Check, Please!: Dating, Mating, and Extricating

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The outrageous Janice Dickinson -- former star of TV's America's Next Top Model, bestselling author, and glam girl extra-ordinaire -- now brings her patented blend of hard-won romantic wisdom and diva chic to her first-ever dating guide. Loaded with uncensored dish on her romantic sagas -- and her stranger-than-fiction bedroom adventures -- Check, Please! unveils Janice's dating dos and don'ts, culled from her three decades at the top of the fast-track world of modeling, and a rich, racy life of dating, mating, and extricating.

With the same voracious charm that propelled her into the arms of some of America's most eligible bachelors, here Janice shares her secrets to landing men, loving them, and letting them go. From first dates and old flames to primping, cheating, and sizing things up, Check, Please! is a girl's guide to an irreverent, extravagant love life.

Some titillating tips from Check, Please!

Lesson #2: Wanna Get a Guy's Attention? Ignore Him!
Lesson #13: If He's Got His Eye on the Door, He's Already Halfway Through It
Lesson #28: Don't Do Anyone You Might Regret
Lesson #40: It's Okay to Want More, More, More
Lesson #47: Don't Follow Trends -- Start Them

From the unfettered hedonism of her modeling days -- spent in white-hot one night stands and steamy affairs -- to her crusade to find Mr. Right today and tomorrow, Check, Please! is a fun, over-the-top vicarious thrill ride as only Janice can deliver it -- with a core that's surprisingly real. Check, Please!

Customer Reviews:

A Fun Book.......2007-01-21

Janice Dickinson has a great sense of humor. While you may not agree with some of the things suggest, things she has done or the choices she has made, she doesn't brush them under the carpet. She's bold, she's honest and she tells stories with a twist of humor. A fun read.

Outlandish, Outrageous Fun.......2006-10-02

A FUN Read.

The sub-title says it's about Dating, Mating and Extricating. But I wouldn't take it too seriously. Sure, it's fine if you're a rich, six foot, supermodel with a body that's the very best example of what high priced plastic surgeons can build. Instead just read it for fun, in the same way we like to see the super houses of the rich and fameous.

And fun it is.

It's a description of a life where men are falling all over themselves to go out with her. It's the description of a girl getting ready to go on a skiing trip with a boy friend who goes out to buy $3,000 worth of clothes for the trip. It's probably not going to be of much practical help to the woman who finds herself single again, a few pounds overweight, with three kids to take care of. Instead, just read it for it's outlandish fun.

Janice is NO lady, but she's VERY funny!.......2006-09-25

A lady? Are you kidding with all the f-bombs she drops in this books? Still, it's the very thing to shake folks up. In her book, this Zza Zza Gabor of the 21st Century gives us ordinary people a peek into her egocentric "fantastic plastic" world. Normally, that would just annoy me, but I had to laugh at some of the "meow" factor in this book...and let's face, it she does dispense good real-life advice when it comes to dating...stuff that people NEED to hear rather than what they want to hear...and from the voice of true experience rather than some smug but clueless married woman.

Dickerson's advice is brutally honest and is given with a healthy dose of sass...and I like how she doesn't believe in all that "Rules" crap, nor does she put all the blame on dating failure exclusively on the female of the species like so many advisors do. I especially LOVE her comment about the men who are fat "trolls" but still expect to have a supermodel on their arm...it's about damn time someone said that to those megalomaniacs LOL. Her comment about the Twinkies had me nearly rolling on the floor laughing...crude but hilarious!

Note I am not claiming this book is illuminating, socially redeeming or profound. If you want that then I'm afraid you'll have to look elsewhere, but just for a bit of shadenfreunde inspired laughter at her and other folk's expense, then this is where you want to be...

P.S. I love the forward by John Lovitz too...he's as nervy and funny as she is...so did she sleep with him or not, that's what I want to know! That info could probably fill an entire book, eh? LOL

It's always fun chatting with Janice, but this isn't her best effort.......2006-09-13

Dickinson is a larger-than-life talent at modeling, hosting, and writing funny tell-all memoirs. She dished about her long, hard climb to the top of the supermodel world in No Lifeguard on Duty, and then she updated American on her life as a sober, wisened, hard-working mom in Everything About Me is Fake...and I'm Perfect. She's already revealed the most shocking and titillating anecdotes from her super-life, so her third book is packaged as a dating guide featuring her "patented blend of hard-won romantic wisdom and diva chic." She even manageds to dredge up a few more dating and bedroom antics to throw in her advice chapters.

The tossed-off tell-all anecdotes which worked so well in Dickinson's first two memoirs fall flat in this format. The book meanders with advice that applies more to six-foot, size-zero supermodels than to the average American woman. Sure, there are fun moments listening to our unapologetic narrator, but it appear that the books was constructed from scraps of shocking tales rather than as a whole entity. Dickinson's other books succeeded because they had a structure, a message, and even life lessons (as subtle as they may have been.) This is a mish-mash of tales masquerading as an advice book, and since when does an advice book need a glossy, dozen-page photo shoot of the (very beautiful) narrator in glammed-out poses?

more janice! less check please!.......2006-09-11

OMG! i thought the book was just like the title says dating, mating, abd extricating but its just another janice story. i thought it will be funner, its just about her experience with men.

