another book I got for free thanks to Queens day which is a big party day in The Netherlands and people sell all there old stuff so a giant bootsale

Book is a first print edition of the paperback.

a reviewer on amazon:

read and loved this book as an adolescent. I recently saw it at the library and decided to take it out and read it again. I just finished re-reading it and found it as powerful as I remembered, possibly even more so.
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden presents a complete picture of mental illness from the patient's point of view, without the stigma of wrongness that is frequently associated with it. The picture painted is a very real one, from Deborah's relief when the doctors confirm what she's known all along, that something is not right, to the way her family deals with the fact of her illness. Greenberg/Green evokes very strong emotions with her writing. You feel Deborah's fear that her secret world of Yr will punish her for revealing its existence to her doctor, and you share in her triumph when she begins to make her way back to the world. I put down this book with a little more understanding of how it must feel to be mentally ill. I would recommend it to anyone, teen or adult.

gereserveerd voor Enitnaj

RELEASE NOTES:

I'd asked on the Dutch forum that if people were in my neighbourhood , to please drop by and take some of my books. One of the Bookcrossers fulfilled my wish. Enitnaj visited me today, which was nice, and this book was one she took with her.
Enjoy!

Since Marlene-TC lives in the same town as my parents and I am a curious person I was pleased to get a chance to meet her and help her to get rid of her books :-)
We had a nice cup of tea and I took more books than I intended :-)
I read this book years ago (more than 15 I think...) and wanted to re-read it! Thank you Marlene-TC, I will put this one on mount TBR...

Finally, finally, finally...I re-read the book. There was a bookmark somewhere in it, so I did start on it before, but apparently put it away again, and for many, many years.
Because of 061019alexandra’s LEESuitdaging 2018 I took the book from the shelve and re-read it. Having forgotten so much about it in all those years it all came back slowly. I really enjoyed reading it again, it’s so intriguing and heartbraking and somehow recognizable as well.
I will try to find a really good releasing spot for this book.

Mee naar de jaarlijkse meeting in Castricum!

I picked it up as I remember laughing and crying over the book when I read it in Dutch (it was quite a hit at that time), first as a teenager, then as a young and less young adult.
It's decades ago now, perhaps time to find out whether I still like it?
Thanks for the opportunity to try it out!

I enjoyed that!
Well, for the biggest part of the book.
I was wrapped up in Deborah's anguish and pain, but all the same I found it a bit off-putting that she is such a highly intelligent person. Don't read me wrong: I have nothing whatsoever against highly intelligent people. All the same, it is a bit like what I call "the Rainman symptom". After seeing that film (and reading the book), quite a lot of people are convinced every authistic person is a savant.
In this case, every person who is schizofrenic, should be highly intelligent and have an elaborate "own world" complete with a quite intricate social scale.
Hmmm... perhaps I am a wee bit overreacting...

Bye, book!
Go and make some new friends!!!