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Now there is a hand to hold . . .
Each year about eight million Americans suffer the death of a close family member. The list of high visibility disasters, human suffering and sudden loss in long and will continue to grow. From TWA Flight 800 to Egypt Air 990, from Oklahoma City to Columbine, daily we face incomprehensible loss. Outside the publicized tragedies there are many families and individuals that are suffering behind closed doors in our neighborhoods, in our own homes, in hospital waiting rooms. Now for those who face the challenges of sudden death, there is a hand to hold written by two women who have experience sudden loss. In a book that will touch, comfort, uplift and console, authors Brook Noel and Pamela D. Blair, Ph.D. explore sudden death and its role in the cycle of life. Tapping the personal histories of both authors and numerous interviews, I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye shows grieving readers how to endure, survive and grow from the pain and turmoil surrounding human loss. For survivors this valuable book provides a rock-steady anchor from which to weather the storm of pain and begin to rebuild their lives.
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OK, but not helpful for me.......2007-09-13
I bought this book because the table of contents looked good and it had so many 5-star reviews. However, after reading it cover-to-cover I did not find it very helpful for my particular situation. I lost both my parents when a drunk boater hit them (they were in knee deep water and he came ashore at full speed). While this book acknowledges the extra feelings that come from sudden loss, it does not address the complex images left after a violent homicide, and dealing with the drawn-out legal process.
Also, none of the self-help suggestions were appealing or really plausable for me ... I stay home with 3 kids age 3 and under, and I can't go out and shout in a forest or get into aromatherapy.
Survival! That is what grief is all about!.......2007-06-21
After I lost my son in a tragic accident, this book reinstilled my hope and helped me cope with my heart wrenching grief over a parent's worst nightmare - that of losing a child.
GIFT.......2007-06-01
Sent this as a gift to someone who experienced sudden and unexpected loss of loved one. Apparently it was a comfort and very much appreciated. It was my way of speaking words I didn't have. Good book for it's purpose!
How to handle grief when it first happens.......2007-05-13
This book helps you understand what you or a loved one is going through during those first weeks of grief. It was enormously helpful as we suffered through strange physical symptoms and thoughts. We were not crazy. We were grief-stricken. Enormously helpful reference book, without getting into too personal stories at this time of shock.
Help for those who are grieving.......2007-05-07
I bought this book 3 years ago when my mom died suddenly. It was such a big help to me to get through the stages of grief. It explained everything that I was feeling and going through at the time. It was a tremendous comfort to me and had a big healing effect. I have since bought it for a few a my friends who have lost their parents, and they have in turn bought it for others.
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Jenn Corbin, a lovely, slim, brown-eyed blonde, appeared to have it all: two dear little boys, a posh home in one of the upscale suburbs of Atlanta, expensive cars, a plush houseboat, and a husband -- Dr. Bart Corbin, a successful dentist -- who was tall, handsome, and brilliant.
But gradually their seemingly idyllic life together began to crumble. There was talk of seeing a marriage counselor. Bart was distraught; Jenn seemed disenchanted. She needed to reach out to someone she could confide in -- beyond her mother and her sisters. Then, just a few weeks before Christmas 2004, Jenn was found dead with a bullet in her head, a revolver beside her. From the position of the body her death appeared to be a suicide. But Gwinnett County detective Marcus Head was not totally convinced, nor was Jenn's family, who could not believe she would take her own life.
And how was this death related to another apparent suicide fourteen years earlier -- that of Dorothy "Dolly" Hearn, a spectacularly beautiful dental student? A star athlete and homecoming queen in high school, Dolly later dated Bart Corbin in dental school. Was there a connection, or was the answer to be found in a secret -- even dangerous -- relationship Jenn Corbin was having outside her marriage? For Too Late to Say Goodbye, Ann Rule has interviewed virtually everyone in any way related to the story -- the victims' families, police investigators, prosecutors, and sources from Georgia to Australia -- to uncover the truth behind the headlines of these two sensational deaths. What emerges is an incredible tale of jealous rage; of stunning circumstantial and physical evidence that runs from the steamy to the macabre to almost-unheard-of forensic techniques; and of a tragic irony -- a fateful discovery that motivated the killing. The definitive unraveling of one of the strangest murder investigations of our time, Too Late to Say Goodbye is perhaps the finest achievement of a truly great writer's career.
