Janet Tashjian
Auteur de My Life as a Book
A propos de l'auteur
Séries
Œuvres de Janet Tashjian
Einstein the Class Hamster and the Very Real Game Show (Einstein the Class Hamster Series) (2014) 26 exemplaires
Einstein the Class Hamster Saves the Library (Einstein the Class Hamster Series) (2015) 15 exemplaires
My Life as a Boxed Set #1: Derek Fallon 1-3 (My Life as a Book, My Life as a Stuntboy, My Life as a Cartoonist) (The My… (2020) 2 exemplaires
An Unpardonable Crime 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1956-06-29
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Études
- University of Rhode Island
Emerson College - Relations
- Tashjian, Jake (son)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 31
- Membres
- 3,986
- Popularité
- #6,334
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 72
- ISBN
- 194
- Langues
- 5
- Favoris
- 2
I have the same mental illness that Monica, this book's protagonist, has. I'm in therapy, and I'm not open about having OCD. People just figure it out somehow. I don't read books about characters that have mental illnesses that I have. I have a few. I live with them. I don't need to see them in fiction. But I remembered this book, and bought myself a copy. Janet Tashjian deserves a ton of awards for her portrayal of an illness that is seen as both setup and punchline to society at large. It was a choice both clever and moving to have Monica not yet be in high school. A ton of people don't think kids can have this. -Diagnosis- usually doesn't happen until the age of eighteen, but that's not the issue. I had to set this book down a few times while reading it. As a tween, my thinking was: I know I'm weird like Monica, but I can't do anagrams so I don't have whatever she has. I was diagnosed with OCD as an adult and given much clearer information: anagrams aren't part of it. Here, they're a clever device used as chapter transitions, characterization, and even plot points. I'm glad magical thinking was shown. I liked how the book was written.… (plus d'informations)