My Most Anticipated Books of the Summer

As I sit down to write about my most anticipated books of the summer, I am filled with a mix of emotions - excitement, nervousness, and anticipation. Reading is a personal journey for me, and every book has the power to evoke strong feelings and reactions. This summer's list features a range of books that promise to be thought-provoking, emotional, and engaging.

One book that resonated deeply with me was "The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel van der Kolk. The author's portrayal of the complexities of autoimmune diseases, particularly those affecting women, hit close to home for me. I couldn't help but feel a sense of empathy as I read about the struggles that many people face in getting diagnosed and treated for these conditions. The book also highlighted the lack of understanding and support that many chronic illness patients receive from their doctors and loved ones, which is a reality that I know all too well.

What struck me most about this book was its raw honesty and vulnerability. The author's depiction of the emotional toll that living with an undiagnosed condition can take on individuals and families is heart-wrenching. I had to put the book down several times, taking a break from reading to process my emotions. It's clear that Bessel van der Kolk has done extensive research and spoken to numerous individuals who have experienced similar struggles, making this book an essential read for anyone looking to understand more about autoimmune diseases.

I must admit that I was taken aback by the author's portrayal of the healthcare system's shortcomings when it comes to treating chronic illnesses. The lack of understanding and support from doctors and loved ones is a reality that many people face, and it's heartbreaking to see how often this is the case. However, it's also important to recognize the efforts being made to change this narrative and ensure that patients receive the care they need.

As I continued reading, I found myself admiring the author's bravery in sharing her story. It takes a great deal of courage to speak out about one's experiences, especially when those experiences are marked by pain, frustration, and disappointment. I applaud Bessel van der Kolk for being willing to share her insights and experiences with the world.

In addition to "The Body Keeps the Score," there are several other books on my TBR list that I am eager to read this summer. Abby Norman's "Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors, Patients, and Myself Believe in Women's Pain" is another book that has caught my attention. As someone who has lived with PCOS and experienced firsthand the challenges of navigating the healthcare system, I am excited to read this book and see if it will help change the way doctors understand women's pain.

I also have Hilary Mantel's "The Girl in the Spider's Web" on my list, which promises to be a gripping thriller. While not directly related to chronic illnesses, this book is one that I've been wanting to read for some time now.

Finally, there's Sammy and Kista Kapoor's memoir "Sick: A Memoir," which deals with their struggles with advanced Lyme disease. As someone who has seen many friends and family members struggle with this debilitating illness, I am eager to learn more about the authors' experiences and how they navigated the complex web of healthcare options available.

Throughout my reading journey, I will be looking forward to learning more about these books and the authors who have poured their hearts and souls into sharing their stories. Whether it's a memoir, non-fiction book, or work of fiction, every read has the power to evoke strong emotions and reactions. As we delve into these summer reads, I hope to find inspiration, empathy, and understanding - not just for myself but also for those who have shared their experiences with me.

My Most Anticipated Books of the Summer

These books are more than just words on a page; they represent a journey into the lives and experiences of others. As we embark on this reading adventure together, I hope that you will find solace, inspiration, and understanding in these stories. Whether you're someone who has experienced chronic illness firsthand or simply looking for a new perspective, there's something here for everyone.

One thing that stands out about this list is the diversity of topics and themes. From autoimmune diseases to mental health, each book offers a unique perspective on the human experience. This is what makes reading so powerful - it allows us to connect with others on a deeper level, to see ourselves in their stories, and to gain new insights into the world around us.

As I prepare to dive into these books, I am reminded of the importance of representation and diversity in literature. By sharing our stories, authors provide readers with a window into the lives and experiences of others, fostering empathy, understanding, and connection.

The power of reading is undeniable, and as we embark on this journey together, I invite you to join me in exploring these books and the themes they present. Whether it's through online discussions, social media groups, or in-person book clubs, let us come together to share our thoughts, insights, and reactions to these incredible stories.

