Iasmin Omar Ata

Nothing personal; I'm pretty sure I'm not the intended audience. I was excited to be able to read the Arabic text---I think I get the wordplay of the title, but only via google translate and some guessing. I liked how Ata depicted the atypical seizure using the visual vocabulary they'd developed. My overall feeling however was that the story/metaphors/relationships/etc are heavy-handed. And, as a non-anime-fan, I didn't really care for the art and the references to specific shows did nothing for me.… (mehr)

This was a fairly interesting glimpse into the life of a person struggling with epilepsy. Unfortunately, it made use of the same old cliched structure of a person going off their meds and snowballing toward a full-blown crisis. I read the same thing in [b:Turtles All the Way Down|35504431|Turtles All the Way Down|John Green|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1503002776s/35504431.jpg|21576687] (OCD) and [b:Calvin|23310675|Calvin|Martine Leavitt|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1421087319s/23310675.jpg|42864801] (schizophrenia) earlier this year. Surely there must be some other way to tell these stories.… (mehr)