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The Situation is a lot more nuanced than that…

The Mindfulness Solution for Intense Emotions: Take Control of Borderline Personality Disorder with DBT by Cedar R. Koons

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I went to a talk, not too long ago, with a philosopher who had written his thesis on body awareness. He wrote his entire thesis without any sort of movement and he was advised by the leading expert who also rarely moved or was aware of his body in any way. The philosopher has since rectified this and now he’s all about practicing what he preaches. This book is for people diagnosed with Borderline Personality disorder or people who suffer from emotional intensity “Emotional intensity refers to the experience of excruciating bodily sensations associated with emotions and the sense that […]

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3/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

It’s not you… it’s me.

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner

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The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner was given to me by my boss. I appealed to her good taste for help in finding my next Cannonball Read selection, as I knew she’d point me to something deep and meaningful. I was not wrong. The Mars Room read like a collection of thoughtful anecdotes from a life filled with tragedy. The novel commences with the musings, recollections, and observations of our main character as she barrels along in prison transport to serve a life sentence in jail. The details breathed into the story are compelling and lifelike. Having spent time in […]

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3/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

A headlesss classic AND (totally unrelatedly) a short story about an attempted suicide

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The Day I Died by E. B. Black

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I read this because it was short and a classic.  I’ve seen the movie, but somehow I never had to read this book.  It took me a couple nights reading while I was laying in bed at night.  It was definitely interesting, but it was a little slow.  I honestly don’t read a lot of classics, so it could just be that I’m not used to the pacing of books written a long time ago. I don’t know.  I didn’t love it, and I didn’t hate it.  I just wrote another review where I felt like nothing really happened.  I […]

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3/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

She fell in love with the islands first

The Tenth Island by Diana Marcum

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So I originally picked this book last year for CBR bingo.  I didn’t get around to it in time though, so I read it this year as my fifth book of the year. We start out with reporter Diana Marcum (the author, duh) kind of floating through life.  She’s not having fun or loving her life.  She’s not entirely happy in her career either. She somehow stumbles across a group of immigrants living in California.  They came from a set of islands in the Atlantic Ocean called the Azores.  Their main language is Portuguese. The immigrants tell her about the […]

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3/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

He thinks she’s his angel

Blood for Blood (Ziba MacKenzie #1) by Victoria Selman

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OMG.  This is the second series (maybe EVER) that I started at the first book!  I don’t remember how I found it, but it might’ve been a Kindle First book. Ziba Mackenzie is a profiler of Israeli descent who was married to a Scotsman.  Her husband had died about a year prior and she was called back into work to profile a new / old / new again serial killer. She starts out getting into a train crash.  Her cop instincts kick in and she starts to try and save people.  One lady says “he did it, you have to […]

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3/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

Her husband’s secret could destroy multiple families AND This one will be their last anniversary

The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty

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So my sister has been reading and recommending to me Liane Moriarty books for a few years.  I have sooo many books on my TBR list, so it took me a while to get started.  I found this one on my library’s audiobook loan list.  Not only was it an awesome book, it was read by an Australian, so it sounded even more awesome.  I was listening to this book in my car and while I walked my dog at night around the park.  I’m all in now though! Anyway, there are a few main characters in this book, and […]

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3/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

Her mom was a serial killer

Truth and Lies (DI Amy Winter #1) by Caroline Mitchell

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This is the first book in the “DI Amy Winter” series.  Somehow I started this series at book one!  That literally never happens. DI Amy Winter is a Detective Inspector in England.  She’s working on living up to her father’s reputation as a police officer.  He had just recently died, and she found out that he wasn’t her biological father.  Unfortunately that meant that her adopted mother wasn’t her biological mother either.  Shockingly Amy’s mother is an infamous serial killer named Lillian, who was part of a serial killing team. Amy starts to have flashbacks about her past after she […]

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3/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

“But Ma used to say, not everyone circles the same sun. I never knew what she meant by that until Monday went missing.”

Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

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Someone here already reviewed this and I’m kind of sad to submit another repeat review. BUT I read it and I gotta count it! “This is the story of how my best friend disappeared. How nobody noticed she was gone except me. And how nobody cared until they found her . . . one year later.” That’s actually a pretty good summary of this book, supplied by the main character, 14-year-old Claudia.  She and Monday have been thick as thieves most of their lives, other than summers that they spend separated when Claudia goes to visit extended family. The summer before their 8th […]

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3/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:21 |


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