{"id":45948,"date":"2022-12-01T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=45948"},"modified":"2022-11-03T15:37:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T20:37:06","slug":"online-reading-challenge-december-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/online-reading-challenge-december-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Reading Challenge – December"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Greetings Challenge Readers!<\/p>\n

Welcome to the final month of our 2022 Online Reading Challenge. This month we’re reading books that talk about coping with mental illness and the isolation and stigma that surrounds it.<\/p>\n

Our main title this month is Furiously Happy<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Jenny Lawson. In this book, the author explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best. It’s about “taking those moments when things are fine and making them amazing, because those moments are what make us who we are, and they’re the same moments we take into battle with us when our brains declare war on our very existence. This is a book about embracing everything that makes us who we are – the beautiful and the flawed – and then using it to find joy in fantastic and outrageous ways.<\/em><\/p>\n

Our alternate titles are: Turtles All the Way Down<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by John Green. This is about lifelong friendship,\u00a0the<\/span>\u00a0intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within\u00a0the<\/span>\u00a0ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Bell Jar<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Sylvia Plath. Beautiful and gifted, with a bright future, Esther Greenwood descends into depression, suicidal thoughts, and madness while interning at a New York City magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Gail Honeyman. \u00a0Meet\u00a0Eleanor<\/span>\u00a0Oliphant<\/span>: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing\u00a0is<\/span>\u00a0missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when\u00a0Eleanor<\/span>\u00a0meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living.<\/em><\/p>\n

Be sure to check the displays at each of our buildings for copies of these titles and many more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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