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Dealing with Feeling

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ This powerful book is written by a self-proclaimed (admittedly tongue-in-cheek) โ€œMaster of Feelingsโ€, 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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American Dirt

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸโž• Finally getting to this incredibly well-received book, itโ€™s clear what all the praise was about. This is an incredible read โ€” a saga really, about love and loss and what a human can bear. When the absolute worst is your new reality, how does one envision hope, then reach…

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The Place of Tides

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐Ÿ’ซ 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 Fjรฆrรธy, off the coast of Norway, just south of the Arctic.…

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Needle Lake

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ The second book I have read from this author, each of which I have loved. โ€œNeedle Lakeโ€ is surprisingly tender, intensely atmospheric, and utterly compelling โ€” with a main protagonist as heart-tuggingly authentic as an imagined character can possibly be. Based in a small town north of Seattle, Washington,…

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A Death on Corfu

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ An utterly charming and mostly unexpected treat, best described as the love child of โ€˜The Durrellsโ€™, โ€˜Pride and Prejudiceโ€™, and an add-your-own-favorite cozy mystery. Set on the idyllic island of Corfu in the year 1898, the story is told by Minnie Harper, a smart and restrained thirty-three year old…

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I am, I am, I am

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸโž• A memoir unlike any you will read, this is a gorgeously written, unputdownable look at the life of Maggie Oโ€™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 โ€œnormalโ€ amount of brushes…

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A Dark Death

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ A lively cozy mystery featuring the colorful cast of characters introduced in the first Meredith Island mystery, โ€œSecrets in the Waterโ€, also reviewed by this reader. The series is set amidst a charming Welsh remote island inhabited by a tight knit community, including Kate Galway, a retired teacher and…

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Young Fools

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ Filled with passion and angst, this is a book tailor-made for anyone who has ever aspired to write - or rather, to be a โ€œwriterโ€ โ€” a seemingly innocuous label that, for those in the literary โ€œknowโ€, carries an inordinate amount of weight. A label that can invoke literary…

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Like a Wave We Break

A memoir and a somewhat complicated review โ€” for a story beginning with horrific child abuse and leading to what will become a life-long adult search for healing โ€” 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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Killer on the First Page

๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ A charming cozy mystery, the third in a series featuring Miranda Abbott, and the first experienced by this reader. Miranda Abbott is a former TV detective, a sort of everyoneโ€™s favorite Jessica Fletcher, who traded in her sophisticated acting chops to star in a blissfully cheesy, but highly popular,…

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