Book Description
Many people are parents, and many parents are thirsty. Yet too many parents allow their infant sons and daughters to lie about idly: napping, drinking milk, and whatnot. Why not put them to work? Observe how tots enjoy the shapes and colors, all the while learning how to mix a variety of basic cocktails. Thanks, Baby!
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Hilarious.......2007-01-18
This book is fun, fun, fun! You have to have a sense of humor to enjoy it. When my kids know the difference, it will be put up onto the adults only book shelf but my one year old enjoys the pictures and I enjoy the thought of a yummy cocktail.
Outrageous offbeat "board book" for hip parents .......2006-12-22
This book is pure fun and great for folks with a quirky edgy sense of humor. The reviewer who gave the book one star because they said the description insinuated that the book had suggestions for activities...like what? How baby and parents can have playtime by making drinks together along with sugar cookie cutouts? This book is a joke book...purely fun and outrageous! A little coffee table book of fun for sure!
A laugh for the "cool parents" you know.......2006-06-20
As a non-kid person myself, I was delighted to find a baby gift that would both amuse my new-parent friends and represent my own antisentimental view of the little buggers. Yes, this is silly; yes, it's short--it's a board book, after all. But it's sturdy, the illustrations are charming, and you really can mix a drink using the pictures. Have fun with it.
It's fun, and that's all it's supposed to be........2006-03-11
We were given this book as a gift, and it has kept on giving! Everyone who stops by gets a kick out of it. Thus, in my opinion, it's definitely worth purchasing. Oh, yeah. Cheers! And thanks, baby!
Would have appreciated a preview.......2006-03-02
This book is based on an incredibly cute concept - put those lazy, good for nothing babies to work already! I bought it based solely on that. I was intrigued. The book is pretty darn cute, I must admit, but I was hoping for something more. Like how about mention of the auntie, who will undoubtedly be the one cool enough to be giving this book? If you're looking for a new mommy gift that's unique, buy this book - just make sure the new mommy has a good sense of humor first!
Book Description
Kay Arthur’s Newest “Lord” Book Examines The
Anatomy Of A Heart for God Through Paul’s Eyes.
Throughout his ministry the Apostle Paul was criticized, opposed, and attacked. He wrestled with his weaknesses. He struggled with fragile relationships. He was often weary, tired, and discouraged.
Kay Arthur knows there are times when you can identify with Paul's experience. You feel overwhelmed by conflicts without and fears within. You yearn to experience the God of wisdom and power. You, like Paul, want deeply to be a person whose sole passion is to please God.
In this study based on 2 Corinthians, Kay examines the anatomy of a heart for God. What it looks like. What it feels like. And how you can strengthen your own relationship with God.
Despite the deep physical, emotional, and spiritual pain of life, Paul could rest in the God of all comfort and strength. He could walk in obedience to his calling. He could fight the good fight, finish his race, and keep the faith.
And now, through this compelling, insightful, and moving Bible study, so can you.
“What does a heart for God look like when lived out in flesh and blood in the daily circumstances of life? As we walk together through 2 Corinthians, Acts, and other portions of Scripture, we'll begin to understand what it's like to have a heart like His.” –Kay Arthur
THE “LORD” SERIES by Kay Arthur is an insightful, warm-hearted Bible study series designed to meet you where you are–and help you discover God’s answers to your deepest needs.
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Encouraging.......2002-06-03
This is a wonderful study. Ms. Arthur encourages you to dig deeper in Bible and to get as much out of it as God leads. I started this study in a time in my life where I needed the blessings and encouragement she helps you find. It help me put my life into perspective and ahowed me things that i needed to change and how what I do, and how I do things effects others.
great book to mature your walk with God.......2002-04-25
great book for people who want to really get into the Bible. Really helps you to "disect" the Word and see how it applies to you individually! Recommend it highly!