Customer Reviews:
Ann Rule has done it again!.......2007-10-17
Ann Rule has produced her usual very well researched, well documented and thorough summation of lives vicously cut short. I own all of her books and have read every one. I wait anxiously for each new one to come out. She is enormously knowledgable and compasionate. I have never been disappointed by her writings, and Too Late to Say Goodbye is no exception!
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Too Late to Say Goodbye.......2007-10-01
Ann Rule has authored over 28 books and has been called the Queen of True Crime stories. I've read several of her books, and, while this is not her best, it is very well-written and tells an interesting story. Bart Corbin, a dentist, was charged with murdering two women fourteen years apart. One was his girlfriend and the other his wife, and both women were attempting to extricate themselves from their relationships with him. He was extremely possessive and had a bad temper, though he claimed that both women had committed suicide and had staged the death scenes to appear that way. He probably would have gotten away with the first murder if he hadn't committed the second. Anyone who likes true crime stories will like this book.
Best Author-Best Books.......2007-09-17
I have read every Ann Rule Book there is. She never dissapoints you. She writes a true and real sense of what happen without being gory or disrespectful to the victims. This book was I think one of her best books and I feel deeply for the familys of the victim. You will come away feeling as if you know the family.
Riveting and compelling.......2007-09-17
Ann Rule is simply the best true-crime writer around, not only because of her writing style but also because of her meticulous research into the lives of the psychopaths and narcissists who commit the crimes and their victims. She makes us understand not only how and why the crimes occurred but also why the victims became involved with the murderers and why they stayed for them until it was too late (very few of her books deal with stranger-to-stranger murders; most involve intimate partners).
Here, the young wife of an Atlanta-area dentist is found shot dead in her bed, an apparent suicide...until it's discovered that one of the dentist's girlfriends had also died in almost exactly the same way. That death had been ruled a suicide - but the unbelievable coincidence ( a man loses two of the women in his life to self-inflicted gunshot wounds?) led to the first case being reopened.
A compelling page-turner.
Not as good as some of her books.......2007-09-17
I have read almost all of Ann Rule's books and I am a huge fan. I have to say I was disappointed in this one tho. I was very surprised to see many grammatical, punctuation and spelling errors and discrepancies in dates and places. I wonder if she didn't have a proof reader??? Still, I did enjoy it, but wish I had waited for the paperback.
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When doctors told Art Buchwald that his kidneys were kaput, the renowned humorist declined dialysis and checked into a Washington, D.C., hospice to live out his final days. Months later, “The Man Who Wouldn’t Die” was still there, feeling good, holding court in a nonstop “salon” for his family and dozens of famous friends, and confronting things you usually don’t talk about before you die; he even jokes about them.
Here Buchwald shares not only his remarkable experience–as dozens of old pals from Ethel Kennedy to John Glenn to the Queen of Swaziland join the party–but also his whole wonderful life: his first love, an early brush with death in a foxhole on Eniwetok Atoll, his fourteen champagne years in Paris, fame as a columnist syndicated in hundreds of newspapers, and his incarnation as hospice superstar. Buchwald also shares his sorrows: coping with an absent mother, childhood in a foster home, and separation from his wife, Ann.
He plans his funeral (with a priest, a rabbi, and Billy Graham, to cover all the bases) and strategizes how to land a big obituary in The New York Times (“Make sure no head of state or Nobel Prize winner dies on the same day”). He describes how he and a few of his famous friends finagled cut-rate burial plots on Martha’s Vineyard and how he acquired a Picasso drawing without really trying.
