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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb - March 2022
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I'm looking forward to this one. I've had it on my TBR for a while now.
Just got it from my library! Excited to join along
I'm so glad it got voted for! This book has been sitting on my shelf waiting to be read for awhile now. I've set a goal to read one non-fiction book a month this year and this will be my non-fiction book for March.
Great goal, Jojo! I've been enjoying more nonfiction lately and this one has been on my shelf for quite a while too. I'm looking forward to it.
I voted for this one in the poll, just based on the title and cover-the tissue box caught my eye, for some reason. I plan on starting this soon. I am hoping to learn something about my self while reading others' therapies and experiences.
I read this book from BorrowBox last Sep and thought it was great. I hope you all enjoy it!
This is such an awesome readable book. I learned so much!
I read this book last year and I loved it. I am not into self-help books and this sometimes gets shelved like it but it didn't feel like one! I truly loved the style LG has and I think I read somewhere this book is/was supposed to be made into a TV show...
I’m 12% of the way in….waiting for it to grab me…
I love the book. Passed from laught to crying…
30% of the way in now. It still isn’t grabbing me….but I am going to keep going with all the great reviews here so far.
This book was an insta-favorite for me! I really enjoy slice-of-life types of stories. Haven't cried over a book in a long time...
I didnt realize this was the March BOTM! I'll have to add it to my UNO list for April. I've read this before and loved it. It was exactly what I needed at the time I read it.
I hope to read it in April as well. I've had it on my TBR forever and was looking forward to finally reading it in March, but just didn't have the time. Fingers crossed for next month!
Just finished. I think that I am probably not the right reader for this book given the other great reviews. I wouldn’t have picked it up on my own if it wasn’t selected here to read. I enjoyed the stories of Rita, John, Julie….but found myself skimming through a good deal of the book. Everyone else here has loved it and I am an outlier.
Reading it on audiobook rather than in print was really helpful in getting me into the stories I think Caroline, but there’s no shame in it not being the right book for you either.
this one finally came in from the library. looks like I'm reading it this month instead of last month
I hope it is worth the wait, Melissa!
From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world -- where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).
One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.
As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives -- a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys -- she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.
With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.