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This book includes real-life examples from over 70 respected organizations, small and large, representing a multitude of industries using stories to drive results. Leaders from organizations such as Microsoft, Lands’ End, Verizon, U.S. Air Force, and World Vision demonstrate the strong positive influence stories can have. No abstract theories or platitudes are conveyed here. The book spells out how Kevin Roberts, CEO worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi, achieved sustained sales growth after several mergers and downsizings caused the organization to fall on hard times. It also shows how Erik Shaw, president and CEO of FivePoint Federal Credit Union, overcame resistance to an organizational name change, resulting in membership growth exceeding the national average.
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Once Upon a Time.......2007-08-30
"Once Upon a Time"--when we hear that phrase, it brings back magical memories of someone reading a story to us during childhood. Suddenly, we have warm thoughts of fantasies, fairy tales, princesses, and pirates.
As a professional speaker, I have recognized for a decade that people never outgrow their love of stories. I share stories with my audiences to maintain interest, motivate listeners, change opinions, and relay information.
Prior to my speaking career, I spent twenty-three years in management. For the most part, I shudder when I recall boring meetings, with presenters suffocating participants with an endless avalanche of facts and stats--with nothing in between to inject variety and liveliness.
That's why I welcome this book. Silverman illustrates that stories fit every type of business situation. "Facts," Sylvia L. Lovely says in the Introduction, "inform, but stories resonate." She explains: "Stories connect us in profound ways that go beyond mere intellect and get to the
deeper currents that move us to reflection and inspiration."
This book offers numerous examples from corporate leaders who use stories for training, sales, fostering traditions, reinforcing policies, generating teamwork, mentoring, facing change, clarifying complex financial transactions, and instilling an organization's mission and values.
Even as she supplies many model stories, Silverman still encourages readers to constantly unearth stories from their own locales. They're there, just waiting to be discovered and told.
Wake Me When the Data is Over recognizes that stories cannot replace data--but they can make the necessary data interesting, even compelling.
The Complete Communicator: Change Your Communication-Change Your Life!
Wake me up when the data is over.......2007-03-31
I found this book to be full of practical guidance about how to use storytelling more effectively in business settings. The book reinforced many of beliefs about the use of story as well as providing a great deal of evidence about its effectiveness. I recommend this book to those who wish to be more effective communicators in business.
storytelling and the wider applications.......2007-03-29
I found this book to be extremely useful in exploring the various applications of storytelling. As a practitioner in the field of organisational storytelling, I am always exploring various applications of the use of story. Lori's research into how organisations have used it has really helped me in my thinking around the applications of this powerful business tool and helped me bring this learning to our Australian clients.
Wake me up when you get to some substance.......2007-02-25
Wake me up when you find some substance to this book! The entire book seems to be a "who's who" of people who use storys, complete with their job titles, degree listings etc. I found virtually no help in how to create or use stories. I found this book boring and a complete waste of my time!
treasures.......2007-02-15
Very stimulating, indeed! Provides a panorama of practical applications of story telling in the private or public sector, derived from interviews with people who use the approach in their daily work.
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- Fabulous book
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My Beautiful Life: How Macrobiotics Brought Me from Cancer to Radiant Health
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The story of Mina Dobic and her family is a modern odyssey. Her journey to health and wholeness weaves together many of the transcendent themes of the last half-century; the struggle between communism and a free society, the conflict between conventional medicine and holistic health, and the centrifugal forces pulling apart the modern family and the unifying thread that holds it together.
Along the way, Mina passed from cancer victim to cancer survivor, from patient to healer, from student to teacher. Born and having lived in former Yugoslavia for over 40 years, today she is one of the leading macrobiotic cooks and counselors on the West Coast of the USA, inspiring many others with her wisdom, love and compassion.
Thanks to the Dobics and many other families around the world, macrobiotics is beginning to enter the mainstream and influence the course of modern society.
Despite notable strides by the medical research community introducing newly developed therapies and medications, every 15 seconds someone is diagnosed with heart disease or cancer. At the turn of the century cancer affected one out of twenty-seven people. By 1950, the rate had leaped to one in eight; and by 1985, official estimates were that one out of three people would develop the disease.
