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1. An important, moving book! - I connected with Dr. Ford’s voice and the stories of her patients viscerally, often moved to tears. While she sheds light on an otherwise rather hidden area of our communities, she also transforms into a figurative lighthouse to those who move within the system from being incarcerated to being hospitalized and incarcerated again. I feel empowered and confirmed in my own work as an educator and personal coach, and am ever so grateful to her for sharing these authentic accounts of human failure, suffering, resilience, forgiveness, and triumph.
2018-03-04
2. Disappointing - Having worked as a psychologist in the forensic mental health field I'd looked forward to a feeling of shared experience. What had she seen and how had she handled it? It's a different and very challenging field with millions of stories to tell.
Unfortunately the author missed most of them. Very little opportunity to look over her shoulder as she was working with a patient. Very little reflection as to what worked and why; should she have looked at something different. Absolutely nothing to learn from this. More of a narcissistic indulgence from a spoiled Manhattan psychiatrist.
So much of the book was about how she managed the flooding from the "big storm". Who really cares?
Pleasant, but a waste of time.
2017-05-07
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1. The Hagiography of Tao Lin - In all brevity, Tao Lin is a “writer for writer’s.” No one inspires as much of a polarized reaction as the (his age) who has made a monolithic empire of hipster kulture (as Cardi B would spell it). He is both an enterprise and an enigmatic person, as such, that which he draws a reaction. You will find hateful reviews of the more Pynchon-like elements of his narrative: the glacial pacing, which is interesting for the experienced reader. His book is like reading critical theory about human existence as he meanders through reflections upon drugs, higher consciousness, and the relevance of being. Using meta details, such as recording his usage of chemicals, Lin elegantly conveys insights and presumed biographical information. Furthermore, if Trip comes across as long-winded, he was inspired by Terance McKenna marathon lectures. Refreshingly, Tao avoids the usual psychedelic trio (Ginsberg, Kesey, Thompson) oft cited by writers as embodying the beatnik and hippie lifestyle. He breaks from the intellectual tone with off-the-cuff remarks. One such instance of this is, when in recounting his drug history, he says “I continued to not encounter drugs from the ages of -” or whatnot. His quiet, deadpan humor is delightful. The book is more than a well-written and extended Erowid.com vault entry. Lin expounds upon the innermost connectivity between McKenna’s optimistic belief system, the complex theories therein about visible/ symbolic language, and his wrestle with the permeable nature of modern social media. He, invariably, reveals his own struggles with patterned substance abuse (the process of a couple years of “quitting” certain drugs) and begins to dabble in the realm of DMT. He vacillates between a variety of moods and ultimately expresses the attitude that a change in structured thought is in order, rather than the numbing agency of prescription pills. Tao Lin resists those his considers excessively morally righteous. He will update his social media to declare that people should destroy their phones. He is one of millions who wants to grasp the vitality of life; but, he is a wordsmith in its truest form. He is the friend who works at the library to write better. He is the friend you admire and resent for his success because you know he worked a little bit harder than you. As such, if the writings of the years in which he is active are later chronicled by future generations... he is the OG of critical-theory-stream-of-consciousness. However, he doesn’t want to hear about it and has surprising restraint when dealing with that arises from the openness of his writing. There is Tao Lin, the jocular yet pensive writer, and the Tao Lin no one really knows. He evades interpretation, yet constantly produces meticulously penned novels. The motto should be Tao Lin: Thinking So You Don’t Have To. His thoughts are worth a browse, a reread, and annotations and underlines. The only potentiality of this mythos that could become negative is that he physically endangers or emotionally harms himself, operating as a larger-than-life figure amongst post-hipster culture. In this manner, it is important to recall that Tao Lin writes about quite more than drugs and we should honor his honed skill rather than the antiquated vision of a tormented artist. I’m not quite sure who I mean by ‘we’ at this juncture — people online, people watching, people reading — but that we respect Tao Lin as a multi-dimensional being and don’t conflate his image into something counterintuitive to his further maturation as a writer.
2018-07-31
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1. The Human Side of Cancer - Subtitled Living with Hope, Coping with Uncertainty. A better title for the value of this wonderful book. I can't tell you how much this book helped me to understand the emotional processes I have been going through in the past months of diagnosis, chemo, surgery and radiation therapy for breast cancer. I thought I was alone in some of my reactions and scary feelings, but the author actually described each emotion I have had. I strongly recommend this book for all cancer patients and their families or caregivers. Wouldn't hurt the doctors to read it to remind them of how vulnerable their cancer patients are.
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