The Quiet Room changed the way I think about a lot of things. Mental health is something that is talked about a lot this day in age, but not many people really understand it. This novel was written in a way that showed not only Lori’s point-of-view, but also her family and friends. When I say that The Quiet Room changed the way I think about a lot of things, I mean that it changed how I view people with mental illness. I never looked at them as weird, or crazy, but I never knew what it was like to have these different illnesses. After reading this novel, I understand that all mental illnesses are very different from not only one another, but also from person to person.
This book was very different from some of the books I have had to read for other English classes. In High School, we read more books like The Kite Runner, and To Kill A Mockingbird. Books about mental illness wasn’t something my school assigned, or talked too much about. In my first college Engligh class (EN111), we read a book called Writing My Wrongs, and it was similar to this in the sense that the narrator was the person actually going through the struggle, rather than someone else telling their story, but it wasn’t about mental illness.
When it comes to reading for pleasure, I like to read more mystery/thriller/psychological thrillers. This novel was pretty out of my comfort zone as far as what I normally read, but I absolutely loved it and can’t wait to read more books like this. Personally, I wouldn’t have picked this up and read it on my own because I hadn’t read anything like this before but now that I have, I will for sure pick up more.
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