Book Reviews

Enter the Library of Wisdom, where every text is a tool for understanding the "Is" and the "Was."

These reviews explore the foundational works that build Anansi’s Web—from ancient mythology and Hermetic philosophy to modern guides on recovery and psychological resilience.

Discover the books that explain the laws of the cosmos and provide the narrative map for facing the masks of the human psyche.

Grab a coffee, find your path, and begin the reading.

I Am Is and Was™
I Am,
Because We Are™

THE SECRET

By Rhonda Byrne A BOOK REVIEW Reviewed by C.J. Barembruch | I Am Is and Was ™ As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Namaste . 👋 I want to tell you something that stopped me cold the first time I noticed it. I had already written the Ten Hermetic Laws . All of them. From a homeless shelter in Calgary, from lived experience, from 80 days sober and everything I had survived to get to that keyboard. I had already written about the Law of Mentalism — that e

Chris Barembruch

Mar 238 min read

The Dark Jewels Trilogy

A Book Review By The Man Who Finally Found His Dark Jewels By C.J. Barembruch | I Am Is and Was ™ As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Namaste. 👋 I want to tell you about the love story I spent my entire life looking for. Not a romance. Not the particular hunger for another person that I spent decades searching for in rooms and relationships and the specific kind of connection that arrives and departs and leaves you emptier than the emptiness you were tr

Chris Barembruch

Mar 2210 min read

The Anansi Boys

A Book Review By Someone Who Was Already Caught In The Web By C.J. Barembruch | I Am Is and Was ™ As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Namaste. 👋 I want to tell you about a dedication. Not the book yet. The dedication . Because the dedication is where this story actually begins — and if you have ever picked up a book at exactly the right moment in exactly the right three days of emptiness and felt the whole weight of it settle into your chest before you

Chris Barembruch

Mar 228 min read

Let Them. And Then Let ME.

A Point of View on The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins By C.J. Barembruch | I Am Is and Was ™ As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Namaste. 👋 I want to tell you about the box I was hiding in. Not a metaphor. A real box. A single social media platform — X — where I had been quietly building something real in the one place I was reasonably certain the people from my past would never find me. Not because what I was building was not worth finding. Because...

Chris Barembruch

Mar 177 min read

I Am Is and Was I Am, Because We Are

Book Reviews

THE SECRET

The Dark Jewels Trilogy

The Anansi Boys

Let Them. And Then Let ME.

I Am Is and Was
I Am,
Because We Are