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Part biography, part workbook, part pep talk How To Be You is a refreshing and inspiring book that encourages all of us to be kinder, gentler and more present to ourselves and the people around us. Jeffrey Marsh has written from the heart and their sincerity and genuine desire to help people is clear. Recommended for everyone since Jeffrey's story is unique, but their message is universal. I loved this book!! Very inspiring and encouraging. Jeffrey Marsh is an amazing person, and you can really see this in the way he writes. I definitely recommend this book because it will leave you glowing!
Jeffrey writes the way he speaks, which is truly from the heart. I can hear him talking while I read this. It's a very inspirational book for all people of any age who feels some sort of insecurity -- and let's face it, we all do. He's truly an angel. I love Jeffrey Marsh. I know him when he was a yoga instructor in NYC, and am so happy for him and how his path has formed and continued to inspire and encourage others.
This book is simply and clearly written, and he opens himself up to share his personal experiences in life to let others know that it's OK to feel what they feel, to accept find a way to love themselves, and to keep going when things get tough, with each chapter offering exercises to help the reader work through personal thoughts and feelings. More from this author, please: A lovely, affirming book for all people I have two copies in my middle school classroom library.
It's a popular borrow! This is an awesome book!!! I just skimmed through it and it is all things that need to be said that I was wasn't taught when I was a kid. It is a very positive book and has great insight and commentary and things to do to help you be more you. I can't wait to sit down and do some of the activities in the book and it is very hands on too. Jeffrey Marsh is a wonderful person and I am glad I have this book. See all 24 reviews. Most recent customer reviews. Published 1 month ago. Published 2 months ago. Published 6 months ago. Published 8 months ago.
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Get to Know Us. English Choose a language for shopping. Amazon Music Stream millions of songs. Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon. But how can that be? How can she not be Trudie? And if so, who is her real mother? With her past as blank as her future, can Rosie continue living a lie, or can she risk destroying the lives of those around her to find out more about her past? I knew this would be an amazing book — I mean, have you read the blurb?!
I adored every moment and was left wanting more, more, more! A book that truly tugged at the heartstrings one moment and had me stupidly smiling the next. Rosie Kenning was so strong and so caring. I admired her so much, putting her whole life on hold so she could take care of her mother. I just loved her from the word go. And it was just so obvious that she absolutely adored her mother Trudie. She had to grow up so fast, and she lost so much. But through it all she was selfless, brave, loving and strong. She was amazing, and we could all learn something from her. He was just adorable, really protective and supportive, always there for her… Did you guess that I had a minor book-boyfriend crush on Andy?
She was strong, light-spirited, trying to make a joke of everything, and obviously loved Rosie just as much as her daughter loved her. The rest of the supporting characters were equally amazing. Jack Woods was funny, sweet and friendly, and just the perfect father. What I liked most about this book is the flawless way Katie tackled the difficult issues.
And may I just say that I really admire the way Katie described the disease — enough of the medical info so we can grasp the basics, no jargon to confuse us. But more, the emotional description. The pain at watching your Mum die, the fear of not knowing if that could be you, drowning in it all. The importance of being related by blood. I mean, any old person can make a baby. Rosie in particular really shows this: The writing was just so, so good. Emotional, powerful and utterly addictive, it was just perfect for this kind of book — more than perfect, in fact.
I could feel everything, see everything! As for the plot, well, it was twistier than… a really twisty thing. There was just shock after shock, surprise after surprise and I literally saw nothing coming!! And that, may I just say, was a huge achievement and made the book so, so, so much more addictive! I loved every second… even the bits I cried at. Which was quite a few of them. An amazing, incredible, moving, emotional, thought-provoking story that had me surprised at every twist, hooked to every word and racing to get to the end, so I could know what happened next.
Katie, whatever you may write next, you have me extraordinarily excited and I will be first in line, without a doubt! Beautiful, inspiring, heart-warming, life affirming, perfect… I came to the end and just wanted to read it all over again. As I said before: How can you continue to face your future when your past is a lie?
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Admittedly, I don't usually read these types of books, but once I started, I couldn't stop. I found myself glued to every page and actually wanting to know what happens next. Throughout the entire book, I found myself tearing up and there were actually parts throughout the book that I had to stop reading because it was h How can you continue to face your future when your past is a lie?
Throughout the entire book, I found myself tearing up and there were actually parts throughout the book that I had to stop reading because it was hard to read through my tears. In the story, Rosie falls apart afterwards. Rosie then begins to question if Trudie was her mother to lose in the first place.
As Rosie digs up her past to discover who she really is, she is faced with a life-changing dilemma — to continue living a lie and a life that she was never meant to have or to reveal the truth that is guaranteed to destroy the lives of everyone around her. This book is an amazing story about family ties and it was also educational to a certain degree. This book is helping raise awareness about the disease and I learnt a lot about the disease itself and how it can affect lives so heavily. The book had many twists and turns and it changed point of views constantly.
I found in this story, it was rather easy to follow the plot line and the characters were incredibly well developed. The book was just about two girls whose lives had been affected by the disease and were simply trying to get over a big obstacle in their lives. The book cover of the book I had was eye catching and rather pretty. The story title is also really fitting. Here are some of my favourite quotes the book. I grin down at the ring, glittering like a promise on my finger. A promise of love, of a future so bright that all the worries of my past fade away. Still holding my breath.
Still waiting to surface. This story immediately captured my attention and made me tear up on several occasions. Not only did she just lose her mother, but she finds out that her mother isn't her mother! Now she has no clue who she is and no clue what to move on to when she eventually initiates the "healing process. I though Sarah was written really well tho This story immediately captured my attention and made me tear up on several occasions.
I though Sarah was written really well though, because she was so human. I empathized with her difficult choice and situation, even though I disagreed with the decision she made. So many lives were upturned by her revelation, but really, it was Rosie's choice to do what she wanted with the information. The only thing I didn't like about Rosie is that I felt she took too much upon herself, even though I can absolutely relate to that, because I'm the same way. My biggest qualm with this though is that, out of everyone, she should have trusted Andy enough to talk to him, at least to smooth things over from their "break-up" that wasn't even really a break up.
If she had talked to him from the beginning, when her mother got really sick, then there wouldn't have been any misunderstanding between them about why she missed their first trip and he would have done anything he could to help her with her mother and to find her birth mother. I really liked Andy overall because his reaction to Rosie's behavior, without knowing any of the truth, seemed pretty realistic. He had all the right emotions in all the right places, at the right times, but not mechanically, not in a way that was unbelievable.
In fact, I think all the characters reacted appropriately with realistic expectations. The plot of this story was really good. I loved how the twists kept coming and characters kept being added. I was slightly confused by the parallel story lines, but towards the books end I was able to sort it out and understand who was who and what was what. I initially thought the separate story line not Rosie's was her biological mother's flashbacks, and it almost seems like it was intentionally meant to be thought of that way until we meet Holly and understand her story line and what's happening in her life.
Another subplot of the book, Huntington's disease, was really moving and sad. It really sets so many things into motion, so, I guess you could actually say that nearly all of Rosie's actions are motivated by the disease. I mean, does she find out if she has it, does she find her mother's biological daughter and tell her about it, does she potentially ruin someones life?
Will that character see it as Rosie ruining her life or giving her a chance? How about her biological father? It was well laid out, in my opinion and well thought out. Rosie had a lot of tough decisions to make and it really helped her sort out her own feelings of her mother's death. Rosie grew up a lot in this book, in a relatively short time, but the supporting cast of characters and the plot is intriguing and self-propelling. Katie Dale did a really great job of layering the story and characters just right so that it didn't drag on but I kept interest.
It was a good read and I'm glad I didn't overlook it. It brings awareness to a disease commonly unknown and shares a heartfelt story about what it really means to be someone's daughter. Dec 20, Lucy rated it it was amazing Shelves: Katie Dale's debut novel, Someone Else's Life, is an absolute roller-coaster of a read, filled with more twists and drama than I ever expected.
When Rosie's mum, Trudie, was diagnosed with Huntington's disease, Rosie's entire life changed. She took care of her mum to her death and even Katie Dale's debut novel, Someone Else's Life, is an absolute roller-coaster of a read, filled with more twists and drama than I ever expected. She took care of her mum to her death and even worse than this, spent the entire time knowing she could have inherited this same disease.
After her mother's death she learns an even more shocking truth: Trudi's 'real' daughter was incredibly ill at birth and going to die so a family friend, Sarah, swapped the baby for Rosie, who had been abandoned by a teenage mother. Devastated and curious about her 'real' parents, she joins her boyfriend Andy on a gap year to America to find them. Obviously, Rosie is dealing with the grief of Trudie, but I felt like she wanted to find her 'real' parents so quickly after finding out.
That said, if I was the same position I am pretty sure that would be one of my instant reactions. The relationship between Rosie and Andy was great. When the novel opens, we are introduced to them as estranged after Rosie distances herself following Trudi's illness and as the novel progresses their spark well and truly rekindles. I just loved the two of them together as they felt so natural together and you really end up rooting for them.
Without wanting to spoil the many unexpected twists I encountered in Someone Else's Life, I will say this: When a novel deals with a plot like this, it can be really easy for it descend into a soap opera with flat 2-dimensional characters, but Someone Else's Life doesn't fall into this trap at all. The characters are complicated, relatable and well fleshed out. The fact that in a debut novel, this topic has been so well-handled makes me exceptionally excited to see Katie Dale's future work.
Most importantly this is a novel about family. What I loved was that Dale made the excellent point in the book that family is about more than blood, it's about who raises you - this is something I personally feel very strongly about, so I loved seeing this in a book. This was truly an excellent and highly recommended read. Nov 29, Stephanie A.
I got so much emotional whiplash from this book that 24 hours after finishing it, I'm already trying to follow the convoluted plot from beginning to end. There were just so many layers of plots and different storylines.
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I definitely got tired of Rosie's initial whining and selfishness, but she ended up being one of the more mature characters once she was enmeshed in her biological father's life, and I liked her interactions with them quite a lot. I also got tired of Holly's inexplicable indecisi I got so much emotional whiplash from this book that 24 hours after finishing it, I'm already trying to follow the convoluted plot from beginning to end.
Just thinking about it makes my blood boil all over again. I liked it, but talk about ramping up my anxiety to However, I really loved the romances. They had so much chemistry that I knew even if they didn't work out, they had such a strong bond that the ride was worth it although of course I secretly hoped for a happy, romantic ending.
Of course, I also cried at least once when he left. I'm still not in a good place to read about high school sweethearts who break up for dumb reasons thanks, Glee. I also loved what a steadfast guy that Joe was, with his collegiate proposing and his unshakable loyalty in the face of Holly's crazy. I never even really even disliked Holly. She was significantly less mature than Rosie, but it was hard to fault her wildly emotional state when, from everything she observed at all the worst moments, this random quasi-sister did seem to be basically moving in on her family.
Overall, I think it was worth the read, just because it was neat to explore the family and quasi-family connections plus the romance thing , but I also think I'm done with Katie Dale books and how I annoyed I get at the withholding of key information at the beginning just to make it EXTRA TWISTY until everything falls into place. The double narrative rounds out the story about the two girls whose lives were switched at birth. However, it does make it hard to fully get into any one narrative: Rosie is too indecisive.
She wants her boyfriend, but she also wants the family that she discovers in America. I was afraid that she would end up losing everything out of her pure desire to find her birth mother.
As far as parents go, Trudy sounds like a great mother. The same goes for Jack. Both girls are going through a hard time, and both girls direct their energies into destructive channels. It is not an overly happy story. There is anger, frustration, despair, and resignation. And there is no real ending to this story. Rather, it is about facing your options and choosing your path in life.