Redneck Woman: W/DVD: Stories from My Life

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Different perspective on Southern Illinois... I love this area, and wasn't "poverty-stricken" at all.
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Redneck Woman: W/DVD: Stories from My Life
Gretchen Wilson , and Allen Rucker
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Born in rural Illinois and raised by a single mom, Gretchen Wilsons formal education concluded in the eighth grade when she started tending bar at Big Os, a rough and tumble joint. By the time she was 15, she was managing the place with the help of a loaded 12-gauge to keep folks in line. But her voice provided the most firepower. Discovered while singing with a house band in Nashville, Wilson soon joined the ranks of the Muzik Mafia and the rest is history. Her debut album Here for the Party was certified quadruple platinum and established her as the top-selling debut artist of the year for any genre. And her signature knack for storytelling and connecting with an audience made her a superstar. Co-written by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Allen Rucker, Redneck Woman: Stories from My Life will recount this All-American success story as Gretchen shares her childhood memories, the road to the top, inspirations (Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard), fashion preferences (Wal-Mart over Victorias Secret), connoisseurship (beer over champagne), and much more in an open, honest, and hilarious memoir that will enchant new and old fans alike.

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Different perspective on Southern Illinois... I love this area, and wasn't "poverty-stricken" at all........2007-05-27

I always appreciate someone telling "the other side of the story," as CC Girl has done in her review here.

Castlegrrl : It's unfortunate that Amazon does not provide a spell-checker as do most email programs, as even though I am a teacher I find myself making spelling errors myself. This does not detract from this review at all; in fact, having grown up half my life in Ill. I was very surprised to hear Wilson describing the area as "poverty-stricken" myself. You really should think before you attack someone else's review as we all are describing our own experiences, no more and no less. Everyone has the right to their own experience and the right to describe it.

I am very glad that CC Girl took the time to describe their experience living in this area. I admire Gretchen for finally going for her GED, as without even a high-school education, this could well have led to her outlook in the past. This does not take away from her major success(es) she has achieved, but there is always "another side to the coin." Someone's story is always only from their own experiences and perspectives, so I appreciate another's experiences in the same area or situation. I wouldn't say Wilson was "trying to make it more redneck that it is," it's just that we can only describe our own personal experiences when we write about our own life.

Thank you CC Girl for telling more of the story of this lovely area in Illinois. I love Illinois, especially southern Illinois, and spent some of the happiest years of my life out in the country at the university town of Charleston Ill.

I am glad to see, due to CC's comment, that people will not think of this area as it has been described only from a poverty-stricken, beer-drinking "redneck" point of view. There's nothing wrong with describing one's own point of view, mind you, being redneck or drinking beer, it's just a limited perspective that we all have. I welcome other people's opinions even if I don't agree with them or haven't experienced them.

I would NEVER consider CC's comment to be a "diatribe."

Shame on Castlegrrl (can't spell her own name?) for attacking another person's experiences. She acts as if she was being attacked personally. That is not what is happening here, not at all.

Thanks again, CC, for the positive words about Southern Illinois.

I have not commented on the problems that alcoholism brings, as that is another whole story, but "people that live their lives for the bar, in the bar choose that life" as CC points out, does change things a great deal.

CC has presented many important opinions here, and very clearly stated. Excellent and very welcome comment.

Hell NO!.......2007-04-23

This book is awful! What was Gretchen Wilson thinking...how to bilk a few more dummies out of their hard earned money? Get a life Gretchen...don't try to cheat us Rednecks. We aren't any different than you are and no one cares to buy a story about our life and how we lived in a trailor, and worked as waitresses, and tried damn hard to succeed. I am a Redneck, I work hard, and do my best...and who the hell wants to buy a book about my life? Don't waste your money on this book! Totally throwing your money down the drain!

Book.......2007-03-14

I enjoyed immensly reading about Gretchen Wilson's life. The DVD that is included is excellent

Half Truths .......2007-02-08

This book borders a little too much on half truths to be non-fiction. Although I believe it is a well written book, for entertainment value, readers should regard it as entertainment only. I have lived my entire life in the exact territory of Southern Illinois that she describes so poorly. In reality, Pocahontas/Pierron is only a short 10-15 minute drive from a VERY AFFLUENT Highland, IL. It disturbed me that she described this very well maintained piece of country as a poor/destitude area with no economic prospects outside of farming or tending bars! My hometown of Carlyle (not CARLISLE, as is it is often spelled throughout this book) is a stones throw away from all of the towns she describes. Pocahontas/Pierron is a short drive from three college towns; Greenville is home to Greenville College, Lebanon home to McKendree College and Edwardsville home to Southern Illinois University. Opportunity is endless in this neck of the woods, most if not all of my friends are working professionals and YES they still live in the area. Yes, I believe she had a rough way to go, but that is simply not the case for most of the people in this area. I would venture as far to say that there are more over-priveleged children in the area than under, you can make that judgement just by driving through the parking lots of Highland High School/Bond County (Greenville) High School/Carlyle High School. These kids are not driving 76' Ford pick ups they are driving 2000 era model vehicles. Highland High is home to a national award winning cheerleading squad (several years running) not to be stereotypical but that usually is not something you find in the ramshackled,trailor ridden "white trash" (as she so elequontly describes it) neighborhood that she portrays. