It touched my heart because Julie painted Anna perfectly. She also tries to hide how hard it is to deal with anxiety, and thus has a lot of anxiety ABOUT having panic attacks. She also has panic attacks about being teased. She likes music and posters plastering her bedroom.

She is pretty (though she has body image issues and thinks she's fat). She has friends (though not as many as she thinks she should have). She has two parents and a sweet little sister. I majorly adored this novel because Anna is a NORMAL girl with depression. It is a funny novel about depression, which is freaking brilliant, because what depressed person wants to read about how depressing it is to be depressed? During her stay, she meets a host of surprisingly normal teens (you know, despite the hearing voices and pretend babies and seizures), endures incredibly strange rules and farting chairs, and learns that maybe she is much stronger and prettier than she ever imagined. Get Well Soon is about a girl named Anna Bloom who gets sent to a mental hospital for depression. Because it's important, guys, very, very important. So this is the part where I gush about the importance of this novel. So rebel, right? Also really annoying, because now having read it I am flaming raging mad that anyone could completely miss the point of this amazing little book. Yes, Julie has been BANNED (and challenged).

And now that I'm finally done with edits on my WIP, I grabbed Get Well Soon to read for Banned Books Week. Into The Wild Nerd Yonder is one of my favorite books. If you've read this blog for a while, you know that I'm a huge, squealing fangirl of Julie Halpern.

Get well soon by julie halpern