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The OASIS Guide to Asperger Syndrome: Completely Revised and Updated: Advice, Support, Insight, and Inspiration
Patricia Romanowski Bashe ,
Barbara L. Kirby ,
Simon Baron-Cohen , and
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Release Date: 2005-03-29 |
Book Description
Asperger Syndrome has become an increasingly common disorder. One in 300 individuals may have AS—exhibiting characteristics such as average to high intelligence, obsessive behavior, intense special interests, and difficulty dealing with everyday social situations—and it is now more prevalent than childhood cancer and Down’s syndrome.
As the mother of a boy diagnosed with AS in 1994, Barbara Kirby found scant resources and support. She developed the internationally renowned OASIS (Online Asperger Syndrome Information and Support) Web site in 1995 to help other parents find the information they need. She teamed up with Patricia Romanowski Bashe, now co-owner of OASIS and herself the mother of a son with AS, to write The OASIS Guide to Asperger Syndrome, which has become the standout authority in the field and a must-have for this growing audience.
Now Bashe and Kirby have crafted a fully revised edition of this comprehensive resource for parents, teachers, therapists, and anyone who knows or works with someone with AS. In addition to discussing what AS looks like and how parents can guide their unique child through the social, emotional, and intellectual challenges of growing up, this edition includes new developments made in AS research over the past four years, new thinking on diagnosis and evaluation, the latest approaches to medication and social skills development, and tips on navigating the maze of interventions, therapies, and special education. The authors know firsthand the joys and frustrations of raising children with AS, and they share their own experiences as well as those of dozens of parents facing the same issues.
Filled with practical information and emotional support, this is the most complete and authoritative guide available. Whether your child has been diagnosed or troubling symptoms are just becoming apparent, this book will point you in the right direction as you face the particular challenges of loving and raising a child with Asperger Syndrome.
Customer Reviews:
Must have for the newly diagnosed.......2007-09-17
Very informative. Very detailed. This is a must have for Parents just starting to discover Aspergers.
OASIS Guide to Asperger Syndrome...........2007-09-15
This is an excellent resource book. A must have for family members dealing with Asperger Syndrome!
Excellent Resource for AS!.......2007-05-07
This book is a definite addition to any parent's resource library on AS. It is comprehensive and has so much to offer, that it can't be digested in one read. It must be referred to over and over again. Should be purchased for pediatricians, school counselors and anyone who comes in frequent contact with your AS child. The entire family should read this to better understand the AS child.
Oasis Guide to Asperger Syndrome.......2007-03-24
This book has helped me understand how difficult it is for someone with AS. It is everything that it says it is and more, my husband and I were feeling so hopeless and unsure of the next step. This book explained everything good and bad without sugar coating it.
Now when we run into a stumbling block I turn to the Oasis Book.
Not what I expected.......2007-03-09
Asperger Syndrome is a lot more subtle than the book would seem to indicate. Yes, Asperger is related to autism, but it is hardly the debilitating issue that this book would seem to imply.
This book makes it look like only children are diagnosed with this and have a seriously debilitating disorder as a result. AS is rarely such a disabling disorder and many people are never diagnosed with it except through adult counseling.
The information, though suspect because of the range of disability, is still very good and very well presented.
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- The Child with Special Needs book
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- Not for all special needs situations, but helpful
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The Child With Special Needs: Encouraging Intellectual and Emotional Growth (Merloyd Lawrence Book)
Stanley I. Greenspan ,
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The Child with Special Needs book.......2007-08-17
This is an excellent book and resource for any parent or teacher, nanny or counselor or therapist who may interact with children with disabilities. It is extremely useful and is an easy read (much easier and more friendly to read than Greenspan's other works). I'd recommend it especially for parents when they first learn that a disability may exist.
Engaging Autism is better.......2007-08-17
After our son was diagnosed with developmental delay, this was the first book I read. It was helpful, but since he was subsequently diagnosed with ASD a few weeks later, I read Greenspan's other book (Engaging Autism) and found it to be more detailed. The jargon is somewhat difficult to follow at times, and it seems as though both books could be shortened by about 200 pages without much loss of information. I feel obliged to write that the best book about helping your child with ASD that I've found so far is "More Than Words" by Fern Sussman. It has almost all of Greenspan's points in an easy-to-read, illustrated "how-to" format. You can also order it from the North Carolina Autism Society bookstore's website for less than half of Amazon's price. (Hopefully the Amazon people won't delete this review now!) Good luck.
