Like many people with autism and/or ADHD, TikToker Ellie Middleton thought she was broken until she was diagnosed at 24. She wasn’t a bad person, she was neurodivergent. The diagnoses felt like a lightbulb being switched on and allowed her to finally begin healing from the trauma of being undiagnosed and misunderstood for so long….
Books
Book Review: Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself by Crystal Harris
“I was 21 years old when I found myself on the front stoop of the Playboy Mansion. I want to tell the real story of my time there — the good and the bad, the light and the dark.” In 2008, the Playboy Mansion became Crystal Harris’s sanctuary. Within months she has ascended its hierarchy…
Book Review: The Ugly Truth
Melanie Lange has disappeared. Her father, Sir Peter Lange, says she is a danger to herself and has been admitted to a private mental health clinic. Her ex-husband, Finn, and best friend, Nell, say she has been kidnapped. The media will say whichever gets the most views. But whose side are you on? #SaveMelanie or…
Book Review: The Blonde Identity
Having only read the first book in Ally Carter’s Gallagher Girls series, I was still excited when I learned she was releasing an adult novel and the plot would follow a woman who wakes up in the middle of the night in Paris with no memory and ends up on the run with a hot…
Book Review: Is This OK?
I am obsessed with this book! It perfectly encapsulates what it’s like to grow up online and be caught in the lifelong search for connection while capturing the changing culture and social media of the 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s. Harriet Gibsone manages to write about all the embarrassing and cringeworthy stuff we do and think and…
Book Review: The Brightsiders
The Brightsiders has the worst opening lines to a book that I’ve ever read — so much so that I closed my kindle book. I was prepared for it to be YA, but wow. I picked this up again because I noticed it was included in my Audible membership, so I thought I’d see if I…
Book Review: Lessons in Chemistry
Lessons in Chemistry tells the story of Elizabeth Zott, a female chemist in the ’60s who finds herself single, pregnant, and fired from her lab job. She ends up hosting a cooking show while raising her young daughter in order to make ends meet. Throughout her life, she has remained headstrong against setbacks and sexism and, especially…
Book Review: Good As Dead
After a hit-and-run accident leaves Holly injured and her husband dead, a fixer for a high-powered guilty party offers Holly and her daughter a life of luxury in exchange for silence. Told from alternating points of view, Susan Walter’s Good As Dead explores how an unlikely group of people are bound to one another by a…
Book Review: How to Kill Your Family
How to Kill Your Family sounded like exactly my thing because I love being in the mind of a sociopath/psychopath. I love unreliable and unlikeable narrators, as well as plots centring on murder and revenge. The book started off strong as it introduced us to our central character, Grace, and to her circumstance, but it didn’t take…
Book Review: Stolen by Elizabeth Gilpin
Actress Elizabeth “Betty” Gilpin (GLOW, The Hunt) has written a memoir about her time in the troubled teen industry called ‘Stolen,’ which I only learnt about yesterday. This morning I purchased the audiobook and listened to the entire thing. At 15, Elizabeth was an honour student, a state ranked swimmer, and a rising soccer star, but…