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The Book in 1 Sentence

Elyse tells you a swath of stories that highlight the anxiety, awkwardness, and comedy of her life with aplomb.

Brief Review

Elyse Meyers social media content is wonderful. It is a slew of crazy stories, an honest display of vulnerability dealing with mental health issues, and mostly, outstanding storytelling. This book is an achievement on so many levels.

Why I Read this book

Love her content as a storyteller, and how it has helped me understand those around me with anxiety.

In-Depth Review (Favorite Quotes)

We need to start with this book doesn't have a traditional format/setup. It isn't one story from start to finish really, other than mainly her live but even this it isn't a continuous story. It is a series of stories that highly different lessons that she learned and it works.

The stories are a lot like her social media, these explanations of events, however there is a depth that while short does provide so much insight into these stories and how she felt. As I listen to these, and she narrated the book herself, there is a huge benefit to this. If you listen to it at 1.5x you'll hear the panic, rush, and anxiety as she tells the story. You also have this flow of words that you are not sure if it was actually said or if it is in her head. Not sure if that is the point, but if it isn't, kudos.

In between the chapters or sections there are these poems, I am sure they would fall under that title, are really hit or miss for me. I don't understand the lesson some of them are attempting to teach or portray, but that honestly just means they aren't for me. I still think they are well written, but I am missing the plot on some of them.

How my life ideas have changed as a result of reading the book

Millennials as a generation of a lot of anxiety. From the world going to hell in a hand basket since 2001, arguably since Y2k, to a war that has rippled through most of our lives in some form or fashion. So with that, I have a lot of people in my life with varying degrees of it and some of it can be debilitating. This book's cadence and the confusion about whether something was said out loud or in her head really helped me understand the chaos in their brain which I have never understood. So, thank you.

Rating

I really enjoyed this book. It was a fun listen and full of hope and a self-assurance that comes a difficult life. There is a story in here about her writing something down in a book that only made sense to her. The person found it and upset until she explained, and it is really something I think a lot of people forget it is ok to be themselves and make notes to help themselves. It is a good book. Short, fun, and wholesome. A solid 8.

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