thepassivecontemplator's Updates en-US Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:48:29 -0700 60 thepassivecontemplator's Updates 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg ReadStatus9321886704 Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:48:29 -0700 <![CDATA[thepassivecontemplator wants to read 'What You Are Looking For Is in the Library']]> /review/show/7497594996 What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama thepassivecontemplator wants to read What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
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Rating842857582 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 21:00:38 -0700 <![CDATA[thepassivecontemplator liked a review]]> /
It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken by Greg Behrendt
"This book is intensely cute, which I don't mean in a bad way. It manages to be a friendly book without being disgusting (honestly, I'm not usually a person who takes to being addressed as "Superfox," but I let it slide because of the authors' enthusiasm).

Obviously a book you can read in a day is not the ideal format for a break-up tool since getting over that can take f---ing forever, but I think it does a pretty good job of boosting confidence, anticipating paranoid and/or hopelessly hopeful thoughts and counterarguments of the reader, and giving as much real-world perspective it can (outside of securing you a truly harrowing job as a social worker or something.)

I would like to give this book to someone sometime, except it's sort of a friend surrogate, so anyone I would want to give it to should be getting my living-breathing-caring friend attention instead. Maybe a cousin or niece or something. I would buy a copy of this for my reference desk before I would buy a rhyming dictionary."
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Rating842857529 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 21:00:26 -0700 <![CDATA[thepassivecontemplator liked a review]]> /
It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken by Greg Behrendt
"After getting my heart shoved into a blender, a coworker bought me this book and said it's a life-changer. She's right. Once I started it, I couldn't stop, and I underlined and wrote in it all the way through. It feels like a conversation with your smartest, wisest, tough-loviest friend. It can be a little cheesy at times, but by the time I finished reading it, my big, bad, single Superfox self was ready to take on the world.
One of the best parts: "That person that you loved looked at you in all your awesomeness, evaluated your relationship, and said, 'No thanks, I think I'll try my luck elsewhere.'... Anyone who views you or your relationship as disposable is not worth your time or your tears.""
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Review7455515947 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:57:32 -0700 <![CDATA[thepassivecontemplator added 'It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy']]> /review/show/7455515947 It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken by Greg Behrendt thepassivecontemplator gave 5 stars to It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy (Paperback) by Greg Behrendt
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ReadStatus8445556089 Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:29:01 -0700 <![CDATA[thepassivecontemplator has read 'Sledgehammer']]> /review/show/6873799283 Sledgehammer by P. Dangelico thepassivecontemplator has read Sledgehammer by P. Dangelico
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ReadStatus8231986877 Thu, 01 Aug 2024 20:35:28 -0700 <![CDATA[thepassivecontemplator wants to read 'The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma']]> /review/show/6722191614 The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk thepassivecontemplator wants to read The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
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ReadStatus8018268356 Sat, 08 Jun 2024 09:25:25 -0700 <![CDATA[thepassivecontemplator has read 'The Last Goodbye']]> /review/show/6570106837 The Last Goodbye by Abby McCarthy thepassivecontemplator has read The Last Goodbye by Abby McCarthy
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ReadStatus7649433345 Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:24:11 -0800 <![CDATA[thepassivecontemplator wants to read 'Conversations on Love']]> /review/show/6306348247 Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn thepassivecontemplator wants to read Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn
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ReadStatus7601594916 Sat, 17 Feb 2024 21:58:13 -0800 <![CDATA[thepassivecontemplator wants to read 'Simply the Best']]> /review/show/6272163417 Simply the Best by Susan Elizabeth Phillips thepassivecontemplator wants to read Simply the Best by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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ReadStatus7601588515 Sat, 17 Feb 2024 21:55:15 -0800 <![CDATA[thepassivecontemplator wants to read 'Ever After Always']]> /review/show/6272158853 Ever After Always by Chloe Liese thepassivecontemplator wants to read Ever After Always by Chloe Liese
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