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“There Is Never Only One, Of Anyone”

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

May 15, 2023 by Tracy Leave a Comment

Cat’s Eye is a story about friendship, family, memory, and, especially, trauma. It follows the life of Elaine from childhood through about age 50. Like The Blind Assassin, also by Margaret Atwood, this novel alternates between past and present and is primarily set in the past. Most of the novel occurs when Elaine is about age 8-10. Elaine and her parents and older brother had a nomadic lifestyle during Elaine’s early childhood. Her father is an entomologist who travels around looking at bugs. When Elaine […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: childhood trauma, Margaret Atwood

Tracy's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: childhood trauma, Margaret Atwood ·
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“When my life was new, I understood in my bones how little it mattered what anybody else was doing, or what they thought about what I was doing. I believed my bones then.”

Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

November 14, 2022 by ardaigle Leave a Comment

In one word: Raw Cannonball Read Bingo: Elephant I’ve been toying with writing my own book for a few years now, and am finally starting to get serious about the endeavor, or at least get serious about saying I’m getting serious, which is practically the same thing, right? I cashed in a work award (thanks Snappy!) for a free six-month Skillshare membership and came upon a course by Ashley C. Ford on writing titled “Creative Personal Writing: Write the Real You.” I loved her style […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir Tagged With: African American writers, Ashley C. Ford, cbr14bingo, childhood trauma, Indiana, Lbgtq, Somebody's Daughter

ardaigle's CBR14 Review No:45 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir · Tags: African American writers, Ashley C. Ford, cbr14bingo, childhood trauma, Indiana, Lbgtq, Somebody's Daughter ·
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None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

January 13, 2022 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close at hand and make it stand in for the whole. When I finish a project or some small, self-assigned goal, one of my rewards is gathering a pile of books from my TBR list, usually used paperbacks. For coming-of-age stories, this one had a ton of reviews and, when I spotted it at a half priced books, I snatched it up. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: childhood trauma, coming of age novel, Donna Tartt, Drug Abuse

carmelpie's CBR14 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: childhood trauma, coming of age novel, Donna Tartt, Drug Abuse ·
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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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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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Not all rainbows in these celebrity memoirs

We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union

Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling (with Great Hair) by Rosie Perez

November 23, 2020 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

I read We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union for my last in-person Mocha Girls Read meeting in March. This memoir is a collection of moments that are mostly linear with some flashbacks. Unlike Becoming, the chapters are not as detailed about her early childhood. The book is all about keeping it real and reflecting on her past with levity. We learn about her family and how she at a young age she looked after herself. With no supervision, Gabrielle got up to some […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #memoir, and Still Came Out Smiling (with Great Hair), autobiography, celebrity, Celebrity Memoir, child abuse, childhood trauma, comedy actress, Gabrielle Union, Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, latinx author, Rosie Perez, trauma, We're Going to Need More Wine

teresaelectro's CBR12 Review No:21 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #memoir, and Still Came Out Smiling (with Great Hair), autobiography, celebrity, Celebrity Memoir, child abuse, childhood trauma, comedy actress, Gabrielle Union, Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, latinx author, Rosie Perez, trauma, We're Going to Need More Wine ·
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