Bibliotherapy: Mommy issues, daddy issues, having no issues
Installation of 4,000 books, by Anouk Kruithof in Bookshelf Porn
In which we suggest novels for readers’ situations.
cjspotless: I get mad easily. I think my hatred for my mom and how she treated me while I was growing up is fueling this anger. It’s not affecting people around me, my work, or the people I love, but I tend to burst from time to time.
Rx: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. For movies, we recommend Hitchcock’s Psycho and Brian De Palma’s Carrie.
maelynda: Famished, mad, penniless. Been searching for ATM that is not offline, heat index almost 50 Celsius.
Rx: That’s easy: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Raskolnikov is starving, mad, penniless, it’s stifling in St Petersburg in the summer and he starts thinking he’s the ubermensch.
top51: Feeling antsy. A lot of things are going on but do these matter in the grand scheme of things?
Rx: A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor. The world is on the brink of war, and Paddy has been expelled from school for holding hands with a grocer’s daughter. (If it had been a duke’s daughter, he probably would not have been.) He starts cramming for university exams then he goes, “What the hell, I think I’ll walk across Europe from Holland to Turkey.”
Alunsina: Burnout from corporate day job
Rx: Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris; Money by Martin Amis; Other People’s Money by Justin Cartwright; Capital by John Lanchester.
sizzlingsuzie: Daddy issues
Rx: Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides; Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan; Emma by Jane Austen (or watch Clueless again).
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June 17th, 2015 at 22:08
Thanks for the suggestion! And how did you know I’m a lesbian?? Hehe.
June 17th, 2015 at 22:24
cjspotless: We didn’t. Hets also read Jeanette Winterson.
June 18th, 2015 at 07:46
Sounds like the perfect rx. You’re psychic.
June 18th, 2015 at 10:57
Thanks, Jessica, but may I request another book? I’ve read Crime and Punishment when I was a college sophomore, I think, and for a month I imagined Raskolnikov staring at me, freaking me out.