Get Well Soon
I got a better look at some of my fellow patients in this freak hole, and they all look pretty close to my age. They come up to the check-in desk to get pills. After they take them, the desk people look in their mouths to make sure they’ve swallowed. It’s like something out of The Twilight Zone. Are they going to do that to me?
Anna Bloom is depressed—so depressed that her parents have committed her to a mental hospital with a bunch of other messed-up teens. Here, she meets a roommate w
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Teens will love this, By London (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Get Well Soon (Hardcover)
I really loved this book. The story is not at all what you'd expect from a book about a teenager hospitalized for depression. Halpern doesn't shy away from the darkness that got Ana there in the first place, but this is all tempered by the character's hilarious and witty voice. I enjoyed the crazy cast of characters Ana encounters, and although I haven't been in a situation like hers, the story rang very true for me.
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Courtesy of Teens Read Too, By TeensReadToo "Eat. Drink. Read. Be Merrier." (All Over the US & Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Get Well Soon (Hardcover)
Anna is fat and depressed. She suffers from panic attacks, and has stopped going to school. Her parents, who are totally clueless, decide to send her to a mental hospital. Will that do any good? Anna doesn't think so! Not in this place. Nobody tells her anything, they have the weirdest rules ever, and she's forced to wear these ugly pajamas all day long with no bra!
But as days go by, things turn out to be not as bad as she originally thought. Anna meets other teens. Matt O. has been living there for six months. Six whole months? Will Anna ever get out of this place? She also spends time with Sandy, her roommate who's eating for two and has to carry a baby doll all day long. Victor becomes the first black friend she's ever had. And finally, there's Justin -- Oh, Justin! -- the cutest guy around who may have even looked at her. Written in the form of a letter to her best friend, Tracy, Anna describes all of the details of her life at the nut house in a very funny way, with a writing style that is just like... well... that of a teenage girl! This story is engaging, the characters sound real, the writing is refreshing and natural, and the descriptions of the situations are hilarious! Great job for a first time novelist, who's also a librarian and spent time in a psychiatric hospital herself when she was a teen. (She claims to be fine now!) Reviewed by: Christian C.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
This book will definitely help anyone get well soon!, By
This review is from: Get Well Soon (Hardcover)
Julie Halpern's first novel, Get Well Soon, is a very, very funny book. Anna's parents have had her hospitalized for depression because neither they nor her therapist knew how to help her. A teenager, Anna finds herself alone. She is told to write down her feelings and that writing her feelings will help. She rebels, "I'm not going to keep my thoughts around. I'm going to send them away. I'm going to write my thoughts in letters." Her letters are so funny that by page 11 it is impossible to contain the laughter. Halpern has a wonderful ear for dialogue. The voice of Anna rings saucy, true and sweet.
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Teens will love this,
I really loved this book. The story is not at all what you’d expect from a book about a teenager hospitalized for depression. Halpern doesn’t shy away from the darkness that got Ana there in the first place, but this is all tempered by the character’s hilarious and witty voice. I enjoyed the crazy cast of characters Ana encounters, and although I haven’t been in a situation like hers, the story rang very true for me.
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Anna is fat and depressed. She suffers from panic attacks, and has stopped going to school. Her parents, who are totally clueless, decide to send her to a mental hospital. Will that do any good? Anna doesn’t think so! Not in this place. Nobody tells her anything, they have the weirdest rules ever, and she’s forced to wear these ugly pajamas all day long with no bra!
But as days go by, things turn out to be not as bad as she originally thought. Anna meets other teens. Matt O. has been living there for six months. Six whole months? Will Anna ever get out of this place? She also spends time with Sandy, her roommate who’s eating for two and has to carry a baby doll all day long. Victor becomes the first black friend she’s ever had. And finally, there’s Justin — Oh, Justin! — the cutest guy around who may have even looked at her.
Written in the form of a letter to her best friend, Tracy, Anna describes all of the details of her life at the nut house in a very funny way, with a writing style that is just like… well… that of a teenage girl!
This story is engaging, the characters sound real, the writing is refreshing and natural, and the descriptions of the situations are hilarious!
Great job for a first time novelist, who’s also a librarian and spent time in a psychiatric hospital herself when she was a teen. (She claims to be fine now!)
Reviewed by: Christian C.
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