In the words of Bessel van der Kolk, "The body remembers more than we think it does." As we read these books, I hope that we will not only remember their lessons but also carry them with us into our daily lives.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey I'm kinder Winchester and welcome back to my channel and today is June first it is officially reading them a month you can now start the reading them and challenge go forth and read all of the things I'm really excited about this month and one of the things I'm excited about is a bunch of different book tubers have volunteered to do recommendation videos on specific challenges so they're picking a challenge and they're recommending a bunch of books that you could possibly read for that challenge one of the reasons I picked this challenge it's because I am the one that inspired it sort of and so did ferry O'Connor who was one of our favorite writers and she had lupus and actually passed away from it I also have an autoimmune disease so living this way is just in reading books you want to see herself in books and I just don't I don't see myself in many books at all and I basically will accept anyone who has an autoimmune disease or it looks similar anything really because it's just very difficult to see your life especially on a daily basis portrayed in books so that is what kind of inspiration behind why we wanted more people to read books like this is because usually when I tell people more details about my health they want to know well what does that mean for you what does that look like and so if people had read a book where they knew what that looked like I wouldn't be the one telling them that and sometimes it can be very difficult to talk about the things you are faced with especially if they're very intimate details so that is why I'm gonna be recommending some books today and I have several for you and then I have a couple that are on my TBR so the first thing I'm actually going to mention are two articles and that's one by Laura Hillenbrand about her experience with chronic fatigue syndrome it's now recently been renamed I'll put the new name in the description box they renamed it because it's more medically descriptive she wrote about her experience with the chronic fatigue syndrome and how she spent a very long time trying to figure out what she had and then people still don't often believe that chronic fatigue syndrome exists I mean with autoimmune diseases and about 50 years ago doctors and believe they exist they just called them women being hysterical cuz most the time it's women with autoimmune diseases so anyway she faced that and then when the she was diagnosed you know she still there's no cure for it there's not really any treatment so she just had to figure out what worked for her now she is recovering a bit more but while she had chronic fatigue syndrome she wrote two books and broken and Seabiscuit and then she had an article written about her called the unbreakable Hillenbrand and I can't read that book without sobbing because that is my life it is still the most beautiful piece of writing that I've ever seen my life in so I'm gonna recommend those articles if you want to go check those out they're gorgeous and go support Laura Hillenbrand I mean not that she really needs it at this point because she's had two amazing movies and her both her books of best sellers but still you know we want to support we want to support women writers those are two articles I would recommend one one book I would recommend that I've seen a lot of different TBR's is I am I am I am by Maggie O'Farrell Maggie O'Farrell had an incident where she had a very strange incident with her brain when she was a kid and she ended up almost becoming a vegetable and like paralyzed and working her way through physical therapy to being able to function again and the doctors considered it a miracle and later she now cares for her daughter who has severe eczema and as well severe intense allergies or she can go to anaphylactic shock if she's even around certain things and so she talks a lot about that in here and when I read it I sent my mom a copy and was like mom you need to read this because caring for me and my brother who also has different health struggles she has been a caregiver most of her life at this point so she definitely related to this book so if you're a caregiver I definitely think you could also relate to this book and definitely see yourself in it and I just thought this was beautiful because she also talks about some of the ways that she lives her life post this experience and how it changed her viewpoint we also interviewed Maggie O'Farrell on the reading of in podcast so I will link that also well down below but this is just a beautiful book and I cried and cried and cried when I read this and it was very very emotional experience but I would highly recommend it one of the questions that we've had about the prompt is chronic illnesses aren't fatal are they well chronic illness is just a you know general umbrella term that means just an illness that lasts a very long time and that includes some forms of cancer like Nia Riggs had in the bright hours she live from years knowing that she was dying and talked a lot about what it feels like to prepare when you know you're going to pass away what do you want to tell your children what do you want to prepare for your children how are you going to live your life what are you going to do with that and for many people with chronic illnesses they are they do know they're going to be fatal like with Flannery O'Connor she knew she would pass away from it because it was genetic and her family ran in her family she had seen that already so I think this answers a lot of questions it will ask a lot of questions that features a lot of different things that people with chronic illnesses have to face and prepare for and I just really love this memoir I thought it was very beautiful in the way that it described how a woman deals with that kind of thing and it's very specific to that state especially with regarding your family and different things so you'll definitely want to check out this memoir the bright hour a memoir living and dying by mean you know Riggs another interview we had on the reading on podcast is tell me everything you don't remember by Christine Heung Oakley and this is a memoir about a woman who had a stroke in her early 30s this was