What we have here is a national treasure, the complete Buchwald, uncertain of where the next days or weeks may take him but unfazed by the inevitable, living life to the fullest, with frankness, dignity, and humor.
“[Art Buchwald] has given his friends, their families, and his audiences so many laughs and so much joy through the years that that alone would be an enduring legacy. But Art has never been just about the quick laugh. His humor is a road map to essential truths and insights that might otherwise have eluded us.”
–Tom Brokaw
Customer Reviews:
Too Soon to Say Goodbye.......2007-10-17
My husband is in an Adult Family Home with limited mobility. He knows he will never be completely well again and that his home is now at Serene Gardens. I read this book to him because we have been Art Buchwald fans for many years. This book is "good medicine" -- especially for people who live close to the edge. We both laughed out loud many times. Art Buchwald will live on in our hearts. Neva M. Sullivan
To Soon To Quit Reading.......2007-10-11
I loved this book and didn't want it to end. However, I felt that the eulogies were arranged in perfect order with the beautiful heartfelt words from his daughter last except for the Carly Simon song.
Laughter makes life so much better even when one is dying. To give his readers one last gift of his humor must have given Mr. Buchwald the incentive to go on during some difficult days. When we can turn a negative into a positive, we are winners.
The author allows his readers to see what he is really like. I didn't enjoy all the name-dropping, but readers were forewarned that it was coming. If I knew all those famous people, I might tend to brag a little about it, too.
In addition to the reading material full of out-loud laughs, I appreciated the fact that the font and the white space between the lines were comfortable for my tired eyes.
Buchwald, the Buffoon, examines his own death with a smile!.......2007-06-24
For years, as a political news junkie, I enjoyed the political jesting of Art Buchwald. But his last book, written while awaiting his own death, in and out of Hospice, is a very good read indeed. As a hospice volunteer for over twenty-four years, I laughed and cried alternately as I sped through the little volume, thanking him all the while for making the subject of death not so scarey. His short chapter on "Caregivers" gives a succinct take on how Hospice uses a team approach to assist not only the patient, but the patient's family. Maybe, just maybe, reading this book will help folks to reap the benefits of hospice care, not in the last hours and days of life only, but also for the weeks and months that may precede an expected death. And I toast author Buchwald with a most deserved kudo, "L'chaim!" -- To Life! Yours, Art, brought us much laughter. Thanks for your parting gift!
A dignified and humorous look at a topic that remains a taboo for many people.......2007-06-03
Before I read this book, I must be honest and admit that I was never really a true fan of Buchwald's work; the extent of my familiarity with him was limited to reading his column in the International Herald Tribune. A short piece of work, clocking in well under 200 pages - including several epilogue pieces - it's also an essential piece of work.
Having recently lost my father to a long illness, I wasn't sure how I would react to Buchwald's words. In what I would argue is his typical style (from my limited reading), he goes straight to the point and doesn't mince words. Is death a happy place? Hell no. Does it have to be a depressing place? Absolutely not. He plunges headlong in to his final days, leaving no stone unturned and no story untold.
For those who are losing a loved one, this book inadvertently does a wonderful bit of PR for the hospice program. For those in a similar situation as Buchwald, this book may be uplifting and comforting without being cheesy, à la Tuesdays With Morrie.
My only regret with this book is that it ends too soon. Fortunately, Buchwald has left us an everlasting legacy with the body of his work, with which I will undoubtedly spend more time familiarizing myself.
A Mediocre Goodbye.......2007-05-28
I have read and loved Art Buchwalds columns FOREVER. But somehow, this book seemed a shameless exploitation of the publics love for Buchwald. I, and probably hundreds of others, bought this book because of the adoration factor. It turned out to be a parade list of the famous people he had known in his lifetime and a thank you note to all those who visited him in his final days and raspberrys to those who did not. That said, it was still an entertaining read and I am sure his estate appreciated the fact that there are still people like me who will follow the bandwagon to the happy ending.
