false 24 245 227 true 5739339 read 6 true 246345 currently-reading 12 true 246344 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80925910 to: Bad Monkeys (Hardcover) by Matt Ruff
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78328125 to: Crisp: Goals and Goal Setting, Third Edition: Achieving Measured Objectives (Fifty-Minute Series,) by Larrie Rouillard
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76545172 Invisible (Hardcover) by Paul Auster
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77855807 to: Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls (Paperback) by Matt Ruff
What a great book! This unique portrayal of multiple personality disorder introduces such fascinating and heartwarming characters, and squidges them all into one person!

Somehow Ruff takes a story that, on its surface, doesn't have a lot of drama to it, and twists it into a wonderful quasi-detective story as Andrew pieces together his personalities and tries to figure out what happened to him as a kid.

There are some really terrific surprises, too, that I won't ruin here, but that flow almost logically because of the cohesiveness of the narrative voice.

I want to write more about the plot, but don't want to give it away to anyone else, so I'll just have to say that you're in for a treat when you read this. Officially. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77855828 The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction (Hardcover) by Arielle Ford
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76545065 to: The Help (Hardcover) by Kathryn Stockett
It's been a while since I've lost myself in a book and it's such a friendly feeling to come back to.

The Help is an engaging, heartwarming, and heartbreaking story of domestic help in the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, and all of the race problems that entails.

Stockett creates believable characters who have familiar flaws and terrifically high stakes. I don't want to give away too much of the plot, but it had me engrossed -- during jury duty, no less!

There are times the story can get a little treacly, but I was able to overlook that, and see all the lonely people, pretending to be people that they're not, and grasping at the opportunity to be the people they really are.

I highly recommend this book! ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76544800 to: Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits (Hardcover) by Wayne W. Dyer
Dyer does a great job of outlining the most common excuses for not living your life fully, but does (in my opinion) less well in overcoming them. For me, however, just identifying them and seeing them for their own futility was helpful.

One thought he shared in the book has helped me enormously -- if you believe in your excuse (that doing the thing you've been putting off will be hard, or scary, or will take a long time, etc.), there is no way to know for absolutely sure that it's true. You're essentially trying to predict the future. There's a chance it won't be hard, or scary or take a long time. Since you're putting your faith in an idea that you don't know is true, you might as well pick one that's helpful -- either way it's an idea that you don't know is true. But choosing a helpful idea may actually motivate you towards what it is you want instead of keeping you stuck where you are.

However, there's a little too much God and "right living" in this for me to find it as practical as I had hoped it would be. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76545114 Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You (Hardcover) by Deepak Chopra
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76545093 The Story Sisters (Hardcover) by Alice Hoffman
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76544831 The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul (Paperback) by Hugh Prather
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