Kristina

I found this book to be a captivating read, with its focus primarily on the development of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) rather than Marsha Linehan's personal life. I removed one star for this. While I hoped for more personal anecdotes, the book brilliantly showcases Linehan's immense contributions to psychology. My experience reading it deepened my appreciation for her work and the significance of DBT, making it a memorable and insightful read.

It is not bad but I haven't found anything new for myself. Useful skills to have if you've never heard of psychology or therapy and had been blindly navigating the world until now.

I feel bad rating it as a 3, I love Dr Ramani's youtube channel. It's a good book but I found it to be too long for its content that was often repetitive. However, it might be an extensive guidebook for people who are not familiar with narcissism at all.

1.5
Not clear about why this book is called “A Dog's Perfect Christmas”. The dogs and Christmas are mentioned very briefly and there's not enough information about why this is so perfect for any of the 2 dogs from the story. The characters are underdeveloped (including the characters of the dogs!). The men are big menchildren, portrayed as heros for taking care of some load of taking care of the house and little kids. The husband in the story can't even choose a tie without his wife's help. Not at all what I expected having read A dog's purpose.
The dialogues between the husband and the wife in the story are so bad that I'm not sure how they even got into the marriage, they're like from different planets.
Money NOT well spent even though the book was 30% off.

The book is dry and the ideas are old. It's not bad but if asked for recommendation on self help book, this one wouldn't pop up in my head because it was one of many with nothing special. Also, I find it strange that it's the author's face on the cover and not something else. Isn't it telling something about his ego? What about being humble? Anyway.
It was a nice read but I honestly couldn't finish.

I read it in several approaches. It was hard to read. It made me feel hopeless. But it's a good fact collection gathered in one book. I love Europe and European culture and it would make me very sad if it perished. The trend is quite pessimistic.

Smart, gripping plot makes a good thriller. Whoever is wondering if it's good enough to read on its own without previous parts, I'd say yes. I didn't feel that I missed out by not reading other books from this series. Kelly Armstrong is for sure a good Canadian author.

Part of it is nice to read when you're down. But all this Universal Intelligence and the author's spirituality didn't resonate with me.
I didn't like the health-related part of the book as it can be dangerous to believe that people have cancer or genetic disease simply because they are not thinking positive enough and to heal everything you just need to change your thoughts, no doctors required. What about little children's diseases? Are they not positive enough?
Staying positive is good advice but there is no magic behind it.
Moreover, positive affirmations don't work for people with low self-esteem since they don't belive what they are saying (don't believe me, see the study https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02370.x). So simply looking into the mirror and saying something like ‘I am lovable and deserving of something' might make some people feel worse.
But again, part of the book is nice to read especially with calming music on.

It's good to read for everyone. But especially useful for those who create predictive models, because it has valuable examples of biases in the algorithms created by people. The book illustrates vicious cycles for those who cannot potentially escape being a target of WMD.
I enjoyed the reading and can recommend it to everyone.

This was a good story. I enjoyed reading it. The plot was somewhat predictable but gripping. I felt like I was watching a movie in my head. Some books resemble movies more then others. This is one of them.
I always imagined Jessica Jones as Abby and couldn't help it.

Even just reading the book makes you feel better.

OMG, what have I just read? At first, it felt like a scam... and this feeling has never left me. And this is one of the most highly rated books! Not only it is useless but also can cause harm to those who are seeking help.
I ignored these absurd things about visualizing house, visualizing car, visualizing people you want to be present in your life and blah-blah. The most ludicrous was visualizing money to find checks in your post box.
This all was laughable and funny until the chapter about health. How many dead people has to be there to stop believing in magical faith healing (or Secret healing)?
I wonder if creators of the book really do believe in what they are talking about or they deliberately are deceiving people? I hope they are just delusional.
The book has one good point - do not concentrate on negative and focus on positive. But this is simple psychology and not because you turn on the wrong frequency and the Universe responds (it does not) accordingly.
By the way. Frequency. I hate it when such people refer to physics. As if what they are talking about has anything to do with science at all. As if ‘the law of attraction' said together with quantum physics gives your words more ground. It does not.

I expected so much of the book and I regret touching it at all. I do NOT recommend it to anybody.

Nothing special.
Expected more details about German life and instead, there was a persistent complaining the whole book.

Think it is good for learning English

The only lesson of history is that no one get lessons from history. It repeats over and over again.

Old man died because of Johnsy.
Won't she feel guilty?

Nothing new will you learn if you are already interested in healthy life. It is just a compilation of good advice and quackery you can find all over the internet. Don't waste your time unless you know absolutely nothing about health

Not so much about drinking. Feels like a regular self-help book. Good ideas, some mindfulness, some CBT. I haven't found anything new for myself but it was a good read.

I wonder if the authors are immigrants or know any immigrants at all? The described Canada in this book is not why so many people like me come to Canada and enjoy their lives in their new home. This book is so biased that I question if the author has any touch with reality or real immigrants at all. I talk about immigrants because it is supposed to be a response to the official citizenship study guide for immigrants that so many of us are familiar with.
Canada has problems like most of the countries in the world (have the authors been anywhere else at all?). Maybe the official study guide glorifies Canada a little too much but in the same time it recognizes all the atrocities that were done by the government in the past. I'm not sure if the authors of THIS even read the official study guide at least once before “responding” to it.
This book just disregards everything good about Canada. Everything that attracts so many people each year to become new residents and citizens, everything good that makes people to stay and call Canada a new home. Maybe the authors' goal with this book was to prevent immigrants from coming?
The internment of the nationals of Germany and Austro-Hungary is mentioned briefly and the internment of Ukrainians is not mentioned at all. Doesn't fit the racist narrative too much so who cares, right?
In any case, don't waste your time on this book, beautiful people of the Earth. There's so many good books on history of Canada.