🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 For anyone who has experienced (make that, suffered) fat-shaming - the internalized mortification and inadequacy resulting from a life long barrage of society’s humiliations, disapproval, and disgust - this book may just be the very beginning of something transformative. “What I hated was less my body than the way…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟➕ For this reader, in a word, love, pure and simple, for this book of essays that tackles all the prickly, suffocating, isolating hard-edges that come with growing old, as a female, - unnoticed and unwelcome in a global culture that prizes patriarchy and youth. An aging experience that no…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A clear-eyed look at the tragedy of aging with dementia, and the enormous burden placed on those left behind. In this detailed and chilling memoir, the author, a hospital speech pathologist in her fifties, must cope with the rapid cognitive decline of not only her father, as he approaches…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Quite likely the most heartbreaking memoir this reader has encountered, and without a doubt, the most hopeful. A present-day top-tier Hollywood stunt-woman, as a child, Kimberly Shannon Murphy endured pain and trauma no child should ever encounter. Left vulnerable and entirely unprotected by her parents, Kimberly was targeted by…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Written by a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) who is also a classically trained chef, this wonderful collection of wholesome, plant-based recipes is the perfect solution for healthy eating. Targeted to aid those struggling with, or keen to prevent, Type 2 Diabetes, each recipe focuses on balancing great taste with…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 “Dogs bring a purity to all they encounter. We don’t deserve dogs, and yet they continue to bring their magic to our lives and make us better versions of ourselves.” Indeed. And what could be better than reading this heartwarming book about dogs - except perhaps, dogs themselves, in…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 “It’s only when we feel safe, not judged, not crazy, that a lot of other people feel some of the exact same things, that we can better identify what we are really feeling, and what we really need. We can better hear our own voice. And not just with…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A comprehensive and non-intimidating guide, written by the combined expertise of a registered dietician and an M.D, focusing on the optimal care and feeding of what may be the most underrated and indispensable human organ - one’s liver. Extensively cross-referenced and dense with information, recipes, tips and tools, this…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A harrowing inside-look at a horrifying pandemic - Ebola in Western Africa in the years 2014 to 2016 - written by a front-line OB-Gyn, doing his part to treat maternity referrals as the world around him dissolves into the chaos of a new emergency. “In the war we knew…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A deeply moving exploration of what it feels like to be a former expert medical practitioner - a neuroscientist (now retired), long-versed in the practice of guiding others “through the landscape of illness” - now facing his own terrifying and potentially-terminal illness. In this work, the author, Dr Henry…