Drug Dealer, MD, by Anna Lembke I needed to know more about the current situation with pain meds and street drugs; now I know more than I did. This book is an easy read and covers a lot of ground. It was engaging and drew me in to the subject. I wish it had covered […]
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Review: One for the Road
Drunk Driving since 1900 Some months ago, I was tripping along through a different book, Everything is Obvious, thinking it a great read and highly informative, until I got to the chapter about Fairness and Justice, in which the author discusses the case of a police officer who was sentenced to 15 years incarceration for […]
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Review: Good Advice from Bad People
Selected Wisdom from Murderers, Stock Swindlers, and Lance Armstrong Some of the time, cute little “nugget” books can be irritating; not enough meat, trivial, superficial. Even when I flipped through the pages of Good Advice from Bad People, I caught myself thinking, “reading enough of this to review it is going to be a drag.” […]
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Review: Ignore Everybody, and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
I don’t normally pile on when a book has more than 20 reviews already, but the distribution of reaction here is a bit unusual so I thought I’d add one more five-star vote. I love this book. I’ve looked at it a dozen times in the bookstore and never carried it out; kept thinking I […]
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Review: Planner Books
I love these books. I use them as planners, by gluing a paper copy of my Outlook calendar into a two-page spread, and leaving blank pages for notes in between each week (and another pair of pages in between each month). I get about 9 months to a book which helps to break the “only […]
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Review: The View From The Studio Door: How Artists Find Their Way In An Uncertain World
I’m just another artist with a day job, and while I may know, at some level, many of the ideas in this book, it is completely worth the time it took to read and the money it cost to buy. I read it twice right away, actually, and it will join Art & Fear in […]
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Review: 7 Mistakes Greeting Card Writers Make
Quick little book worth every penny. One sentence made me look up and say, “Well, I just got my money’s worth from this!” I’ll let you read the book yourself in case your sentence is different from my sentence. Four not five because it’s not, for me, a life-changing book; four not three because it […]
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Review: Turn Your Art/Photography into Profitable Greeting Cards Online
I’m new to the POD art world, learning my way around the various e-commerce systems for selling digital versions of my art. I am only just beginning to see greeting cards as a possible product. If you have art to sell and need a low-cost, entry-level product, consider learning about the POD options available to […]
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Review: Organizing For a Living
How to Build a Profitable Career as a Professional Organizer To quote one of the other reviews, “it will save you money because you won’t need any other books about professional organizing!” You also won’t need any other books about being in business, or doing your accounting, or managing your time, or… This is a […]
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Review: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Close Encounters with Addiction Five stars for the hard science and experience, three for the recommended treatment? I was drawn into the first 3/4 of this book, wherein the author discusses the realities of street-level, needle addiction, and the current understanding of the neurological basis of addition. Good stuff. Barely put it down. I have […]
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