actually shortlisted for our prize so this counts for two prompts actually and I really love this book she kind of parallels it with slaughterhouse-five and because she had a stroke and she didn't have a short-term memory so she was Savelle unstuck in time and how it jumped around and the structure of the memoir mimics that and as you go forward in the novel I feel like stabilizes more as she recovers more and if you follow her on Instagram you'll see that she's still struggling with some things she should go back to her doctor and she'll realize that she's not as recovered as she thought she was and she's still forgetting things and just knowing that your mind is not a safe place anymore that it's not a place that you can you rely on it's just really devastating just gives you a look at someone who's experienced something that's traditionally found in older people as a young person and a lot of people really found it hard to believe that she had this because strokes are for older people not for younger people but jokes happened to people of all ages so I just I just greatly moved by this memoir I have so many tabs in it it's it's just really beautiful I couldn't recommend it enough now some people have asked the question now what about mental health mental health is a chronic illness and it is we wanted to feature physical chronic illness and then also feature mental health next year in a different challenge so that you can specifically look for books that deal with each of those different things and the challenges that they face they're both horrible but often times they both need people to be aware of certain differences in them so one of the books I think it's great for both of those actually is let's pretend this never happened and mostly true memoir by Jenny Lawson Jenny Lawson writes about how she struggles with both physical and mental chronic illness and how she handles both of those and how they interact together and also how they are different and I really appreciate her approach to this because she's really funny like she's just laugh out loud funny I listen to audio book especially it's perfection she reads it I love her so much I love how she reads awareness for these different struggles but in a way that he's an overwhelming for the reader because it is very emotionally difficult but she uses humor to help you understand what's going on in her life and it's just beautiful she does such a great job in that vein I also have to remind Samantha herb ease essay collections meaty and will net we're never meeting in real life her essay collections talk about her life as a 30-something and going forward through the decade and if you read both of them you can actually follow her life almost through like through the decade of her thirties and she struggles with Crohn's disease which is an inflammation of the entire digestive tract and you get severe diarrhea and a lot of problems that are really gross to talk about and that's someone who has a gastrointestinal struggle with autoimmune disease I personally related to this and so many ways you just learn to talk about your bowels way more openly than people typically would and that's what you get in these books she has hilarious stories that are actually pretty horrible you think about them but they're told in such a funny way and the audio books are just perfection the humor and timings of so wonderful she she does describe things very in detailed so if you have a sensitive nature and do not want to know that many details about a person's sex life and digestive system that may not be the books for you but they're really funny and so if you really can with her on the first couple essays I would highly recommend that you just go forth but if you don't then just just stop reading because it probably won't work for you if I really love them so I'm actually gonna do something a little weird and recommend one section from this book and that is the sport of kings the seee morgan in here there's a section where Alan's mother where I learn more almond who's one of the characters in the book and his background and we learn more about his mom his mom has a form of lupus but she can't figure out what's wrong with her and I really had never seen a struggle to find a cure in a novel before or I really struggle what what she has and the thing is is that most of the time when we hear stories from the medical community as to you search around it might even be yours but eventually you'll get a diagnosis and you'll go forward now that you know what it is but the fact is that many people who have autoimmune diseases do not know what it is and that is because there's very little research insert rant about sexism here and patriarchy and medical community here thank you anyway moving on so you just don't know and so she the book talks about that talks about how they tried to find the money for her to go to a doctor she finally went to a doctor and he told her that he knew she had some form of probably some form of lupus but he couldn't diagnose her because her syndromes weren't bad enough and even if she was diagnosed she probably wouldn't get disability unless fighting the courts which also costs money and then it's just because autoimmune diseases aren't considered as disabling enough to give you disability and this is a reality that I know many people I am part of chronic illness forums and different things many people have talked about their fights to be able to get disability for their autoimmune diseases and other chronic illnesses and they can't because they're not considered severe enough and it's a really big problem and I'd never seen that actually portrayed in a novel and it was just very very difficult to read I had to put the book down and step away for almost like a half a week week because it was just so true and I will say that actually she probably would have had to find the money to go to five four or five doctors before any doctor actually told her that because doctors just aren't prepared or trained for autoimmune disease is that are any more complicated than an upfront case really oftentimes and yeah it's very difficult situation and I just really admired that's the e Morgan portrayed that in this book now the rest of the book take it or leave it but I really appreciate that section and so I'm gonna be keeping this book just so I can reread that section at times and recommend it to people and it's