DIR/Floortime Intervention Has Had Profoundly Positive Impact on My Child's Development.......2007-02-14
After a well regarded developmental clinic in my city found my child to be vexed with significant cognitive and speech delay (my child was not yet two), I accidentally stumbled upon Greenspan's book, The Child With Special Needs.
This discovery has been the best thing that has happened to my child and family. I "inhaled" the text's instructions about how to begin doing a home floortime program with my child. Yes, doing three or more sessions of floortime daily was taxing. And I certainly wasn't convinced that I was doing floortime perfectly. Yet, I persisted and my child responded with great enthusiasm. And we had great fun to boot! My intuition that DIR/floortime had something unique and important to offer my child fueled my quest to find DIR/floortime specialists in my area. My search was successful, and my child has benefited from a DIR/floortime intervention for five years. Despite his regulatory and sensory issues, he's soaring socially and academically. I describe him as the happiest human being I've every met and marvel at the very warm way he interacts with family and friends (it's hard and poignant to recall the dismissive comments made about my child by well meaning therapists and teachers.) Greenspan's approach has a lot to say about how inaccurate predictions about kids with special needs can truly turn out to be.
I am incredibly grateful that I learned about this intervention strategy for kids with developmental disabilities. I encourage every parent who finds themselves on this very difficult journey to learn more about this approach. I have found the Floortime Foundation's website to be a great source of information, particularly Greenspan's web radio broadcast...a gold mine of ideas (at no cost to parents!).
Midwestern Mom
Helpful.......2007-01-12
This book is quite helpful for people who are interested in knowing more about autism and other developmental disorders. Autism is a treatable disorder whose symptons can be dramatically reduced with proper intervention. This book goes a long way in explaining autism and various developmental activities that will help children overcome autism.
On occasion "pschological" language makes certain passages a bit difficult to understand. But overall a useful, well written book.
Not for all special needs situations, but helpful.......2006-09-19
The methods in this book detail considerable sacrifice of parents time and resources devoted to one child; in a multiple child or two-working parent household, this would not be as beneficial and produce results as claimed from Floor Time program. Also, there are many types of special needs children with needs not addressed in this book. While overall helpful and a must-read for involved parents, continue seeking assistance from local programs and teachers/therapists, and use this as one small part of your reading list. This book does not address all the needs of all special needs children, but it is helpful and gives detailed explanations and plans to begin with. We have four special needs children with four separate diagnoses, so we are not first time parents, nor is this book the definitive program or resource for any of the four. Read it, try it, then continue researching and resourcing!
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- Delightful
- Beautifully Illustrated
- An unqualified masterpiece...!
- Outstanding book in a lovely Parisian setting
- A favorite
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When Simon’s older sister, Adèle, picks him up from school, he has his hat and gloves and scarf and sweater, his coat and knapsack and books and crayons, and a drawing of a cat he made that morning. Adèle makes Simon promise to try not to lose anything. But as they make their way home, distractions cause Simon to leave something behind at every stop. What will they tell their mother?
Detailed pen-and-ink drawings – filled with soft watercolors – make a game of this unforgettable tour through the streets and scenes of early-twentieth-century Paris. Illustrated endpapers extend the fun by replicating a 1907 Baedeker map of Paris.
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Delightful.......2007-09-24
This is a delightful book that I purchased for my five year old granddaughter. She enjoys looking for the lost items.
Simon keeps loosing his things and imagine my surprise when my granddaughter decided I should be called Simon since I had misplaced my glasses and found them again.
Beautifully Illustrated.......2007-07-30
I discovered this book at our local book store and fell in love with it immediately. My 3 1/2 year daughter found it equally enthralling and she loves to pick out all the lost items along the tale of the story. The historic locations really set this book apart.
What I found most interesting however is the section in the back of the book. It has mini-illustrations of each page and provides information on the location of each backdrop, when things were built, etc., and other historical tidbits, some regarding why children like [that particular park], for example. My daugher loves that section as well and always chooses a couple for me to read aloud to her. It's a great addition to a children's library.
An unqualified masterpiece...!.......2007-07-29
I'm a big fan of Barbara McClintock's work, and this is perhaps her finest book to date, a gorgeously detailed romp through Paris in the pre-World War era. Adele and Simon are a sister-brother pair whose afterschool adventures take them to various Parisian landmarks, and along the way Simon loses almost all his school supplies and half his clothes, with Adele, the older sister, desperately trying to maintain some semblance of order. Both the writing and the artwork are of the highest order: this is an intelligent, beautifully rendered children's book -- a real class act. (ReadThatAgain!)
Outstanding book in a lovely Parisian setting.......2007-03-26
This is a wonderful book about a big sister and her little brother who is constantly losing things. What is especially enchanting are the wonderfully detailed illustrations. Look for each lost item on each page. There are also a few of McClintock's hidden surprises within the pages.
