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The Latest Award for The Mobius Strip: Among Top 5 Finalists
2012 Global Ebook Awards Finalists- THIS MOBIUS STRIP OF IFS by Mathias B. Freese Best Autobiography/Memoirs Non-Fiction 2012 Global Ebook Awards Finalists Note: The number of Finalists per category varies. Categories with more Nominees have more Finalists. The quantity of finalists are percentages of the number of Nominees per category.
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On a Streak
Another wonderful review by Kate Dubinski for Uncustomary Book Review: http://www.uncustomarybookreview.com/2012/07/this-mobius-strip-of-ifs/ Like a Moth to a Flame This book was sent to me by the author, via the Uncustomary Book Review. I was so pumped because it was the first time I was asked to review a particular book. I was also a little bit apprehensive, because I don’t usually read books unless I’ve heard good things about them first—here, I was diving into totally unknown territory. Also, the author was going to eventually be reading what I wrote—talk about pressure to read closely, understand nuances and give the book…
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A Different Take
Reflect, ruminate, feel, re-read. Repeat. Review by GuiltlessReading.com Serious synopsis of This Mobius Strip of Ifs by Mathias Freese: In this impressive and varied collection of creative essays, Mathias B. Freese jousts with American culture. A mixture of the author’s reminiscences, insights, observations, and criticism, the book examines the use and misuse of psychotherapy, childhood trauma, complicated family relationships, his frustration as a teacher, and the enduring value of tenaciously writing through it all. Freese scathingly describes the conditioning society imposes upon artists and awakened souls. Whether writing about the spiritual teacher, Krishnamurti, poet and novelist, Nikos Kazantzakis, or film…
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The Best Review Ever of This Mobius Strip of Ifs by David Fraser, Poet
Review on AscentAsperations.com This Möbius Strip of Ifs, a collection that is part memoir, part essay, evolves in the reading into a philosophical treatise on how to live life with awareness and inner freedom. Mathias B. Freese uses the möbius strip as a metaphor for unknown possibilities and he rants, philosophizes and reminiscences on many parts of his life—his upbringing, his careers as teacher, therapist and writer and also as a son, father, and spouse who has experienced his fair share of tragedy. Many of us growing up in the aftermath of the Second World War, being in the first…