Book Review: ‘Sweet Sorrow’ by Sherry Cormier, PhD
Sweet Sorrow: Finding Enduring Wholeness After Loss and Grief (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) by Sherry Cormier, PhD is two books in one. It’s both a heartwrenching personal memoir and a compassionate...
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Interview: Dr. Sherry Cormier, Author of ‘Sweet Sorrow: Finding Enduring...
Recently I had the chance to chat with Dr. Sherry Cormier, a licensed psychologist, bereavement specialist and psychology professor, about her new book, Sweet Sorrow: Finding Enduring Wholeness After...
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Book Review: ‘Getting Unstuck’ by Esther Bleuel
Esther Bleuel’s new book Getting Unstuck is an amalgamation of memoir and personal development, the one supporting the other. In twelve chapters, Esther describes her life story, from a father who...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Year of the Monkey’ by Patti Smith
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith (Penguin/Random House) is the memoir of a year – 2016 to be specific – the Year of the Monkey in the Chinese lunar calendar – hence the book’s title. However, it’s...
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Book Review: ‘Unfollow — A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist...
It is horribly easy to hate people you don’t know. Through the distorted lens of a Facebook post or a contextually useless tweet, we all pour out our worst immediate reactions because it’s just pixels...
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Graphic Novel Review: ‘Our Little Secret’ by Emily Carrington from...
Our Little Secret by Emily Carrington from Drawn+Quarterly is her graphic memoir showing how the assault by her neighbor when she was fifteen has impacted her life even four decades later. It stands...
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Exclusive Interview: Odelia Elgarat, Author of Adoption Memoir ‘You Are Allowed’
How well one handles life’s curveballs determines how far one will go in life. In the memoir You Are Allowed, author Odelia Elgarat chronicles the challenges she faced as an adopted child. Odelia’s...
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Book Review: ‘Let Your Heart Be Broken: Life and Music from a Classical...
By turns touching, enlightening, and maddening, Let Your Heart Be Broken is a poetic and soul-baring memoir by composer Tina Davidson. Now in her early 70s, Davidson has attained high status among...
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Fan EXPO Boston: Danny Trejo on his Restaurants and Record Label
Danny Trejo dropped by Fan EXPO Boston, treating fans to an informative panel on August 6. The 79-year-old actor had plenty to discuss about his career, which has grown beyond acting into culinary...
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Book Talk: Patrick Stewart on ‘Making It So’
Sir Patrick Stewart (Star Trek: Picard, X-Men) visited Washington, D.C., on October 4 to promote his new memoir, Making It So. The 83-year-old actor engaged in a lively discussion at the Capital...
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