Book Review: Curbchek

Curbchek by Zach Fortier It wasn’t until I got to the end of this book that I realized it was by the same author of “Hero to Zero” that I’d also gotten for free off of BookBub. I suppose there aren’t all that many true-life cop short story anthologies out there. Like “Hero to Zero” …

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Book Review: Crucial Confrontations

Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior by Kerry Patterson This feels like more of a textbook than a non fiction for the layman, but that may have been because it was lent to me in a set of two, with an audio guide. It reads like a self help …

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Book Review- Journal of Best Practices

The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man’s Quest to Be a Better Husband by David Finch This is a very quick-reading memoir about a man learning to keep his Asperger’s syndrome from ruining his marriage. I’m not sure by the end that he completely succeeded, but it was …

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Goodreads Giveaway — Alternate Susan

Like the first chapter? Want to win a copy of the book? Click here to enter!     Goodreads Book Giveaway Alternate Susan by Kater Cheek Giveaway ends July 25, 2013. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win  

Book Review: Annoying

Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us by Joe Palca This is the sort of book I tend to revert to when I need something to read, the way other people go for their favorite imprint of romance or their favorite mass-market paperback author. Pop science about a field tangentially related to neurology? I’m there. …

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