Kristen Kleiner, Writer

School: West Virginia University
Major: Bachelor of Arts – Mental Heath and Addiction Studies
Favorite Book: It’s Kind of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

Reading was what really brought me out of the dark times of my childhood. There were many instances that I learned how to handle the world around me through the books that I was reading. That is why, if I were to a pick one of the most impactful books I have read, I would pick It’s Kind of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini. This is a book with highly sensitive topics, but the ones that I was dealing with in real time during adolescence. It helped bring me hope when I felt that I had none. This has always been recurring theme throughout my life. I used to dive my head into every fiction book I could find because I wanted so desperately to escape to another world. Inside these worlds I was able to learn to cope and process my emotions in relation to my world outside. I often feel that I would not be where I am today if it were not for the books I was given.

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