Adult Non-Fiction Archives - Reading Middle Grade Books for Kids and Grown Ups Sun, 05 Dec 2021 19:26:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/readingmiddlegrade.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/cropped-favicon-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Adult Non-Fiction Archives - Reading Middle Grade 32 32 155654171 Review | Maybe You Should Talk to Someone https://readingmiddlegrade.com/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone-book-review/ https://readingmiddlegrade.com/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone-book-review/#respond Thu, 28 May 2020 11:00:00 +0000 https://readingmiddlegrade.com/?p=5872 n Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, licensed therapist Lori Gottlieb pulls back the curtain on the process of therapy while analyzing the lives of four of her clients and the way they relate to hers. The four clients -- John (a seemingly narcissistic TV producer), Charlotte (a young woman with abandonment issues), Julie (a newlywed with terminal cancer), and Rita (a depressed elderly woman) -- have distinct issues, but somehow Gottlieb finds a connection between their circumstances and her current life situation.

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]]> https://readingmiddlegrade.com/the-escape-manual-for-introverts-review/feed/ 0 1638 REVIEW| I’M TELLING THE TRUTH, BUT I’M LYING: ESSAYS https://readingmiddlegrade.com/im-telling-the-truth-but-im-lying-essays-review/ https://readingmiddlegrade.com/im-telling-the-truth-but-im-lying-essays-review/#respond Wed, 22 May 2019 11:00:10 +0000 https://readingmiddlegrade.com/?p=1474 Bassey Ikpi is a Nigerian-American writer and poet whose work I first discovered after she attended Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Farafina writing workshop in 2014. But she's been in the business for many years before. You may have also read her work more recently on Catapult. She's always been vocal on social media about her life with Bipolar II and her debut essay collection is no different.

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