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 …
Tag: psychology
Feb 12
Book Review: Flow
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi I read this book because it had been mentioned in many bibliographies of books I’ve read in the past couple of years, and because people who have read it said it was amazing. Basically, it talks about how most people feel happiness when they are completely engaged in what they are …
Nov 07
Book Review: Stop Walking on Eggshells
Stop walking on eggshells : coping when someone you care about has borderline personality disorder by Paul T. Mason I’d heard this book recommended on various blogs and found the concept fascinating. How do you deal with people who are incapable of acting in an emotionally mature manner? At first, I wasn’t sure if “Borderline …
Oct 01
Book Review: On Second Thought
On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind’s Hard-Wired Habits by Wray Herbert I’ve read so much pop science on neurology that I’m always skeptical that a book will surprise and delight me with new information, and I’m delighted to say that this book does. Herbert wins by focusing on heuristics, an important idea that is usually …