Wow wow wow the brain is amazing. Ok, full disclosure, I'm such a brain nerd (which is crazy because my brain is the one thinking all of this and wow, brains). I'm particularly interested by the ways psychology and neuroscience can overlap- so this was the perfect book for me. Susannah Cahalan framed her illness so well- it was part mystery story, part medical drama. I loved her tone and I think the reporter style this book took helped make things easy to understand but not skimping on the details. I've seen some other readers have issues with the accuracy of the story, and Cahalan is upfront about how she doesn't remember much from her time in the hospital. But her extensive interviews with those involved and her family's journals, I think, add the legitimacy and accuracy to the story. And I appreciated her honesty-especially in presenting herself as it happened, not trying to cover up the really awful things that happened. I really found this fascinating and I'll be thinking about the subject for a long time.