Book Description
"The more I read the Bible, the more evident it becomes that everything I have ever taught or written about effective leadership over the past 25 years, Jesus did to perfection. He is simply the greatest leadership role model of all time." Ken Blanchard
Effective leadership-whether on the job, in the community, at church or in the home-starts on the inside. Before you can hope to lead anyone else, you have to know who you are. Every leader must answer two critical questions:
Whose are you going to be? Who are you going to be? One deals with your relationship to Christ. The other with your life purpose.
With simple yet profound principles from the life of Jesus, and dozens of stories and leadership examples from his life experiences, veteran author, speaker and leadership expert Ken Blanchard, guides readers through the process of discovering how to lead like Jesus. It really could be described as the process of aligning two internal domains-the heart and the head-and two external domains, the
hands and the
habits. These four dimensions of leadership form the outline for this very practical and transformational book.
Customer Reviews:
Lead Like Jesus to become a Level 5 Leader.......2007-08-02
Excellent book. One of my "a-ha!" moments was realizing that Jesus is a Level 5 Leader. In Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't, Jim Collins explains that companies making the leap from good to great had Level 5 leaders in key positions, including the CEO, at the time of transition. He describes a Level 5 leader as a paradox of someone having great personal humility and professional will, having more ambition for the company/team than for themselves, and someone having an unwaivering resolve to do whatever must be done no matter how difficult.
A CEO describing herself as one with big ambition, ego, and drive asked Jim if you can learn to become a Level 5 Leader. He said that the data did not point to anything specific, so those aspiring to reach Level 5 should focus on the other discovered disciplines of becoming a good to great company.
I find Lead Like Jesus answers the question. Among other things it is a wonderful manual for becoming a Level 5 Leader.
Lead Like Jesus.......2007-07-09
This is a great guide for leaders of all forms. Definitely makes you take a closer look at the way you lead and the way you live. As I work to follow the ideas in this book, I find that I am a happier supervisor.
Lead Like Jesus by Blanchard.......2006-07-22
The author defines leadership as influence in a positive or negative direction. Given this definition, Jesus was the greatest
leader of all time. He was firmly grounded in the Rabinical
Judaism of the time. With this background, He took the fledging
Christian community on a Transformational Journey culminating in
His own crucifixion and a fantastic earthquake conincidental with
the Death and Resurrection. The author reminds us that the
ultimate leader serves the community first and not himself/herself.
Leadership comes from a variety of personal sources. i.e.
- the heart is the center of the leadership thrust
- the head formulates strategies and movement forward
- the hands relate to crafting specific actions
- the habits relate to consistency/predictability of actions
Blanchard presents the contrast between the serving leader
and the self-serving leader. The serving leader actively
engages in acts on behalf of the community while the self-serving
leader benefits himself mainly. In providing service, the serving
leader implements specific plans to move the community forward.
This was done very skillfully by Christ in His own time.
Excellent.......2006-06-29
If you want to get a clear prespective on how to relate and treat others and desire personal growth this is the book.
Uses spiritual lessons to seek integrity and commitment in a leadership role.......2006-05-23
If author Ken Blanchard's name rings a bell, it's because he authored the famous ONE MINUTE MANAGER, which became a big hit in business circles and taught everyone the basics about leadership principles. He's back with a new focus, LEAD LIKE JESUS: LESSONS FROM THE GREATEST LEADERSHIP ROLE MODEL OF ALL TIME, and here uses spiritual lessons to seek integrity and commitment in a leadership role. From business to personal life, Blanchard and Hodges focus on four key areas and how they can lend to exceptional leadership, presenting another powerhouse of detail for any who would be exceptional whether at work or at home.
Diane C. Donovan, Editor
California Bookwatch
Customer Reviews:
A Good Defense.......2007-08-19
Recommended reading for guys who don't want to be manipulated by this sort of behavior.
Glad I read this book.......2007-03-21
Glad I read this. I think most men know that most women do this stuff unconsciously. The authors seem to brand all men the same suggesting that these manouvers are guaranteed to work, while not taking into account the men out there who have high standards and high character. Men have a lot more power in attracting women... (hot chick with ugly guy, but never the opposite). Women have looks, hence the need to use this book.
Reading Material.......2007-02-20
This is a book for those of you who don't remember the rules or just want one book for everything. I love it and even bought some for friends of mine and they also love the book.
I am a feminist and I love this book.......2007-02-08
I am a feminist and I love this book. I have read it several times and flipped through it about 100 times. To me this book is more about SELF RESPECT than anything else. Living your life, keeping active, doing good work, helping a cause, etc. are things this book actually encourages. The book puts men in the proper persepctive: they are wonderful additions to our lives, NOT OUR REASON FOR LIVING!
Every woman that I have talked to about this book ends up agreeing with most of it. I too was skeptical about it...until I read it. It's the things your Mother told you...that you didn't want to hear at the time. And after going through one failed "relationship" after another finally decided that maybe Mom was right. Since reading this book I have had no problem securing the kind of relationship that is healthy for me. And for my male friend.
Men that are critical about the book are basically angry that it teaches women self respect and puts a roadblock in their way of getting a woman in bed as fast as possible. I have talked about this book with my male friends and they too agreed with alot of it, and the only one that disagreed has the reputation of being a "playa" amoungst my circle of friends. That alone speaks volumes.
The book is one of the most important books written about dating in the last 10 years and imo is still very relevant. And until the day that MEN decide to change and liberate themselves, it will remain so.
