Category: Book Review

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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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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Book Review: House of Dark Shadows

House of Dark Shadows by Robert Liparulo I got this from audible as a “first of a series” special, and since I’m a sucker for YA, Middle Grade, and anything about haunted houses, this seemed the most promising of the lot. It does have a dark, mysterious house. In fact, this house is even better …

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Book Review: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’ve always used the goodreads star rating: 5=it was amazing 4=really liked it 3=liked it 2=it was okay 1=did not like Which means that I ruin the scale for all the books I review, because most people seem to …

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