Book Review: Friendship Matters: Memoir, Life Lessons, Laughter By Sanda Neshin Bernstein, PSY.D. and Wendy Satin Rapaport, PSY.D., L.C.S.W.

Friendship Matters: Memoir, Life Lessons, Laughter

By Sanda Neshin Bernstein, PSY.D. and Wendy Satin Rapaport, PSY.D., L.C.S.W.

Friendship Matters is a book about interacting with friends in ways that help to grow and deepen the friendship and the individuals themselves. It is about the decades long friendship between the two authors - Wendy and Sandy - and is written in a conversational style.

Friendship Matters is an interesting book and parts are very entertaining. It was written by two psychologists and they talk like you would expect psychologists to talk. Their suggestions are sound, in my opinion, but I just can’t picture having conversations like theirs with any of my friends!

We are encouraged to slow down and think about things rather than reacting on assumptions. Sandy and Wendy give examples from their own lives together and experiences they’ve had with others.

If you want to learn ways to grow your friendships to a deeper level and improve your relationship all around, I think you will enjoy Friendship Matters and find it to be a useful guide.

Friendship Matters is well-written and mostly easy to follow. It earns 5 stars based on all the thinking it made me do!

We were sent a complimentary copy of this book.  We are under no obligation to write any review, positive or negative.

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Book Review: Watch Your Delivery Unfiltered, Uncensored by Gabriella van Rij

We were sent a review copy of Watch Your Delivery Unfiltered, Uncensored, Unacceptable so that we could write this review.

This is a very fast read. In fact, we read this while waiting for an upload to finish.  The entire book is only 102 pages long and the book has a few blank pages and many comic strip-type illustrations.

The general idea of the book appears to be to give the reader an understanding of how our responses to everyday life situations, verbal and non-verbal, affect others.

The author gives some possible ways to handle different life situations that we have all had to encounter.  There is a cute little scenario with an interaction with one of those automated customer service call centers.  You know the ones that are voice activated, but they never understand what you are saying.

The current price for the paperback version of this book is $14.99.  We cannot see that the book is worth that much.  However, it is a cute book.  It has a good message and might actually inspire some of us to think before we speak and to realize that sometimes we speak loudest when we say nothing at all.

We give this book four stars.  It is well written and well thought out, but some of the comic strips are hard for those of us with bifocals to read.  Watch Your Delivery would make a nice gift, but don’t be surprised if the person you give it to throws it back at you, thinking you were trying to tell them they need to improve their communication skills.

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