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michkelle 's review for:
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
by Lori Gottlieb
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I liked the book a lot in the first half. There we meet Lori, a therapist, who is facing a life crisis and decides to enter therapy herself. We get to watch her process her grief and navigate her challenges with her new therapist as they form their own complicated relationship. It's messy, just as the cast of her own patients that we meet are navigating their own challenges and relationships with her. All of that is thoroughly engaging. The end of the book wrapped up WAY too nicely after all that brilliant messiness, realistic road blocks, and self-sabotage. At the end, everyone seems nearly healed. Her patients heap praise on her. It's all just too pat and doesn't hold the same authenticity that was part of the charm of the book earlier. We can see the benefits of therapy along the way even during the various bumpy journeys. She didn't need to hit us over the head with a shiny, glossy, over-processed sales pitch at the end.
I liked the book a lot in the first half. There we meet Lori, a therapist, who is facing a life crisis and decides to enter therapy herself. We get to watch her process her grief and navigate her challenges with her new therapist as they form their own complicated relationship. It's messy, just as the cast of her own patients that we meet are navigating their own challenges and relationships with her. All of that is thoroughly engaging. The end of the book wrapped up WAY too nicely after all that brilliant messiness, realistic road blocks, and self-sabotage. At the end, everyone seems nearly healed. Her patients heap praise on her. It's all just too pat and doesn't hold the same authenticity that was part of the charm of the book earlier. We can see the benefits of therapy along the way even during the various bumpy journeys. She didn't need to hit us over the head with a shiny, glossy, over-processed sales pitch at the end.