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I was offered a book for review, so I read the blurb. At first I thought it was just full of bad writing:

Four teenagers are on the verge of exploding. The anxieties they face at every turn have nearly pushed them to the point of surrender: senseless high-stakes testing, the lingering damage of past trauma, the buried grief and guilt of tragic loss. They are desperate to cope, but no one is listening.

So they will lie. They will split in two. They will turn inside out. They will even build an invisible helicopter to fly themselves far away...but nothing releases the pressure. Because, as they discover, the only way to truly escape their world is to fly right into it.


I wasn't interested in reading it, but the blurb made me frown enough that I wanted to find out more -- was it self-published? I was betting yes.

Turned out I was wrong. Not only was I wrong, the blurb is actually correct: A character does in fact turn inside out ("Another [character] has turned herself into a walking digestive tract."). "One character is building a helicopter that happens to be invisible."

I'm still not interested in reading the book, but at least I'm less frowny over it now.

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In non-book news, my brain has come up with a new form of stress dream: Moving. Night after night, sometimes multiple times in a night, I go through the experience of having to pack up my whole apartment and move. There's always a twist, like last night, thinking I was all done packing, I threw out my extra boxes, then discovered a whole closet that I hadn't packed up.

I'm not even thinking about moving, so it's odd that my brain has fixated on that.

Date: 2015-08-06 04:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tersa.livejournal.com
Time to go all woowoo on you!

You may not be thinking about moving, but your subconscious may be associating it as a concept with something else going on in your life. Instead of looking at it literally, think about the emotions you attach to the act of moving ("upheaval and change" spring to my mind) and then decide if there's anything like that going on that you might be concerned about.

I have two versions of stress dreams, one involving driving off a bridge into a body of water (which I usually recognize as fears of losing control) and tornados (which I haven't quite figured out, but could be the same idea of impending doom/upheaval).

Although at the same time, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. :D

Date: 2015-08-06 04:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
Agreed that it's likely not about literally moving, just a representation of the stress associated with that (doing something I don't want to, upheaval, etc), but... Hm. I was going to say that there are lots of things with that same set of stressy things, but I guess there aren't. Interesting.

Date: 2015-08-06 04:57 pm (UTC)

Date: 2015-08-07 12:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] postingwhore.livejournal.com
Knowing that those things in the blurb actually happen doesn't make me want to read the book more XPPPP

Date: 2015-08-07 05:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com
Haha agreed!

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