Janet Tashjian
Autor(a) de My Life as a Book
About the Author
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Obras por Janet Tashjian
Einstein the Class Hamster and the Very Real Game Show (Einstein the Class Hamster Series) (2014) 26 exemplares
Einstein the Class Hamster Saves the Library (Einstein the Class Hamster Series) (2015) 15 exemplares
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 exemplares
An Unpardonable Crime 1 exemplar
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1956-06-29
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Educação
- University of Rhode Island
Emerson College - Relações
- Tashjian, Jake (son)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 31
- Membros
- 3,985
- Popularidade
- #6,334
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 72
- ISBN
- 194
- Línguas
- 5
- Marcado como favorito
- 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.… (mais)