A credible, heartfelt addition to the Prozac literature.
A brief book that offers forthright, unquestioning praise for the antidepressant Prozac.
In this faith-based, pocket-sized memoir, the author relates her own voyage that led her to Prozac, and the edge-smoothing, uplifting benefits she derives from its use. Some sufferers of mental illness have feelings of shame, embarrassment and even guilt about needing professional help or medication. Mark aims to do battle with such paralyzing notions by telling her own story. This book is short by design, so that depressed readers may easily digest and apply its message. The author places particular emphasis on postpartum depression, and tells her own tale of a plunge into illness following the birth of her first child. Later, the unexpected collapse of a real estate deal filled her with unreasonably deep yet unshakable feelings of despair, anxiety and hopelessness. The floor had dropped out for her, and Prozac, she writes, helped put the floor back in. She also includes anonymous profiles of other women in similar straits, as well as well-chosen motivational quotations, light dabs of science, revealing statistics, answers to commonly asked questions and an invitation to continue the discussion at her website, prosofprozac.com. The author presents herself as no expert—just an ordinary person, motivated by her Christian faith to try to help others. Some readers may find her advocacy for Prozac controversial, but are likely to find her instinct to relieve suffering beyond reproach. That said, the book sometimes reads a bit like a Prozac advertisement, and some readers may wonder if there’s any monetary connection between the author and the object of her praise; a disclaimer listed on the copyright page dispels such doubt.
A credible, heartfelt addition to the Prozac literature.Pub Date: March 20, 2013
ISBN: 978-0988995703
Page Count: 122
Publisher: CTL Press, Inc.
Review Posted Online: June 12, 2013
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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