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Review of Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People Paperback by Joe Navarro & Toni Sciarra Poynter for
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Purchasing from the link above helps WdC.  This is not only a great book for learning about different dangerous personality types and how to protect yourself from them, but it's also a fantastic writer's resource for those wanting realism in their bad guys...or even their anti-heroes. Looking for a controversial flaw for your hero? This book has you covered!  The author, as a former police officer and FBI profiler doesn't go into the clinical terms, but describes the behaviors of people with dangerous personalities using the words of victims in statements to police and the FBI, so they are as you would likely experience them. The personalities he describes are narcissistic, emotionally unstable, paranoid, and predator. In clinical terms some of these can be covered by more than 1 mental health disorder, depending on the specific criteria met, but they result in the same danger -- a predator is a predator, regardless of the diagnosis. He discusses famous and less famous cases and criminals as well as his own experiences. He also goes into the additional dangers of people who have a combination of the dangerous personalities such as a person who is emotionally unstable and a predator or who is a narcissistic, emotionally unstable paranoid person. At the end of each chapter where he discusses a dangerous personality type, he gives a list of words, good and bad, that victims have used to describe the perpetrator. This list of descriptive words from victims' mouths can be a gold mine for a writer looking to write a realistic villain. Additionally, he lists over 100 questions for us to ask ourselves to help identify dangerous people in our lives -- another author's gold mine as well as important for those living with the real thing. Rated 4.6 stars on Amazon, the paperback is 256 pages. The Audible is rated 4.4 and is 7 hrs and 58 mins. Rankings: Audiobook #12 in Personality Disorders (Audible Books & Originals) #38 in Abuse Self-Help #39 in Personality Disorders (Books) Kindle #36 in Safety & First Aid (Kindle Store) Paperback #88 in Personality Disorders (Books) | ||||||||||||
Brian K Compton  - Were you the victim or perpetrator? Lol |
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Reply| Brian K Compton - Holy crap! I'd totally freak out! Lol |
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Review of Deaf Utopia: A Memoir―and a Love Letter to a Way of Life by Nyle DiMarco and Robert Siebert Read for
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Purchasing from the link above helps WdC. I know I rave about (nearly) all the books I read, but I almost exclusively get books that are rated 4.5 or above, so I have a good shot at genuinely liking them. lol This is another great book! This book was written by two Deaf authors and centers around one of them, Nyle DiMarco. He is a 4th generation Deaf person who was raised by an abusive father and supportive (of him, not his dad) mother. This memoir talks about his growing up in a Deaf home, trying to attend a regular school, his deaf school trying to force him to learn to talk, using his athletics to make friends, attending college, traveling around Europe alone as a Deaf person, discovering his sexual identity, and more recently, winning America's Next Top Model and Dancing with the Stars, though he couldn't hear the music. This memoir isn't just about his own struggles growing up. He talks a bit about Deaf culture, annoying things hearing people say and do, his discoveries of things such as that hearing people hate when you scream and you can cause pain/damage if you scream into their ear. (He was a mischievous kid.) He also talks about the use of capital D in Deaf for people who identify with Deaf culture and lower case d for the medical condition of deafness. At the end of his book (or as a PDF download, if you are on Audible), he lists resources for learning more about Deaf history and culture. This book also discusses some history of d/Deaf people in America, including how American Sign Language (ASL) began. He also discusses the well-meaning, but damaging history of oral education and forbdiding signing. Note: There is some cursing and it discusses his coming out as sexually fluid and later gay. The paperback is 336 pgs and rated 4.8 on Amazon. It's 10 hrs and 49 min and rated 4.7 on Audible. Best Seller Rankings Kindle #3 in LGBTQ+ Biographies & Memoirs #6 in Biographies of People with Disabilities (Books) #11 in LGBTQ+ Biographies (Books) Audiobook #44 in Biographies of People with Disabilities (Audible Books & Originals) Paperback #64 in Biographies of People with Disabilities (Books) Hardcover #86 in Biographies of People with Disabilities (Books) | ||||||||||||
Book Review of That Bear Ate My Pants: Life and Near Death in an Ecuadorian Animal Refuge by Tony James Slater Reviewed for
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Buying from the above link helps WdC While this book isn't available in hardcover, it is available on an audio CD. Interesting. If you need a South American book for Choconut's "Rach's Reading Club"  challenge, I definitely recommend this one! This book chronicles the author's time volunteering at an animal refuge in Ecuador. His 3 months there cover his learning Spanish, discovering everything there likes to bite him, and he's a real man.  