A favorite.......2007-03-18
My 4 year old Daughter absolutely loves this book. She relates, since she has a little brother like the character Adele. The illustrations are georgeous. This is definetely a favorite for mother and daughter :)
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"This book clearly illustrates the true nature of disturbed characters, exposes the tactics the most manipulative characters use to pull the wool over the eyes of others, and outlines powerful, practical ways to deal more effectively with manipulative people."
Customer Reviews:
A good start.......2007-10-02
This book describes the manipulative personality quite well, however, I found it rather superficial compared to Snakes in Suits or Who is Pulling Your Strings.
A Real Eye Opener!.......2007-09-25
I devoured this book the very same day it arrived.
I was always left with a tangled up knot of various emotions in trying to deal with a certain family member but could never put my finger on *why*.
This book really opened my eyes!
Wasted money on this one.......2007-09-24
I learned a few new terms, such as "covert aggressive" but I still don't really know how I'm supposed to handle people like this. The book was disappointing, contained case studies and specific suggestions for handling the people in the case studies, but I did not find it valuable or informative.
Cuts to the Chase.......2007-08-29
Wow. I received this book on Monday and have already read it (it's Wednesday) - twice. Until now, I took it for granted that people everywhere are pretty much the same and are all just struggling along, trying to make it the best they can. The manipulators were "out there" in politics, far away in what seemed like another world. I also assumed that many manipulators are driven by insecurity or fear, even though those assumptions never felt quite right. It never occurred to me that some people manipulate others just for the sake of having the upper hand. It also never occurred to me that some people are highly skilled manipulators who target only people they know they can manipulate. Behavior that once seemed inexplicable to me now makes sense, now that I have some insight into what makes covert-aggressive people tick. Although I read this book too late in regards to a certain "friendship," this book has provided me with some tools on dealing with these people in the future.
An unfortunate necessity for performing arts professionals and church staff.......2007-08-15
I am an acoustical and systems design consultant who specializes in the design and functional rehabilitation of worship and performing arts facilities. In my practice, I often encounter what should be easily resolved misunderstandings between technical staff, performers, committee members, and/or clergy, which instead turn into intractable standoffs, or endless sagas of intrigue and treachery. While I have been well-equipped to diagnose and prescribe solutions to technical problems for many years, I had been largely ill-equipped to interact with highly skilled manipulators, or to provide resources to ministry leaders who are often no better prepared for them than I once was, and who fall into many of the manipulative traps described in this book.
While not all such conflicts are the result of covert aggression, I do find that such behavior is disproportionately common in churches, for the same reasons that Simon observes. Church leaders tend to focus on the relational aspects of conflicts to the exclusion of the substance, and thereby make churches exceptionally vulnerable to the skilled manipulator, who is very adept at exploiting the good will of trusting but naive people. I have watched manipulators have a field day with such tactics as blame-shifting, playing victim, playing servant (while building an empire in plain view), slander campaigns against anyone wise to their motives, and most of the other tactics thrown in for good measure.
Covert aggression is also common in the secular performing arts, as many performers find that their character issues will be overlooked so long as other attributes, such as talent or popularity, are at least perceived to be present by key decision-makers. See also Rory Noland's excellent The Heart of the Artist. Those performers with covert aggressive personalities often gravitate to roles of artistic leadership, such as the conductor, director, producer, etc. Such people see themselves as having a birthright to be in charge, and once entrusted with a position of leadership, they will stop at nothing to build the most grandiose artistic empire they can envision. Many of these attitudes and behavior patterns from the secular performing arts world have been transplanted into the worship arts world with only changes in pretext. In either place, they victimize the majority of sincere artists along with most of the other people that, through no fault of their own, come into contact with those few who are character-disordered.
So far, I have found Simon's book to be quite useful as an accessible but accurate introduction to this subject. It is the perfect book to put in the long-suffering victim's hands to help them understand what has really been happening in the nightmare they have been living. Once they have learned to recognize and name the offender's tactics, they can then try out some of the new tools they have been given to start changing the pattern of interaction with their abuser. It is also a necessary introduction for leaders who are called upon to correct these situations, especially when they are partly culpable due to having failed to exercise due discernment, and have unwittingly aided and abetted the manipulator. Finally, I believe that this book's greatest value is as a "vaccine" of knowledge to help potential future victims or unwitting enablers to identify manipulative behavior and "nip it in the bud."
