Cabbage stir-fries and psychology book recs

Lately I have been loving on some stir fries with grass-fed beef and cabbage!

Part of yesterday’s lunch:

Stir-fry with carrots, mushrooms, savoy cabbage, and beef.

I’ve also eaten a couple with purple cabbage, which has been popping up on many food blogs recently. I was intrigued. Is it not the prettiest color?

Stir fry with onions, mushrooms, purple cabbage, and beef.

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Also, I told my psychology professor a couple of weeks ago that I was reading Divided Minds (which I finished and loved), and he graciously sent me a list of similar books of first-person accounts of abnormal psychology that he has read and enjoyed. I can’t wait to make my way through the list, but I also thought I’d share it with you all.

• Drinking: A love story (Knapp) – alcoholism (I just started this one!)
• Undercurrents: A life beneath the surface (Manning) – depression
• An unquiet mind: A memoir of moods and madness (Jamison) – bipolar disorder
• Devil in the details: Scenes from an obsessive girlhood (Traig) – anxiety
• Wasted: A memoir of anorexia and bulimia (Hornbacher) – eating disorders
• A fractured mind: My life with multiple personality disorder (Oxnam) – dissociative disorders

Have you read any of these?

I also have a running list going of books that have been recommended to me by friends (including many of you!), so I’d better get reading.

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Books lately

Hi!

Yesterday I finished The Hunger Games series…

The trilogy was pretty good, and I don’t want to give anything away because a major selling point for these stories is suspense and plot twists. I will say that while I enjoyed the books overall and admired Suzanne Collin’s creation of a vivid dystopia, there were a few things that really bothered me about The Hunger Games series as well.

I liked Mockingjay the most. It had the messiest plot construction, but it was also the most jarring of the three books. I was pretty disturbed after reading it, which I always take to be the sign of good writing. Collins’ message really hit home for me there.

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I just started this book and I love it so far…

It’s the autobiography of identical twin sisters; one is a psychiatrist and one is a writer and suffers from schizophrenia.

Gosh, if you look at my taste in literature I seem like a pretty dark girl, huh?

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Tell me…what are you reading lately?

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Leisurely morning

It’s practicum week in one of my classes. That means a 3 1/2-hour class on Wednesday! The perk is that if your practicum is on Wednesday, you don’t have class on Monday. This strange circumstance provided me with the rare opportunity for a leisurely weekday morning.

I ate breakfast…

Whole wheat banana bread with peanut butter.

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…and finished my book…

Little Bee by Chris Cleave (everyone please read this!).

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…and then my friend texted me to say that there were two new male baristas working at Saint’s Cafe, so I picked up a second cup of coffee on my way to campus.

Tuesday is back to regularly-scheduled programming. I don’t hate it!

Have a great day!

Susan

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