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Borderline Personality Disorder Unpacked

Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking your life back when someone you care about has borderline personality disorder by Paul T Mason and Randi Kreger

January 27, 2021 by Caesar's Wife 2 Comments

This is a tough book to review, but I’ll try my best. If you know, or suspect, someone in your life is suffering from BPD (and rest assured – they are truly suffering and in pain) and you perform a random google search seeking help, you’ll get billions of hits. Factsheets, support groups, horror-stories…. A significant portion of the internet is devoted to BPD because it is such a nefarious condition/disease/illness (I am not a mental health advocate or professional, so apologies if I’m using […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: mental illness, Paul T Mason and Randi Kreger, Self-help

Caesar's Wife's CBR13 Review No:3 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: mental illness, Paul T Mason and Randi Kreger, Self-help ·
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‘Because nobody should have to feel like a pointless little weirdo alone’

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

November 14, 2020 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

The long-awaited follow-up to Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half dropped last month, and I think everyone’s first reaction was not so much ‘Oh, new book!’ but a mixture of deep concern and relief. Solutions and Other Problems had been originally slated for what I believe was a 2016 release, but there was nothing but radio silence as the year came and went. And the next few years as well. Allie’s blog hadn’t had a new entry since 2013 or so, and posting had been […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor Tagged With: Allie Brosh, Biography & Memoir, black humor, deadpan silliness, Liam Neeson, mental illness, Solutions and Other Problems

LittlePlat's CBR12 Review No:27 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor · Tags: Allie Brosh, Biography & Memoir, black humor, deadpan silliness, Liam Neeson, mental illness, Solutions and Other Problems ·
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things that go “scoff” in the night

Bunny by Mona Awad

October 18, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

This book was praised to high-heavens, thus giving me high hopes. It is all over “best of” lists, there are tons of snarky little quips in write-ups, and the paperback features pull-quotes from Margaret Atwood and Karen Russell. I was ready to be ruined by this book… but. …it fell flat, as so many pumped-up things often do. Samantha, an unreliable narrator if ever there was one, is a post-grad MFA fellow at Warren College, a told-but-not-shown sPoOoOoKy college somewhere in New England. There’s some […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: animal harm, body horror, cult, magic, mental illness, MFA program, mona awad, unreliable narrator, writers writing

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:109 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: animal harm, body horror, cult, magic, mental illness, MFA program, mona awad, unreliable narrator, writers writing ·
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Allie’s not dead! She’s back and she gave us this wonderful book and she’s ok (sort of)

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

October 11, 2020 by Malin 2 Comments

Back in 2013, Allie Brosh published Hyperbole and a Half named after the blog she kept (and has finally updated with a new post!). I pre-ordered the last book and bought it as a Christmas present for pretty much every single person my husband and I knew that year (now our own copy seems to have mysteriously gone missing – which distresses me). Allie’s blog (we are clearly on first-name basis, and would be great friends if we ever met) and her book meant a lot to me, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novel/Comic, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Allie Brosh, Anxiety, autobiography, cbr12, funny, Graphic Novel, grief, Malin, mental illness, non fiction, Solutions and Other Problems

Malin's CBR12 Review No:74 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novel/Comic, Non-Fiction · Tags: Allie Brosh, Anxiety, autobiography, cbr12, funny, Graphic Novel, grief, Malin, mental illness, non fiction, Solutions and Other Problems ·
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“We gotta get out while we’re young, ’cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run” (double Bingo)

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

September 24, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

#CBR12 Bingo: Music   Official book description: In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl’s halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That’s how this extraordinary autobiography began.   Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs.   He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: audio book, autobiography, born to run, Bruce Springsteen, cbr12, cbr12bingo, celebrity, Malin, mental illness, music, non fiction, rock stars

Malin's CBR12 Review No:60 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: audio book, autobiography, born to run, Bruce Springsteen, cbr12, cbr12bingo, celebrity, Malin, mental illness, music, non fiction, rock stars ·
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