Original post at Imaginary Reads Jul 15, Iris rated it it was ok Shelves: Maybe even a 1. So the one good aspect of the book lies in the author's respect and portrayal of Huntington's Disease. However, I've never had any first hand experience of the condition, so it could be wrong. But I think Dale was able to be sensitive when regarding it in the plotline. The novel also begins relatively well, but then it just goes downhill from there. There are so many bad things about this book, I reall Maybe even a 1. There are so many bad things about this book, I really don't know where to begin. The worst thing probably has to be the characterisation.
The book is narrated by both Rosie and spoiler Holly. Both characters made me want to punch them and then respectively punch myself so then I didn't have to listen to them YAP anymore. Oh my god, the prose is just so whiny and awful and I didn't warm to them at all. In fact, I hated every character in the book. The main guy, Andy, was such a naive pushover and got to me. Every person was annoying to be honest. The chapter style was also bad. Dale alternated between two different narrators which is something that I've seen been done a lot better with other authors.
I also think her "chapters" were way too short the average length was like 2 pages , which halted any kind of plot or character development to flow naturally. They were the kind of ones which you can tell are deliberate and really weren't necessary. Although it is a dramatic book, I think Dale wrote way too much of the book where there are just scenes of people complaining and crying and "oh-woe"ing. All the cliffhangers weren't tense at all, and every "plot twist" was predictable. Also, this book just made me roll my eyes in frustration way too many times. I'd read something on the page to only have to look away and take a moment to process how terrible it was.
So overall, this book is bearable, but definitely not something I would willingly re-read. Nov 28, ILoveBooks rated it really liked it Shelves: The best quality this book contains is the raw emotion the author is able to portray through the characters. When Rosie's mother, Trudie, dies from Huntington's Disease, Rosie must make the terrible decision of discovering if she, too, has the gene.
However, before she can even take the test, she is told by her mother's best friend and midwife that she cannot possibly have the gene. With furt The best quality this book contains is the raw emotion the author is able to portray through the characters. With further prompting, her mother's best friend admits to swapping out Trudie's baby for a healthier one. Rosie doesn't quite know what to do, but being an inquisitive type, she sets out to find her real parents.
What she finds instead is a stable, happy family with a daughter who may be Trudie's real daughter hiding many secrets and a star of a mother who won't give her the time of day. Rosie must make several life-altering decisions in her quest to discover her real family, as well as discovering what a "real family" truly is As a character, Rosie is very open and sincere.
She is easy to like, but she does have her faults. Her boyfriend, Andy, is engagingly sweet and very supportive of Rosie's decisions. It is interesting to note that this story is not based around one main character at all-there seem to be at least two main characters and several very important second characters that push the plot along at a fast pace.
The events of this novel were always intriguing and could definitely be dramatic-as the topic would suggest. Feb 05, Pragya rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Find my full review on http: I started reading this thinking I will read a few pages till bedtime but my plan didn't work. I read this book in a 5 hour marathon reading session finally sleeping at 4 in the morning. And no, reading the rest of the book in the morning was NOT an option.
Shut yourself in a secret place where no one can find you before you start reading. Distractions play havoc with reading. This is a roller coaster ride with lots of twists and turns and you don't want to heave, right?
The Good The book gripped me right from the start and played hide and seek with my imagination. It surpassed my thinking and every time I felt like I have figured this book out, it would take another completely unprecedented turn. The concept is novel and engaging.
You feel for the characters. The book is so well-written, one thing leading to the other, entwined so nicely that I almost gasped at times. The Not so Good The length could have been shortened a bit.
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It really felt special to me, one of those books you want to keep to yourself. Gosh, this list is longer than I planned. But I think all the books on here have shaped me in one way or another. I first read it aged twelve, and even then I had a sense of the enormity of what Ishiguro accomplished in one book. It saved my life because I feel connected to Kathy. H and it is a book I have on my iPod, so I frequently read it out and about as a chance to escape to an alternate reality. GdnChildrensBks 'I was a teenage worrier' and 'Little Women' both confirmed it was wonderful to be a woman who thinks!
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