I would urge every minister, church administrator, and lay leader, as well as every secular and religious artist, artistic leader, technical professional or volunteer, and technical leader, to buy and read this book as if your career depended on it - because it just might. Each of those listed above, as well as many others in today's working world, are just one bad hiring or promotion decision away from *needing* this book.
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An all-encompassing guide to entertaining, amazing, and possibly even educating children, Be the Coolest Dad on the Block provides the perfect excuse to stand on a balloon, play with grated cheese in the microwave, and unroll an entire roll of toilet paper, all in the name of spending time with your kids.
Written by a comedy writer and a cartoonist with thirty years’ combined experience as dads, Be the Coolest Dad on the Block is a cornucopia of practical parenting advice, like how to skip stones or teach a kid to ride a bike. It has answers to the pesky questions kids love, such as “Why is the sky blue?” or “Where do babies come from?” And it can help dads entertain large groups of kids with slapstick gags (“burp the alphabet”) or cool tricks (“the hole in the head”). Be the Coolest Dad on the Block also contains spooky myths for telling around the campfire and loads of quizzes and jokes for rainy days or endless car rides.
With a range of ideas to suit all situations and sensibilities, Be the Coolest Dad on the Block gives any dad the right stuff to be the wackiest and smartest guy in the room.
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Works for anybody, not just dads.......2007-01-30
I bought this after a recommendation on the Cool Tools blog. It seemed like a good way to learn some fun tricks to amuse children and generally be a cool guy.
The book will teach you very quickly how to: perform a variety a simple magic tricks; organize impromptu games requiring little to no materials; build rope swings; identify common trees and plants; answer many of the 'why and how' science and nature questions children ask; bedevil your child with riddles and jokes; occupy your children on car rides; and dozens of other things.
Even if you're not a parent this is a fun book. You can use the ideas when visiting friends and family to become a celebrity among the kids. It's a really fun book, and worth twice what it costs.
Some see as "fun", others see as "essentail".......2007-01-09
Okay, it's not classic literature, but it fills a void which, for some, could be just as important.
This group of "must know topics, skills and abilities" for Dads, could certainly be valuable knowledge for any parent, regardless of gender. As for the value of contents, here's the proof of this kind of book: As mundane as they might appear to adults, the items included in this book are the very things many children will take with them into adulthood as "best memories". What could be better?
A great book!.......2006-08-09
This is a reeeally fun book for all ages. Lots of fun gags and such.
Not just for Dads!.......2006-05-18
I found this book extremely entertaining. Cleverly written and chock full of information, games, puzzles and facts that kept me reading and practicing the long lost art of engaging with and entertaining kids. If you would like to have your children put away the Nintendo in favor of some quality time that you will all enjoy, or if you are not a parent but would love to know the secret behind those magic tricks, pick up "Be The Coolest Dad On The Block".
The ultimate Father's Day gift!.......2006-05-10
This is a very, very funny but also surprisingly useful book on how to entertain and amaze your little monsters. You might want to read it even if you don't have kids, for self-defense material the next time you're stuck in a room with a bored and complaining child. A perfect present for the dads you know (much better than a tie!).
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Are you getting what you want out of life? Do you know where you draw the line when it comes to sex, money, cheating on your income tax ... or accepting an indecent proposal? Becoming aware of your values is the key to making wise choices in all aspects of your life, from picking a partner to buying a house. Created by Dr. Sidney Simon, coauthor of the bestselling Getting Unstuck, and two other leading professionals, this workbook has already had an impact on hundreds of thousands of lives. Its scores of intriguing, interactive exercises were designed to uncover the hidden beliefs that reveal what matters most to you, how you deal with life-changing conflicts, which career choices will make you happiest, what leisure time activities provide you with the most pleasure, where you honestly stand on controversial issues, what day-to-day events are likely to make you angry ... excited ... anxious ... confident, how best to motivate yourself, and what beliefs can cause conflict in your family or love relationship.
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Not strategies, no focus.......2006-03-24
Values Clarification (first edition 1972) by S.B. Simon, L.W. Howe & H. Kirschenbaum offers 76 different and separate exercises (not strategies as the authors call them) to help you clarify your values. The related and partially overlapping book In Search of Values (1993) by S.B. Simon offers 31 such exercises. Not all exercises will be equally appealing and useful to the reader. The authors do not help the reader tie the results of the separate exercises together in a straightforward and sensible manner. Better books on values are What Matters Most (2000) by Hyrum W. Smith, Lasting Change (1997) by Rob Lebow & William L. Simon, and Managing by Values (1997) by Ken Blanchard & Michael O'Connor. They offer more focused and coherent approaches to clarifying personal and group/organizational values.