He works with everything from sloths to jaguars to giant tortoises and lots of other things. His stories are hilarious and sometimes quite touching. He recounts disaster after disaster as he works with the animals and the humans involved in the animal rescue. His willingness to poke fun at himself and those around him made this book a laugh-out-loud book for me. I thoroughly enjoyed it and was actually dreading it ending. Thankfully, he has others about his other adventures in other parts of the world. FYI, there are apparently lots of opportunities to go work in exotic locations for nothing or next to nothing but room and board. The author recounted hilarious stories like chasing escaping spider monkeys and there were several accounts of the teenage bear, you know, the one that ended up eating his pants. Some bits were sad, like the rescued tortoise that had been used for target practice. And not all the animals survived, though most did and some even got released back into the wild. There were also bits about life in rural Ecuador and the nearby town. You learn things like Ecuador can get very cold sometimes...at least some parts can. While there are sad bits like when they find animals that have been mistreated, those descriptions are quite brief and even when one dies, it's handled with tact and he doesn't linger to the point of tears. Do note that he started a romance with what I'm pretty sure was a married woman. While it was good for his Spanish, I don't support cheating. Rated 4.5 on Audible, it's 9 hrs and 17 mins long. Rated 4.3 on Amazon, it's 386 pgs. Ratings: Kindle #15 in Travel Humor (Kindle Store) #39 in Travel Biographies & Memoirs #39 in Adventurer & Explorer Biographies | ||||||||||||
I needed to read something either by a South American author or about/set in South America for Rach's challenge. This looked much more interesting than the other things I'd looked at and it had better ratings than a lot of other things I'd checked out, too.  And since I like funny books, this seemed to really fit the bill. It did. I definitely loved this book!   The cheating part (which I'm a tad unclear on since it didn't seem to be a thing, but I am pretty sure they mentioned she was married in the beginning of her storyline...) wasn't a bit part of the book. The animals and his attempts to not be eaten and whatnot were the main focus. |
I bought this because of your review (through the WDC beneficial link you provided, of course).  |
🌸 pwheeler - love joy peace  - YAY!!! FINALLY someone uses the link I always post!  I'm super excited to hear! I also really hope you love the book as much as I did. I thought it was great! |
June Challenge Contests in
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| Angus once reviewed a piece of mine about travelling in the States and the weird town names I discovered. He disclosed that he was from Weed, California and was a Weed High School graduate. According to him this town has a booming business selling weed t-shirts. I love his sense of humour. |
I wasn't aware he'd been gone that long.  I was checking to see what I could review, but different interests than mine. |
If you like to read and you like MBs, check out
It even has an item alias -- {bitem:brothel} or {item:brothel}. It's an easy challenge. 1. Set your own reading goal in pages, anything from 250 pages on up. 2. Read that number of pages in the month, whether it's 1 book or 100 (really short books? lol). 3. Write a discussion post in the forum talking about what you thought of the book(s). (1 post per book) 4. Respond to at least 1 other post each month to keep the book discussions going. Easy peasy! Every month you make your goal, you get a community MB!  You can join any time, so hop over to "Book Brothel" now and post a June reading goal!  |
If you're looking for something to do today, might I suggest
June is the quick and easy month, so all these contests should have that appeal, if nothing else. 
Participating in "The Contest Challenge" is quick and easy. Simply pick a contest from this list (contests change every month, so check the challenge forum or Newsfeed ads for the most current ones), enter as usual, then post proof that you entered by posting a link to your entry post (not just your entry, but the forum post where you entered the contest) in the challenge forum by using {post:#######}. Quick and easy. |
We remain grateful to Schnujo Enjoyed Colombia  for regularly highlighting some attractive contests. As per my knowledge, Paraguay and Colombia are not safe places. Take care. |
| Colombia isn't safe, but I was with a Colombian friend, so it was fine. Paraguay is actually quite safe...one of (or maybe THE) safest counties in South America. My hotel said, except downtown where there are a lot of homeless people, it's safe as a non-Spanish speaking foreigner to roam around alone at night. So far, I've had no problems. |
Today I found out that my Paraguay hotel (according to someone who doesn't work here) is where the presidents and diplomats stay. I asked the front desk and they said it's true. Others who have stayed at this hotel? Megan Fox Machine Gun Kelly Blink 182 Twenty One Pilots And these are just the ones he could think of off the top of his head.  AND...they gave me an executive suite to apologize for the misunderstanding that left me at the airport for over 3 hrs when I first arrived. I bet someone famous has slept in this bed! |
| Schnujo Enjoyed Colombia - Actually many of those shows, especially restaurant related, (Kitchen Nightmares) have a high failure rate. New makeovers and better menu alone can't keep most of these places open. Again, bankruptcy is usually looming in on them. You can actually watch these old shows on YouTube. In the Cambridge Hotel, I had the exact room Gordon was staying in. It had a canopy, very outdated wallpaper and decor. Too bad I didn't need the room after the make-over rather than before Ramsay's decorative touch. |
| Schnujo Enjoyed Colombia - Understood. Maybe a friend can order it because the presentation of the dish is worth the show. It comes out on a flaming tray. Besides, the waiters all wear tuxes. |
| As he's a male, so Megan Fox is out of the list first. Most probably, he is Machine Gun Kelly. |
If you're looking for some quick and easy writing activities, we've got you covered over at
June is (always) the quick and easy month at TCC!
P.S. TCC (or tcc) is the item alias for "The Contest Challenge" . Just write {item:tcc} or {item:TCC} to get "The Contest Challenge" . It works with bitem, too! |
If you like good, clean interactives and/or a real challenge, check out
Writing suitable nonsense is significantly harder than you might think! Lol |
| Thanks for adding to it, too, Ashok Banerjee! Sorry I didn't link to your chapter. I'm on my phone and just landed in Paraguay so I'm a bit messed up. Lol |
Yipee! It's another quick and easy month over at
Let's see what June has brought us...
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