Tag: cancer

Book Review: A Monster Calls

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness The novella deals with grief and loss and how it feels to be powerless when your world is changing for the worse. Conner is dealing with his mother’s increasing illness and the ancillary changes brought about when everyone at school finds out his mother has cancer. Conner doesn’t know …

Continue reading

Book Review: Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening

Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening: How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart by Carol Wall The best thing I can say about this book is that it made me cry. I suppose that’s not too hard, because I cry easily, especially when the subject matter (people getting cancer …

Continue reading

Book Review: Bright-Sided

Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich I’d seen this book kicking around a lot of different places. I’m not sure when it was written, but it seems to come up a lot, discussed briefly in other books, seen on the shelf at the used bookstore, mentioned briefly …

Continue reading

Book Review – The Science of Fear

The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain by Daniel Gardner This is a book that I think everyone should read. It has a lot of information I’ve seen elsewhere, about the heuristics people use in order to make decisions, but Gardener puts the information together in a comprehensive manner that …

Continue reading

Book Review: The Myths of Happiness

The Myths of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky This isn’t the first book I’ve read about happiness, so at best I was hoping for a refresher course. It is a good refresher course, and a good supplemental, as Lybormirsky has a lot of new information that I haven’t read in other books. Lybormirsky’s information comes from …

Continue reading