"The only prescription is a dose of reality."
The Symptoms of My Insanity
Jun 7, 2014
The Bookworm says... Maybe. Symptoms of My Insanity by Mindy Raf was a good book. Izzy seems like a normal girl. A normal girl with a not-so-normal mom, and a not-so-normal bra size. Izzys mom has a rare stomach cancer, and her condition is worsening. Izzys sister is at college, leaving her to care for her mom. Also, she is constantly self conscious of her large breasts. On top of this she is extremely paranoid about everything, and tends to self diagnose herself with various diseases using Symptomaniac.com. Plus, she has a huge art portfolio due. In three weeks. Her best friend starts to act strange, and Izzy has no idea what is going on. Then, her major-long-time crush starts hitting on her. She tries to handle everything, but were her impressions of people wrong? Does he really like her, or is he using her? Is her mom keeping things from her? And at this rate, will she ever make it to graduation? In my opinion, the book itself was great. But, there is always a hamartia (fatal flaw). This story's fatal flaw is the subplots. There are subplots upon subplots upon subplots, which I was not a fan of.