I normally don’t read books about mental illness because I have an aversion to psychobabble and self-help books. Because of that stereotype, this wouldn’t have normally caught my eye. But it was promoted recently through the Dear Reader website and I read a couple chapters with my morning coffee at work and kind of got hooked. The book is actually really amazing with writing that brings you into the world of the author’s mind with raw honesty. That is what really amazed me, how exposed it must feel to have bipolar (or any mental illness.) Despite the bipolar, Marya has and shares a real personality, a true voice and it is a remarkably funny one! We should be so lucky as to find this type of intimacy in any piece of writing. Rarely can memoirs pull it off. Certainly puts my own petty struggles in perspective.