Help Yourself.......2005-09-30
This is a great book. I actually read it long ago and remembered it until now. The book has some really thought provoking questions in it for us all to consider. One problem: some of the language and terms are a bit old fashioned as the revision didn't bring it up to date for the millenium reader; but I recommend it anyway!
Still unhappy even though "you have it all"? Read this!.......1997-07-12
Ever wonder why you're still not happy with your
life even though it seems like you have it all?
Do you feel uncomfortable when someone asks you what your future holds?
Can't figure out why seemingly little things mushroom into huge problems?
Many of us live our lives behaving how we think others would want us to or doing things a certain way because that's how our parents did it. Values Clarification is a series of self tests that will help you identify and understand, maybe for the first time in your life, what it is that is truly important to you and how to integrate those things into your life.
Each of the excercises is easy to understand and complete regardless of your education level. Another fantastic feature is that many of the excercises also have revised versions for you to use with children and what better gift for a child than a strong and grounded belief in their own values and morals?.
This book is a MUST READ for EVERYONE, so do yourself a great favor and get a copy, then
share it with those you love and even (especially?)those you don't!
A must for school counselors!.......1997-05-10
Values Clarification is an excellent source for junior high and high school counselors. The information
and activities lend themselves perfectly for use in large class settings, smaller support group settings, and individual counseling sessions. The activities are eye-opening, interesting and very easy to facilitate. It is well worth the cost of the book.
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- School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, Second Edition
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School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, Second Edition
Joyce L. Epstein ,
Mavis G. Sanders ,
Beth S. Simon ,
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New Edition of Best Seller!
"
School, Family, and Community Partnerships is a one-stop survival guide for anyone engaged in starting or improving partnership programs. The detailed, practical information links research findings to effective practices in a most helpful way."
Jane Grinde, Director, Bright Beginnings/Family-School-Community Partnerships, and
Ruth Anne Landsverk, Families in Education Coordinator
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
"The research base is evident, and the second edition of the handbook is designed to help educators actually get things done. Everything is included to launch an effective Action Team and to develop a program that links family involvement to school improvement and student achievement."
Arty Dorman, Director of Family & Community Involvement
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Saint Paul, Minnesota
"The second edition of the
Handbook for Action is full of advice, good examples, and information for leaders in elementary, middle, and high schools—all based on research. This is an important resource for anyone trying to improve partnerships that support student achievement."
Wendy Harwin, School-Family-Community Partnerships Project Coordinator
Connecticut State Department of Education
A positive program of family and community involvement . . . in a brand new edition!
This research-based framework of six types of involvement guides state and district leaders, school principals, teachers, parents, and community partners to form Action Teams for Partnerships—dynamic groups that plan, implement, evaluate, and continually improve family and community involvement for student success.
Corwin’s first edition of this Handbook, created by researchers at Johns Hopkins University with input from educators and parents, has been a best-seller for years. Now, Joyce L. Epstein and her colleagues offer even more tools and strategies—innovations tested for more than fifteen years that are being used by leaders in schools, districts, and state departments of education across the country to create partnership programs that support school improvement goals.
With this new second edition, you’ll learn how to:
- Involve the community in school, family, and community partnerships
- Organize more effective Action Teams for Partnerships
- Strengthen partnership programs in middle and high schools
- Implement interactive homework for students to show and share with their families
- Organize successful volunteers in the middle grades
- Conduct state and district leadership activities to help schools develop partnership programs
Plus, you’ll find new examples of successful partnership activities linked to school goals for students, new planning and evaluation tools, and new guidelines and materials for conducting effective training workshops on partnerships.
It’s a valuable and time-tested approach with tools that you can use today to build a comprehensive, inclusive, goal-oriented, and permanent program of partnership!
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School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, Second Edition.......2007-02-06
This book was purchased for a class but will be extremely beneficial in my present role as a Career Development Coordinator.
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Beth is a spirited woman with mental retardation, who spends nearly every day riding the buses in Philadelphia. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers are her community. When Beth asks her sister Rachel to accompany her on the buses for one year, they take a transcendent journey together that changes Rachel's life in incredible ways and leads her to accept her sister at long last-teaching her to slow down and enjoy the ride.
Full of life lessons from which any reader will profit, Riding the Bus with My Sister is "a heartwarming, life-affirming journey through both the present and the past...[that] might just change your life" (Boston Herald).
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Beautiful Prose.......2007-09-22
This book isn't for everyone, but anyone who lives with a mildy retarded family member will see this book as an eye-opening and touching memoir of the highs and lows of living and coping and dealing with a person such as Beth, the author's sister, with whom she agrees to ride the city buses with over the course of a year.
