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lottie matthews deserved better
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items I'm a mentally ill girlie pop, and seeing similar experiences in stories has always been weirdly comforting. Somebody should have given bb Lottie a big hug and also some language to describe what was going on in her life !!
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i read these as a burnt out teenager and immediately felt less alone
includes unhinged (definitely) cult leaders (allegedly)
somebody pls tell lottie that she is loved i stg
i read these as a burnt out teenager and immediately felt less alone
Autobiographies, almost-biographies, lives of complicated young women.
Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life. First published in 1993, The Virgin Sui...
The Virgin Suicides: A Novel (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition) a book by Jeffrey Eugenides
One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels A realistic and emotional novel about a woman battling mental illness and societal pressures written by the iconic American writer Sylvia Plath. "It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plat...
The Bell Jar a book by Sylvia Plath
In 1967, after a session with a doctor she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital that was as renowned f...
Girl, Interrupted a book by Susanna Kaysen
A much-praised memoir of living and surviving mental illness as well as "a stereotype-shattering look at a tenacious woman whose brain is her best friend and her worst enemy" (Time). Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and...
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
holy tw batman, sylvia plath is my problematic fave, mental illness, new york city, absolute favorite, unreliable narrator, unhinged women, dark
The Bell Jar
includes unhinged (definitely) cult leaders (allegedly)
there are reads, and there are READS, LOTTIE
unreliable narrator, speculative fiction, unhinged women, what is even happening, i wish i could read this for the first time again
Biography of X: A Novel
literally WHAT is going ON, includes meta footnotes, unreliable narrator, absolute classic, i wish i could read this for the first time again
House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition
classic, multiple timelines, the monsters are human, family trauma, family lore, sisters, women surviving men, dark and surreal, love when the scenery is also a character, childhood trauma, mental illness, unhinged women
The Haunting of Hill House
i'm too much of a mexican catholic to practice tarot but i own decks anyway, self-improvement, boundaries, we love when women, not for everyone bus absolutely for me, reference material
Tarot for Change: Using the Cards for Self-Care, Acceptance, and Growth
unhinged women, toxic relationships, unreliable narrator, influencers, things go wrong in the city
A Touch of Jen
unhinged women, unreliable narrators, what is even happening, includes meta footnotes, locked room trope adjacent, snark snark snark
The Extinction of Irena Rey
unhinged women, unreliable narrators, what is even happening, includes meta footnotes, locked room trope adjacent, snark snark snark
The Extinction of Irena Rey
somebody pls tell lottie that she is loved i stg
i just know her parents were trash
A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that ...
All about Love: New Visions a book by Bell Hooks
The Conjuring meets Sadie in this queer ghost story, when seventeen-year-old podcaster Dare finds herself in a life-or-death struggle against an evil spirit. Dare Chase doesn’t believe in ghosts. But as the host of Attachments, her brand-new paranorm...
The Girls Are Never Gone
Anna Quindlen’s trademark wisdom on family, friendship, and the ties that bind us are at the center of this novel about the power of love to transcend loss and triumph over adversity, by the author of Still Life with Bread Crumbs and One True Thing. ...
After Annie: A Novel
There’s power in a book… They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give the...
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls