Stacey Meow

Wow and wow!

Revisado: 04-21-20

If you need a story that drives itself while you drive the car, say on a roadtrip or the.like, this would be a good choice. The main character is about as basic as you get but a good every person to share and compare what you would do in his place.
The author nails the ending and you feel like "Yep, that is in fact the perfect ending."

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Intricate, nuanced bio

Revisado: 02-01-20

Well written bio of the author's college roommate. Rob Peace sounds like a striking you man who had a lot of cards stacked against him and a lot of extraordinary chances to mitigate some of those cards. if a life can be weighed by how the people.who are left behind feel about a person than Rob Peace was a very worthy person.
I read the other reviews before buying this title and now wonder what book some of them listened to...

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Another riveting story

Revisado: 08-12-18

I tried to describe Ms. Ng's books to a friend who is not into fiction. Thriller, suspense? Literature gone into a dark helix, wrapping back to it's nexus, dumping you back at the beginning? My mind is whirlwinded by her writing.
I don't want to give too much away in a review but if you enjoy stories that hook you immediately, build out of something tiny (a tiny fire?) and wrap your whole imagination up then give this book a listen.

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A change is a coming

Revisado: 08-12-18

As a long-time worker in substance abuse, I've been reading on ANYTHING that might improve the field. 30% success rate is the best stat we have in recovery and that isn't even across the board. (Usually worse). I had heard and seen some of the initial studies coming out about psychedelics helping with depression and anxiety and possibly alcoholism.
This book is really well-researched. Michael Pollen keeps it well-grounded, not giving into flights of fantasies in unknown possibilities or the mystic surrounding psychedelics. I truly enjoyed it on a personal level and see some hope for the field in the coming years.

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Ever wonder?

Revisado: 02-01-18

Excellent breakdown of how mental irregularities are displayed in different cultures. Last part of the book details how companies profit off of exporting the American DSM definition of mental illnesses

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what else would you expect? ?!!

Revisado: 05-01-16

Lovely, lovely, honest story. you need laughter, love and to never stop challenging yourself.

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excellent for keeping you awake and squirming

Revisado: 07-26-15

from the first sentence to the last this book and the talented narrator build a bridge, piece by piece, until the whole amazing span is finished. a couple, one who should have been a ground-breaking doctor and her husband, challenging perspective by simply being a Chinese American in an almost all white town/university bring all their baggage into their marriage and hence to their children.
it made me squirm with the family and society expectations and pressure this family feels, deals with and NEVER talks about. (pretty realistic!)

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Fun, sensual, thoughtful book, well performed

Revisado: 05-21-15

Gave my print copy to my sister after buying it based on first chapter. Very glad it worked out so I have listened to it instead. Adiche's description and dialogue put me right there in church or subway or cafe. Thoughts all of us who don't wear the Right look or don't wear it well will connect with the observations, experiences and feelings this book lays out.
Race, foreigness and culture shock on the coming and returning give this story so much to think and feel.
the reading was also amazing.

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Fun, sensual, thoughtful book, well performed

Revisado: 05-21-15

Gave my print copy to my sister after buying it based on first chapter. Very glad it worked out so I have listened to it instead. Adiche's description and dialogue put me right there in church or subway or cafe. Thoughts all of us who don't wear the Right look or don't wear it well will connect with the observations, experiences and feelings this book lays out.
Race, foreigness and culture shock on the coming and returning give this story so much to think and feel.
the reading was also amazing.

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