Mixed review 102

I'm mixed. Starting my reading, I was very enthusiastic, excited by an easy to read style and stories both rewarding and accessible. The back cover was quoting the opinion of Magzine Psychologies: "What happens - really - in a shrink jubilating firm." And that's the effect it made me. "Patient", "analyzing", we find ourselves in these interactions on the couch. And I enjoyed it because it pushed me to reflect on my relationship with my therapist, to what is really going on "in the here and now," since this is the narrator's method. It also helps to represent the experience of the therapist, his feelings "human" against his transfer, his interest, his boredom, his frustrations before our reticence. I went to the middle of the book with enthusiasm and this questioning.

And then I slowly slipped into the questioning of this method very "mindfulness," which has its limits. Moreover, they are gradually identified, more or less explicitly. After this shift, finally the stories have taken a very credible figure and above all too easy (Myrna) with an end rather sloppy in this new special, and the collection ends with a pseudo-tale (Merges), which is not bad in itself but whose form contrast with the early stories, since there is immersed in the fantasy, the imagination, the incredible ... and it's really not my cup of tea, reading matter.

Mixed feelings, so ... I have read better ... I do not know the other titles by this author ... I surely would prefer another, given the comments. But it reads quickly, and on the whole it is friendly. It will just not expect more than a bit of entertainment and some personal thoughts :)