If cancer continues increasing at this rate, by the year 2000, every other person could ultimately develop it. By the year 2020, cancer could strike four out of five people and, soon thereafter, virtually everyone!
This book tells how to recover from cancer and, better yet, how to prevent it through diet and a simple lifestyle. It explains the philosophy of living in balance with nature. It reminds us how we humans, with our emphasis on fixing things and arrogance of improving on nature, have brought ourselves and other species to the verge of extinction.
This book is about something which is missing in this present world. It is about love, about the real purpose of life which is to nurture and celebrate ourselves, other creatures, the earth, and the Universe which gave us life. It gives us hope for humankind and for the world.
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Fabulous book.......2007-04-10
My beautiful life is a fabulous book. Very powerful, inspirational, and motivating. Mina Dobic is a very powerful healer and has has helped numerous people transition to a macrobiotic lifestyle.
all lies, in my opinion.......2007-03-13
Promoting a diet of organic produce, little refined sugar and whole grains is wonderful; suggesting that such a diet is a CURE for cancer is quack medicine, irresponsible and immoral. Dobic eradicates all developments in science since the Enlightenment and wants readers (many of whom must be desperate cancer patients) to believe that miso soup can destroy a tumor. This isn't 'natural medicine'; this is Orientalism: exoticizing the east to make money in the west. This book is so badly written, one wonders whether the PhD she touts (and touts and touts) is real; the text is mostly unintelligible and occasionally laughable. After reading every page of this book, hoping to learn more about the macrobiotic diet (about which there is MUCH to admire), I understand that the author is neither a scholar nor a healer nor a writer-- just a hotel cook who got very lucky. There are many, many, many better books on cancer, healthy cooking and inspirational/spiritual philosophies. This may be the worst I've ever encountered, if not the worst book I've ever spent real hours of my life reading. How many lives, how many families, has this woman already destroyed with her quackery?
Ridiculous, unverifiable claims.......2007-02-18
None of these methods are scientifically proven or even tested. All we have to go on are the dubious testimonies of people claiming that they cured stage 4 cancer with some seaweed.
I urge anyone who is in a dire health situation to reconsider the advice of charlatans.
Life Changing..........2006-03-20
Mina Dobic's book, My Beautiful Life, inspired me to visit the Kushi Institue in Becket, Massachusetts, and pursue an IMA degree in Complementary Health Education at Antioch McGregor University in Yellow Springs, Ohio. A high school Human Anatomy and Physiology teacher and currently director of a charter conversion school in Ohio, I believe this book has changed not only my life...but lives of hundreds of my students, friends, and professional peers.
I first read a brief description of the book in a catalog. Intrigued, I ordered it and could not stop reading...underlining..highlighting! Knowing full well that the homeostatis of the body is dependent on the health of each and every cell, Mrs. Dobic's description of her cancer, her fight, her flight to Brookline, Massachusets to consult with Michio Kushi, and her eventual victory over disease made excellent sense. I was overwhelmed with the hope...and the power one must claim to take control of their own health.
I am currently teaching a macrobioitc class and have suggested to all of my students that they must read this inspiring, hope-filled story of a brave, strong Yugoslavian woman who did more than beat the odds...she created an entirely new lifestyle for herself and her family. I would be honored to someday meet Mrs. Dobic...and sample one of her macro pies!
Her inspiring story has caused many of my students to take a long, hard look at what they are feeding their cells...and believe me,they are often just plain shocked! Healthy, wholesome eating is a choice...select whole, organic grains,vegetables, temperate fruits (if you live in Ohio), and drink your organic tea! Slow your life down...sing a song daily...walk barefoot in the grass...stop chasing the dream...and begin living it. Read My Beautiful Life and you will feel empowered to do so! Marcia Balmut Ward, Director - Graham Digital Academy, Graham Local Schools, St. Paris, Ohio
Aligning With the Healing Powers of the Universe.......2000-07-05
"Cancer." This dread diagnosis is now heard by one out of two men and one out of three women. In telling the story of her illness and subsequent recovery, Mina Dobic openly talks about the kind of problems we all face these days - emotional family conflicts, environmental pollution, stressful work life, and thoughtless eating habits. All these present our bodies with conditions they can't handle.