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- Help me say goodbye
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An art therapy and activity book for children coping with death. Sensitive exercises address all the questions children may have during this emotional and troubling crisis. Children are encouraged to express in pictures what they are often incapable of expressing in words.
Customer Reviews:
Very helpful.......2007-10-10
I bought this book for my best friend's 5 and 7 year olds while their grandpa was dying from cancer. They often asked to work in this book when things were getting bad. I think art is a fabulous way for children to deal with grief, because they have such a hard time expressing their feelings. I definately reccomend this book for grieving children.
Help me say goodbye.......2007-10-03
I was eager to use this book with my four yr. old daughter. She enjoyed some of the activities and drew nice pictures about her Poppa.
For a child with a loved one who is terminally ill.......2007-07-05
This book starts out helping the child while the parent or "special person" - to use their words, is still living. Its an excellent book to get for children who have a terminally ill loved one. It takes them from feelings they experience when a loved one is sick, right now, all the way through to handling the funeral and the death of someone so close. It is also helpful for the adult, who may be grieving as well, because it gives names to the feelings and also offers activities, such as creating a feelings book, to help the child express themselves now and even later on.
Great for younger children.......2007-03-14
This is a great outlet for younger children who don't have the words or ability to express their feelings of loss. They can draw them instead.
The MOST INVALUABLE book for a child facing an IMPENDING death.......2006-07-02
This book is an absolute must have for anyone with a child who is about to face the loss of someone special and close -- due to an illness, accident, or age, -- Children have such difficulty expressing their emotions because in times of such sorrow and anxiety, they are experiencing things they have NEVER felt before. They are confused, distraught, fearful, and so terribly hurt - and when all the adults around them are suffering too -- it makes it all the harder to discuss such delicate and sensitive things -- we want to be strong for them, we don't want our angst to invoke their own.....
But we don't realize that hiding our emotions teaches them to hide their own, or worse, feel theirs are WRONG.....
That is why books like this are so precious and so very priceless -- because it gives the child an outlet to express themselves in the way they do best -- their own drawings, - and their own writings..... not only are these activities that children enjoy - it offers them such amazing therapy - a release.... It encourages them to express and emote, reflect, feel, cope, and most of all -- through creating what is essentially a journal of the child's journey through the impending loss, to the death, to the mourning that follows ---- it gives your child a keepsake for relection, - spiritiual growth, emotional strength, - and a grand tribute and memoir of the intense love and connection they shared - a book that will honor their love, -- and remind them as they grow through the years of the strength and courage they found within themselves, -- and the compassion and tenderness that blossoms from these things.
I gave this book four stars because, I felt misled, in that rather than it being a book for coping with death -- over one third of this book deals with PREPARING the child for what will happen and what to expect; asks them to discuss the changes the see in the person/pet, prompts talks about the hospital, the differences they notice in how the person looks,feels, behaves - what they are limited to now, versus how active or vibrant they were before, etc etc.... --- so it was actually written for those who have knowledge of a tragedy rounding the bend, - For a death is IMMANENT AND APPROACHING =
And I was searching for something that deals with death itself, when it is sudden, tragic, there is no time to explain - the chaos in the days preceding the funeral, everyone suffering so much themselves, -- we are certainly not in any state to find our own way to understand - how can we make our children? -- we are not all so blessed to have the time to say goodbye, to know, - to prepare....
My husband died beside me in the car two weeks before Thanksgiving on the way to his mother's house - I am 26 years old, - he was only 30. He fell asleep, and never woke up -- a brain annuerisym.... By the time I knew something was wrong, it was too late. I couldn't save him -- he made it to the hospital -- but neither could they.
This book can't really help all the beloved nieces and nephews he left behind, heartbroken, -- or me,
But again, -- if you are searching for a way to help prepare your children for a loss, which - if I had the time to prepare -- I WOULD HAVE BOUGHT THIS BOOK - this is essential to their health, stablity, strength, and courage for the days ahead.
