Category Archives: relationships
Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian [ebook]
If you know of anyone with Asperger’s Syndrome, you will find this book by John Elder Robison (brother of Augusten Burroughs) immensely enlightening, positive, and honest. At the same time, it’s a profound commentary on man as a social being, what … Continue reading
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My Nest Isn’t Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space
Subtitled The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman, this hilarious collection of essays by crime novelist Lisa Scottoline is so much fun to read (even if your nest isn’t empty). Writing alongside her is Scottoline’s daughter Francesca Seritella, with her … Continue reading
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Familyhood
If you’re a parent, this book will warm your heart and make you laugh; if you’re not a parent, it might make you consider taking it up. Comedian/actor Paul Reiser dishes out wisdom and humor, and expresses exactly what it … Continue reading
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How to Raise Your Adult Children: Because Big Kids Have Even Bigger Problems
Finally! A book about all those issues you never imagined you would have to deal with when the last kid left home–money problems, work problems, divorce, grandchildren, and moving back “home”. It was much easier for you to handle your … Continue reading
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The Happiness Project, or, Why I spent a year trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right, read Aristotle, and generally have more fun
Author Gretchen Rubin, bless her heart, comes across as a somewhat miserable person in her quest for happiness–nagging, critical, prone to one-upmanship, unable to laugh at herself, impatient. But I suppose when you are laying out your worst qualities–character flaws that hinder you … Continue reading
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You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
I love Augusten Burroughs. Not only is he bizarre and funny, but also relentlessly critical of his own failings, which for some reason always makes me feel better about my own. The book is a compilation of Christmas vignettes from childhood … Continue reading
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Driving with Dead People: a memoir
I began this book wondering why I was reading yet another memoir of an unhappy childhood in a dysfunctional family. But author Monica Holloway has a wonderfully fresh and humorous style that makes it hard to stop reading, and she … Continue reading
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I’m Sorry You Feel That Way: the astonishing but true story of a daughter, sister, slut, wife, mother, and friend to man & dog
I can’t say I was really astonished at Diana Joseph’s essays about life, her men, her son and her dog, but I was definitely amused. Joseph has a witty and honest style in this confession-esque collection of 15 essays, but … Continue reading
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Same Kind of Different as Me
This is the true story of 2 men from completely different worlds, brought together by a woman of exceptional kindness and empathy. Ron Hall is an international art dealer; Denver Moore is a previous sharecropper from Louisiana, turned homeless man, … Continue reading
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Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What men really think about love, relationships, intimacy, and commitment
Steve Harvey’s first line of this book: “There is no truer statement: men are simple”. My reaction: “Oh, puh-leeze!” Chapter 3 title: “The Three Things Every Man Needs: Support, Loyalty, and the Cookie”. My reaction: “Cookie??” Chapter 9 title: “Men … Continue reading
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