Baby Jane

[marshtide]

I read Baby Jane in two evenings. I couldn't quite stop. Now I have feelings. So many feelings! I think it's only through the wonders of dried frog pills that I have been having feelings rather than some kind of screaming breakdown, to be honest; it hit som critical areas. As it were.

I thought it was brilliant and also deeply depressing.

It's about depression and anxiety, and about destructive relationships. The main couple is lesbian; that isn't the point of the story at all but it was kind of, you know, one less barrier to identification.

Waagh.

Comments

[striped]

Oh, Baby Jane was heartbreaking, I read it a couple years ago. Also, the main characters were so familiar to me, too! So many of my friends are like that, in that city, in that subculture (or similar), with those kinds of problems...

[marshtide]

Yeah. A lot of familiarity for me too, minus familiarity with the actual places. It felt like a book about the kind of people I know, which doesn't happen very often.

[valborg]

Isn't it nice with books that actually are relevant to ones life? A rare and beautiful things, that's what it is.

[marshtide]

Seriously. :D

[laughingrat]

Oh yeah, that sounds like it could be hard to read.

[marshtide]

Yeah. It was both hard to read and really useful to me. I definitely got stuff back from it, and it does tend to be the books that push at things I try not to think about which end up being most worthwhile.

But one should note that I opted to wait until my medication had shown that it was actually working fairly well before I even tried.