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Tag Archives: Book Review
Book Review: CRAZY by Amy Reed
The unique novel for young adults addresses the dark feelings many don't know how to face.
(Warning: Spoilers) Connor knows that Izzy will never fall in love with him the way he’s fallen for her. But somehow he’s been let into her crazy, exhilarating world and become her closest confidante. But the closer they get, the more … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Adolescence, Amy Reed, Bipolar disorder, Book Review, Crazy, Mental disorder, Mental health, Simon and Schuster, Suicide
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Book Review: My Mother, Your Mother by Dennis McCullough, M.D.
A thorough look at the step-by-step process for the care of elder parents
My mother always told me, “When I get old, put me on an iceberg and leave me for the polar bears.” I never once took her advice seriously, but after reading Dr. McCullough’s book, I’m starting to reconsider. All joking … Continue reading
Book Review: “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Victor Frankl
The Holocaust memoir takes a riveting look into the psychology of death camp prisoners and guards
Through Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl offers a compelling glimpse into the human psyche. The Doctor of psychiatry has seen the full span of human nature, losing his parents, brother and pregnant wife to Nazi death camps, and … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Auschwitz, Book Review, Frankl, Holocaust, mans search for meaning, Nazi, Pyschology, Viktor Frankl
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Review: “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
The Poignant Book About A Child Coping with the Loss of His Father Turned into a Poorly-Critiqued Film in 2011
In the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key … Continue reading
Book Review: “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” by Dave Eggers
A Memoir of a Strange and Unique Life After the Loss of a Loved One
Through his popular memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, San Francisco author Dave Eggers chronicles his experience raising his younger brother Toph after the family loses each of their parents to cancer. The book is, indeed, at times heartbreaking … Continue reading
Book Review: “Imperfect Endings”, by Zoe Fitzgerald Carter
Zoe examines her life as she faces her mother's chosen death
Zoe Carter’s busy life on the West Coast with her husband and daughters and an unfinished mystery novel are put on hold when her glamorous and stubborn mother, Margaret, decides that it is time” to end things”. Margaret has been … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Assisted Suicide, Book Review, Death, Family, Memoir, Right to Die, Zoe Carter
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In Lieu Of Flowers, A Conversation For the Living
A Personal Favorite Book of Stories About Loss
Certain books just stick with you, long after you turn the last pages and put them back on the shelf. In Lieu of Flowers, A Conversation for the Living by Nancy Cobb is one of those books for me. I … Continue reading
Posted in Sharing Suzette
Tagged Book Review, Death and Loss, Grief, Loss of a Loved One, Nancy Cobb
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Book Review: “Body Brokers: Inside America’s Underground Trade in Human Remains,” by Annie Cheney
A 2006 Book That By All Rights Should Have Caused a Sensation
It’s hard to imagine subject matter more cringe-worthy than the for-profit tissue and body business. Perhaps this explains the relative obscurity of Annie Cheney’s Body Brokers: Inside America’s Underground Trade in Human Remains, a muckraking exposé on this for-profit, shockingly … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Annie Cheney, Body Brokers the book, Book Review, Cremation, Crematorium, Organ Donor, tissue and body donation
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Book Review: Physics of the Future, by Michio Kaku
Renowned Physicist Predicts, By the Year 2100, Human Beings May Live Forever
I don’t think the time is quite right, but it’s close. I’m afraid, unfortunately, that I’m in the last generation to die. — Gerald Sussman Predicting the future has always been tricky. Yet everyone, from a working family, to the … Continue reading
Posted in Lending Insight
Tagged Book Review, Future, Futurists, Futurology, Michio Kaku, Physics of the Future
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