Review of Love That Works By Jim Fleckenstein A deceptively easy read, Jim Fleckenstein’s thought-provoking book Love That Works provides practical, bite-sized solutions for relationship challenges. Grounded in research and Fleckenstein’s decades of experience as a relationship coach, Love That Works introduces affirmative intimacy and then details how to create a safe space, structuring dialog, …
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Review of Is Monogamy Dead by Rosie Wilby
Review of Is Monogamy Dead? By Rosie Wilby
I loved this book far more than I expected to. When I saw the number of chapters I cringed inside, thinking that I was really screwed if this book sucked and I had to slog through that many pages. To my absolute delight, instead I found myself flying through the witty pages and short, pithy chapters thinking “OK, just one more. Well, one more after this one, I guess. Ok, now I really mean this is the last one for sure.”
In Is Monogamy Dead Wilby skillfully blends information from experts and her own research with achingly honest and refreshingly amusing personal experiences and insights. Smart, funny, and thought provoking, I simply loved Is Monogamy Dead. In fact, I detest reading from a screen in general and this book was so good that I was willing to read it on my laptop. As a technophobe who already spends too much time on the computer, that is quite a statement for me to be willing to read for pleasure on a device instead of a paper book. This delightful book was worth it! You can find it here. https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1786154536
Rosie Wilby is a British comic who writes about love and relationships and is the creator and host of The Breakup Monologues podcast, which is available free on iTunes and Spotify. She is on twitter @rosiewilby
Review of It’s OK Feelings, I Got You by Tikva Wolf
Review of It’s OK Feelings, I Got You: Therapeutic Comic Drawing by Tikva Wolf First let me tell you that, as a non-artist, I was afraid of this book. While I can sing and dance, any other form of artistry simply eludes me. I never craft, and my handwriting is so bad sometimes even I …
Review of For Better for Worse: Should I Get Married? By Neel Burton
Review of For Better for Worse: Should I Get Married? By Neel Burton For such a light and accessible read, Neel Burton’s new book For Better For Worse: Should I get Married? is surprisingly dense with information. A compendium of entries from Burton’s Psychology Today blog, For Better For Worse could also be subtitled …
Review of Counsel of the Wicked
This fall I had the great fortune to visit with the publishers at Fantastic Fiction Publishing. When I mentioned to the primary editor that I had just finished the book I had been reading and was looking for something new to read, she recommended Elizabeth Schechter’s Counsel of the Wicked . “I don’t like …
Have you read my books? Please review them!
If you have read any of my books, I would really appreciate it if you would review them. Review at Amazon https://www.amazon.com/When-Someone-Love-Polyamorous-Understanding/dp/0996460187 And Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29633526-when-someone-you-love-is-polyamorous Review at Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25707128-stories-from-the-polycule?ac=1&from_search=true and Review at Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Stories-Polycule-Real-Polyamorous-Families/dp/0991399773/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=GWMHWS0J5JY2B98DHJNG Review at Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18145510-the-polyamorists-next-door?ac=1&from_search=true And Review at Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Polyamorists-Next-Door-Multiple-Partner-Relationships/dp/144225310X/ref=pd_sim_14_4?ie=UTF8&dpID=4180rLU6RPL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL320_SR214%2C320_&refRID=BTPZFD04ZT8Q5P00GYTM Thanks for your time!!!
Review of Polyqueer: Gender, Race, and Polyamory
In Polyqueer: Gender, Race, and Polyamory, Dr. Mimi Schippers examines the racialized and gendered backdrop against which heterosexuality and monogamy play out in contemporary US culture. Focusing on multiplistic configurations of one woman with two men, Schippers provides a polyqueer reading of E.Lynn Harris’s Invisible Life and the film The Other Man. Going beyond the …
Review of Women in Relationships with Bisexual Men: Bi Men By Women
Women in Relationships with Bisexual Men: Bi Men By Women is yet another triumph for Dr. Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli. In her ongoing quest to examine the borderlands between/around dichotomous positions, Pallotta-Chiarolli has produced a sophisticated discussion of the intersections of sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, class, and social institutions like healthcare and religion. Defying the misrepresentation and …
Designer Relationships a Delight
I recently read Mark Michaels and Patricia Johnson’s new book Designer Relationships and loved it! A deceptively modest little book, it is short enough to read in one long sitting or several shorter ones. Do not be fooled by the demure length, however, because Michales and Johnson pack some huge ideas in to this pint-sized …
Review of Ascension
Some of you have probably already read Jacqueline Koyanagi’s wonderful science fiction adventure Ascension, because it was published in 2013. Those of you who enjoy sci fi and have not yet had a chance to read this excellent book are in for a treat. A blend of a closely-knit crew on semi-legal runs throughout the …