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Little Book of Self Care for Those Who Grieve
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Paula Becker, Rebekah Nichols
Priscilla Long
, October 15, 2021
This book is exactly what it claims to be: short, prescriptive, realistic. It is a small book, easy to hold in the hand, with words that can sustain a person through a really really bad time. It is also beautiful. The book design and the illustrations by Rebekah Nichols are in themselves comforting. It was written by a mother who lost her firstborn son, and could find nothing to read as all the other grief books had too many words for her shattered attention span. This book is a gift to the world.
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Maxine
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Jack Remick
Priscilla Long
, December 01, 2020
In Maxine there is danger, passion, fast driving, a quest to heal the deep wounds of the past, and finally, love. Jack Remick's Maxine is a masterpiece.
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A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction
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Paula Becker
Priscilla Long
, August 29, 2019
This story of a beloved son's struggle with addiction is beautiful and wrenching. I could not stop reading. It is a son's story but more than that, a mother's story. For anyone touched by America's opioid crisis—and who isn't touched by it?—A House on Stilts is a must read.
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The Storms of Denali
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Nicholas O'Connell
Priscilla Long
, January 09, 2019
I am no climber, nor was meant to be. I nevertheless read this suspenseful and extremely well-wrought novel with avid interest and enjoyment. The characters are engaging and the conflicts among egos under stress as they endeavor to summit Denali via a new route builds to the point of disaster. The other conflict is that between domestic life and the thrill of a pioneering but risky climb. Most of all I loved being in the world of climbing in all its danger and technical exactitude. A great read.
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Citadel
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Jack L. Remick
Priscilla Long
, October 10, 2018
Thrilling, fast moving, and gripping. A big novel in the grip of big ideas. And yes, violent. The violence of men toward women and the violence of the women fighting back. I loved the characters: the scientist-novelist and her editor and her editor's therapist and the therapist's therapist. Citadel is both a novel and a novel within a novel. It is a great read. I relished the very sentences. The science, including the Y chromosome and its eventual demise, makes the rapidly unfolding events entirely believable. The screw tightens as the two novels begin to merge. I could not stop reading. In my view, Citadel is a great novel.
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Volcano: an A to Z and Other Essays about Geology, Geography, and Geo-Travel in the American West
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Neil Mathison
Priscilla Long
, September 18, 2017
These stunning essays set in the West bring to mind an alchemical mix of Mary Oliver and John McPhee. They are first of all, personal, full of questions, meditations, and insights on marriage, fatherhood, love gone bad, memory and its uses, and family. And they are scientific and philosophical, reflecting on the deep past, on Northwestern landscapes and seascapes via boating on Puget Sound, and road trips to such places as Lake Tahoe, points on the Columbia River, and Mount Rainier. These linked essays explore how these landscapes got here and how we got here. They deliver their insights though language that is limpid and dazzling. A must-read.
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Financial Basics: A Money-Management Guide for Students
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Susan Knox
Priscilla Long
, September 29, 2016
Now that I have read the second edition of Susan Knox's Financial Basics, I cannot imagine how anyone about to enter college or their parent or grandparent can do without it. It is friendly, engaging, and chock full of information and wise and up-to-date guidance. It's an essential resource that will help young men and women get off to a much happier and more satisfying life than they would if they had to recover from any number of common financial errors. Did I say that I highly recommend this book? If I could I would purchase 1,000 copies and distribute them immediately. This is one of those books that a person cannot afford NOT to buy. Or so it seems to me.
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Walking Distance: Pilgrimage, Parenthood, Grief, and Home Repairs
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David Hlavsa
Priscilla Long
, August 10, 2015
Walking Distance is lyrical, dramatic, tender, insightful, and an engrossing read. It's a memoir of a marriage by a husband, of parenthood by a father, of two sons, James who was stillborn and Ben who lived. It's a memoir of a pilgrimage, spiritual and philosophical as well as humorous and quite witty. It's really a heart-grabbing love story. I give it five thousand stars.
