About life and love and living with mental illness Hi, friend. It’s about that time of year when my brain wants to take a hiatus from reading text-heavy books and only allows comics inside. Shockingly, this has no relation to current events—they’re just the (horrible, terrible, rotten) cherry on top. A thing my therapist told…

Uplifting and informative books about mental illness for readers of all ages Hi, friend. When you read a lot of books about mental health (or, as some organizations are trying to shift the terminology, brain health), you get a front-seat view to a wide range of experiences. There are the heavy memoirs that deal with…

About benzos, codependency, and alcoholism. Also, a giveaway! Hi, friend. When I was an angsty teen, I wanted to read every book I could find about mental illness and addiction. Not much has changed, except back then I didn’t know that non-fiction could be human and interesting; I assumed the genre only existed for the…

A guest rec from Cassie of Reading Under the Radar! Hi, friend. Welcome to a surprise extra issue and the first guest recommendation on Crooked Reads! I asked my pal Cassie from Reading Under the Radar to share some good books for summer reading, and boy, did she deliver. She’s a mystery lover, which is…