March Madness Update Video #marchmadness

In which I ramble on about what I've been reading for #marchmadness.

Books Mentioned:
-Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
-Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill
-Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
-Girl in Need of a Tourniquet by Merri Lisa Johnson

Books waiting for me at the library:
-An Unquiet Mind by R. Kay Jamison
-Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me
by Ellen Forney

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[pinkyoshi]

Great video!! You give super awesome insights both for mental illness and history =). Those books look very interesting, I need to look more into mental illness.

[smileandnod]

I feel like this is a flaw with me as a reader, but I just haven't been able to get into books that use the physicality of the words and the page to stir emotion or invoke a feeling. I think Girl in Need of a Tourniquet would frustrate me much as House of Leaves repeatedly has: HoL does a similar thing where it will cram a bunch of words into the page to invoke a feeling of claustrophobia or use one word per page to present the slow passage of time. I want so much to appreciate these kinds of books but I find they take away from the meaning conveyed by the words themselves.