Be very careful what you wish for- you just might get it!!.......2007-01-22
I was torn as to what rating to give this book. I finally decided on giving it a 5 because I asked myself this question: Does this book deliver on it's promises. After over a decade of experiences in both using and NOT using the RULES, the answer is unfortunately or fortunately (depending on your attitude on the subject) a resounding YES!!! Hence I gave it 5 stars. HOWEVER BE FORWARNED-
Over a decade of doing the RULES (and sometimes not) has taught me that the techniques work too well in that you will attract men who don't deserve your attention AS WELL AS men who do. You see, the RULES works because it feeds on the male ego's attraction to competition and "winning". So yes- you will attract more men and get more attention, but this will not only include attention from the great guy who finds you interesting and intriging, it also includes the shmuck who's always up for a challenge and due to a hurt ego or repressed self esteem issues, needs to prove to himself that he can succeed at getting someone who's somewhat unnattainable. The difference is that when the great guy "catches" you he knows he's lucky to have caught you and wants to keep you all to himself. When the shmuck thinks he has caught you however, he feels he has proven to himself that he's cool and therefore no longer needs you. He didn't want you... He wanted what you represented. The winning trophy. Meanwhile all the other girls who were pining for him overtly, but he wouldn't pay any attention to them because after all - they definitely wanted him- end up being saved the trouble of knowing him in the first place. This happened to me a couple of times using the Rules. It actually ended up ok, because once I figured out what they were doing I began using the rules to manipulate them into giving me lots of money. You'd be AMAZED how easily it works just using what this book teaches you. A guy will do ANYTHING to prove to himself he's still got IT!! Even give you everything he has!! Since they didn't have a problem manipulating me into wasting my precious time I had NO problem manipulating them while dating other guys. But that's just me. Is that what YOU want? Probably not. And the truth is that while my anger made me feel justified at the time, I really am not proud of it now. What's interesting is that the techniques in the book are wonderful gifts to the nice guys but end up only mere manipulation devices when used w/ the wrong guys. Only those with plenty of RULES experience would really understand what I mean by that, but basically when you follow the RULES the nice guy (the one you want) is attracted to an 'essance' of you that is coming through loud and clear while you live your life the way you want. Mr. Wrong is only attracted to the mere challenge and to the idea of "winning" you so he actually becomes like a puppet and you all of a sudden find yourself holding the strings while he dances for your approval in the hopes of his false trophy. The book delivers, but a book called "The List" is a good companion for it and in fact a step above it if you're looking to get married.
Why I like this book:
1. Regardless of the critisism the book recieves for being Anti-feminist, it's in reality the most pro-feminist book I've ever encountered.
2. It teaches women not to pay much attention to men. Live your life- only better than before. Take care of your body, Do well in school, Be as happy as you can be, join groups, have fun on the weekends, work for that promotion- Oh, and there are these creatures called 'men' walking around and when you do these things they're going to notice you and want to talk to you and spend time with you.. You can if you want to. If you bought this book you probably do want to, but the point is to go about your day like you don't care whether they call or not. If you do care pretend that you don't, because the truth is, you shouldn't care anyway. After all, don't you have a promotion to go after? If he doesn't call, forget about him cause you have your own thing to do anyway. Someone else will call and then you get to choose whether he's worth your time or not. That ladies, is what this book is REALLY about. Those that think otherwise are too bitter to see it in the right light. And even those that hate it and have TRIED it will tell you it works. The only question is to what cost?
In my experience, The RULES are a great guide for women who want to date. It basically tells you in more detail to give yourself everything you deserve (healthy lifestyle, rich personal and profesional life, etc..) and the men will follow. It tells you not to divulge your life story in the first few dates (good advice. He hasn't EARNED the PRIVILAGE of knowing your personal shi* at that point yet.) And to not be exclusive to any one guy until you have a ring on your finger which is a pretty Pro-feminist idea considering it's pretty much what guys have been doing for centuries...and often even WITH a ring already on their fingers. The book says, that no boyfriend is worth your all your time- only a HUSBAND is. Every other guy is roadkill in your life path just there to help you have a good time. Pretty empowering for women actually. Like I said before though, it works a little too well as the techniques will attract Mr. Right AND some MR. Wrongs that want to know they got the girl that's 'hard to get' and pad themselves on the back for "winning". It's a good buy and it'll keep you busy on Friday nights, but for those of you that are really looking to get a ring on your finger I highly recommend you check out "The List".
Book Description
For a generation of teenage girls, Sassy magazine was nothing short of revolutionary—so much so that its audience, which stretched from tweens to twentysomething women, remains obsessed with it to this day and back issues are sold for hefty sums on the Internet. For its brief but brilliant run from 1988 to 1994, Sassy was the arbiter of all that was hip and cool, inspiring a dogged devotion from its readers while almost single-handedly bringing the idea of girl culture to the mainstream. In the process, Sassy changed the face of teen magazines in the United States, paved the way for the unedited voice of blogs, and influenced the current crop of smart women’s zines, such as Bust and Bitch, that currently hold sway.
How Sassy Changed My Life will present for the first time the inside story of the magazine’s rise and fall while celebrating its unique vision and lasting impact. Through interviews with the staff, columnists, and favorite personalities we are brought behind the scenes from its launch to its final issue and witness its unique fusion of feminism and femininity, its frank commentary on taboo topics like teen sex and suicide, its battles with advertisers and the religious right, and the ascension of its writers from anonymous staffers to celebrities in their own right.
Customer Reviews:
Brilliant concept, but not the memory lane I was looking for........2007-10-05
Seriously... I *CHERISH* Sassy Magazine.. all of the back issues, xeroxes of back issues... It did change my life...and when I got this book, there was no pictures, except for some on-the-cover-spineline-shots, and artsy rolled magazine shots... I really wanted to reminice, and I got gossip, and analysis and it kinda made me sad. For such a visual magazine... there's nothing to look at in this book.
Once Upon A Time.......2007-07-27
Long, long ago (not really, just the early 1990's, but it feels like forever!), there was the most fantastic teen magazine ever: SASSY!!! For girls like myself (this is William's wife Jen writing, by the way, in case anyone is wondering "Huh?") who were not the upper class WASPs of America with money to burn, perfect tans and bleached hair and New Kids lust, Sassy was such an amazing outlit for our social, political, and emotional frustrations. I was a girl who didn't gave a darn about 90210, Debbie Gibson, Prada, Calvin Klein, social conformity, and Sassy really helped to open up a whole nother world. The staff at Sassy became like our cooler older sisters in the hip underground: they knew all of the cool bands, fashions, actors, etc before the mainstream media had a clue. Also, I must add, that Sassy was the first place where I had read about Wicca which is now my spiritual path in life. In a time which I was an outcast demiJew interested in paganism and Buddhism but forced to going to a very Conservative Catholic school full of the standard cheerleader types (their solution to life was just to follow whatever nonsense the nuns and their parents proclaimed, no matter how braindead, and never to think for themselves), Sassy was literally a Goddess send where I finally felt connected.
On another note, I was very happy to see that they added a bit about how many girls felt alienated by the ultra- underground and alternative aspects of Sassy. Towards the end of the magazine, it seemed to me (and after reading, I'm glad I'm not the only one) that if you liked any song that managed to get on the radio, any show that had appeared in TV Guide, or wanted to dye your hair with Clairol instead of funky Kool Aid colours, then you were deemed terminally uphip (I remember as if it were yesterday how they trashed my then favourite band Roxette). I think that that exclusiveness, rather than any boycotts about the sex columns, were the cause of Sassy's demise. Still, it was an amazing magazine and so uplift and often soulsearching for its readers and sadly no magazine has come close to filling that void for today's young women (although B*tch is great. Check it out if you can).
