Princes of Wales:Their Pageant, Arms and Tradition: Their Pageant, Arms and Tradition Book

This book was (I imagine heavily) co-written, and as a result, it doesn't pack the emotional punch of books such as The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, Girl, Interrupted, or Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir.

I was also annoyed by the way the book was framed as a story of personal “triumph” and “courage” (to quote the book's jacket copy). Obviously, Lori Schiller was extremely lucky to have to the emotional and financial support she needed to forge a life where, in her words, “it is I who am in control of my illness and not the other way around.” The fact that she was able to find a medication her brain responded to was another stroke of luck. It would be easy to draw the false conclusion that mentally ill people who haven't been as fortunate as Lori have therefore “failed," when the reality is that we as a society have failed them.