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A Book That's Being Turned Into a Movie This Year
By Elliot · 2 posts · 5 views
By Elliot · 2 posts · 5 views
last updated Feb 26, 2016 10:30AM
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Cahalan faced the challenge of her life living through – and then telling – the story of her “Month of Madness” as she does in Brain on Fire. Her triumph over her disease is heroic, but what amazes me in a completely different way is her ability to narrate the story of this triumph. Her description of the book says a lot, beginning:
"One day, I woke up in a strange hospital room, strapped to my bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. My medical records—from a month-long hospital stay of w ...more
"One day, I woke up in a strange hospital room, strapped to my bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. My medical records—from a month-long hospital stay of w ...more
Aug 29, 2016
Sally Shrem Nardea
marked it as to-read
