Anxious People: A Novel

I can't stand the writing style. It's like being trapped in the brain of a rambling man with untreated severe ADHD. I am watching the Netflix series of the same name, instead. Much better, because they cut out most of the unnecessary crap.

The story was good and am glad to have finished it but it wasn’t the kind of book where I couldn’t wait to read the next chapter; I actually had to almost force myself to pick it up to read.

DNF! I tried reading this for my neighbors book club. I found the beginning interesting but then I had to force myself to read a few pages at a time and finally had to dnf at 32%. This book triggered me in ways I can’t explain, I just could not handle the stress and literal anxiety reading this gave me. I understand the point of the book, i understand what the author was doing. HOWEVER, the conversations between the characters are toxic. The amount of circular conversations gave me PTSD and if you’ve ever been in a relationship with a covert narcissist you probably understood what I’m talking about. But to sum it up, if you want to know what it’s like having a discussion with my narcissistic ex husband, pretend you’re the cops in this book. This book showed me that I’m not as healed from the trauma as I had originally thought. Perhaps one day I’ll be able to try reading this again and get through to the end.

Love this author he has a way of making you fall in love with all his characters and all their quirks. This book lightly roughed on suicide but mainly focuses on how everyone is just trying to get through the day

This book took me a minute to get into but ended up being a beautiful story about idiots. ♥️