Top 9 Reasons to Read The Devil, The Lovers, and Me

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	• The Devil, the Lovers, and Me: My Life in Tarot Kimberlee Auerbach Dutton Adult, 2007 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 46 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Inspiring, brave, and wonderful

Kimberlee pours her heart onto ever page. From beginning to end, it was an amazing journey of human relation, life, and love. Kimberlee's willingness to share is inspiring and brave to say the least. As each card is turned, with each story, each memory, the author exposes her deepest fears, the fears which we all share, and with each lesson she learns, she teaches the reader how to face those fears. Through it all I was able to see myself, my past, my mistakes and lessons learned. It is not an introduction into Tarot card reading, but rather a story of one's life illustrated by the cards themselves. One may not learn his or her future by reading this book, but it will truly make one pause and reflect on what has brought them to where they are in life thus far.This book is funny, heartbreaking, amazing, inspiring, challenging, entertaining, and simply wonderful.

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A Must Read: Life-Affirming!

This debut memoir is honest, funny, touching and raw and though it has a known ending, it's life-affirming message can't be over-told. Auerbach is a gifted writer and healer as well.

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deep, funny, honest, brave

I loved this book. I'm not really into tarot cards and didn't think I'd be interested in a book devoted to their guidance, but this story turned out to be so much more than the cover suggests. Auerbach shares about her childhood, her parent's divorce, her struggles to figure out how to negotiate the maze of love and sex and relationships. She's a fabulous writer, and I found myself caught up in her story in the best way possible, turning page after page and not caring that I was missing the latest episode of Project Runway. Two things stood out in particular: First, she describes the pain of romantic jealousy like no one I've ever read. And second, in almost every case, her intuitive reaction to a situation was spot-on, far better than the advice she got from the various sources she consulted. If you like memoirs about struggles with love and life, this is a great read.

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Top 9 Reasons to Read The Devil, The Lovers, and Me

Top 9 Reasons to Read The Devil, The Lovers, and Me:

1. It is original and quirky and funny.
2. That was three already.
3. Kimberlee Auerbach is brave and willing to examine her own life closely.
4. Which may give you some insight into yours.
5. And also into this particular moment in history. One thing that struck me as I was reading this voice was how thoroughly located in the mid-2000s and in New York City the book is. Which made me realize how few books like that I have read. In turn, I thought about how important it is to have stories that reflect our present day reality as it is unfolding. It is important for us to take a look, through books, at how we use technology including in our intimate relationships (Kimberlee's electronic messages with her father; her googling of her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend), how we spend our time, and how we struggle to make sense of ourselves and the world around us (basically the book). Stories like this one that reflect particular social locations and times are also important to write (and to read, which is what you should do with this book) because of what they leave for others to read later on in time.
6. It is funny. That is already in number one above I know but it deserves its own line because this book is really funny. Kimberlee gives voice to the humor in situations (like getting crabs or having her father present her with an engagement ring) where others (me, maybe you) might struggle to find the funny. The benefit to you of her talent is that you will laugh when you read this book.
7. See number two.

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A Shocking, Ebullient Surprise

The most impressive thing about "The Devil..." is Kimberlee's candor. Her experiences are powerful; there is no denying it. However, it's the biting honesty and the utter vulnerability that carry the truest gift of the book. Most people will relate to the heartbreaks, but every single human being can relate to terror and failure described and then triumphantly overcome. Brava. I will pre-order her next books.

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An irresistible memoir for anyone who's ever wondered what's coming next...

Kimberlee Auerbach has been in therapy. She's seen a Reiki Master. She's even given hypnosis a try. They can't give her want she wants... to know her future is going to be bright, that everything will be okay. So she makes an appointment with Iris Goldblatt, "tarot card reader and mirror of the soul." Instead of predicting the future, each card sparks a memory: like the time Kimberlee tried to be wild, and caught crabs from an Argentine painter; or the night her father "proposed" at Morton's Steakhouse (presenting her with an engagement ring for her boyfriend to use); or the moment Kimberlee found the strength to kick out her freeloading ex. In a Wizard of Oz-like twist of fate, Kimberlee realizes she had the answers all along-that's it's not about looking to the future, it's about trusting yourself along the way.

Exuberantly alive and refreshingly candid, The Devil, The Lovers & Me, will take you on a journey down one woman's path, only to reflect yours back. You, too, will see yourself in the cards ... The Devil, The Lovers, even the Fool.

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