just really really heartbreaking yeah I'm just gonna put it down now because I don't have anything else probably girls say where some books are so personal it's very difficult to talk about them and that would definitely be one of them speaking of personal books two books on my TBR is Abby Norman's asked me what my uterus a quest to make the doctors believe in women's pain and I have PCOS and in resources and so I definitely relate to this book I've not been able to read it yet because I'm I know I'm just gonna solve my eyes out because I find it very difficult to read stuff about things that I have and how you know doctors ignore women's pain and a bunch of different things and yeah I I do want to read this but I'm just gonna have to find the right headspace I don't know when that's gonna become I'm not gonna force them myself because I think that'll be very difficult so yeah I'm glad that people are finally writing about this I know Hilary mantel wrote I know more about this there's also somewhere on my TBR but this is one of a woman in my generation and we still experience this even though it still is supposed to be more well known and I don't know I just yeah it also runs in my family and so having personally experienced all of that it's like okay I need I need to prep to read about my family's experience and my experience I'm really looking forward to this one it just may not happen right now I know Jacqueline over six minutes for me review this on her blog and I really appreciate her take on it so if you want a more detailed review of someone who's actually read it definitely go check out her review there another book I'm looking forward to reading is sick a memoir by corporate Kista Kapoor and this is a book about her struggle with advanced Lyme disease Sammy and I know some few people who have neurological Lyme disease and trying to find clinics that will treat them Lyme is still not treated as a real disease by many doctors at least not a severe does so I'm very interested to read her story behind it because I feel like people with Lyme disease are often just ignored or not taken seriously so I'm really appreciate that she's finally writing about it I'm very much looking forward to reading this and learning more about Lyme disease and what it entails we'll see what happens we'll see how we do with this and I think it'll be very beautiful it's well my most anticipated books of the summer so those are the books that I would recommend or on my TBR and there was a lot there and a lot of feelings there obviously but I think that's the important part of reading books about people from different walks of life as understanding those feelings understanding where they're coming from and I know I would love it if a lot more people knew what diseases were when I talked about them or the different struggles that I have and I wouldn't have to explain them in detail and and you know that would be great that would be wonderful so here's to reading more books by people with chronic illnesses I hope you find what you're looking for I've seen other recommendations I'm gonna link the Goodreads page this challenge down below there have been so many wonderful recommendations that I books I'd never even heard of so I think that's great so thank you so much for watching and I guess I will see you in the next one bye guyshey I'm kinder Winchester and welcome back to my channel and today is June first it is officially reading them a month you can now start the reading them and challenge go forth and read all of the things I'm really excited about this month and one of the things I'm excited about is a bunch of different book tubers have volunteered to do recommendation videos on specific challenges so they're picking a challenge and they're recommending a bunch of books that you could possibly read for that challenge one of the reasons I picked this challenge it's because I am the one that inspired it sort of and so did ferry O'Connor who was one of our favorite writers and she had lupus and actually passed away from it I also have an autoimmune disease so living this way is just in reading books you want to see herself in books and I just don't I don't see myself in many books at all and I basically will accept anyone who has an autoimmune disease or it looks similar anything really because it's just very difficult to see your life especially on a daily basis portrayed in books so that is what kind of inspiration behind why we wanted more people to read books like this is because usually when I tell people more details about my health they want to know well what does that mean for you what does that look like and so if people had read a book where they knew what that looked like I wouldn't be the one telling them that and sometimes it can be very difficult to talk about the things you are faced with especially if they're very intimate details so that is why I'm gonna be recommending some books today and I have several for you and then I have a couple that are on my TBR so the first thing I'm actually going to mention are two articles and that's one by Laura Hillenbrand about her experience with chronic fatigue syndrome it's now recently been renamed I'll put the new name in the description box they renamed it because it's more medically descriptive she wrote about her experience with the chronic fatigue syndrome and how she spent a very long time trying to figure out what she had and then people still don't often believe that chronic fatigue syndrome exists I mean with autoimmune diseases and about 50 years ago doctors and believe they exist they just called them women being hysterical cuz most the time it's women with autoimmune diseases so anyway she faced that and then when the she was diagnosed you know she still there's no cure for it there's not really any treatment so she just had to figure out what worked for her now she is recovering a bit more but while she had chronic fatigue syndrome she wrote two books and broken and Seabiscuit and then she had an article written about her called the unbreakable Hillenbrand and I can't read that book without sobbing because that is my life it is still the most beautiful piece of writing that I've ever seen my life in so I'm gonna recommend those articles if you want to go check those out they're gorgeous and go support Laura Hillenbrand I mean not that she really needs it at this point because she's had two amazing movies