For Mina, these pressures accumulated to the point that in 1987 she was diagnosed with fourth stage (terminal) ovarian cancer metastasized throughout her body. But this courageous woman was not about to surrender her life to outside influences.
Her spirit rebelled against doctors judging she had "two months to live". How could anyone else know the strength of her heart? Of her soul? How could they know the depth of her passion for life and desire to care for her family?
With the help of a doctor friend knowledgeable about the importance of a balanced and nourishing diet, Mina took matters into her own hands. Undergirded by the loving support of family and friends, she faithfully followed the instructions of Michio Kushi, a leading macrobiotic healer. In six months she was pronounced cancer-free!
I liked this book because it testifies to the miraculous healing powers of our human bodies and the Universe which created us. Her story assures us that cancer need not be a sentence of premature death. I found very helpful the details of her daily routine and recipes that restored her health. Reading it can help prevent cancer. It is a beautiful gift for anyone struggling to overcome this life-threatening disease.
Book Description
Little ones learn to help out around the house with this humorous book from McSweeney's new Irregulars series.
Many people are parents, and many parents get hungry. It's time to show those infants how to concoct a simple breakfast! This instructional board book teaches precious little angels to be useful, at long last. It's a delicious way to start the day. Thanks, Baby!
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Hilariously inappropriate.......2006-05-12
The "Baby Be of Use" series is completely hilarious, and makes an AWESOME inappropriate baby shower gift (for anyone with inappropriate-humor-loving, baby-having friends).
It's true, there are some people in this world who might not find it funny to imply that a baby should prepare your breakfast for you, or learn how to make Daddy a margarita (see _Baby, Mix Me a Drink_). You know who you are. If you snickered at all at this idea, you must purchase these books immediately.
The books are the same size and construction as all the other little board books cluttering up your house, so your child can chew them to pieces long before he/she ever figures out what the words mean. The words and illustrations are simple and large, which of course makes the whole thing even funnier.
Highly recommended.
Book Description
Whether tackling a stack of UFOs (unfinished projects) or planning a quilting design, this book offers free-form quilting methods that will give quilters the skills and confidence they need to start-and finish-a project. Six projects-complete with a discussion of tools, supplies, and machine quilting basics-provide lots of opportunities to practice quilting skills. Quilters learn how to turn ideas into drawings and turn drawings into continuous-line designs.
Kathy Sandbach has been machine quilting for nearly 20 years. She lives in Bandon, Oregon.
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Show Me How to Create Quilting Designs: 70 Rady-To-Use.......2005-10-29
Need help with ideas? Need help drawing? This is the book for you. I can take these ideas/pictures and practice on paper before doing the "free motion" actual quilting. Helps reduce your stack of UFO's. Happy quilting!
Book Description
Before she knows it, Amber Conrads little white lies about her drinking habits add up to major self-deception, and she finds herself in a heap of trouble.
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Burnt Orange.......2007-02-17
Living a life as a preacher's kid is pretty much like living a sheltered and religious life for Amber Conrad. But her life twists and turns as she starts ditching Simi, her best friend, and starts hanging out with Claire, the most popular girl in school. It starts with one little party then it turns into lies, and fake IDs to get into clubs and drinking. This perfection of Christianity is not-so-perfect with her out-of-control drinking habits. Even though she's straying away her faithful life with God, in the end, it all comes to bite her back and make her regret these things more than she ever wanted to.
My favorite part in this book is when Claire and Simi gets into a wreck on the road while Amber was driving up to where she was going to meet Claire. Yea, I know, I'm twisted. It was my favorite part because the car accident helped Amber realize what can happen to her with her alcoholic obsession. Who should read this book? I think teens who have or had drinking problems should read this book because teens who have or had drinking problems can relate to her and it will totally change any person's mind about under the influence of drinking.
