When I first saw this book, the thing that really struck me was the picture on the front. If you look at it, it is pretty creepy. The tittle too, I mean "Brain on Fire", I don't know about you, but that title doesn't seem too appealing to me. I got the book as a suggestion from Goodreads and added it to my to-read list. From that I let it sit there for a while. But just recently I was stumped for which book to read and sought Goodreads for some inspiration. Then this book and I met again and I figured I should try it. I mean it had pretty good ratings so how bad could it be?
This book is a memoir about the author, Susannah Cahalan, who is an early adult. She is a fairly new reporter. Suddenly she doesn't feel too good and has symptoms alike to mono. She figures that it will pass but it doesn't. Later, she starts having dramatic mood swings and has a seizure. The memoir is the story of how her condition escalates, that is of what she can remember of it.
i was also intreged by the cover of the book. the moment i got on your blog, my eyes went to the cover and i was already wondering what it was about.
ReplyDeleteI really liked how you really talked to your audience through your blog. I felt like we were having a conversation with each other through this post, and I felt like I knew you personally as a reader. This seems like a really interesting book!
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