Customer Reviews

Musings of a Mad Madam

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Girl, Interminable, September 15, 2005

Reviewer: A customer

This book is a great tale of life in a psychiatric ward.

However, due to its diary format, it has no beginning or end, and certainly no main plot, making it easy to put down and pick up later.

I wish the author the best, but I didn't get much information that would be practical for my own life out of her book.

This book is a great tale of life in a psychiatric ward.

However, due to its diary format, it has no beginning or end, and certainly no main plot, making it easy to put down and pick up later.

I wish the author the best, but I didn't get much information that would be practical for my own life out of her book.

This book was not meant to give advice on how to live life as a manic depressive or give suggestions. It is one woman's account of her own journey through mental illness. It is set in a diary format. It is not a story and does not have a 'plot' perse..but the writing is very engaging and candid. Recommended.

Musings of a Mad Madam is an interesting look inside the mind of a hospitalized bipolar. It's presented as a series of musings, short vignettes of daily life and the tenuous friendships formed while in a psychiatric hospital. This format, almost poetic in the sparse wording, could only come from a broken mind, a mind where all illusions and guile have been temporarily stripped away.
Bravo!

I liked the alternative structure of this book and the fact that it is a set of musings. I also like the writing which was poetic and touching. The author may have been labeled manic depressive, but she write a book that everyone can relate to.

There was Prozac Nation, Prozac diary and many more books dealing with the subject of madness in general. This is another good and insightful account.