Burnt Orange Is Awesome.......2006-05-23
Ok, Burnt Orange is a really good book. It is about a teenage girl named Amber; her dad is a pastor at a church. She is very religious and so are her friends, Simi and Lisa. Well, she meets a girl named Claire, who is really rich and has really nice clothes and all that good stuff. Claire and Amber hang out at a party, and she has a drink and loosened up a little, so she had another. The next day she had a hang over. She met a guy named Slater. Amber gets a job. She starts ditching Simi to go with Claire. So Amber becomes an alcoholic but Claire already was in the first place. Slater, Amber, and Clair go to Lola's which is a bar, Amber gets really drunk, gets sick, and they all have to leave. She gets up in the middle of the night and looks at herself in the mirror and realizes she needs to quit. I don't want to tell the whole story so you will have to read on to find out what happens next.
Burnt Orange.......2006-02-27
"Hello, my name is Amber Conrad," I say in my most serious voice, "and I'm an alcoholic." is the first and last sentence of the teen novel Burnt Orange by Melody Carson. Amber Conrad, a senior in high school, has always led a very religious and sheltered life due to the fact that she is a preachers daughter. She is the perfect model of perfection to many people from her church. But what do they really know?
She has never been to a true "high school party" in her life, until her senior year. Where she just has a few drinks to fit in. After that one party Claire Phillips, a popular girl in school, begins to try to be Amber's friend. A lot of people don't like Claire because they think she is an alcoholic, her step dad is rich, and she gets what she wants. As they get closer and closer and go to more parties, Amber's drinking habits begin to spin out of control. Amber gets a fake ID, goes to wild parties, and doesn't act like herself at all. At the same time she strays from her faithful life that has always been dedicated to God.
Simi, Amber's best friend since day one, begins to realize that Amber is changing and begins to get worried about her. Amber has never missed church and all of a sudden she is hardly ever there, so Simi knows something is up. She tells Amber to stop, and Amber insists that a few drinks every now and then don't hurt, and she assures her that she knows what she is doing. She also says she is hanging out with Claire because she thinks Claire needs help and needs God. Is Claire really the only person who needs God, or does Amber need him too?
Finally after a lot of hangovers, rough nights, and driving drunk, Amber begins to realize she does have a drinking problem. She cuts back, and tries to get Claire to also. It doesn't work. One night after Amber goes on a date with a popular guy, Slater, from school. She gets more wasted than ever before. After spending the night with her new best friend, the toilet, she realized that she needs God more than ever. She sees that she should not being drinking and neither should Claire. She also sees everything they both risk by driving drunk.
Does Amber find her way back to God? Do they stop drinking? Does everything work out to be the best? Simi is working hard to see that all of these things happen. This book is written in language for teens to understand, and is the way many people in high school live, but ends in a way that no one would ever guess. After reading Burnt Orange no teen will look at underage drinking as they did before.
Color Me Wasted.......2005-12-01
Summary: A girl Amber Conrad is changing in her friends eyes. She is hanging out with a popular girl, Claire, which went to a party and brought Amber with her. Amber's father is a pastor at a church. Claire invites Amber to more and more parties. Amber's best friend, Simi, is always making a point about Amber's drinking. Amber then starts to realize that she does have a drinking problem. Then Claire's friend, Slater, really like Amber and asks her to the prom. They go on their first date and they go to a club. Amber gets trashed. Claire has a really bad drinking problem. At the end, there is a really bad accident that leads to a death.
I liked that Amber was making friends and having fun. I didn't like that she was partying all the time though. I also didn't like that there was a death because of drinking.
I think girls would really enjoy this book because these things can actually occur.
Lets Party!.......2005-09-28
This book is about a girl named Amber Conrad. Her dad is a preacher so Amber has lived a pretty religious and sheltered life. She is a senior in high school and has never been to a party. One day she decided to go to one even though she the parties were knew for drinking. She ended up drinking one or two drinks. She told her best friend Simi about how she drank. Simi became worried because that was unlike Amber. Amber than becomes friends with a popular girl from school named Clarie. Clarie drinks all the time and she get Amber into lots of drinking too. Amber addicted and she starts turning away from God. Will Amber stop her drinking habits? Will she loose her job? Will she keep her best friend Simi? You have to read the book to find out.
