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  • RESCRIPT the Story You're Telling Yourself

    by Colleen Georges

    Rating: 7.50

    Idea/Concept: Colleen Georges's RESCRIPT the Story You're Telling Yourself centers on the author's eight-part "RESCRIPT Framework," which she has designed as a guide to helping readers flip the script on the narratives they tell themselves about their own lives and selves. Georges's formulation is unique and thoroughly thought through, and she packages it with clear-eyed examples, practical strategies, helpful testimonials, and smart and accessible organization.

    Prose: Georges's prose is strongest when she is in a prescriptive coaching mode, guiding readers with warmth and clarity through her RESCRIPT Framework with thorough strategies and examples. Less assured, however, are the passages at the start of most chapters where Georges discusses the debilitating tendencies in thinking that her framework addresses. Passages concerning people's general drift of mind sometimes can be vague or confusing or center on ambiguous subjects. Occasionally, the tone becomes so conversational that the prose might be transcribed from speech. Fortunately, Georges continually offers examples, metaphors, and exercises that elaborate upon her assertions, so the occasional hard-to-parse sentence usually gets clarified elsewhere in the text.

    Originality: While tenets of Georges's advice are familiar at times, RESCRIPT is unique in its central framework, its many examples, its clarifying metaphors, and its exhaustive trove of strategies for changing habits of mind.

    Execution: Georges is a sincere, impassioned coach who generously overstuffs her book with strong, practical, inspiring advice. "RESCRIPT" outshines many books in its genre, thanks to this dedication and thoroughness. The author also has organized the book effectively, and she makes up for the occasional weakness of the most generalized passages by getting highly, helpfully specific. That said, kicking off the introduction with a disquisition on a familiar quote from "Forrest Gump" might suggest to readers that this book is less accomplished and unique than it is.

  • Going Deeper: How the Inner Child Impacts Your Sexual Addiction

    by Eddie Capparucci, LPC, C-CSAS, CPCS

    Rating: 7.25

    Idea/Concept: Capparucci's account on sexual addiction is extensive. With candor and empathy, the author offers insight and tools for those wishing to better understand an emotionally and psychologically complex condition.

    Prose:  The author educates readers about sexual addictions using clear, straightforward language, along with anecdotal examples that provide real-world applications of the concepts introduced. 

    Originality: There are other accounts on the subject of sexual addiction, but Capparucci's guide is particularly intuitive and insightful. Capparucci encourages readers to think beyond their immediate circumstances to their childhoods, in order to better understand their struggles.

    Execution: Capparucci explores the topic of sexual addiction, its manifestations, and possible origins, in a structured, organic manner. Readers will find the author's approach to be intelligent, thoughtful, and illuminating.

  • Heal Your Body, Cure Your Mind

    by Ameet Aggarwal

    Rating: 7.00

    Idea: This book’s “heal thyself” stratagem is commendable, especially since illness can be lifestyle-inflicted, but danger lurks beneath a misdiagnosed condition while utilizing any method. An outstanding and thorough compilation of information, including simplified, natural treatments, fills these pages with power to eradicate sickness.

    Prose: Intriguing, yet repetitious, this carefully written medical guide seeks solutions to common problems using terminology that is comprehensible and fascinating. Composed of organized lists and reassuring advice, the book will appeal to people who have failed to get long-term relief through traditional medicine alone.

    Originality: Books on holistic medicine are a popular and valuable contribution to publishing, available in staggering numbers, each with a distinctive angle on the topic. This title is not an exception within category standards, and although it fulfills the demands anticipated, expert competition may draw readers to alternatives.

    Execution: This engaging text explores the connection between body and mind while addressing the importance of diet and health, as well as providing details about natural healing supplements. Like other medical books intended for the public, its comprehensible statements and optimistic encouragement could alternately persuade or dissuade adherence to the recommended plan.

  • Plot: This uplifting and wholehearted guide to spiritual living offers a consistent, clear, and highly readable structure.

    Prose: The author writes with warmth, ease, and intimacy--the veritable equivalent of sitting with the parish priest over coffee.

    Originality: This work is very much in keeping with familiar formulas found in self-help titles purporting to possess a key to acting with compassion and purpose. The book's mysticism may strike readers as overly general in nature.

    Character/Execution: Readers who take the book's instruction to heart, may indeed discover incremental improvements in their interpersonal relationships. The “masters of the Egyptian desert” stories do little to enhance the book's overall credibility or resonance.

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