This book is unmatched in its subject matter and theraputic value. And it is something filled with memories of love they will have forever.
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A workbook of healing and hope
Based on the bestselling book I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: surviving, coping and healing after the sudden death of a loved one, this workbook offers step-by-step support and encouragement through the grief journey.
Now there is a hand to hold
Each year about eight million Americans suffer the death of a close family member. The list of high visibility disasters, human suffering and sudden loss in long and will continue to grow. From TWA Flight 800 to Egypt Air 990, from Oklahoma City to Columbine, daily we face incomprehensible loss. Outside the publicized tragedies there are many families and individuals that are suffering behind closed doors in our neighborhoods, in our own homes, in hospital waiting rooms. Now for those who face the challenges of sudden death, there is a hand to hold written by two women who have experience sidden loss. In a book that will touch, comfort, uplift and console, authors Brook Nowl and Pamela D. Blair, Ph.D. explore sudden death and its role in the cycle of life. Tapping the personal histories of both authors and numerous interviews, I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye shows grieving readers how to endure, survive and grow from the pain and turmoil surrounding human loss. For survivors this valuable book provides a rock-steady anchor from which to weather the storm of pain and begin to rebuild their lives.
Customer Reviews:
Review by professional coach who works with grief..........2007-06-15
This is an excellent grief resource that provides a solid roadmap to go along with the book. The activities are meaningful and help one who has recently suffered a loss go through the grieving process faster.
You will get the most benefit if you read the book and do the activities provided in this workbook. However, you could work with each of these separately.
The The Grief Recovery Handbook : The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death Divorce, and Other Losses is also quite popular and geared toward losses of all types. This book is strongly focused on a recent loss, but will be useful to anyone who is grieving the death of a loved one.
Grief workbook.......2007-05-29
I found this workbook and its companion book, "I wasn't ready to say a goodbye" a tremendous help after the sudden death of our 36b year old daughter. It contains very practical help, but more importantly gave me a sense that I was not alone. The authors very effectively used their experience to help others work through their grief.
Wasn't ready to say goodbye.......2007-01-09
This book is helpful to my clients when dealing with a sudden death.
Working through the Grieving Process.......2006-01-26
"As we live our life, we can choose to become a light for those we have lost. We can carry their memory, their hopes, their dreams into the future." ~Brook Noel
The need to talk about loss can lead to a deeper healing process and having a comforting workbook provides a place of understanding. In order to move through the grieving process, Brook Noel and Pamela Blair explain the process of grief.
They start the book with notes for the first few weeks, lists of calls that need to be made and information on who needs to be notified. There are place to write all the information you need to remember.
They explain the emotions of fear, anger and depression and also provide calming exercises. There are helpful guides for anyone helping others with loss and the section on Learning through Loss provides an excellent list of positive affirmations. There are ideas about Memory Books and ways to honor someone through donations or a living memorial.
The third chapter answers many questions that need to be answered. Should you take medication to get through the process or would a natural therapy work better? I have found the Bach Rescue Remedy to be very effective and comforting.
Explaining the situation to children and dealing with the holidays are also issues to consider. Writing poetry and memories in a journal are also ideas that are helpful and healing. The quotes and poems throughout the workbook are beautiful and carefully chosen.
Understanding grief can also help you with all areas of loss in your life, because I think we go through them when we lose anything or anyone we truly love. So in that regard, this book is for everyone and will be appreciated by counselors, pastors, family members, friends and especially by anyone who is currently experiencing the affects of loss. Additional books and CDs are also available.
~The Rebecca Review
Great Companion to the Book.......2003-12-31
If you liked the book "I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye" but wanted a way to help you actually work through the loss and grief process, the workbook is finally here. To a certain extent this workbook stands alone and can be used without the primary book but you would lose a lot of the benefit if you did it that way. When used in conjunction with the book you gain a much greater understanding of what is going on and the process of working through the workbook is greatly enhanced. The workbook is full of insightful questions and exercises to help you understand what you are going through and appreciate and accept yourself. From there you can learn, grow, and heal. The workbook is very helpful with getting out the grief, anger, guilt, and anything else you may need to work on. If you are dealing with sudden, unexpected loss the book "I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye" is one of the best resources you can pick up. Now, this companion workbook helps you apply the book to your life and start the healing process.