The chapters are beautifully interweaved with flashbacks to the author's childhood with Beth, who is 18 months younger than the author. The parents' coping with Beth, and how the rest of the family deals with this headstrong and independent girl without once ever mentioning the words "mild retardation" and yet determined to keep together as a family in the early 1960s bring this book to life for many Babyboomers. Rachel did a lot of research on the subject to write for this book, and inserts statistics at logical moments without ever tiring the reader.
Along with the encounters on the bus are small vignettes of the various and varied drivers who deal with Beth on a daily basis. Bus drivers are profiled coming from all aspects of society. Some like Beth, others do not, and many came forward to talk about Beth and her incessant chats while sitting in the front of crowded buses with strangers all around her. Bus drivers are her friends, are her mentors, are her romantic interests and Beth at times reminds us of our girlish teenage crushes...and she is 39 years old while the story takes place.
Although this book mostly deals with Beth and her daily bus rides around town, the author also talks about her own failings; her recent break-up, her move to a new apartment, and we see how dealing with Beth, and talking with bus drivers, help Rachel find the answers for her own troubles.
This book may not be for everyone. One must have a close experience with a person such as Beth to understand the many detailed and sometimes long-drawn-out episodes of city bus travel to truly appreciate this book. Beth is beautifully portrayed in this book, and with all her flaws and handicaps we can see a bit our ourselves through her daily bus journeys.
Read this book with patience and understanding for the mildy retarded people in our society. We all know and have dealt with our own Cools Beths.
This book went on and on.......2007-08-29
and on and on and on..............a shorter memoir maybe I could have, maybe, plodded through without so much difficulty.
This was a great ride!.......2007-08-17
Okay, so maybe not the most original title in the world, but the story sure is. The author decides to spend some quality time with her mildly retarded sister, Beth, (whom she never fully understood). Simons basically takes a very long leave of absence from work and totally immerses herself in Beth's world - which consists mainly of riding the bus system in an unnamed Pennsylvania city. But this is not just a simple journey. She experiences how Beth has carved out a life for herself, the people she has connected with, the joyful outlook she has on life, and realizes that maybe Beth's life is fulfilling in its own way. This is also a journey through her childhood as she
reflects on her memories, her relationship with her family as well as her sister. By slowing down her fast-paced existence and taking the time to experience a year with her sister, Simons certainly discovers a lot about herself, and comes away with a different, more appreciative view of her life. Hopefully you will too. I know I did.
My Thoughts on 'Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey'.......2007-05-29
This is the story of Rachel and Beth. Two sisters close in age but share little in common. Rachel is a working woman. She barely has time for herself let alone her sister. Beth is a fun-loving care-free flamboyant woman who has an extreme lover for life and her beloved buses. Beth is also mentally reatrded. Rachel experiences gui;t for not having spent much time with her sister. She promises her sister that she will ride the bus with her for a year. All Rachel wnats out of this is time with Beth. She gets way more than planned. She meets all of the quirky and exotic bus drivers with diverse personalities. She meets thoughtful Jacob, and hunky Rodolpho. They all teach her very important lessons that reshape her life. Rachel also learns a lot about her sister. She never knows how to deal with her mood changes and odd behaviors. All she knows is that she loves Beth and Beth loves her, and they care about each other. In the end Rachel turns her life into the "big life" she has always dreamed of. This story will benefit you also. You can learn many things from this book that may just help you turn you life into the right direction.
A Lesson in Life.......2007-04-22
This is a story about Rachel, sister of "Cool Beth". Beth is mildly retarded. She lives on her own and lives on disability. She doesn't have a job. She rides the local buses in her Pennsylvania city, every day. Looking for something to write about, Rachel decides to visit her sister and spend a day with her. This leads to an article in the newspaper. The experience has surprised Rachel and it has sparked a new relationship with Beth. So, Rachel decides to "Ride the bus with her sister" and she does. Every two weeks, every month of the year. This book is about that journey. It isn't just a journey on a bus. It is a journey through the life of Rachel and Beth. Rachel learns to come to terms with her feelings and having a sister who is mentally challenged. She gives the reader flashbacks to their childhood and how hard it was sometimes. Their parents divorced when they were young. Beth was separated from Rachel and her brother and sister. She lived with their mom who married an ex-con abused Beth and her mother. There was a period time where they didn't know where Beth was. Now, as adults, Rachel wants to be a better sister and learn how to understand Beth and her handicap. This is one of those books where I now want to buy a bunch of copies and give one to everyone I know. The writing style is very personal and full of emotion. A reader learns many lessons reading a book like this. It's not exclusively about mentally handicapped people and how to understand them. Rachel's experience with Beth riding the buses and getting to know the drivers taught her about regular people and their insights on their lives and what brought them to where they are now. Rachel was amazed by the friendly drivers who befriended Beth and had more patience than she could ever know. She was surprised by their kindness and generosity when Beth needed support during an operation or help finding a bathroom. Rachel's life changed as well. She learned to open her heart and slowly let people in. It changed her life. This is definitely one of the best reads I have experienced. Highly recommend!
