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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
It's relatively entertaining, but it gets fairly tedious fairly quickly. Too long and one-note to read straight through (as I attempted to do).
“Sick? Tired? Lost your job? Take one dose of literature and repeat until better.”
I would like to be known as a Bibliotherapist; it is on my twitter profile so it must be true. I received this book for Christmas from the most amazing person (my wife) and now I finally have the textbook to officially hand out some bibliotherapy. You have a shopping addiction, please go away and read American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (that’s what it recommends); I can tell you after that book you’ll not want to be so concerned about what clothing labels are trendy enough to buy and reference in conversation. This is the medical handbook that I can truly get behind and I had a lot of fun looking through it and finding out just how to deal with my parents during Christmas. I loved this book, it was so much fun to flick through. My only problem was the fact that Frankenstein was never prescribed to cure an illness, why can’t it help a god complex, isolation or something like that?
I would like to be known as a Bibliotherapist; it is on my twitter profile so it must be true. I received this book for Christmas from the most amazing person (my wife) and now I finally have the textbook to officially hand out some bibliotherapy. You have a shopping addiction, please go away and read American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (that’s what it recommends); I can tell you after that book you’ll not want to be so concerned about what clothing labels are trendy enough to buy and reference in conversation. This is the medical handbook that I can truly get behind and I had a lot of fun looking through it and finding out just how to deal with my parents during Christmas. I loved this book, it was so much fun to flick through. My only problem was the fact that Frankenstein was never prescribed to cure an illness, why can’t it help a god complex, isolation or something like that?
Pride and Prejudice as a cure for arrogance, sure; but the authors assert that Darcy refuses to dance with Elizabeth at Bingley's ball. Who in the what now? (I emitted at least one other hm? of uncertainty with another book for an earlier disease, but this was the first I was sure was amiss. What do we want? Less pedants! (That one slays me.)
While I find the concept of biblio therapy extremely interesting, this book is a list of recommendations (761 to be precise) and I found literally zero interesting books among them.
DNF at 8%. I for some reason thought this was a book filled with short novels, not that it gave you recommendations towards what novels to read at particular times of your life. Which in itself is a brilliant idea but not what I expected. Therefore I will not bother finish this quite lengthy book at this time in my life, but perhaps later on. This review is not to say this book was bad, I do believe it can be very good, but just to comment on the fact that it was not what I expected.