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Adding honor as a factor in raising kids …and parent-child relationships.
Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller offer a thorough program for establishing honor as a basis of family life — not just children honoring parents, but parents respecting children and children honoring each other. Even if honor seems a long way off in your household, you will find practical suggestions here to bring that goal a little closer — suggestions for kids of all ages. Honor is the biblical value that will bring about good behavior. It’s more than just changing what kids do; it’s changing the deeper issues of the heart that triggered the behavior.
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A Must Read for Any Parent.......2007-05-15
A breakthrough for familial relating, this book points to the heart directing our actions. What motivates us when interacting with one another? It should be honor: a desire to treat someone as special, to go above and beyond, all with a good attitude. Applying the principles in this book will dramatically affect any family and work to eliminate the bad attitudes in all of us.
great suggestions and direction with christian insight.......2006-03-14
many idenifying stories and great, helpful suggestions. Really helped me with my two daughters 10 -12 years old. Honor, a lost concept in our world today. But a key concept to self esteem and esteeming others properly.
GREAT parenting book!.......2005-08-24
I heard about this book through my church Sunday School class. It is GREAT! Offers wonderful and practical advice on how to parent to the "heart" of the child. Teaches parents the difference between a child "respecting" his parents and a child "honoring" her parents. I've read MANY parenting books but this one really opened my eyes up. Am I disciplining just to get the right response and just to "look" like a good parent? Or am I truly teaching my children the right behavior through the right attitude? Most helpful book. You won't be disappointed! PS - Our church also used teaching video made to accompany book (sold seperately)..it was *okay*...the book is MUCH more useful.)
Wow! An actual answer to many of my parenting questions!.......2004-02-03
The authors conducted a parenting seminar at my church a couple of years ago. I thoroughly enjoyed it and felt like I got a lot out of their presentation, but decided not to buy their book since I'd taken detailed notes. After several weeks, I found myself asking questions about some of the practical applications of their "honor-based" method of parenting. Eventually, I stopped doing it and went back to my previous free-form ideas and style. One day my two older children had been picking on each other mercilessly and whining beyond belief. I decided to buy a copy of Turansky and Miller's book to see if it would make a difference having the book itself handy for reference and taking notes. Much to my surprise, after reading the book and taking notes about the practicals details of teaching my children about "showing honor" to other family members, I noticed a difference in our family dynamics the first day! It's been quite awhile now that we've been implementing these ideas, and this weekend I had a group of middle school youth at church comment to me about how my children actually like their siblings and treat each other with kindness and respect. Evidently the kids who were talking to me thought this was really, REALLY unusual ... brothers and sisters who actually like each other? Who make an effort to be nice and speak kindly to each other (and about each other)? Wow ... what a concept. It was so encouraging to realize that the fruit of "honor" in our family was evident to others, too. I highly recommend this book!
Great Practical book.......2002-11-26
I found that many books can tell you what you should be doing but unless they have practical advice on how to do it then it doesn't help. This book does. It also was very helpful to have actual examples in each chapter.
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- No Time to Say Goodbye - Carla Fine
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Customer Reviews:
Help during a dark time.......2007-09-22
12 years ago when a friend committed suicide, it was the only book I could find on the subject. It definitely helped me through, especially talking about the stigma attached to suicide and how friends and family don't know how to act.
My only complaint was some of the stories she tells about suicide are a bit too graphic for my taste, but I would recommend the book. The listings of help and support in the back are helpful as well.
