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Book Review: OCD Love Story
written on Saturday, 8 February 2014 @ 08:20 ✈
Title : OCD Love Story
Author : Corey Ann Haydu
Publisher : Simon Pulse
Publication Date : July 23, 2013
Description from Goodreads: When Bea meets Beck, she knows instantly that he’s her kind of crazy. Sweet, strong, kinda-messed-up Beck understands her like no one else can. He makes her feel almost normal. He makes her feel like she could fall in love again.
But despite her feelings for Beck, Bea can’t stop thinking about someone else: a guy who is gorgeous and magnetic... and has no idea Bea even exists. But Bea knows a lot about him. She spends a lot of time watching him. She has a journal full of notes. Some might even say she’s obsessed.
Bea tells herself she’s got it all under control. But this isn’t a choice, it’s a compulsion. The truth is, she’s breaking down...and she might end up breaking her own heart.
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To be quite frankly, I liked this book. The book cover? Not really. But the story was brilliantly done. I learned a lot about OCD from this novel. Sometimes I thought I might have a little bit OCD, but Bea and Beck and the rest of her therapy group was way worst. OCD is serious, man. All the way through my reading, I felt disturbed, heart-racing, stressful, sad, and hopeful. But it was all in a good way.
Bea is just an average girl who goes to therapy session every week. She is a bit obsessive but she always deny that she is obsessive. She just doesn't want people to think she is crazy. She met Beck, who also suffer from OCD, and fall for him. Her problem is she cannot stop obsessing over Austin and she always need to check on him to make sure he's alright. It was both fascinating and petrifying to watch her stalking. I felt so angry and at the same time heartbroken as she struggles to fight her compulsions and most of the time she failed to stop it. All I wanted to do is just take her to sit in front of me and give her a good talk. Despite the "love story" that the title claimed the book to be about, I don't really see the point because the story was more about Bea's obsession than her love story with Beck.
Imagine you're kissing with someone you love and a few minutes after that, that person said he needed to take an eight-hour bath to wash away all the "germs". And you can't touch that person because he's extremely hygienic. That's what it's like to be Bea. It was a painful read. At least to me. This book, however, thought me a lot about OCD. I really enjoyed it.
Rate: 3.7Labels: book review
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Book Review: OCD Love Story
written on Saturday, 8 February 2014 @ 08:20 ✈
Title : OCD Love Story
Author : Corey Ann Haydu
Publisher : Simon Pulse
Publication Date : July 23, 2013
Description from Goodreads: When Bea meets Beck, she knows instantly that he’s her kind of crazy. Sweet, strong, kinda-messed-up Beck understands her like no one else can. He makes her feel almost normal. He makes her feel like she could fall in love again.
But despite her feelings for Beck, Bea can’t stop thinking about someone else: a guy who is gorgeous and magnetic... and has no idea Bea even exists. But Bea knows a lot about him. She spends a lot of time watching him. She has a journal full of notes. Some might even say she’s obsessed.
Bea tells herself she’s got it all under control. But this isn’t a choice, it’s a compulsion. The truth is, she’s breaking down...and she might end up breaking her own heart.
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To be quite frankly, I liked this book. The book cover? Not really. But the story was brilliantly done. I learned a lot about OCD from this novel. Sometimes I thought I might have a little bit OCD, but Bea and Beck and the rest of her therapy group was way worst. OCD is serious, man. All the way through my reading, I felt disturbed, heart-racing, stressful, sad, and hopeful. But it was all in a good way.
Bea is just an average girl who goes to therapy session every week. She is a bit obsessive but she always deny that she is obsessive. She just doesn't want people to think she is crazy. She met Beck, who also suffer from OCD, and fall for him. Her problem is she cannot stop obsessing over Austin and she always need to check on him to make sure he's alright. It was both fascinating and petrifying to watch her stalking. I felt so angry and at the same time heartbroken as she struggles to fight her compulsions and most of the time she failed to stop it. All I wanted to do is just take her to sit in front of me and give her a good talk. Despite the "love story" that the title claimed the book to be about, I don't really see the point because the story was more about Bea's obsession than her love story with Beck.
Imagine you're kissing with someone you love and a few minutes after that, that person said he needed to take an eight-hour bath to wash away all the "germs". And you can't touch that person because he's extremely hygienic. That's what it's like to be Bea. It was a painful read. At least to me. This book, however, thought me a lot about OCD. I really enjoyed it.
Rate: 3.7Labels: book review
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“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
- Virginia Woolf
Name : Syafiqah
Age : 25
Hometown : Kajang, Selangor
Current city : Kuala Lumpur
Interests : Books, food, music, collecting memories, clever humor, arts, mysteries.
Hi! So there's nothing much going to be around here. I read a lot. I read almost everything that has print on it. Everything from flowery romance to pretentious fiction to poetry. If you came here to stalk on my activities, then you've came to the wrong place. There's a special place for that but I'm not gonna speak of it here. Here is the place where I rant about books (mostly), musics, tv shows, movies, foods, and my personal opinion about all kind of stuff which I would like to share. I don't really share in real life, especially food. But I'll make this an exception (i'll share the pictures of food). So if you don't mind reading my rambles, fair warning; you may not be able to understand a single word I'm going to say because of my overflowing emotions. But just take the chance anyways. Oh this isn't a diary, just so you know.
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