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Dealing with Feeling

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 This powerful book is written by a self-proclaimed (admittedly tongue-in-cheek) β€œMaster of Feelings”, Dr. Marc Brackett, a professor focusing on Emotional Intelligence, and in particular, the perhaps lesser-known practice of emotional regulation. We cannot control the situations we find ourselves in, but we can learn to manage (that is,…

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The Place of Tides

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« A true story, based on the fascinating life story of Anna, a Norwegian woman, now seventy years old, who for decades has spent each spring-time tending to the nesting needs of eider ducks on the remote island of FjΓ¦rΓΈy, off the coast of Norway, just south of the Arctic.…

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I am, I am, I am

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸβž• A memoir unlike any you will read, this is a gorgeously written, unputdownable look at the life of Maggie O’Farrell, one of my favorite novelists, and in particular, the seventeen times this particular life has almost ended. If Maggie appears to have more than the β€œnormal” amount of brushes…

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Like a Wave We Break

A memoir and a somewhat complicated review β€” for a story beginning with horrific child abuse and leading to what will become a life-long adult search for healing β€” that could not help but raise all sorts of emotions in this reader. Empathy, pain and compassion. Curiosity and hope. Wonder,…

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Glucose Revolution

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A fascinating look at the hidden dangers of glucose spikes, and what we can do to avoid them. Written by a biochemist, (aka the @GlucoseGoddess), this is an accessible and terrifically informative introduction to our metabolism, β€” the effect the food we eat (and a number of other surprising…

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The Tell

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 β€œA moment arrives when the usefulness of a secret expires. Keeping it becomes the thing that hurts us. We have to tell. β€œ This heartfelt memoir takes us to the darkest place, and back again, as we meet Amy, and her β€œperfect life” in Amarillo, Texas, and then are…

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Raising Hare

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« A gentle heart-warming read, that tells the true-life tale of a woman who becomes the unexpected care-giver for a newborn European brown hare, known as a Leveret, when she finds it in a vulnerable and seemingly abandoned position in a remote UK region. With infinite tenderness, the author, a…

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How to Survive a Bear Attack

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« Part memoir, and part historically accurate re-telling of a fatal and horrific bear attack on two campers in 1991, this is a difficult book to read, both for its emotional content and its blood-curdling recounting of the most nightmarish encounter with wildlife this reader could ever imagine. Made all…

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Easy Beauty

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A beautiful and generous memoir, written by a professor of Philosophy who has experienced more pain, quite likely, than most of us, and has acted on her inclination and thoughtfulness to share her learnings with us. Chloe, from birth, suffers from a disorder related to disruptions in the development…

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Cleavage

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Jenny Finney Boylen, a self-proclaimed bookish, goofy (outwardly male) college professor, knew from an early age that she was a girl inside β€” a transgender path she did not follow until she reached her forties. Exactly how that journey unfolded, the changes encountered and the spaces left unfilled cannot…

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