No Time to Say Goodbye - Carla Fine.......2007-09-04
An inside perspective of what surviving the suicide of a loved one feels like. It's nice to know you're NOT alone as there's such a lot of shame and stigma surrounding suicide; society just doesn't talk about it and when it happens to you, you feel incredibly alone and rather like a side show amusement park act with passers by glaring. If only more people 'came out' and offered support... this book offers that support and understanding. Written matter-of-factly it's never condescending or belittling.
Beautifully written and easily read this book is a MUST for anyone left behind or studying psychology and should be a compulsory read on every High School book list - it may even deter a few sucides!
Many thanks to Carla Fine for helping me through my darkest hour.
Joanne Saunders
Melbourne, Australia.
Highly Recommend.......2007-08-29
I found this book to be extremely helpful and comforting after the death of my husband 5 months ago by suicide. I would recommend this book to anyone else suffering through this type of pain.
Helpful, human, but somewhat trivial.......2007-05-10
Although I appreciate the author's journey in the suicide of her husband, and sharing it with the reader, I found the writing to be repetitive and trivial. I don't know why it was important to state for each "story" she researched/ journalized to attach the person's occupation, for example -- a writing style which I find irrelevant -- one or two examples that may prove that suicide is possible from all walks of life may have sufficed.... Also the book is limited pretty much to a single citation which is persistently "marketed" throughout the book. The work does encourage the survivors of suicide to seek out support groups/ therapy which is paramount to this tragedy in anyone's life; and the encouraging sense of hope she eventually finds in her own journey may help most readers.
No Time to Say Goodbye.......2007-05-07
most helpful in dealing with a suicide loss of a love one
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An innovative, natural solution for children's allergies.
Customer Reviews:
It didn't work.......2005-02-07
We spent a lot of time and money on Naet and it simply didn't work.
An accurate blood test showed that none of the allergies that were supposedly cleared are still there. My son still reacts.
Don't waste your money
This Book is a Life saver!.......2003-08-09
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Helped in eliminating my son's food allergies.......2002-07-20
Although the book won't teach you how to get rid of food allergies it's a great resource for anyone who is or is thinking about getting rid of their child's allergies through NAET. The book is full of case studies that helped me see the not so obvious ways that my son's allergies where manifesting themselves. My son was allergic to soy, garlic, tomatoes, celery, bananas plus a whole lot of other things. The thought of eating in a restaurant was just a dream for our family. After being treated using Dr. Devi's technique we are cured and go out to restaurants all the time without any allergic reactions. Buy this book...
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An estimated 50 million Americans have high blood pressure, often called the "silent killer'' because it may not cause symptoms until the patient has suffered serious damage to the arterial system. Diet, exercise, potassium supplements chelation therapy and practically anything but drugs is the way to go in my opinion. We discuss alternatives in this report.
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Four years ago Lew Fonesca’s wife was struck and killed in a hit-and-run within sight of their apartment. He fled Chicago, driving mindlessly until his car gave up the ghost in Sarasota, FL. Working from a cheap office behind the Dairy Queen on Highway 301, he makes a threadbare living as a process server and savors his clinical depression like a fine wine.
Life’s a sneaky mistress, though, and has a way of suckering you into caring. Lew’s found that he’s really good at helping people get out of bad situations. That he matters. And Lew’s therapist, who alternately acts as his conscience and his sparring partner, tells him that unless he’s willing to leave the planet, it’s about time that he goes back to Chicago and closes the door to the past so that he can finally get on with the rest of his life. Lew hates to admit it, but he’s beginning to see her point.
So Lew returns to his home town, to friends and family…and to a grief that threatens to engulf him. He’s resolved to dig until he finds out who killed his wife. In doing so, he’ll uncover both sweet and painful memories of his past. He’ll also confront a murderer who’ll not hesitate to kill again to make sure hidden secrets stay buried.
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A Look at Guilt from the Bottom of the Depressive's Dark Well.......2007-07-28
This book is so dark you almost need antidepressive medicine to survive it. You'll find the darkness illuminated by occasional plot surprises, surprising confessions, and redeeming actions.
