The Patchwork Quilt: A book for children about Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

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So why does nobody consider moving her to the ground floor? I feel that this is probably because of the Victorian view that disability is a kind of punishment, and shameful. Anyone with a disability would tend to be hidden away. Six university friends meet up for a reunion after twenty years. I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this before in another book review but it bears repeating : reunions are bad! Nothing ever goes the way you think it will. We’re not just talking about people changing, having nothing in common anymore, petty jealousies and the like. Oh no, this reunion right here is a total disaster! The characters are very shallow people, and there is no promise of character growth once all their secrets are laid bare. There were some thought provoking topics, but they got lost in a muddle of unnecessary drama and uneven pacing.

What Katie Did" is the name of a song by the Libertines that may have been inspired by the book. The lyrics refer to the characters, e.g. "Hurry up Mrs. Brown". The group Babyshambles later released a song entitled "What Katy Did Next". Both were written by Libertines and Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty. I very rarely do not finish a book unless it has issues I don't want to read. This book didn't have anything objectionable, but I wasn't enjoying it. It is a moralistic book. The main character spends the more than the first half of the book (I reached 57%) getting into one scrape after another, leading her younger siblings astray, and dealing with a prim, strict aunt. The father is a doctor so is hardly every around, and there has been no christian content. I also do not enjoy the way it is written. I feel like I'm not at all connected with the characters, and don't really care what happens to them.A novel with a bland plot can often be redeemed by charming characters, or expert prose. Sadly, What You Did can boast neither. McGowan’s style is mostly nondescript, with only the occasional sprinkling of awful to catch your attention. One particularly shoddy excerpt made me laugh aloud: The first week bookshops opened in June, print was up 31% in both volume and value against the same week in 2019, essentially reaching November levels – and that was only with bookshops in England open,” she said. “This growth pretty much maintained across the summer and early autumn. In 2019, the market’s weekly volume didn’t hit 4m books sold until mid-November; in 2020, it reached it in the last week of September (and stayed there).” What Katy Did is an 1872 children's book written by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey under her pen name "Susan Coolidge". It follows the adventures of a twelve-year-old American girl, Katy Carr, and her family who live in the fictional lakeside Ohio town of Burnet in the 1860s. Katy is a tall untidy tomboy, forever getting into scrapes but wishing to be beautiful and beloved. When a terrible accident makes her an invalid, her illness and four-year recovery gradually teach her to be as good and kind as she has always wanted.

Written in 1872 and set in Ohio, "What Katy Did" follows the Carr family. Katy and her siblings are not exactly 'purposefully' bad, but they certainly don't stop to think about their actions either. That is, until one day something happens and everyone, though particularly Katy, learn the value of obedience, even in the littlest of requests. Rape. Affairs. Domestic abuse. This novel covers a range of sensitive issues but does so in a manner that does not make the reader feel uncomfortable. Instead, McGowan creates a thrilling, pulsating read that establishes a world that is becoming increasingly claustrophobic for the protagonist, Ali.

The two sequels which I read are “What Katy Did at School” and “What Katy Did Next”, although I read these the wrong way round. In those days, you tended to read whatever was on the library’s shelves. In honour of how much I remember enjoying these books, and their near-classic status, I’ll rate this at three stars, though my honest view of it now is closer to two. It has not really stood the test of time. And one final weird fact …

I want to yell at the characters, “OMG, please can’t you see what’s happening under your nose? Are you blind?” I'd also like to mention, despite being billed as a psychological thriller--IT IS NOT. I'd classify it more as a domestic drama/suspense. A very easy one to figure out, I might add. I knew all that would happen within a few chapters. And seriously, I have to mention this because WTF!? What is up with that book cover? What is it even supposed to be? If I had written this book, I'd be peeved if I was saddled with that terrible artwork.We, the readers, are not privy to some of the biggest plot developments. There is no Court Hearing for Bail for the husband. Alongside storytelling, there are many examples of older civilisations recording their lives, through cave drawings or stone carvings. But the earliest examples of "writing"–either on stone slabs or impressed onto pieces of bark –were more to record numbers, lists, or convey information. The problem is your current setup of inflexible data systems and spreadsheets make it hard, which makes you feel frustrated. Dorry Carr is six he and his sister Johnnie are very close and like to do everything together. Dorry is a boy, but can seem a bit like a girl.

It is the perfect evening, six university friends reunite after 25 years to reminisce about how they met, shared stories, photographs. But soon it becomes obvious that they shared more than that. A web of deception, lies, affairs, rape and murder all become part of the story.Full text of What Katy Did at A Celebration of Women Writers, with the original cover and illustrations and some Roberts Brothers advertisements for Coolidge's other works.