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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 […]

Started November 12th. Finished January 12th. The breaks in reading were NECESSARY

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

January 12, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 7 Comments

…but the journey was worth it. This book is brutal. If you are sensitive at all to suffering- be it human, animal, generational, cultural- turn away now and do not look back. Four Blackfeet men engage in a bit of last-minute less-than-legal Elk hunting the weekend before Thanksgiving. What happens that day never really leaves them, but what they left behind comes rocketing back into their lives 10 years later. The 10 years since that day have not been easy; the men are plagued by […]

cbr12bingo – Repeat (and TWO Bingos!)

Luster by Raven Leilani

September 13, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Raven Leilani has exploded into the scene like the chestburster in Alien. Fully-formed, unapologetic, covered in blood, and completely in control while annihilating the guts of a mediocre man. Luster has been racking up well-deserved accolades, and I truly cannot wait to see what she does next- although I am relieved that this is her debut, and there isn’t a back catalog waiting to destroy me hiding just out of view. Not only is her work fantastic, but it also allows me to knock two “bingos” (Money, […]

“He breathed in my face the coffee he’d just drunk, mingled with the odor of his gums.”

A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio

August 10, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

1970s Naples: a thirteen year old girl of privilege is suddenly removed from her seaside home and returned to a cramped and dirty apartment outside the city. The key word here is “returned”; our heroine has been sent “home” to a place that she never knew. She spent her entire life living with her glamorous mother and policeman father, only to have that reality shattered in one afternoon when the man she knew as her father bundles her and all of her belongings into the […]

narfna on Baby’s first tie-in Star Trek novel.I probably would have loved this if I'd read it when I was younger, like I did with all the original Star Wars EU books....
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Self-Help 1, 2, 3!

Started November 12th. Finished January 12th. The breaks in reading were NECESSARY

cbr12bingo – Repeat (and TWO Bingos!)

“He breathed in my face the coffee he’d just drunk, mingled with the odor of his gums.”

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