![]() ![]() ![]() If he ever quits being a therapist-and he really should-I’d suggest Mr. Ramplewood had chronically bloodshot eyes and only wore gray, which matched the vibes of his dreary, water-damaged basement clinic. I quit after our first session, not because I don’t want my therapist to have wrinkles, but because I appreciate chairs. He had deep wrinkles carved into his face, like the cracked hardwood floor he insisted I sit on cross-legged and shoeless. You know how they say people look like their dogs? I think therapists look like their offices, and a therapist’s office can tell you a lot. Oddly enough, it started with her office. “It’s not terrific that you’re lonely,” she clarifies, shattering the caramel between her teeth. ![]() “I don’t know if I’d consider it terrific.” She pops the candy into her mouth, smiling. Hazel pauses from unwrapping her caramel hard candy to offer her full attention. But still, it’s going to be strange admitting this out loud for the first time. Hazel (she’s heard it all by now), and nothing matters anymore anyway. I’M ABOUT TO TELL MY therapist something that I’ve never told anyone before. ![]()
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![]() ![]() These include Oliver and the Seawigs, The Frozen Pugs of the North and The Legend of Kevin. When Sarah and Philip met, this sparked the Reeve & McIntyre highly illustrated chapter books, which they think up together. Her comics include Vern and Lettuce, and she wrote a regular comic for the Sunday Times called Shark & Unicorn. Sarah McIntyre grew up in Seattle in the United States and studied Russian before going on to study Illustration at Camberwell College of Art in London. Philip lives on Dartmoor with his wife and son, and his interests are walking, drawing, writing and reading. He has also written Here Lies Arthur, the Larklight trilogy and his Fever Crumb series. Philip Reeve has been writing stories since he was five years old but Mortal Engines was the first to be published and went on to win the Blue Peter Book of the Year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The title of the book came from, as I’d expected before even opening it, To Kill a Mockingbird, which instantly endeared me to it, as TKAM is one of my all-time favorite books. Devon was the one who helped Caitlin function more normally, explained why people acted and reacted the way they did, and generally was just a terrific older brother to her (the kind you’d desperately hope you had if you had a child with special needs). mockingbird by kathryn erskineĬaitlin is ten years old and has Asperger’s syndrome, so she reacts differently to the death of her brother, Devon, then other people might. The author, Kathryn Erskine, lives in Virginia and in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings, she wrote this book about a girl dealing with the death of her brother (although he was shot in a middle school, rather than at a college). ![]() And yet this book is impressively upbeat, without seeming forced. Look, if you want to talk about a book that has a downer of a premise, it’s this one. I was far more impressed with this book than I expected to be. 9 of 10: Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine, about a girl with Asperger’s syndrome whose brother was recently killed in a school shooting, manages to be meaningful, appropriate, and even (surprisingly) funny. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Rewire for Wealth, Huson offers a proven and integrative approach to re-wiring your brain. (Men, for example, view investing as a challenge women see it as a threat.) Fortunately, you can “un-learn” previous bad lessons-and train your brain to process differently. Since that dramatic financial wake-up call, Huson has devoted herself to learning everything there is to know about women and money, and in Rewire for Wealth she goes to the very core of the disconnect between the two: According to multiple studies, women’s and men’s brains process information differently-and that has a profound effect when it comes to money. When tax bills arrived for over $1m for his illegal deals, her ex left the country, her father refused to help, and Huson-who’d always been “scared and intimidated by money”-realized she had to grow up financially, fast. The men in her life had always handled Barbara Huson’s money: First her father (the “R” of H&R Block), and then her husband, a stockbroker who turned out to be a compulsive gambler. Career Education: Student & Career SuccessĪ groundbreaking program to help women create a habit of building wealth-from renowned financial therapist Barbara Huson (formerly Barbara Stanny).Career Education: Medical/Public Safety. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One hasty sexual encounter in an airport bathroom later, they both feel much better. On the bumpy flight to the island, he finds himself comforting a nervous-and extremely attractive-young man. Jack Bassinger’s own plans for a quiet Christmas have been dashed by the summons to his daughter’s hasty wedding with a man Jack has hardly met. ![]() All he has to do is get to the island on time, survive the reunion, and get Chuck to the altar with as little drama as possible. But his best friend and bandmate is subjecting everyone to his destination wedding, and Justin can’t dodge the “best man” bullet. He just wants a quiet, scandal-free Christmas at home in Chicago, out of the public eye. Blurb: The man of your dreams could be sitting right next to you.įormer boy band member Justin Hayes isn’t looking for a man. ![]() |