Media Revolution Girl Style.......2007-07-01
Before female adolescents in America had Oakland/Portland's Bitch or Chicago's VenusZine for feminism 101, there was New York City's Sassy. In How Sassy Changed My Life, readers are given a magazine-size book that reads like a nostalgic love letter chronicling one of women's crucial marks in journalism's history. Known as the 80s lovechild of founder Sandra Yates of Australia's Dolly and then 24-year-old Jane Pratt, the youngest editor-in-chief of a magazine, Sassy shunned the "come get me boys" themes of teen publications with blonde, blue-eyed, bulimic models. For the first time, two female writers carefully analyze Sassy's impact on insecure, teenage girls seeking refuge from YM and Seventeen through interviews with former staff members and the many readers that created an online cult following.
How Sassy Changed My Life starts off by answering the frequently-asked question: why would anyone write a book about a teen magazine? While Jesella and Meltzer give a brief, but convincing explanation for exploring Sassy's rich, cultural history in American media, the chapters remain faithful in giving an in-depth look behind the magazine's main competitor. With Seventeen's "Where to Spy Guys" and "Learn How to Be a Secretary" ads, Walter Anneberg, the publication's owner (who had a gold-plated toilet seat in his private plane), surely wasn't risking his sales with features on homosexuality, AIDS and premarital sex. Yet, when Sassy arrived at 1 Times Square in 1988, they covered "The Dirty Scummy Truth on Spring Break (or, Where The Jerks Are)," included ads for Doc Martens and featured pixie-haired models with bandanas. Jesella and Meltzer manage to successfully show with crisp, tight language, the staff's many personalities that collectively provided a voice for those wanting to learn about their inner girl power with "13 Reasons Not to Diet." Former reader Sarah Kowalski commented, "The magazine was so personal it felt like a community, like people that you hung out with-that was very important. I was kind of an outsider type. I didn't have a lot of friends in school. You wanted to find your people."
One of the major concerns in How Sassy Changed My Life was Pratt's portrayal in the magazine's birth and downfall. Pratt, initially viewed as "the extremely charismatic leader," who made her writers "go through as many as 15 story drafts," was detested by Sassyites for the betrayal known as Jane magazine. Jesella and Meltzer spoke with Jane's arch-nemesis, Lisa Jervis from Bitch, who retaliated against Pratt's vision for a more girl-friendly periodical that even included a column by Pamela Anderson. In responding to Bitch's "10 Things I Hate About Jane," Jervis explained, "Those of us salivating in front of the newsstand were hoping for something that took Sassy's early vision of self-confident girl power and critical thinking a step forward." Ultimately, How Sassy Changed My Life concluded with Pratt being a pretentious publisher whose feud with Bitch magazine seems more appealing than her celebrity-fueled glossy. While the conclusion leaves readers torn, Jesella and Meltzer lets their audience decide whether Pratt should be celebrated for her role in leading Sassy or hated for her false promise in keeping the dream alive.
Whether you grew up reading Sassy or are just discovering its famous April 1992 cover of grunge's Sid and Nancy, How Sassy Changed My Life is a cultural tour de force that embodies the best of modern feminist writing. Readers will finish Jesella's and Meltzer's testimonial feeling confident about their femininity and hopeful for womankind's future, just as Sassy did for six years.
One to check out from the library.......2007-06-04
Read it in two sittings - it's fast, with more gossip in it than I expected. It was surprisingly balanced in terms of pointing out how Sassy may have just promoted a new alterna-girl conformism with their backlash against the Seventeen ethos.
I am sort of surprised that there was no mention that lots of readers' political views matured beyond the ones pushed by Sassy. Perhaps that's because the authors' views are still stuck in teenage years, too? (The tone of approval given by the authors to Ian Svenonius's Marxism was another cringe-worthy moment.)
My only wish: A scrapbook of clippings from various issues, or at least pictures of the staff, and a where-are-they-now? chapter. Okay, that was three wishes. With those features, the book would have been worth purchasing. Now I just wish I'd sent the money to charity instead.
A celebration of the magazine which influenced a generation of liberal, activist young women.......2007-05-21
The central thesis of How Sassy Changed My Life is that the one-of-a-kind teen magazine created a club of kindred spirits during its short 6-year tenure, and that it has had a lasting effect on a generation (or two) of American women. Authors Jesella and Meltzer write "Upon meeting a fellow Sassy fan, we feel like we understand something essential about that person: their life philosophy, what their politics might be like, what their artistic preferences are, what they were like in high school, what kind of person they wanted to grow up to be. (By contrast, we find non-fans of a certain age slightly suspect.)"
Since this title is about how Sassy changed our lives, it is necessary for me to reflect on my own Sassy readership. I picked it up for the first time at age eleven, when the magazine was just two years old. My best friend and I were immediate converts, and even created our own short-lived dozen-wide-circulation `zine in the Sassy tradition. I have all my Sassy back issues. When the magazine was sold to the owners of Teen magazine in 1994, the editorial staff was fired, and the name was repackaged as standard bubblegum fare, I never knew why my magazine died such a horrible death. I cancelled my subscription to the "Stepford Sassy" and every time I got a renewal notice, I would write an angry letter about my disgust with the new magazine (my boyfriend at the time could never understand why I had such passionate distaste for renewal notices).
Finally, the story of the rise and untimely death of Sassy is told, in this fine collection with chapters about the conception of the magazine, its rise, its relationship to the competitors, the lives of the staffers, the feminism of the publication, and its catastrophic fall from grace.
Sassy was the first magazine in which I read bylines, in which I reflected on what I knew about the writer of each piece, and how his or her personality and life experience played into the end product. Sassy poked fun at the celebrity worship and body-flaw fixing so central to other teen magazines. It talked frankly about sex in a voice completely opposite from that of your curmudgeonly gym teacher. Jesella and Meltzer's book is not only a delightful trip down memory lane, it also reveals important behind-the-scenes tensions and political maneuverings, as well as the cultural significance of the periodical. Highly recommended.
Book Description
Here, in one compact volume, is a greatest hits collection of the 100 bets love poems ever written by 100 of the world's greatest poets.This essential anthology is ideal for the romantic-and will inspire any cynic.The poets included range throughout the history of world literature: from the Classics (Sappho, Catullus) and Renaissance (Shakespeare, Donne, Dante) to the Romantics (Shelly, Keats, Wordsworth) and 20th century giants (Frost, Lorca, Graves), right down to the present day (Viorst, Patchen, Neruda).Each poem features a brief introduction, which details the poet's life history as well as the poem's significance.
