I want to send out an enormous “THANK YOU!” to CBR’er CrystalClear for the wonderful book exchange gifts. I love them! Dan O’Brien is an editor over at Cracked.com, but he used to have a weekly column that I very much enjoyed. His writing was largely irreverent, geeky, nerdy, juvenile, etc, but he also has an incredible fascination with US Presidential history. I have been wanting to read this book for a long time. I read Ned Vizzini’s “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” sometime last […]
It’s Kind of a Funny Story
It’s Kind of a Funny Story is about a 15-year old boy, Craig, who is admitted into an adult psychiatric ward after he calls a suicide hotline and discusses his intentions of jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge. Ned Vizzini wrote It’s Kind of a Funny Story after his own stay in a psych ward which shows; Vizzini is able to honestly capture what it’s like being a young kid coping with depression. “Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That’s above […]