and her both her books of best sellers but still you know we want to support we want to support women writers those are two articles I would recommend one one book I would recommend that I've seen a lot of different TBR's is I am I am I am by Maggie O'Farrell Maggie O'Farrell had an incident where she had a very strange incident with her brain when she was a kid and she ended up almost becoming a vegetable and like paralyzed and working her way through physical therapy to being able to function again and the doctors considered it a miracle and later she now cares for her daughter who has severe eczema and as well severe intense allergies or she can go to anaphylactic shock if she's even around certain things and so she talks a lot about that in here and when I read it I sent my mom a copy and was like mom you need to read this because caring for me and my brother who also has different health struggles she has been a caregiver most of her life at this point so she definitely related to this book so if you're a caregiver I definitely think you could also relate to this book and definitely see yourself in it and I just thought this was beautiful because she also talks about some of the ways that she lives her life post this experience and how it changed her viewpoint we also interviewed Maggie O'Farrell on the reading of in podcast so I will link that also well down below but this is just a beautiful book and I cried and cried and cried when I read this and it was very very emotional experience but I would highly recommend it one of the questions that we've had about the prompt is chronic illnesses aren't fatal are they well chronic illness is just a you know general umbrella term that means just an illness that lasts a very long time and that includes some forms of cancer like Nia Riggs had in the bright hours she live from years knowing that she was dying and talked a lot about what it feels like to prepare when you know you're going to pass away what do you want to tell your children what do you want to prepare for your children how are you going to live your life what are you going to do with that and for many people with chronic illnesses they are they do know they're going to be fatal like with Flannery O'Connor she knew she would pass away from it because it was genetic and her family ran in her family she had seen that already so I think this answers a lot of questions it will ask a lot of questions that features a lot of different things that people with chronic illnesses have to face and prepare for and I just really love this memoir I thought it was very beautiful in the way that it described how a woman deals with that kind of thing and it's very specific to that state especially with regarding your family and different things so you'll definitely want to check out this memoir the bright hour a memoir living and dying by mean you know Riggs another interview we had on the reading on podcast is tell me everything you don't remember by Christine Heung Oakley and this is a memoir about a woman who had a stroke in her early 30s this was actually shortlisted for our prize so this counts for two prompts actually and I really love this book she kind of parallels it with slaughterhouse-five and because she had a stroke and she didn't have a short-term memory so she was Savelle unstuck in time and how it jumped around and the structure of the memoir mimics that and as you go forward in the novel I feel like stabilizes more as she recovers more and if you follow her on Instagram you'll see that she's still struggling with some things she should go back to her doctor and she'll realize that she's not as recovered as she thought she was and she's still forgetting things and just knowing that your mind is not a safe place anymore that it's not a place that you can you rely on it's just really devastating just gives you a look at someone who's experienced something that's traditionally found in older people as a young person and a lot of people really found it hard to believe that she had this because strokes are for older people not for younger people but jokes happened to people of all ages so I just I just greatly moved by this memoir I have so many tabs in it it's it's just really beautiful I couldn't recommend it enough now some people have asked the question now what about mental health mental health is a chronic illness and it is we wanted to feature physical chronic illness and then also feature mental health next year in a different challenge so that you can specifically look for books that deal with each of those different things and the challenges that they face they're both horrible but often times they both need people to be aware of certain differences in them so one of the books I think it's great for both of those actually is let's pretend this never happened and mostly true memoir by Jenny Lawson Jenny Lawson writes about how she struggles with both physical and mental chronic illness and how she handles both of those and how they interact together and also how they are different and I really appreciate her approach to this because she's really funny like she's just laugh out loud funny I listen to audio book especially it's perfection she reads it I love her so much I love how she reads awareness for these different struggles but in a way that he's an overwhelming for the reader because it is very emotionally difficult but she uses humor to help you understand what's going on in her life and it's just beautiful she does such a great job in that vein I also have to remind Samantha herb ease essay collections meaty and will net we're never meeting in real life her essay collections talk about her life as a 30-something and going forward through the decade and if you read both of them you can actually follow her life almost through like through the decade of her thirties and she struggles with Crohn's disease which is an inflammation of the entire digestive tract and you get severe diarrhea and a lot of problems that are really gross to talk about and that's someone who has a gastrointestinal struggle with autoimmune disease I personally related to this and so many ways you just learn to talk about your bowels way more openly than people typically would and that's what you get in these books she has hilarious stories that are actually pretty horrible you think about them but they're told in such a funny way and the audio books are just