How to Make Friends with the Dark

Great read! However, after just a couple days reading at the pool. All the pages fell out, had to glue them back in. What a sight for sore eyes that book is

A+ all the way. I held my tears until the authors note ans that got me.My letter would say, "I'm sorry".An amazing book with great storyline. Made me laugh, made me remember, made me cry. Going to start a another by her immediately.Thanks you for this book.

such a good book but can be very triggering and should be read by a mature audience

The media could not be loaded.  Kathleen Glasgow has a gorgeous writing style. It’s not the type I’m usually interested in, but she does it in a way that keeps you captivated. It was a hard read, as she describes what tiger is feeling in a way that makes you feel like you’re there. Definitely worth the read

I lost my mom unexpectedly 4 years ago. Every unspoken thought, every emotion I couldn’t name or couldn’t face, every fear and anxiety unvoiced all came floating to the surface for me in this book. I can’t remember a time when I’ve highlighted or annotated so much. In fact, I’ve never annotated any book I’ve ever read outside of for a class.It was for these very reasons I found myself unable to turn the page yet I couldn’t stop myself from reading on. Kathleen Glasgow reached into my heart, took all my grief and allowed it to manifest in this story. Oddly enough, and without planning it, I read this just around the time of the anniversary of losing my mother.A few highlights resonated with me:“I don’t understand how things keep going when she has just stopped.” The weirdest thing in the world to me was driving home from the hospital and not really understanding how no one else was affected by this but my family. For everyone else, it was just a regular, every day Friday and they were doing what they’d always done. For me, however, my whole world just shut down.“I want to hurt everyone right now. I want to break things so the world looks like how I feel inside…” I remember going to Kohl’s to buy a blouse for Mom to wear to her funeral. The lovely cashier told me to have a wonderful day. I remember fighting the urge to punch her in the face. My mother just died. And she wasn’t supposed to so I wasn’t sure how I was going to have a good day, good week, good month, good year, good life. Of course, I gave a weak smile, took my bag and left.“I need my mother to come get me, to save me from the fast that my mother is dead.” This is one of those gold nuggets I knew I felt in the earliest stages of grief but didn’t have words until I read this book. I prayed for this many times. It’s the only prayer that was never answered.And then there’s “I miss my mother so much right now it’s loud inside me, like the worst thunder, the kind the shakes the windows, shoves the side of your house, makes you feel unsafe.” It took two solid years and moving closer to family before I finally felt safe again. It’s a new experience for me. Only when I felt safe was I able to begin to heal.I almost feel like this should be required reading for anyone who has lost something, especially unexpectedly. Grief is long and terrible and deep and painful and has its own timeline. You cannot rush it, push it, skip over it or wish it away. It is inevitable. It will let you know when it’s done with you. And those who’ve never lost someone cannot and will not ever understand this.This book is deep and so very personal. And I’m so thankful to Ms. Glasgow for sharing it with the world and with me.

Definitely my second favorite out of the series, it’s so well written, it’s beautiful

Brand new quality, great packaging

I was interested in seeing what this book was like because I loved “Girl In Pieces.” However, I didn’t love this book in the same way. I felt that Tiger was a character I wasn’t able to connect with and frustrated me at times.I knew that she was dealing with a loss that was so tremendous that I would never understand, but I felt that the aftermath of that felt completely off-book. I get that’s kind of the point, but it felt like a storyline rather than a story. As in, it felt too over the top for me.However, there was a lot that I did like about the book. Being that there were so many characters, I really appreciated that a lot of them felt developed. No one felt too static or structured and they all carried their own purpose. I loved the development with Lupe and that Karen stayed consistent throughout the plot.I also felt that the emotional pull was there throughout the story. I was able to feel for Tiger, even when I thought she was being outrageous. You’re able to go through this rollercoaster because you bounce from each extravagant instance to the deep thoughts Tiger is experiencing.I do wish that Cake had been a little more involved with calling her out, as I feel a best friend would do at that age especially with Tiger’s typical self being so vastly different, but I also understood the distance created by Tiger’s situation.Overall, I gave it a 3. I enjoyed the book and thought it had value, but I wasn’t in love with it enough where I feel I’d go back to it or actively recommend it to other people.

i got this as a gift for my friend who had just lost her mom she enjoys it and relates to it a lot

C'était un cadeau de Noël, mais la jeune fille a qui je l'ai offert ne m'en a dit que du bien. Révision de l'anglais obligé.

Bought as a gift for my grandson. He loved it

I love the way Kathleen Glasgow uses words to create scenarios, situations, charakters, feelings and a whole world. I also love that she is not afraid to write about important topics, that are often avoided or even a taboo in society. It is important to get to know about them, they are there and for many people a reality even if it can be hard to acknowledge that. Maybe some day it could be a reality for someone you know, a friend, a family memeber or even yourself. With the lovely characters the author creates we are able to get to know more about these topics.In this book we can learn about grieve, the death of a parent, what happens if you aren't already 18 and what resilience can look like. We can experience something about friendships, families, support and letting go, how support groups work, and about the childcare system in Amerika. We see some of the things that are working good in this system and also some aspects that are very brutal aswell.I totally enjoyed reading this book, and it is a huge plus in my life.