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Message: [QUOTE="Waffles, post: 381189, member: 703"] As strange as it sounds, "Wild Bird" by Wendelin van Draanen really did help me find myself again after a long period of extreme apathy. I'm not even the target audience for that book, but it held such an ugly mirror to my face that it sort of forced me to face my inner demons while protecting me from them at the same time by letting me observe the very things that had hurt me as a teenager happen to someone else. It was an extremely tough read, though... Most of it was an almost 1-on-1 replica of my own experiences as a horrible, out-of-control teenager (things I had said & done were shown in there with all the frequency and danger of a minefield). I have reread it dozens of times since, but I doubt I'll ever be able to go through it as a whole ever again... There are parts I simply cannot go back to and I end up skipping them over every single time. I never thought a book could be this powerful. [/QUOTE]

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