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Alternate title: How Millionaires Grieve

Option B by Sheryl Sandberg

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I really really wanted to love this book.  I picked it up after hearing Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, speak at a conference last summer.  I found her to be an engaging speaker and I immediately picked up her two books, hoping for more of the same.   In Option B, she talks primarily about unexpectedly losing her husband and how she has coped since his death.  The book’s subtitle, “Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy”, leads one to believe that the lessons she learned can be applied to all adverse situations.  In reality, she spoke mostly about grief.   While […]

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1/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:2 |

We were just at the point of approaching and negotiating a gentle curve.

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

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Well, this was a lovely discovery! Kitchen was in a stack of books given to me very randomly by a friend who moved away a couple of years ago and did a big purge. She has great taste, but also loves to buy books, so I’m finding it all a little hit and miss. I wish I had picked this up the day my friend gave it to me. It is incredibly, beautifully written, so also I must give due credit to the translator, because it is translated from Japanese. The style is pretty stunning. I had just finished reading […]

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12/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:51 |

What if she doesn’t want to remember?

Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God by Joe Coomer

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You know how sometimes you keep trying to read a book, but you aren’t feeling it so you put it down indefinitely and then when you pick it up again, you can’t believe how much action there is and you just plow through the end as if you’d never put it down? Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God was like that for it. It’s the first book I started reading in 2017, and one of the last that I finished. I don’t think I read a single page of it between March and December. I just couldn’t bring myself to do […]

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12/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:50 |

Not A Thing To Be Fixed

It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand by Megan Devine

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Best for: Those who are grieving, or those who want to be better prepared to support those who are grieving. In a nutshell: People who are grieving deserve better than what society offers them. This book attempts to provide some direction towards that. Line that sticks with me: “We have to be able to see what’s true without fear of being seen as weak, damaged, or somehow failing the cultural storyline.” (p 54). Why I chose it: Ms. Devine spoke at an event I attended this past weekend, and was kind enough to also sell her book to attendees prior […]

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9/13/2017 's CBR9 Review No:74 |

Widow author and bad boy rock star – the book is really good!

True North by Liora Blake

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Kate Mosely is a widow living alone and rather lonely in the little town of Crowell, Montana. She more or less runs the local newspaper she inherited from her father (with help from his old business partner), but her small claim to fame is writing a novel that’s become a bestseller, much thanks to her persistent and aggressive literary agent, Stephen. Now, hoping to create more buzz for the book, as well as spurring Kate into writing a second novel, he’s booked her on several TV appearances in LA. Kate is to appear first on a prestigious late night talk […]

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8/10/2017 's CBR9 Review No:72 |

“Stories are the wildest thing of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

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Pretty much every night, Conor wakes up screaming from the same nightmare. So when the monster shows up in his garden, just after midnight, he’s not as scared as you may have thought that he’d be. After all, he deals with some pretty unpleasant things on a daily basis. The bullies who pick on him in school. The fact that he seems to be falling out with his only friend. The teachers either ignoring him or being overly understanding and solicitous. His father, who seems to have forgotten about him and his mother after he moved to America and got […]

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6/25/2017 's CBR9 Review No:57 |

Dying Is Just A Verb

On Living by Kerry Egan

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Best for: Someone who wants to provoke (a bit of) deeper thinking on the ways we live our lives. In a nutshell: A hospice chaplain uses stories from families and individuals she has assisted to make sense of life. Line that sticks with me: “The things you lose do shape who you become. But the losses don’t obliterate what came before.” Why I Chose It: This was an impulse buy only in that it was on my list and I didn’t yet own it. I added this one when I saw it being mentioned in multiple different forums. But yesterday, […]

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1/15/2017 's CBR9 Review No:2 |

Trouble in paradise

The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings

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I fell head over heels for the movie adaptation of The Descendants a few years back. This family dealing with their grief struck me as true to life. The loss of a loved one can be overwhelming but life still goes forward, even when you’re dying inside. The Descendants captured that dichotomy and I’ve been meaning to read the book ever since. The novel centers on Matt King and his family. Matt’s great grandmother was a Hawaiian princess and he and his cousins are the owners of some large amounts of Hawaiian land. They’re trying to decide what to do […]

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12/31/2016 's CBR8 Review No:74 |


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