A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me
A Memoir, Autobiography, Biography book. If what you need, in order to feel good about...
How does a good kid overcome a bad childhood? Jason Schmidt's searing debut memoir explores that question with unflinching clarity and wit, in the tradition of Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle.Jason Schmidt wasn't surprised when he came home one day during his junior year of high school and found his father, Mark, crawling around in a giant pool of blood. Things like that had been happening a lot since Mark had been diagnosed with HIV, three years earlier.Jason’s life with Mark was full of secrets—about drugs, crime, and sex. If the straights—people with...
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- Pages: 432 pages
- ISBN: 9780374380137 / 0
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If you don't change course - if you don't have something waiting for you, even if it's just to occupy you until you turn eighteen, you're not going to make it. You need to make a plan for next year. Jason Schmidt, A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me // Your dad's story is over. In six months or a year, this will be done for him. He won't be dealing with the consequences of what you choose to do now. You will. So you make this decision based on what you need. Jason Schmidt, A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me // If what you need, in order to feel good about yourself later on, is to show him some mercy - then show him mercy. If you need to tell him the truth, do that. But try to look at in terms of what you're going to be able to live with ten, twenty years down the line. Jason Schmidt, A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me //
It seems like Jason Schmidt turned out to be an exceptional human being, but it would be completely understandable if he ended up being a really dour person. His parents split when he was young, and (unconventionally) he ended up with his dad, who was verbally and physically abusive. His mom was completely out of the picture, so when... I finished reading A List of Things That Didnt Kill Me about three weeks ago and boy was I glad that it was over. As Jason Schmidt recalls his first 20 years of living, the reader is left thinking about how awful his life was. The book leaves you with the message that you can always change the life you were given but also with the feeling... A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me is a book that makes me laugh with its unnecessary inappropriate language in the dialogue.This book is about a guys life and what he went through during his life.I like that i can relate to his life as a child because some of the things I can relate to like when he had to give up Charlie his chicken...