Customer Reviews:
Great variety.......2007-07-05
I like the variety of Love Poems in this book, from serious to ribald, from classic to modern. Also includes notes from the "author" which may offer some interpretive assitance.
Stunning Visuals!.......2006-05-04
This book paints a picture of love with the most beautiful word pictures, it decorates the soul with heartfelt visuals of passion.
Elegant and Classic.......2006-03-30
How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul?
How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?
I would like to shelter it, among remote lost objects,
in some dark and silent place that doesn't resonate
when our depths resound. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Leslie Pockell has created a collection of 100 Love Poems in order to explore the many facets of love's expression. The poems range from passionate longings to realistic portrayals (Judith Viorst's True Love). There are images of love's transcendence and safety. Everything from ecstasy to grief is included. Classics like To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe are very familiar.
The River Merchant's Wife by Li Po brings elegant beauty and Strawberries by Edwin Morgan dips into memories of storms while eating strawberries in sugar, one of my all-time favorite poems because of the ending. Katherine Mansfield's poem about tea is warm and satisfying. The flow and rhythm in many of the poems is especially comforting.
The wide range of emotions within the poems also allows for a few moments of sarcasm (Love 20 Cents the First Quarter Mile by Kenneth Fearing) and even humor that is adorably funny. Your Catfish Friend by Richard Brautigan is witty and cute and looks at love from an especially creative perspective. This allows for poems with personality and lightens the heavier content and melancholy love often reveals.
Complete poems and extracts mingle effortlessly through the pages. Each poem is accompanied by an insightful explanation that also sheds light on historical facts and the life of the poet. In Love Song by Rainer Maria Rilke we learn of his lifelong melancholy and Leslie Pockell explains how he is conscious of the distance between lovers playing an "essential part in sustaining the mystery of love and life." Her ideas flow with the poems in a beautiful celebration of poetry. She gives only enough information to introduce the poem and does not provide extended commentary.
Poets featured in this collection include: Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Howard Moss, Christopher Marlowe, John Milton, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Burns, Robert Graves, Rumi, Sir John Suckling, E.E. Cummings, Frances Cornford, Sir Philip Sidney, Guillaume Apollinaire, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Walt Witman, Pablo Neruda, William Blake, Robert Frost, Catullus, Octavio Paz, Tzumi Shikibu, Sylvia Plath, Li Po, D.H. Lawrence, John Keats, Ted Hughes, Margaret Atwood and many more...
There are 100 poets featured in this book. Whether you are a hopeless romantic or enjoy thinking about the many aspects of love, this book has much to offer. I can almost guarantee you will find 5 poems to adore, 10 you want to read again and again and 20 new poets you are happy to have found.
~The Rebecca Review
Excellent book of poems!.......2004-02-19
The title says it all. Great Poets with great love poems equates to a pleasurable read. If you like romance and love, then this book Love poems are for you.
Finally, a comprehensive collection of all the greats!.......2003-10-30
At first I thought, oh here is another thrown together "best of" collection....*yawn*. But after reading this collection, I was so glad I picked it up! Finally, an anthology that includes all the classics, plus some pleasant surprises that would normally be overlooked. Hopefully, more "best of" collections will come from the team that put this one together!!
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- OY VEY
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How to Make Love All the Time: Make Love Last a Lifetime
Barbara De Angelis
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Book Description
Put the magic of passionate love in your life today... and forever. Who taught you how to love and have a fulfilling, lasting relationship? The answer is probably "no one." Well, finally, here is the missing information you need to create the love of life you deserve! Renowned relationship and self-improvement expert Barbara DeAngelis teaches you the secret ingredients for building a successful and exciting relationship -- and making love last a lifetime.
Customer Reviews:
OY VEY.......2007-03-05
So, this book, despite its description and jacket, is for people in a failing relationship. It's not for relationship enrichment at all.
And bottom line, if you need to be walked through such mechanical artificial suggestions as the author makes, skip the money in buying this book and seek marriage counselling. Now.
Don't waste your money, there's a lot of better books on the subject. Keep looking.
Barbara DeAngelis has several failed marriages, why take advice from her????.......2007-02-04
It's telling that a DIVORCE lawyer highly recommended the book (does that REALLY speak good about it?). If you read this book, you will discover why DeAngelis has failed in several marriages herself.
While Barbara "Divorce" De Angelis pretends to have written a book to help your relationship, she has really written a book on how to turn your marriage into a tedious, argument-ridden affair. She'll introduce you to junk sciences such as "pleasure waves," different colored "zones" that indicate different levels of "release," and the "duplication" technique. All of these fanciful, yet failed sciences are explained with ridiculous graphs and silly diagrams.
She'll also teach you how to write a love letter to yourself and will spend chapter after chapter explaining a phony spiritual mysticism that she apparently invented.
It takes her 400 pages to turn love-making and communication from something that should happen smoothly between spouses, into a complex science. If you read this book and try to follow the advice, you will become as methodical, predictable, and as boring as a robot. Don't waste your time and make your love-life any worse than it is by reading this book.
Forget the fact that DeAngelis invented a science and it failed for her several times. These methods are pipe-dreams on their face to any rational human being.
Making love - and staying in love.......2005-08-08
I believe this is a great book to read if you are in a relationship and looking to grow. It has some great ideas and gets you asking the right questions. My only negative point in the books is that there is a section towards the back for single people and I'm sure a single person would not reach that part of the book as the rest is geared towards couples and sharing your love. It is NOT a sex book as some might think but there is a chapter that gives good advise. It is about learning to make love the rest of your life and not just the bedroom.
For Men Who Want To Reclaim Their Marriage Intimacy.......2002-01-18
At first I was a skeptic concerning Ms. de Angelis' work. After reading "Real Moments for Lovers" I became convinced that she was indeed a Godsend to men who are serious about reviving their love relationships or who want to keep their new relationship fresh and alive. There is so much truth about who we are and why we react the way we do in our relationships. Reading this and "Real Moments" has definitely turned around the intimacy and romance in my own marriage and I highly recommend this book to anyone else (again, especially men who are looking for intimacy truths and ways to communicate with their spouses).
