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About Claire Badger

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Claire enjoys Canadian Fiction, sci-fi and books about psychology.

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Toxic Air

the_atmospherians by Alex McElroy

January 7, 2022 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

At times, this seems like a somewhat simple book about a disgraced influencer who starts a cult with her childhood best friend. When you step away from it and look at the balancing act McElroy pulled off though, you realize he pulled off the ultimate achievement of making something difficult look easy. McElroy throws so many balls in the air and keeps juggling, successfully introducing challenging and difficult elements to make this tight-rope walk of a book work. The book begins with Sasha, a disgraced […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Alex McElroy, cults, magical realism

Claire Badger's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Alex McElroy, cults, magical realism ·
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Like A Wes Anderson Psychological Thriller in Japan

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

September 7, 2021 by Claire Badger 1 Comment

I eagerly picked up Earthlings when I heard it was released. I loved Sayaka Murata’s English language debut, Convenience Store Woman, and was excited to see what the latest translation of her work had to offer. She has a unique and compelling style of prose, and a way of explaining the pressures of Japanese society that is sympathetic to her weird outsiders and totally rational in a slightly twisted way. The cover and back of Earthlings is full of praise for Convenience Store Woman, raving […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: books in translation, Japan, japanese, psychological thriller, Sayaka Murata, unusual

Claire Badger's CBR13 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: books in translation, Japan, japanese, psychological thriller, Sayaka Murata, unusual ·
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The ever tricky space colonization genre

Do You Dream of Terra Two? by Temi Oh

August 18, 2021 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

In an alternate Earth, where space travel began before the first World War, a manned trip to another solar system is now possible in the year 2012. Temi Oh uses this conceit to explore what it would be like for us, people of the early 21st century, to explore the solar system and eventually colonize a new planet. It’s a great conceit. We’re introduced in the pre-launch section to a world with a space museum, one that has beautiful traditions dating almost a century at […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, black science fiction, sf, space, space colonization, temi oh

Claire Badger's CBR13 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, black science fiction, sf, space, space colonization, temi oh ·
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Self-Help 1, 2, 3!

The Journey from Abandonement to Healing by Susan Anderson

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD

Please Yourself by Emma Reed Turrell

July 30, 2021 by Claire Badger 1 Comment

It’s time for the heavy-weight competitors of the Self-Help category! A team up of not two but three books that are written by highly regarded mental health professionals and containing a wealth of helpful and, in this combo, complimentary advice on how to get over your damn shit! Okay but seriously, the combo of these books and the order I read them in was really great, which is why I’m doing a triple review. The Journey from Abandonment to Healing: Surviving and recovering from the […]

Filed Under: Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: abandonment, Abusive relationship, childhood trauma, emma reed turrell, family relationships, generational trauma, intergenerational trauma, lindsay c. gibson, Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, Mental Health, people pleasing, Psychology, PsyD, Self-help, susan anderson, toxic relationships

Claire Badger's CBR13 Review No:11 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: abandonment, Abusive relationship, childhood trauma, emma reed turrell, family relationships, generational trauma, intergenerational trauma, lindsay c. gibson, Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, Mental Health, people pleasing, Psychology, PsyD, Self-help, susan anderson, toxic relationships ·
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Buddhism meets Psychology

The Trauma of Everyday Life by Mark Epstein

July 6, 2021 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

Maybe the title is contrived, but something about it made me curious when I saw it in the store. After we’ve all lived through a worldwide trauma, there was something appealing about a book that would look at the regular occurrences we all endure and help them make sense. I’ve been reading a lot about psychology, and a lot of modern psychologists are starting to urge people recovering from trauma towards mindfulness and meditation, as studies are now confirm the real and lasting benefits of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Health, Non-Fiction, Religion Tagged With: Mark Epstein

Claire Badger's CBR13 Review No:8 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Health, Non-Fiction, Religion · Tags: Mark Epstein ·
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Knowing the score

The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, And Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.

May 19, 2021 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

This book took a long time to get through. I think I started reading it in January, maybe earlier. It was worth the journey. Dr. Van Der Kolk proposes that many of our issues, both individually and as a society, stem from certain types of trauma. He explores the development and creation of the PTSD diagnosis after Vietnam, and how being a part of the creation of the diagnosis led him to see how many other issues his patients had stemmed from other types of […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Bessel Van Der Kolk, Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D., childhood trauma, ptsd, trauma

Claire Badger's CBR13 Review No:7 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Bessel Van Der Kolk, Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D., childhood trauma, ptsd, trauma ·
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