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Archive - Book Review
The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity
author: Phil Stutz
name: Steev
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2017/12/20
shelves: spirit-self, own-it, to-re-read
review:
Excellent. The book represents a rare thing in therapy - actual practical methods for working on things that usually people just get to talk about with their therapist. Describes 4 basic "tools" for overcoming mental/emotional obstacles, and they even include a fifth tool for helping to follow through and keep using the first four. I'm going to (hopefully) continue to refer back to the book and not just forget the whole thing.
The Baffler No. 36 (A Crack in Everything)
author: Chris Lehmann
name: Steev
average rating: 4.30
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2017/12/13
date added: 2017/12/13
shelves: own-it, politics, fun
review:
I'm having trouble keeping up with the Baffler and soon it will be bi-monthly! ack! At any rate, the quality continues to be very high. Highlights of this issue are Sam Kriss's piece on climate change, Corey Pein's report about immigration detention in the Northwest, and Mike Edison's "The Art of the Heel," exploring and explaining the resemblance of the Trump phenomenon to professional wrestling. Great stuff.