Some peolpe just don't get it!.......2001-03-27
I don't know were some of the readers get their wit. But I have read several of the author's books with my wife and they have helped us more then I could imagine. Opening us up to new ideas and learning to express our emotions and feelings to each other. My wife and I are much closer now then we ever have been before and it the best feeling in the world. It's far better then ending up like the one read who could only criticize the author. She (or He) is probably living an empty life alone.
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ASIN: 0517223333
Release Date: 2005-01-04 |
Book Description
If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter speaks a thousand more . . .
Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter. Much the way light displays every color when passed through a prism, love letters express the spectrum of our emotions, offering a colorful glimpse into the soul of the writer, and of the writer’s beloved. For passionate readers and lovers of words, a letter is irresistible.
Internationally renowned collector David Lowenherz sifted through hundreds and hundreds of historical and contemporary epistles and selected the most ardent, witty, whimsical, sexy, clever, and touching letters for this inspiring collection. Unlike interviews or biographies, these letters give us marvelous insight into the lives of some of history’s most famous lovers and provide intimate glimpses into the hearts of some whose fervent or amusing expressions of devotion will come as a great surprise.
Zelda Fitzgerald to Scott Fitzgerald
Michelangelo Buonarroti to Vittoria Colonna
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart toConstanze Mozart
Harry Truman to Bess Wallace
Khalil Gibran to Mary Haskell
Benjamin Franklin to Madame Brillon
Horatio Nelson to Emma Hamilton
George Bush to Barbara Pierce
Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn
Elizabeth Barrett Browning to George Barrett
Jack London to Anna Strunsky
Marc Chagall to Bella Chagall
Ernest Hemingway to Mary Welsh
Jack Kerouac to Sebastian Sampas
Alfred Dreyfus to Lucie Dreyfus
Marjorie Fossa to Elvis Presley
Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West
Ludwig van Beethoven to the “Immortal Beloved”
Emma Goldman to Ben Reitman
Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera
Dylan Thomas to Caitlin Thomas
Franz Kafka to Felice Bauer
Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine Bonaparte
Abigail Smith to John Adams
John Ruskin to Euphemia Ruskin
George Sand to Gustave Flaubert
Simone de Beauvoir to Nelson Algren
Anaïs Nin to Henry Miller
Voltaire to Marie Louise Denis
James Thurber to Eva Prout
George Bernard Shaw to Stella Campbell
Sarah Bernhardt to Jean Richepin
Marcel Proust to Daniel Halevy
Frank Lloyd Wright to Maude Miriam Noel
Anne Sexton to Philip Legler
Elizabeth I to Thomas Seymour
Oscar Wilde to Constance Lloyd
Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Maury
Charles Parnell to Katherine O’Shea
Lewis Carroll to Clara Cunnyngham
Customer Reviews:
Just... Lovely.......2005-08-15
I have always been a fan of love letters... I'm not the incurable romantic I was in my youth but I still love the idea of a pure love. To be given the opportunity to read not just someone's personal thoughts to another but also a brief history behind the letter made it a bit of sinful pleasure.
Sex-Kitten.net Review.......2005-04-03
Many, many months ago I began to read a book called Hell Hath No Fury - Love Letters From the End of the Affair. I still have not finished it but I thought perhaps I should read something a little happier...for balance.
Sadly, while there are some good letters here, I was not blown away by true love and romance like I thought I might be. And it's not just because I'm a bitter old hag either. I don't think.
Each letter is preceded by a brief description of the time and the players...I must admit that I sometimes found that glimpse into the past a bit more enthralling then the letters themselves.
But there are some fabulous letters here...not just for the hearts and flowers, but for the history!
Included in this small collection - just a few to whet your appetite:
George Bush to Barbara Pierce, Ernest Hemingway to Mary Welsh, Beethoven to the "Immortal Beloved", Oscar Wilde to Constance Lloyd, Anais Nin to Henry Miller, Anne Sexton to Philip Legler, Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, even a letter from Lewis Carroll to a young girl he admired.
I mean, even if all the letters were as dull as rocks, which they are not, just reading them should give you a feeling of drifting, if only for a moment, into the lives and hearts of those who have long since passed.
ADeadHeart suggests this as another "leave it in the bathroom" book, to be picked up at, ahem, leisure, and read in small pieces.
Share the Love in this Book.......2005-02-08
This book is a beautiful collection of deep and candid feelings of love and admiration. I hope to one day share this book with my future husband, wherever he may be. This is an inspiring book. An amazing feature is that writers, artists, composers such as Mozart, American Presidents and other famous people we incorporate ideas and generate thoughts about have part of their souls exposed to us in each page. We are all the same in God's eyes and feelings of love have always been. Nothing's new; only repeated and celebrated.
i guess.......2005-01-10
I was not as impressed with this anthology as most of the other people who posted reviews. I found it a bit disconcerting there were only a fraction of letters from before the 19th century. I'm sure that was a prolific letter writing century but really, there have to be earlier letters than that. Some of the love letters weren't even love letters! The one from Michaelangelo to Vittoria Colonna was more a commentary on the weather. At least half of the letters showcased their best (which was sometimes the only) loving lines in the letter in the hard-to-read cursive at the beginning. Some of them are very wonderful letters which is why it got three stars. I found Jack Kerouac's to Sebastian Sampas to be quite entertaining and George Bush Sr.'s letter to Barbara was touching. Buy this at a discount price if you must have it, maybe you'll be more impressed than I was.
Lovely Book! Love is Grand! :).......2004-12-09
Ok, so I'm a serious romantic woman who loves Love! I love everything about being in love... from the romantic gestures to the silly, sometims cheesy things we do for each other. Others may laugh, or roll their eyes, but to us, it's these gestures that count the most in a relationship.
When I read these letters, once again I feel as though I'm doing something "forbidden". I'm reading love letters that someone wrote to the love of their life and now they're being published for all the world to see. That didn't stop me from reading (and loving!) this novel.
Do I recommend this? Yes! Did I want to read more then 50? Yes! This would be a great gift to someone you love... especially if they're as "mushy" as my fiance and I are. :)
~Gina
Customer Reviews:
A Page Turner!.......2007-01-30
I started reading this book and couldn't put it down. This is the incredibly story of the Latifi family who persevered through the revolution in Iran and their immigration to the United States.
I have spent quite some time in the Middle East and having this account of life and hardship in Iran helped me to understand the mentality and culture of women in Iran better.
I immigrated to the United States myself and even though I didn't come here under political asylum I know how hard it is to try to fit into the American culture and still hold on to your heritage. The bonds of family and the will to succeed show once more that you can achieve in this country whatever you want. You just have to have the will to do so, something that we are too quick to forget. This is a must read!
