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oh man sometimes I forget that I'm following Hadley Wickham on Twitter and then he posts or reblogs anything about R and I'm getting all said cause I gotta work with SAS 😩

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Book Review: Hadley Wickham’s My Bed is a Blackhole

by Dr. Sorcha Fogarty

Only 22 years old when she wrote it, My Bed is a Blackhole is Wickham's debut novel. Set in the portside suburb of Fremantle, Western Australia over a period of 18 months, it follows the central character Miranda as she navigates her way through a period of her life affected by her mental health. It is an examination into the way in which depression affects not only the individual suffering from it, but also how it can be outwardly projected and externalised by the sufferer.

Wickham has described the book as, “dark and confronting, but not sad”, and this is true. There is sufficient humour and lucidity in her honesty and in her frequent fourth wall breaks to the reader, so that she inspires empathy, not pity, throughout the narrative.

At first, I presumed that this novel was Young Adult Fiction, with its glossy pink cover and “Teen-Feel” title. However, I kept returning to it, on the Adult New Fiction shelf; the title was just too enticing with its candour and peculiarity. The wonderful thing about this novel is it most certainly could be read by, and help enormously, both young and adult readers alike.

With this novel, Wickham has achieved what she herself said she had hoped to:

“[I thought I] might be able to write something that could have a positive impact on someone other than myself”.

The major theme in the book is the character's inability to accept her own depression and this is externalised by the Blackhole. She is terrified of her depression, and of herself, and she attempts to distance herself from her depression by calling it the Blackhole. It is a “place” from where she simultaneously derives comfort yet despises, and by attempting to distance herself from it, despite frequently surrendering to it, her persistent efforts to externalise her depression enable her to live and function.

The central character remains nameless until the very last line of the book; a conscious choice by the author as one of the key themes in the novel is identity and the struggles that come with it. Essentially, the story shows how her relationships and experiences transform over the course of time; and her desire to share her experience of the Blackhole is consistent throughout the novel, as she endlessly craves someone to understand and accept her, despite this secret burden of what she perceives as her darkest shame.

Depression and the stigma surrounding it permeates the novel. Even now, in an age where it is supposedly acceptable and must be spoken of, and the Self-Help Industry is booming, the novel elucidates how this is easiest said by those who do not suffer from it. The reality is that depression and shame are intimately related for the sufferer. Any sort of relief may only be remotely possible if the condition is shared with others.

Ultimately, the novel champions the solace to be found in realising the flaws in others and recognising, with relief, the same flaws in ourselves. Wickham's debut novel successfully manages to combine humour and hope with a fearless insistence on laying bare life's often uncomfortable realities of difficult truths, vulnerabilities and the desire to escape our own sometimes painful stories. Joan Didion once wrote, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live”. With My Bed is a Blackhole, Wickham tells others a story in order to help them live, too.

Copies of My Bed is a Blackhole by Hadley Wickham are available to borrow from Cork City Libraries

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it appears to me that every single R programmer secretely is a Hadley Wickham fanboy/-girl xD (myself included tbh xD)

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Advanced R (Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series) / Hadley Wickham

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Hadley Wickham, chief scientist at RStudio, works to build tools (computational and cognitive) that make data science easier, faster, and more fun.

Join us for his lecture, “Data Science with R,” on Monday, October 10, at 6:30 p.m. Wickham is a passionate believer that code should be an artefact of clear communication, so even if you’ve never used R before, you’ll be able to follow this talk. Free and open to the public.

He will discuss the idea of the pipe as it is implemented in R with the magrittr package, covering why the pipe makes code easier to read, and how it provides a unifying interface throughout a complete workflow. To do so, he will show examples using pipelines with many of the R packages in the tidyverse.

http://events.reed.edu/event/hadley_wickham_lecture#.V-7duzKZNmA

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