I thought that this book was awesome. It was one of them books that you can't put down. This book was never boring. It was exciting from beginning to end. I thought that Amber's friend Simi was a great friend. She was so caring and she listened to everything Amber had to say. She was also one of the only ones that was worried about Amber and her drinking.
I think that most girls that are into books about teens and their problems would like this book. I also think people who like books about people that change and make new friends would like this book.
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What Am I That You Care for Me?: Praying With the Psalms
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- Proof that "We can never have enough of nature"
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Bring Me the Ocean: Nature as Teacher, Messenger, and Intermediary
Rebecca A. Reynolds
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Rebecca Reynolds brings nature to the elderly, the infirm, and the imprisoned. Her "Animals as Intermediaries" program travels to hospitals and other closed-care institutions. Bring Me the Ocean collects her wonderful vignettes of how these small brushes with the natural world restore patients with a sense of mystery and wellbeing. A boy with cerebral palsy feels a rapport with an injured owl. An adolescent girl finally speaks while playing with a dog. Working with farm and companion animals and permanently injured wildlife, the program also re-creates natural environments in hospital rooms and prison libraries. Bring Me the Ocean has been known to bring autumn meadows, winter marshes and forests indoors. These stories are proof of the healing power of the natural world. Photographs of the outdoors, the animals and people accompany the text.
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True stories about a program called Animals As Intermediaries that uses nature to help troubled or isolated individuals
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Proof that "We can never have enough of nature".......2004-02-18
Rebecca Reynolds and her Animals As Intermediaries colleagues conduct outreach programs at hospitals and special schools, bringing all types of natural objects into institutional settings to share with patients and students. She begins her text with the Thoreau quote that "We need the tonic of wildness. ... We can never have enough of nature." The real-life vignettes that follow illustrate the healing / spiritual power that nature has had on individuals of varying ages with special mental or physical challenges. We see how connections are made between the human spirit and Nature -- in the form of dogs, rabbits, moss, seaweed, even buckets of ocean water. The sight, smell and touch of cattails, grasses, marsh ice, and rabbit fur can console and heal. They can stimulate communication where none previously existed and unearth personal histories that were previously buried and unknown to caretakers. Reynolds' storytelling style makes it easy to witness these encounters in person. Readers can feel the starkness of a typical hospital room made temporarily more livable by bringing Nature inside. Inspirational reading for environmental educators, pet therapists, animal lovers, and those feeling a bit disconnected or locked behind four walls themselves.
Touches everyone with the power of animal healing.......1999-12-15
I recently met Rebecca at a conference where she gave a lecture that followed along with the idea of the book. When it was over,I purchased the book and have since read many of the vignettes that it contains. Each story is filled with tender details of how nature and animals have helped people come to grips with illness and sadness. The book shows us how the world around us can help us come to terms with various problems and conditions in life. I work in the field of Animal Assisted Therapy and have found this book an inspiration to what I do. Bring Me An Ocean validates what I see everyday with my dog when we visit hospitals. The gentle touch of an animal or the opportunity for a patient to smell a flower or touch a seashell sometimes provides more healing that all the medicine in the world. For anyone who loves nature and wants to nuture the souls of loved ones who may be ill, or not, this book is a must.
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She first appeared in Sex and the Single Sister, the fabu-lously fine Farah, a junior correspondent to NBC News, who has always taken the fast track to love and success. Now she's deter-mined to climb to the top of the media ladder, and she's willing to use every weapon in her considerable arsenal to do so. How-ever, Farah just may have met her match in Lenox Whit-worth, a successful lawyer who steps in to negotiate the station's contracts. Filled with sex, drama, and glamour, Farah and Lenox are going to take readers on a wild ride.
