book reviews
Reviews of books by relationship gurus, dating experts, and cautionary tale-tellers.
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One of my new favorite books (for this week, anyway) is this little 140ish-page book by Austin Kleon called, Steal Like an Artist. I borrowed this book from my sister, who is an entrepreneur in all things delicious! It ranges from catchy quotes to truth-filled deadpans. Additionally, it has journal-like sketches and doodles throughout, which are right up my alley when it comes to remembering several bits of information.
By Hannah Marie. 5 years ago in Humans
Book Review: "The Other Wife" by Claire McGowan
I was sitting on my bed from about 9pm until about 1am reading this book. I didn't look up from my book, I didn't stop at any time and I had let my tea go cold because I didn't want to take my eyes from the page. I was so involved with the book that I had just lost the real world for those few hours only to be unwillingly thrown back into it when the book finished. It is a brilliantly written book that employs the multiple narrator perspective and the information we learn, we learn and piece together along the way. It is all like a massive jigsaw puzzle and reminds me a lot of one of my other favourite books which I won't tell you because it will give the storyline away but it's by Graham Greene.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Humans
Michelle Obama Is The Friend I Didn't Know I Needed
I remembered back in November of 2018, when Michelle Obama appeared on the Ellen show in a Costco doing a book signing. It was hilarious! Ellen was playing on a Piano and singing while Michelle was trying to be serious and actually get to know people while signing copies of her book. You could tell while she was slightly annoyed, the pair equally have an amazing friendship that is hard to come by. However I didn't think much of her book until this year, when I was looking for a new audio book in the Audible store.
By Kayla Lindley5 years ago in Humans
3 Obscure Novels About Male Relationships
I don't think that male friendships, male relationships and men's mental health is something that is explored enough in the more obscure modern novels of the 20th and 21st century. We have the obvious books we can name such as "Interview with the Vampire" by Anne Rice which explores not only the suicidal depression of the main character but also the homosexual relationship he has with Lestat (it is also one of my top five favourite novels of all time, so there you go). And we also know of the novel "Brideshead Revisited" in which Charles Ryder is bewitched by the mysterious but juvenile and self-destructive Sebastian Flyte. We have seen how Christopher Isherwood writes his life lessons of father-son type relations in "The Memorial" and the brotherhood of "A Meeting by the River". We even have the introspection explored in novels like "Less Than Zero" by Bret Easton Ellis by the narrator Clayton, and Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" as autobiography, and finally Chuck Palahiuk's "Fight Club" characters of Tyler Durden. The list goes on.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Humans
Infatuation Scripts Examples PDF Download by Clayton Max
Infatuation scripts examples pdf download ebook by Clayton Max. Infatuation scripts program by clayton max teaches you how to unlock a man's Infatuation Instinct and why so many men are resistant to commitment. Plus the surprising reason why men choose certain women while rejecting others and exact scripts that you can use to make one man absolutely sure that you are the one for him...
By Rebecca Thomas5 years ago in Humans
Class Represented in Perrault’s Puss in Boots
The Puss in Boots tale is thought to have first been written by Giovanni Straparola around 1550-1553 called Constantino Fortunato and was taken up by other authors including Giambattista Basile around 1634, Charles Perrault in 1697 and The Brothers Grimm in 1812 as well as adaptations by Disney and Dreamworks.
By Eloise Robertson 5 years ago in Humans
Review of Sexton's "A Divorce Lawyer's Guide to Staying Together"
The full title If You’re In My Office, It’s Already Too Late: A Divorce Lawyer’s Guide to Staying Together piqued my interest. James J. Sexton, Esq. offers some great advice that has helped me recognize some areas I can improve to strengthen my marriage.
By Eileen Davis5 years ago in Humans
Book Review: Erving Goffman
In Erving Goffman’s book, ‘Stigma — Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity’, he focuses on the social situations where people classified as ‘normal’ and ‘stigmatised’ [or ‘deviant’] come together and the many different processes and complex methods that are incorporated into this relationship between the two ‘groups’ of people — including their social and personal identity. Goffman illustrates his arguments through the use of many comprehensive and wide-ranging quotes from people who are most commonly stigmatised such as : the homosexual, the ex-mental patient, someone who is blind or deaf, someone who has a disfigurement of some kind and those with a disability. The experiences people who are stigmatised often have are commonly related to the ‘others’ in society placing their concern on their stigma [or ‘deviance’] rather than the individual’s personality as a whole.
By JoJoBonetto5 years ago in Humans
Book Review: The Removed by Brandon Hobson
The Removed: A Novel by Brandon Hobson Genre: Contemporary Fiction This book has: multiple viewpoints, supernatural, mentions of graphic violence, family dynamics/drama, mentions and themes of drug use/addiction and suicide
By L. M. Williams5 years ago in Humans
