turtles all the way down - book review

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 "The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It keeps tightening, infinitely"





This novel is about a troubled 16 year old girl named Aza holmes,

She struggles with anxiety and OCD, which often brings up her constant fear of obtaining the disease, C. diff. Through her journey, her loved ones try their best to support her and help her get better but it just worsens and worsens. She is just a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. This book is one of the best I have ever read because I love how the author John Green shares Aza's story with a shattering, unflinching clarity.


Aza believes she is not a real person, and this is how she explains it- “I don't control my thoughts, So they are not mine, I don't decide if I'm sweating or getting anxiety or C diff or whatever, so my body isn't really mine. I don't decide any of that- outside forces do. They control my actions. I am a story they are telling. I am circumstances.’

Her mental therapist, Karen Singh replied to Aza truthfully, “Thoughts are only thoughts, they are not you.” She is trying to make Aza realise that with or without her disease and her anxiety, she belongs to herself even when her thoughts don't. For that matter, All of us are real, and our doubts and thoughts make us more real, not less.’ It will get better, we are stronger when we share our struggles, insecurities and thoughts with others like and unlike us. Aza shouldn't let her thought spirals take over her life. After all we are only human.


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