In the name of Iran.......2006-06-17
This book discusses that how Ms. Latify father was executed due to 1979 revolution in Iran. As a result, this family's life torn apart. Two elder daughters left Iran and made their way to US and eventually one became a doctor and other one became an attorney. Plus, their mother and two brothers came to US and resided in US and earned higher education.
It is not a the whole story !.......2006-05-17
I have finished this book recently and I really felt I need to say something about it! interestingly I am doughter of a teacher and colonel of the last regim too, who retired after the revolution, no problem at all. However, I do not want to say that those who were executed were all guilty. Her father had other chances too.
And sending Afshineh and her sister to Austria in that age and the aftermath of this decision just because the schools were running under the new regime, is so funny! there were and are great number of peolpe in Iran who have studied in that situation but could as well study English and music and anything if they could afford it (and it seems Latifi family well could) and go to study overseas when they finish high school. It was not like that because of the new regime there was no chance of good education. so this is basically causing the problem: Was is really that neccessary to send two girls abroad like that just for education reasons? I guess there was an urge to leave the country for this family that was beyond education.
Another thing is lots of false information like sending the 13 year boys to the military service! that rubbish. My husband who is the same age as the writer never recalls such a thing! and things like that are not exceptional in the book.
As some of the other people mention the book is good if you read it as a "fiction". Of course for those who left Iran after revolution and have no idea about living and growing in post-revolutionary Iran and become a great educated person and not neccessaily religious at the same, it might look "real", as well as non Iranians who do not know Iran very well. For me however and I think for many like me, who went to school and high school in Tehran after revoluton and grew in a family who was not that wealthy that can afford to send me overseas to study! but was very fond of good education (I was sent to the best schools available, English classes and I could go by myself overseas and study and get PhD after high school in Iran and be a successful woman)it does not seem to tell all the "real" story. it is not all of it. Do not take it as an information desk.
A page-turner.......2006-05-02
I just finished this book and loved it. If you like reading about different culture and enjoy non-fiction this is the perfect book for you. Its true, sometimes the author's admission of crying over clothes and Barbies is shocking - but I see it as admission of truth and lack of understanding. The author isn't patting herself on the back for these traits - but showing the reader how, as a child, she didn't fully comprehend the gravity of her family's situation. She was not careless and selfish individual, but a confused and frightened child.
Great Book!.......2006-04-28
I just finished reading this book and I thought it was excellent! It was very well written and a great true story! I felt that Afschinehs story was very interesting and I could see myself reading this book over again. I can't say enough good things about this book!
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- A little confusing to me
- She's no Skye O'Malley
- A love for all time - my first romance
- a good read
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A Love For All Time
Bertrice Small
Manufacturer: NAL Trade
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"Bertrice Small doesn't just push the limits, she reinvents them." (Literary Times)
"Bertrice Small creates cover-to-cover passion, a keen sense of history and suspense." (Publishers Weekly)
In this sweeping historical epic featuring Skye O'Malley's brother, Conn, Bertrice Small-the "reigning queen of romance"*-chronicles the lives of two lovers separated by the royal deceptions of 16th century Europe...
Customer Reviews:
A little confusing to me.......2006-06-13
Having heard so many women complain how men misuse them and see them only as sex objects it is a little difficult understanding why they so enjoy reading novels in which the heroine is so misued. It's as difficult for me to understand as these UFO fantasies of them being kidnapped by aliens and forcibly used for breeding.
Case in point, here we have the heroine abducted and sold into white slavery. Stripped for examination. Debased and degraded and thrown into a harem.
Eventually she's rescued but not before she has ejoyed it.
Some of the stuff in here, such as the sexual misuse of underage girls turns me off. The twists in it though are facinating.
She's no Skye O'Malley.......2005-02-16
Aidan St. michael is a strong, likable character but she's not as fun, sexy or colorful as Skye, the heroine of the preceding booksin this series. Small takes readers on a trip through familiar territory (again, another heroine enslaved and sent to Algeria, to be the plaything of an oversexed mideastern man...again the hero and heroine fall in love way too fast for belief...again just when i am rooting for these two to be happy, they are separated by an evil plot...again I have to read through pages of sex the hero has with other women (instead of the heroine--not my cup of tea!) etc. Conn gets it on with an ambassador's wife, a mother and her twin daughters, and has threesomes with two sets of sisters, including a very graphic scene describing his initiation into what the author refers to as "greek sex"....same purple prose. All the hallmarks of a Small novel. However, it lacks the colorful sensory details, the faster pace, the eroticism, of the previous novels. Or maybe its just that Aidan is too ordinary 9dare I say dull?) to be a true Small heroine. Skye is a 15th century Scarlett O'Hara. Aidan is a drab, plain-jane, Mrs. Ashley Wilkes wannabe. Readble but not the author's best. Best to skip this one (Word to the wise: Skip the sequels, This Heart of Mine and Lost Love Found as well--both of which feature the exact same plot as A Love for All Time!! How many O'Malley women end up in harems? What are the odds? Skye...Velvet, Aidan..Valentina...Jasmine...and India...enough already!! 2/3 of Small's books involve the women being sex slaves, captured by pirates, sold to white slave traders, or sent to harems--it is a plot device she has applied ad nauseum and if its not your thing, you might want to skip her books altogether...)
A love for all time - my first romance.......2004-09-08
I first got my hands on this book back in the 80's as a teenager. While I admit the content was a little on the hot and heavy side for someone so young, this book opened so many doors for me. I can honestly say that this book has fueled my love of printed word!
I have now read every book published by Ms. Small, most of them more than once. This book taught me to love history and to think about the good old USAs roots back in England. A interesting note is that most of Ms. Small's book inter-twine for a fun read. It is always a good time to try and see if you have encountered a character before.
Ms. Small sticks to her tried and true "kidnapped and sold East" formula, but those that are loyal readers should really enjoy this book. Conn is one of my favorite characters for his strength of character and his devotion to this "less than perfect" wife. Try to enjoy it for the story it is and not pick it appart for the writer's obviously human mistakes!
Many blessings and may Allah smile upon Ms. Small for many years to come!
One last piece of trivia - the cover of the original of this book was considered indecent since she is "holding her breast". Boy have we come a long long way since then..........
a good read.......2003-04-05
i truly enjoyed this offering from ms. small. what i liked about this particular novel was the fact that the heroine, Aidan, was not the usual run-of-the-mill drop dead gorgeous beauty like most of the romance novels out there. she was attractive in her own right, strong willed, level headed and posessed a secret yearning for love. i was also thrillled with the idea of Conn her husband adopting the st. michael surname instead....that was refreshing!
