A review of Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough Reading With R

In this episode, Ruqayyah lets her inner fangirl out as she reviews the book Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough. Find out what she thinks.

SleeplessWell, hello there. Welcome back to another episode of Reading with R. Another month, another episode. It's your girl Ruqayyah over here. So, for our new listeners, you're welcome, welcome, welcome. Reading with R is a review show where we review a book that we like. Ugh, at this point, I feel like I need to stop saying review, more of fangirl really. That's all I do with these books every month. So I'm Ruqayyah and I fangirl over books, once a month, every month, inshaallah.

So at the end of each episode, I give three books where you get to choose the one that you want. Just send over the title to my email, ruqayyahnabage@gmail.com. Make sure you spell it the same way the title of the podcast is spelt. Oh, not the title of the podcast. Sorry. My name underneath the title of the podcast. R U Q A Y Y A H, ruqayyahnabage@gmail.com or, even easier, send it over to my Twitter handle @anchoredbywords. Okay, so let's jump into it. This month, we're reviewing, drumroll please, Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough.

Okay! Okay! Okay! I have to give a very big warning at the start of this episode. This book is a psychological thriller people, and I kid you not, you will feel as if you are going crazy at the same time as the heroine. This woman is crazy talented. Yeah, she is very, very talented. A book of hers that I have read before is "Behind Her Eyes". In fact, Behind Her Eyes is being turned into a TV show. So Insomnia is her new book. It was recommended to me by a friend of mine. Shoutout to Umaymah. She inspired this and I finished the book in less than two days, I think. It was so crazy. Like the title, leads you to believe the book is about this lady that has insomnia and she starts going completely cuckoo

It's a psychological thriller, yeah. So obviously the grip of it is the weight, the anticipation, while reading, where you're doubting everything. And, one of the best things I find about psychological thrillers are unreliable narrators. Yeah, mostly because it's the main character who is the one that is going crazy or who is the one that the things are happening to, is the one that is narrating the story.

So you have this skewed narrative where just, you don't even know if what you're reading is real, if it's what is actually happening. So the fact that you know that the book you're reading is a psychological thriller, you will have that going on in your mind when you are reading. Even if the author does nothing to assert that view or opinion. So it's this woman that has her husband and her kids and her mom before she went crazy before her 40th birthday. She had insomnia. The lady also gets insomnia some weeks before her 40th birthday, and she just starts panicking that she's going to go crazy like her mom. What her mom did when she turned crazy was this big mystery that we'll find out along the way when you read the book, because, you know, even though I am fine going over the book, you should still give it a read.

We basically have a front row seat to the unravelling of her mind. The becoming of her madness through insomnia. I know scientists really hammer on the fact that we need to sleep well. And in this generation we tend to not give it that much importance, you know, living the night, our life still waking up early to make it to our jobs. So on a slightly more serious note, please get some sleep loves. Get some sleep, and if you can't sleep, see a doctor. Sleep is important, have healthy, sleeping schedules and in order not to be a hypocrite inshaallah I'll try and clean up my own sleep schedule. So yeah, on that note sleep well, please do. Not sleeping can lead to a lot of things, not just madness or something like that.

Back to the book. Our heroine is scared of going crazy, like her own mother did when she turned 40 years old. So we go through how her own mom went crazy throu