Process server and sometime problem solver Lou Fonseca pulls himself out of his deep depression over his wife's death to return to Chicago to find who killed her four years earlier. With the help of his family and former colleagues, Fonseca makes good progress as his steps are dogged by watchers. Bracketing that Chicago search in the book is a Florida experience with serving court papers that leads to an acquaintance with a sleazy character who needs a problem sorted out in the book's end.
If someone killed your spouse and disappeared from sight, what would you do? How would you feel? Those are just two of the compelling questions that will fill your mind as you read Always Say Goodbye. But what if you got your hands on the person? What then?
There are so many good things in this book; it's hard to disrespect it. But in places the plot takes huge leaps that seem largely disconnected from any prior hints. I found myself wondering what was going on when that happened. That broke the dark mood as I wondered what I had missed. It's a shame. To work, the story didn't need to pull large rabbits out of the hat.
Be sure you always leave your loved ones with a smile on their faces.
Not quite up to the others.......2007-07-03
I've read all of Stuart Kaminsky's novels that I could get my hands on, and in general I've admired them very much--with less admiration for the Russian series. This book, of the very good Lew Fonesca series, is a bit below the others, and I'm not quire sure why.
The plot is certainly twisted intricately enough to my satisfaction. There is sufficient oddball humor. The characters the little Italian process server meets are quirky, as they always are in a Kaminsky novel. I have no quarrel with the reality and atmosphere of Chicago and environs. The dialogue is first rate, as usual. But somehow I miss Sarasota, the DQ, and the elderly Jewish psychologist who treats, after a fashion, Fonesca's depression, his self-destructive behavior, his surrender.
Fonesca does return to Sarasota briefly at the end and takes the case of the ex-dog fight promoter's kidnapped daughter. What it has to do with the rest of the story is a bigger mystery than the girl's disappearance. The book starts with the dog fight owner and ends there. In between is a wholly different matter.
Others have gone into the plots in more detail than one should in a review. Lengthy plot outlines are for book reports, to prove to the teacher that you read the book. Suffice it to say that Fonesca is on a quest to find the hit and run driver who killed his wife--four years ago. Which begs the question, "Why now and not then?" There's an answer but not a good one. Fonesca's quest soon gets out of hand, owing to a series of misunderstandings that divert him into dangerous situations. And I should have liked that sort of twist series more than I did.
One of Lew Fonesca's Best Stories.......2007-05-14
The title says it all. This time Lew returns to Chicago, the place where his wife was killed. The storyline moves away from the typical Lew Fonesca novels. In this one, he and his family are personally involved. Stuart Kaminsky is one of my favorite authors, and I recommend anything written by him.
The least pleasing in this series, but it doesn't stink..........2007-02-07
Please, please, if you are interested in this "mystery" series, read the five volumes IN ORDER. That way, you grieve with the hero, Lew Fonesca, who after being widowed runs away to Florida and tries to hide from life. You pick up along with him a friend here, an enemy there, a potential girlfriend, people to protect, a therapist, tiny cracks in his wall of depression, etc. The first four books are equally wonderful. In this one, he goes home to Chicago, finds the guy who ran over his wife, finds out why, and gets entangled in a couple of other bizarre plots as well. However, it just does not have the same magic as the prior entries. The supporting cast is not as interesting. We discover along with Lew that Sarasota has now become his home after four years, despite his occupying only two rooms in nearly abandoned building, one for an office, one for a bed. In Florida he does not even own a car or a pet, and he avoids human contact more than seeks it out. Yet that lonely life in near-poverty, when compared to his old one but without his wife, is clearly superior. I fear that those who read this one first will not be inspired to read the first four episodes. Better luck next time you turn to Lew for a book, Mr. Kaminsky. You are such a prolific and pleasing writer, all your fans can forgive one minor imperfect release.
Love Lew.......2007-01-21
I am a huge fan of Stuart M Kaminsky's. From his Russian mysteries to these Lew Fonesca stories, he never fails to deliver a fun and thought provoking book.
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