Aidan saw an opportunity that she dare not refuse and she grabbed it with outstretched arms willingly. the story travels from europe and crosses the ocean to an exotic land where our heroine is exposed to the tantilising sensual treats of the east.
this book was a good read with an easy to follow storyline!
This book ROCKS!!..........2002-11-28
This is the first Bertrice Small book i've ever read and I must say that I was satisfied. The characters were well developed (though I did not particularly care for Conn - I prefered Jarvid Khan).I feel that Conn should have been a bit more active in the book. I really felt the book, and was rather disappointed that it had to end. I liked the love scenes. They were really intense and well written. I also liked the fact that the historical background was well written and accurate.
Aidan had me laughing and rooting for her, I especially liked when she tried to kill the sultan.
Ms. Small I think you did a great job, and I can't wait to read more of your work.
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- My opinion of the ending...
- bad ending
- Disappointing End to Good Series
- I can't believe the series ended this way...
- Hmm...
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For All Time
Caroline B. Cooney
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Release Date: 2003-07-08 |
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The romantic time-travel series by the popular Caroline Cooney (Both Sides of Time, Out of Time, Prisoner of Time) continues with this fourth volume, in which the lovers, Annie and Strat, are again out of sync through the centuries. From modern times Annie sets out to find Strat at the Egyptian pyramids in 1899, where she suspects he is working as a photographer for an archeological dig. But Time overshoots the mark, and she ends up in ancient Egypt, where she is walled into a tomb as an official sacrifice! Meanwhile, Strat has his own troubles when his evil father shows up and frames him for grave robbing. Will the two time-crossed lovers ever find each other again? A fun, fast-paced read. (Ages 10 to 14) --Patty Campbell
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Annie Lockwood is testing Time. She’s traveled through it before, but always at Time’s bidding. Now she is asking Time to take her to the year 1899, when Strat is in Cairo. But Time doesn’t like to be tested. In what feels like a cruel joke, Annie is transported to ancient Egypt, thousands of years before Strat was born — to a world far removed from the one she knows. Meanwhile, in 1899, Strat is photographing the same pyramids that Annie walks among. But while Strat eagerly awaits Annie’s arrival, another visitor arrives: his father, Hiram Stratton, Sr., has come to Egypt to collect his son.
Powerless, Annie and Strat both look to Time. Can its force, which brought them together once, help them find each other again?
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews:
My opinion of the ending..........2007-02-28
So...when I first read this book, I had a fit at the ending and now 5 years later I just read it again and I get it!!!! I totally understand the ending.
1. Lockwood Stratton
My biggest issue with him was that he was a descendent of Devonny yet his last name was Stratton even though she had married Winden. HOWEVER...as I reread the book and I came to the part on page 55-56 where Lockwood is explaining his name.
"Devonny Stratton married an Englishman. They had two children. The older son became an earl or something, but the younger son came back to America and called himself Lockwood Stratton. His son, my father was plain old Bill Stratton and now I'm Lockwood Stratton again."
MYSTERY # 1 SOLVED. lol.
2. I loved the side stories with Renifer and Pankh and Camilla and Archibald. And I think Caroline B. Cooney was very crafty in her reasons for having so much subplot. Annie was meant to go back and help Renifer to grow and save her. I think in a way Annie was also meant to go back a thousand years to save Strat from his Father. Meaning Strat came through time to save Annie from being Sacrificed, and in turn she had again saved him from the wrath of his dad.
3. The Mystery of Lockwood Stratton/Strat: ENDING
In the end when Camilla realizes that Strat is good and that Hiram Stratton Sr. wants him destroyed, she finds the strength to accuse him of murder, giving Strat time to run after the half image of Annie. The last we hear of Strat, he is running toward the Nile. Here is the quote.
"He could see the Nile in the distance, a dark and shining ribbon, like the ribbons of Annie's hair, and he ran on and on, sure he could reach them both."
That's it. That is the end of Strat's story. soooo....lol...we cut to Lockwood Stratton finding Annie once again in the museum. She wants to find out more about him so she asks him to walk her to the train station. When he tells her about his dream.
"I was trying to find you, I didn't want to lose my new Lockwood on the very day we met, and I was on the Nile, sailing upstream with a bunch of British soldiers. We didn't have enough to eat and te tribes were attacking from both banks and what I did have was a camera. On a tripod, isn't that a kick? I lost it in a swamp. There was a crocodile."
Now, this never occurred in the Strat chapters. So here is my conclusion. What Lockwood Stratton "dreamed" was Strat's last memory. He died that same day. In running after Annie he ran into death and then, reincarnation to be with her. Reincarnation and Time gave Strat a better life and Annie all at once. The sand was Time's way of telling Annie the truth and that is why the book is called For All Time.
If you don't agree with me, that's cool...I just was saying what I gathered.
Now, my BIGGEST problem with the book was that Caroline B. Cooney totally forgot her characters. If you remember in Both Sides of Time the year was 1895 and Strat was eighteen and ready to go to college. Then in Out of Time it was 1898 and Strat was 21. Now, in this book it is 1899 and twice in the book it says Strat is 19 when he should be 22. So...thats the only issue. Otherwise the book was perfect. In my opinion.
So I gave the book 5 stars, it was a great read along with the entire series. I wish for another book, though I doubt we'll get one.
SD
bad ending.......2006-06-08
This book was just O.K.I was so excited to read the last book, and was very dissapointed.There was too much of camilla and renifer, and not enough of the main characters.The ending was very bad! I was sooooooo confused! Was Strat born again? Will anny forget about the old strat and take the second strat? What was the deal about the sand in the watch? How did the second strat have a dream that he was floating on the nile? My other friend couldn't figure this out either. The book would of been good if it diddn't have that ending.
Disappointing End to Good Series.......2004-07-24
After a several-year wait, I found For All Time and was happy that another Time book had been written.However, the story disappointed hugely. My biggest beef with the story was Annie going back to ancient Egypt. The point? I didn't see one. And really, I didn't need another oppressed girl 'finding herself' as Renifer did. In fact, the entire Renifer story was unnecessary and frankly, a bit boring.
I truly, truly hated the end, as it went completely out of sync with Annie's character in the other three novels. She has this life-altering experience and shrugs her shoulders over it? There's no way anyone could go through what she went through and be that blase. I got the feeling Ms. Cooney painted her characters into a corner and didn't feel like fleshing out a plausible ending.