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Micro-trauma: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury
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Margaret Crastnopol
Priscilla Long
, April 21, 2015
Micro-trauma is revelatory, absorbing, and a good read. I got much insight into familiar interactions and everyday situations. I recommend it highly.
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Story Within Personal Essays on Genetics & Identity
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Amy Boesky
Priscilla Long
, November 03, 2013
This collection of personal essays puts a human face on genetics discourse on disease-causing mutations, a discourse that tends to become dryly statistical and abstract except to those fated to actually carry a genetic inheritance for cystic fibrosis, blindness, breast cancer, or something else. The stories are personal, heart-wrenching, and inspiring as they reveal lives, struggles, family cultures, and courageous decisions made by each writer. The different voices and different lives are a great strength of this anthology, which is altogether powerful and moving. Highly recommended.
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Dear Alzheimer's: A Caregiver's Diary & Poems
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Esther Altshul Helfgott
Priscilla Long
, September 11, 2013
This is a powerful book, full of truth and love. I recommend it to all, not only to caregivers.
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49 A Square of Stories
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Bruce Holland Rogers
Priscilla Long
, September 05, 2013
Striking and hilarious. Brilliant. The most refreshing and entertaining short fiction I've read in a long time. Anyone interested in linked stories should look at Rogers's ways of linking. The character Donat Bobet is something else! Oh my. Every time I turn the page I am chuckling or intrigued. This is a 17-star book.
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Sex and Death in the American Novel
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Martinez, Sarah
Priscilla Long
, March 12, 2013
Sex, in Sex and Death in the American Novel by Sarah Martinez, is a long, slow, highly spiced meal, a dance, a quest, a search for a lost father in the shape of the lover, a trespass of conventional boundaries, a seeking after freedom and after art. This spectacular first novel is about grief and longing and literature. It's also a page-turner. I fell in love with Vivi, dancer and writer, and with both her lovers. In the end this is a deeply romantic love story about writing and dancing and loving in which the heroine must go to the wilderness alone to face down her demons. She returns to a sweeter and more generous (but still unconventional) intimacy. Read this novel!
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Dial C for Chihuahua A Barking Detective Mystery
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Waverly Curtis
Priscilla Long
, December 09, 2012
Pepe is a great character--vain, self-centered but fiercely loyal if not actually territorial, with a terrific nose of course, and loyal to a fault. And yes, he is a chihuahua. The private investigator who is his "owner" is, well, good at interior decorating. Recently dumped by her husband, out of work, down in the dumps, she finds Pepe and through him, an unlikely corpse, work, and even romance. I like the notes on interior design, food, and dress. The several antagonists, the helper friend, and Pepe are excellent characters. The Seattle scenes are well drawn and neat for Seattleites. Highly recommended.
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Bloody Murdock
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Robert J. Ray
Priscilla Long
, November 11, 2012
Glitzy, tense, fast-moving, and a private investigator I won't forget. Matt Murdock's a lump of coal amid southern California glitter, a sod house among the palaces, an old Plymouth, albeit very well kept, among the Porsches. He's an ex-Army cop who knows how to use his weapon. If you've just offed a beautiful young starry-eyed Hollywood hopeful, you don't want him in your neighborhood. His creator, Robert J. Ray, is a writer's writer, one who can turn a sentence with the best. I will now read every Matt Murdock mystery I can lay my hands on.
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The Deification
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Jack Remick
Priscilla Long
, August 10, 2012
If American literature produces one On the Road per century, then The Deification by Jack Remick is it for the twenty-first century. This road trip saga of would-be poet Eddie Iturbi from Sanger to San Francisco, from innocence to art, is fast, hot, thick, mythic, erudite, erotic, and intense. The prose is lush, the story, irresistible. Remick inscribes these vivid, gender-morphing characters on the California landscape as if they'd always been there. I believe The Deification will be passed from hand to hand for a long time to come.
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