perfection the humor and timings of so wonderful she she does describe things very in detailed so if you have a sensitive nature and do not want to know that many details about a person's sex life and digestive system that may not be the books for you but they're really funny and so if you really can with her on the first couple essays I would highly recommend that you just go forth but if you don't then just just stop reading because it probably won't work for you if I really love them so I'm actually gonna do something a little weird and recommend one section from this book and that is the sport of kings the seee morgan in here there's a section where Alan's mother where I learn more almond who's one of the characters in the book and his background and we learn more about his mom his mom has a form of lupus but she can't figure out what's wrong with her and I really had never seen a struggle to find a cure in a novel before or I really struggle what what she has and the thing is is that most of the time when we hear stories from the medical community as to you search around it might even be yours but eventually you'll get a diagnosis and you'll go forward now that you know what it is but the fact is that many people who have autoimmune diseases do not know what it is and that is because there's very little research insert rant about sexism here and patriarchy and medical community here thank you anyway moving on so you just don't know and so she the book talks about that talks about how they tried to find the money for her to go to a doctor she finally went to a doctor and he told her that he knew she had some form of probably some form of lupus but he couldn't diagnose her because her syndromes weren't bad enough and even if she was diagnosed she probably wouldn't get disability unless fighting the courts which also costs money and then it's just because autoimmune diseases aren't considered as disabling enough to give you disability and this is a reality that I know many people I am part of chronic illness forums and different things many people have talked about their fights to be able to get disability for their autoimmune diseases and other chronic illnesses and they can't because they're not considered severe enough and it's a really big problem and I'd never seen that actually portrayed in a novel and it was just very very difficult to read I had to put the book down and step away for almost like a half a week week because it was just so true and I will say that actually she probably would have had to find the money to go to five four or five doctors before any doctor actually told her that because doctors just aren't prepared or trained for autoimmune disease is that are any more complicated than an upfront case really oftentimes and yeah it's very difficult situation and I just really admired that's the e Morgan portrayed that in this book now the rest of the book take it or leave it but I really appreciate that section and so I'm gonna be keeping this book just so I can reread that section at times and recommend it to people and it's just really really heartbreaking yeah I'm just gonna put it down now because I don't have anything else probably girls say where some books are so personal it's very difficult to talk about them and that would definitely be one of them speaking of personal books two books on my TBR is Abby Norman's asked me what my uterus a quest to make the doctors believe in women's pain and I have PCOS and in resources and so I definitely relate to this book I've not been able to read it yet because I'm I know I'm just gonna solve my eyes out because I find it very difficult to read stuff about things that I have and how you know doctors ignore women's pain and a bunch of different things and yeah I I do want to read this but I'm just gonna have to find the right headspace I don't know when that's gonna become I'm not gonna force them myself because I think that'll be very difficult so yeah I'm glad that people are finally writing about this I know Hilary mantel wrote I know more about this there's also somewhere on my TBR but this is one of a woman in my generation and we still experience this even though it still is supposed to be more well known and I don't know I just yeah it also runs in my family and so having personally experienced all of that it's like okay I need I need to prep to read about my family's experience and my experience I'm really looking forward to this one it just may not happen right now I know Jacqueline over six minutes for me review this on her blog and I really appreciate her take on it so if you want a more detailed review of someone who's actually read it definitely go check out her review there another book I'm looking forward to reading is sick a memoir by corporate Kista Kapoor and this is a book about her struggle with advanced Lyme disease Sammy and I know some few people who have neurological Lyme disease and trying to find clinics that will treat them Lyme is still not treated as a real disease by many doctors at least not a severe does so I'm very interested to read her story behind it because I feel like people with Lyme disease are often just ignored or not taken seriously so I'm really appreciate that she's finally writing about it I'm very much looking forward to reading this and learning more about Lyme disease and what it entails we'll see what happens we'll see how we do with this and I think it'll be very beautiful it's well my most anticipated books of the summer so those are the books that I would recommend or on my TBR and there was a lot there and a lot of feelings there obviously but I think that's the important part of reading books about people from different walks of life as understanding those feelings understanding where they're coming from and I know I would love it if a lot more people knew what diseases were when I talked about them or the different struggles that I have and I wouldn't have to explain them in detail and and you know that would be great that would be wonderful so here's to reading more books by people with chronic illnesses I hope you find what you're looking for I've seen other recommendations I'm gonna link the Goodreads page this challenge down below there have been so many wonderful recommendations that I books I'd never even heard of so I think that's great so thank you so much for watching and I guess I will see you in the next one bye guys\n"