Book Description
When Simon Doonan sat down to write a memoir, he discovered he had no memories of cuddly family times or romantic Hallmark moments -- turns out most of his memories are notably nasty. Birthday parties? No recollection. But his mother's dentures flying out of her mouth when she sneezed and skittering across the kitchen floor? A vivid mental image that still brings a smile. In his subversively funny memoir, Nasty: My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints, Simon revisits his formative years and the defiantly eccentric, lovably odd family he calls his own, showing us how nasty memories can be very, very good.
Long before he became a celebrity in his own right -- as a bestselling author, as a style arbiter on national television, and as the window display genius of Barneys New York -- Simon Doonan was a "scabby knee'd troll" in Reading, England. In Nasty, he returns to the working-class neighborhood of his youth and chronicles the misadventures of the Doonan clan in all their wacky glory. Readers meet his mum, Betty, whose gravity-defying, peroxided hairdo loudly proclaimed her innate glamour; his father, Terry, an amateur vintner who turned parsnips into the legendary Château Doonan; and his grandfather D.C., a hard-drinking betting man who plotted to win his fortune by turning "wee" Simon into a jockey.
Fearing he would fall victim to the insanity that runs in his family or, worse, the banality of suburban life, Doonan decamps with his flamboyant best friend Biddie to London. There they hope to find the Beautiful People -- those glamorous creatures who luxuriate on floor pillows and amuse each other with bon mots -- and join their ranks. Instead, he encounters various ladies of the night, kidney stones, punks, law enforcement officers, phantom venereal diseases, public humiliations, and camps, vamps, and scamps of all shapes and sizes. Doonan continues his bumbling pursuit of the fabulous life only to learn, in the end, that perhaps the Beautiful People were the ones he left behind.
Infused throughout with good humor and informed by Doonan's keen eye for the ridiculous, Nasty reminds us never to take life too seriously. This is a wickedly good memoir from one of today's most dazzling literary humorists.
Customer Reviews:
FABULOUS CAN BE AS FALSE AS IT IS FUN. BRAVO!.......2007-02-16
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NASTY is a funny, campy, saucy, uninhibited memoir of a scrawny, geeky, distinctly "unfabulous", gay kid from a working class neighborhood in Reading England who tries to climb up the unsteady ladder of success and fabulousness. Given the gargantuan ambition the youngster has to get his goal, it is not surprising that in a long tradition of self-creation (a la Madonna and uncountable others), he attains it. Simon finally gets "there". Mind you, it's not overnight, but for the reader, it's well worth the effort.
Simon, along with his queenie pal Biddie moves from what seemed to the teen-ager at the time very tacky, humble beginnings to less tacky environments, finally progressing to London and New York. On the way, he tries to fit in with what he thinks are "the beautiful people"--usually deceiving himself that he's right up "there" with the high and mighty. The results are hilarious and delightfully grotesque.
Eventually Simon realizes the "fabulous folks" aren't always so great after all. NASTY is a bright, witty exposure that "fabulous" can sometimes be as false as it is fun.
The author, Simon Doonan, is a fine debunker of illusions and self-dillusion. As an example of what the adolescent Simon thought was hot glam, he describes the attire he sported on the beach to impress the working classes of his North England town as they stood by probably regarding the spectacle as a form of weird "street theatre."
"What was wrong with them? Hadn't they ever seen a man in a Mickey Mouse shirt; high-waisted, navy blue, pleated Oxford bag trousers, and matching navy blue, women's Bata platform ankle boots with four-and-a-half inch heels, teetering across the sand before?"
Especially charming and probably the most truly fabulous are the nostgalgic accounts of Simon's childhood which seemed so meager at the time, but seen in retrospect take on a wonderfully authentic magic of their own. There is his eccentric but kindly, alcoholic mother Betty, with her enormous, peroxided blond hair piled high on her head--the envy of the neighborhood. There is Simon's father who proudly in the family kitchen made a very decent and popular wine distilled from turnips!
Woven into the memoir are wonderfully eccentric uncles, aunts and grandmothers who add mythic greatness to what the youngstger had considered "nasty" and forgettable at the time.
