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Book Reviews – 300 Creative Date Ideas Book Review – Is This Really Worth The ?

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Book Reviews

Design: The Amazon Kindle DX offers about 2 times the screen space of the Kindle 2 with its 9.7 inch “e-ink” display and 1200×824 pixel resolution. Weighing in at 18.9 ounces the reader is larger and heavier making it more suited for a bag than a pocket. The reader offers a built-in QWERTY keyboard and is slightly thicker than the Kindle 2.

The title is deceptive. This book is not about reality TV shows, which you’d have to imprison me to watch, and then I’d hide under a pillow and wear ear plugs.

The book focuses on using reality TV as a metaphor for our lives. Kathy indicates, if our life is reading more like a bad script for a Reality TV Show, we can change it by changing our thoughts and emotions. Kathy illustrates that our emotions are like the channels on the television set. We are in control of our emotions through the remote control, as long as we are holding our own remote and no one is pushing our buttons, and we aren’t pushing someone else’s buttons. Emotions play a very important role in what we are attracting into our lives. Kathy makes the point well . . . if we are continuously changing emotional channels, we are starting and stopping the flow of the things that we want in our lives and the same old stuff we don’t want keeps showing up. The book and companion workbook has a series of exercises to get readers to take a close look at their lives and work through rewriting those areas that are not in alignment with what they really want.

The bigger reader features a sealed battery for about two weeks of battery life on a single charge with a 3G wireless data connection. Like the new Kindle 2 the Kindle DX display offers 16 shades of gray and customizable fonts. The reader still cannot handle Flash or online video content.

Additionally, the book also has a great section on dating disaster stories that will definitely show you what not to do on dates.

So is the book perfect?

Not really. While there are 300 ideas, you really can’t read more than about 10-30 ideas in one sitting, as least for me anways, before it gets tedious, and some descriptions are just a little lengthy. Plus, you might have to go through the book several times to flag the interesting ideas that fit your character. However, pages 93-94 do have a nice list of bullets with quick and to the point date ideas ready. No elaboration. If you’re in the need of a romantic date idea fast, then you’ll love these pages.

All in all, this is still a fantastic book that everyone should read. For , you will also get two free books ‘Dating Bible: A Better Way to Date’ and ‘The Romantic’s Guide,’ which are apparently valued at .95 and .95 respectively. I haven’t got a chance to look at these yet.

Whether you want to impress that special someone on a first date, surprise them for a special anniversary or occasion, or just want to breathe new life into your relationship because it’s getting comfortable and dull, then you should grab this book now and add some fire to your dates

Resource Author Francisco R. Higueras
Trabajar desde casa es fácil si sabes como
Todo sobre Juegos Mario para gente que le gusta jugar
Encontrar un Trabajo – Empleo es fácil si sabe dónde buscar

Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah – Book Review

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Book Reviews

The first Henry Lee we meet in Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is a middle-aged widow trudging his way home with shopping bags hanging at his side. A taciturn, forlorn man. It is 1986.

The second Henry we meet is his 12-year-old self, a Chinese American school boy, whose father pins a badge on his collar proclaiming, “I am Chinese.” As Henry knows all too well, those words aren’t enough to protect him from taunts and bullying at the hands of his classmates. It is after all 1942, Seattle, and the beginning of World War II. Chinese or not, in the eyes of his Caucasian classmates, Henry is still “yellow.”

Kate eventually finds her own path, separate from that of Tully: first as writer and advertising exec, then as wife and mother. She, along with her own parents, creates the family that Tully returns to time and again as haven.

And because this is a small closely-knit community, we trace the connections between families. As children, Rosie and Peter were best friends-until Rosie became popular and Peter an outcast. Peter’s mother Lucy, a midwife, delivered Rosie. And Alex as judge may be called upon to try Peter.

The plot’s conflict also reflects tension between career and family. Kate and Tully came of age during the first wave of feminism when those competing choices were front and center for women. What gives this book its immediacy-and poignancy-is that the issue has yet to be resolved. Witness Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who by her own admission feels an emptiness in her personal life-the result of sacrifices made in pursuit of a top-flight legal career. It’s hard not to notice that the same choice-family vs. career-has been required by few to none of her male peers.

There are a few disappointments with this book to be sure. Picoult falls back on some chintzy cliffhangers-she’s way too good a writer, and this story is far too compelling, for her to pull those tricks. Some of the dialogue is not always believable, too clever by half. And, really, are adults that obtuse that they can ‘t see what’s under their noses?

Nonetheless, Picoult does the near impossible-building a character in Peter of great sympathy. We see both his struggle and at the same time his moral complexity. There are no judgments here, just explanations-to which all of us could pay heed

Resource Author Francisco R. Higueras
Trabajar desde casa es fácil si sabes como
Todo sobre Juegos para gente que le gusta jugar
Encontrar un Trabajo – Empleo es fácil si sabe dónde buscar