I can't believe the series ended this way..........2004-01-26
i remember being devoted to Cooney's Time series some years ago, and religiously tracked down the first 3 books. A few weeks back, my friend came across the fourth book, For All Time, and i was ecstatic, for i wasn't aware of its existence. The book was fun and engaging, however, the ending was rushed and an extreme disappointment. For years i was committed to the Time series, and to see it end the way it did made me feel as though i have been wasting my time. I won't give away the ending, however, i fear that devoted Time readers will be left feeling as though not reading the series would have been more agreeable.
Hmm..........2003-10-27
I thought this was a very good story. I really enjoyed the Eygptian and Camilla plots, but I don't think they should have been in the Time series. It would have made a really good seperate book. The reason I say this is because, I missed the old characters in the time series. It seemed like they were just written in there as a side note. Annie and Strat weren't together enough and I missed Devonny. Itwould have been better if it focused on them more. Also, I didn't understand the ending. Was a reincarnated Strat really supposed to take the place of the original? They weren't the same person and I thought it was disapointing that Annnie settled for this second version.
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"If you're this successful doing work you don't love, what could you do with work you do love?"
If you've ever wanted your own personal mentor, champion of your gifts, advocate for your dreams...your support system has arrived. As an accomplished alternative career coach and one who has "walked the walk," Tama J. Kieves now shares the inspiring wisdom she has taught for years in her well-loved workshops. Examining each fear from the inside out with wicked humor and cutting authenticity, the author takes the ideal of doing work you love into living, breathing, and "telling your mother" actuality. Through practical stories of overcoming insecurities, Tama J.Kieves shares her journey of leaving behind life as a corporate lawyer to rediscover her buried creative self, write, and develop a soul-inspired livelihood. Imbued with an intoxicating and intimate writing style, This Time I Dance! can convince you, even if you're cynical, to uncover and live your ultimate dreams and trust your amazing adventure.
Customer Reviews:
A big disappointment.......2006-10-27
I was craving for a book that is what this book says it is. If you are, too, I strongly recommend that you give another book a chance and do not waste your money on this one. It's not that the author gives bad advice - the advice is good. But, she just doesn't say much in 200 pages. She says the same thing in 100 different ways, then repeats those again. Chapters are very short, each paragraph is separated with a line or two of space and the font is big. This is all clearly the publisher's trick to extend this book to appear much longer than it should be.
But it is also the content that I disliked. I disliked it so much, I actually skipped about 50 pages towards the end and just jumped to the last chapter to see if I would miss anything - I didn't. Her writing style is more like a transcript of a motivational talk...a motivational talk to a room of children is more like it. She uses rhyming and illiteration constantly, and too many immature adjectives, adverbs and metaphors. Maybe it's just a style that I don't like and you will, but this book is about having trust in yourself enough to leave your current lucrative job to follow your dreams. For something so important, I need to respect the source, and I find it impossible with this author.
Originally, I gave this book some weight because it is written by a woman who is a Harvard law grad and had a great career. But upon reading the book, she really appears to have little intelligence in writing in a way that others can connect to and respect. How can I take this kind of momentous advice from a woman who writes in a 'sing-song' way like she's talking to her 7-yr old niece? And, to boot, writing was HER dream -- if I follow my dream, will I be only mediocre, too?
This review sounds harsh, but I just felt I had to get this review up here since I listened to the other reviews then was completely disappointed. No doubt, this topic is VERY important and if you are thinking of reading about it - GO FOR IT! But I recommend going to someone else to hear what you need to hear.
Best of its kind!.......2003-11-30
Like having a good friend at hand. This articulate, experienced, account travels with me whenever I go to contemplate. For career-changers, mid-lifers, artists, looking for new dimensions, just looking for a breath of fresh air seekers! This single text could replace the entire self-help section! Well worth the time and a place you will re-visit again and again.
This Time I Dance.......2003-05-14
Filled with quotes from her personal journal and splashes of lavender, this book is truly marvelous! Tama tackles head-on the "yes, buts...", "the I can't becauses...", and the other typical blocks to making successful life transitions. I found familiarity in her words, both my own and those of clients. Leave a job without a plan? Yes, proclaims the author, how else are you going to have the energy to follow your path if you are exhausted just getting through the workday? "You will engage the totality of your intelligence to find a means to succeed instead of to tally up and analyze the many ways you could fail."
Unlike other books I've read on the subject of:" finding and doing the work you love", this one encourages the reader to simply trust their inspired yearnings and yield to their inner knowing. Rather than follow a step-by-step process (like so many self help books recommend) Tama suggests you allow yourself time to let the path unfold before you. "..we only tend to find our mission once we take an intermission from the work life that doesn't work." As one who took an "intermission" to pursue my dreams, this book totally re-affirms my path. I recommend it to anyone who has felt "inklings" that there is a way to realize authentic, meaningful work.
She Really Inspires Me.......2003-02-25
This Time I Dance! is absolutely inspirational.
It is not a how-to, but I learned a *lot* about How To. I thought I had read all there was to read about how to do what I love for a living and earn what I deserve and live long and prosper. I have read maybe 25 books or more on the subject.
Tama simply tells her own story in a way that inspires me to live *my* story. Listening to her story makes me feel that I can do this, too. It was obviously written with much love and caring.
DANCE WITH TAMA! READ THIS BOOK AND TRUST...........2002-08-01
I LOVE THIS BOOK! This Time I Dance is both an intimate personal journal and mentoring series of empowering lessons for the dissatisfied worker bee or the burdened professional. This book is for the lonely "closet creative" seeking an experienced coach and walking companion on a path to a more passionate and fearless expression of livelihood. Written with a full array of delicious imagery and savory, insightful prose and laced with inspiriting quotes from well-known fellow travelers, "This Time I Dance" is nothing less than magical. It exposes and celebrates every inner voice begging to be heard amidst the clatter of conformity -- from its deepest vulnerability to its most passionate vision. Through her own story, Tama effectively expresses the imminent joy ready to be birthed in the soulful, pregnant cry for unique self-expression in a society drunk with educational elitism, materialism and mediocre uniformity. With cheers, tears and jeers, Tama took me and can take you on an extraordinary journey of courageous aspiration into true "life-lihood." This is the bible for the creative soul longing for self-expression....it is a journey of faith and trust...I know this personally as a corporate transactional attorney who has a double life as a "creative..."
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