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i liked it.......2006-01-02
Okay So I liked this book a lot but I had a few issues with some of the things Farah put up with. I know the context of the book is people using one another etc but damn Farah did you have to let Lennox run over you like that? At first she was a character that was sassy with a lot of backbone. Then later she became some dependent woman relying on cheating Lennox to make it. Only to break up with Lenox int he worst way and lose everything she let him use her to get. Now Lennox, I can say I never liked his character. I mean like personally. I liked it for the book though. He was full of it and didn't realize what he had until far too late. Lennox was a cheater, a drug addict and all around bad person. That they ended up together in the end I don't know about that. I think she would have been stronger apart from him. But that's just this reader's opinion. But it was a damn good book. Read it! You won't help but hope something happened to Lennox..
Do we really want to send this message?.......2005-12-16
This book is definitely a page turner although I am not sure I am comfortable with the messages it sends. Farah endures infidelity, physical and drug abuse by a mate - not to mention career sabotage - only to take Lenox back on a whim. I was waiting for her to get him back and do it well. I didn't expect that she would duck and run.
Ups and Downs.......2005-10-06
This book is really captivating. It brought me emotionally up and down but in the end it left me feeling incomplete. It is a wonderful story. I am really looking forward to another book to continue the story.
Did they get back together?.......2004-12-08
I really enjoyed this book. I found it very interesting. I started reading the book at 8:30 p.m. and finished reading it at 2:45 a.m. I kept reading it thinking, How can Farrah let Lenox get away with this stuff. I felt so much anger towards the French girl. I mean was she a 304 or what? The aunt was pretty ruthless as well. I could not believe the relationship between Lenox's mother and father. His mistress was leavning in their home? No wonder Lenox was like he was? He got it from his fater. I really felt that Farrah's mother really pressured her about being with a man. Overall the book was very good! I really like the part when Farrah gave that french girl a good butt kicking. That was over due! I have a question did Lenoz and Farrah get back together at the end? Did she accept his proposal?
The loser's guide to scam a man.......2004-10-24
If Susan B. Anthony knew that her efforts in helping women to be equal to men would result in more women like Maryann Reid wants women to be, she would have sat home and churn butter. This book is the Diva's Guide to scam men, proving that women wont work hard like men do, they only want to learn to live off of men's generosity. This book should be titled "If I have no more use for you, i will leave you." with the theme of "I love you until i find someone better than you" I see that on Jerry Springer Show, I don't need to read this in a book by one of the Show's potential contestant.
Maryann Reid has put forth a lifestyle that will will put her first and everything else is not even close to important. Forget about creating a sound family and supporting your man and children. That is not important for her. Only the Gold, Cars and money that a man gives her is important. Get out your wallet and show her how much you love her and if you don't, you are greedy and she will find someone that will.
I recommend this book for Men all over so they can use these principals for their women in their life. After all there has never been a woman that built a building Nor worked for a sanitation Department. Yes they will work as a fireman, or a police officer with a more lenient requirements to suit their lesser abilities, but they will never dirty their precious nails to provide for their community. Men's blood have been shed for her freedom to be a woman. As Oprah said "If you are a woman living in America you are the luckiest woman in the world" And she is right. Men fought for those rights for generations. But Maryann Reid wants to profit from men while men risk their life for her freedom. She wants to profit from men as they support her from many angles. She wants men to support and pay her for the privilege of pleasing her every greedy need.
I hope that her sons, Father, grandfathers, grandsons and brothers fall victim to the women that this book creates. I hope that men Make women earn the freedom that Oprah said that women have by using these principals that Maryann Reid wants women to make men Earn their gifts. Gifts are not earned they are given from the heart. But maybe she is right, Men, make your wives earn their gift of your provisions and if they don't, you leave.
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- Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
- By Design: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and Other Object Lessons
- Candle in the Darkness (Refiner's Fire Series #1)
- Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See
- Creating A Lean Culture: Tools To Sustain Lean Conversions
- Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy
- Death of a Prankster (G K Hall Nightingale Series Edition)
- Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty
- Dragonlance - Chronicles Volume 1: Dragons Of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance Chronicles)
- Edith Wharton : Novels : The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence (Library of America)
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