teenage dramas but she also worries about her rituals and being normal.