In real life, from his humble beginnings, Doonan became a well known author (WACKY CHICKS)and an envied window display artist at Barney's in New York City. He probably has to get on ladders to decorate the fabulous displays. He ought to know all about the climb.
Doonan has an iconoclastic wit akin to Noel Coward but his is much raunchier, and earthy! I must admit I hadn't expected to enjoy NASTY so much. HURRAY!
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NASTY.......2006-07-27
did i say it was funny? deranged and funny! just the way i like them!
everybody should have a friend like Simon or at least an old aunt like Simon!
obviously the guy is insane and funny! pleazzzze get the book right now
every fashion victim should read it!
ps: buy a few floor pillows before you start reading it!
pedro
Eh.......2006-06-14
Eh? It was interesting but not a book I would recommend unless you are fascinated by the author through his other endevours. I just find it all a bit confusing and jumbled and there just didn't seem to be much of a point to the book. It was kind of like reading a [...] teens journal and seemed to just be a string of unrelated events that really didn't tie together for me.
There are better "autobiography" type books out there, I would pass on this one.
NASTY IS DELICIOUS .......2005-12-20
With NASTY Simon Doonan joins the likes of Sedaris and Augustin Burroughs in the hilarious dysfunctioinal gay memoir sweepstakes. I was enarmored of Doonan's tales of growing up with his lobomized Narg (granny), saucy Mom, strange aunts, best friend Biddie, and a plethora of other VERY memorable characters. By way of a thematic construct -- the book traces Noonan's lifelong quest for The Beautiful People and glamour in all shapes and forms -- and oh what a journey it is! There are laughs galore and several touching passages as well in this joyous romp through the past by born storyteller Doonan.
Laugh-out-Loud Funny.......2005-08-25
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. How could you not laugh out loud when he describes breaking the skull of his blind aunt (sounds sick, I know, but taken in context...). I recommend this book to anyone who needs a light read. I think this book is quite good.
Book Description
Praise for Salvador Minuchin
"Watching a Minuchin session . . . is like being at a tightly constructed, well-directed, magnificently acted play." âJanet Malcolm, The New Yorker.
"We are dazzled [in Family Healing] by Dr. Minuchin's instant understanding of the deeper dynamics of every case and by his imaginative interventions." âThe New York Times.
"Minuchin's unquestionable dramatic flair does not in itself explain the galvanizing effect he has had on family therapy. There is an intensity, a sense of commitment in his work that goes beyond the love of drama." âRichard Simon, The Family Therapy Networker.
"Mastering Family Therapy is a bottomless bag of tools . . . a pathbreaking contribution. For the beginner, it is a remarkably rich resource. For the experienced therapist, the harvest has never been so abundant. And it is particularly valuable for supervisors, who will learn from the ingenious ways Minuchin finds to resolve clashes and promote growth." âFrom the Foreword by Braulio Montalvo.
Few people have had as profound an impact on the theory and practice of family therapy as Salvador Minuchin. As one commentator put it, "Memories of his classic sessions have become the standard against which therapists judge their own best work." Now, Mastering Family Therapy offers beginners and experienced practitioners alike the rare opportunity to find out what it is like to learn the art and science of family therapy under this pioneering clinician and teacher. An inspiring, uniquely intimate account of Minuchin's ideas and methods, this fascinating volume is a veritable "Master Class" in family therapy.
In elegant clinical interplays, Minuchin, his colleagues Wai-Yung Lee and George Simon, and nine advanced students provide answers to such critical questions as:
- What does it take to master the art of family therapy?
- How do I create an effective personal style?
- How can I become an instrument for growth for troubled families?
In Part I, Minuchin offers his candid assessment of the forms of family therapy that have emerged over the past fifty years, including his own structural approach. He shares his views on what makes a good family therapist and he explains why, if therapists are to become catalysts for change, they must learn to draw on their personal histories, their own sensibilities and sensitivities.
Part II takes us behind the scenes to observe Minuchin in supervisory sessions with his students and the families they are treating. We witness his trademark flair and his dazzling flashes of insight and imagination as he challenges his trainees to overcome roadblocks to personal and professional growth. In one case, he deftly helps a soft-spoken psychologist increase his intensity to match the volatile emotionality of a family in crisis. In another, he teaches an intellectual therapist a crucial lesson: that verbal pyrotechnics are no substitute for courageous use of self. By the end of the book we have experienced nine dramatic journeys in which teacher, student, and families are powerfully transformed.
Mastering Family Therapy is must reading for all those who practice, study, or teach family therapy.
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