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The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper

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samarakroeger's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

a fairly run of the mill memoir that took a preachy turn towards the end. 

Dr. Harper tries to interweave her traumatic upbringing with vignettes about her ER patients but spends too much time lecturing on the beauty of yoga and not enough on meaningful self-reflection. I thought she was leaning too heavily on the inevitable emotions of the ER (like dead babies) to carry the heft of the memoir. It didn’t really work. 

There’s still plenty of interesting material to engage in, though, so I’m not mad about finally reading it. 

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emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0


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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

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pisces1_1318's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Dr. Michele Harper memoir was so touching and interesting. Her storytelling is unlike any memoirs I have ever read. I often forgot that this was a true story. We need more Dr. Harper's in medicine. 

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autumnflorence's review

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0


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d0505's review against another edition

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emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5


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katiejohns's review

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emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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avialia's review against another edition

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emotional informative medium-paced

3.75

Found it boring at times

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sarahlizbooks's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

3.5


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readbycarina's review

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emotional informative reflective medium-paced

2.5


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