Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Host: Julie
Attendees: Ruth, Michelle, Pam M, Debra
Short synopsis from Goodreads :
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
by Lori Gottlieb (Goodreads Author)
Stars: 4.39 · Rating details · 70,138 ratings · 6,875 reviews
One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.
As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives -- a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys -- she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.
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A very small group made for an intimate setting (which could be said to almost mimic a one-on-one with a therapist...) We answered a lot of book club discussion questions and explored some of the author's featured characters (were they considered patients or clients? How would you want to be described, if you were in therapy, as a patient, or a client? ) We agreed we enjoyed this book and took away a lot from it. Despite our forgetting to actually rate it, it's probably safe to say it ranks way up there!
PS. This is being made into a television series...stay tuned, it should be quite entertaining!
Next month: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richadson
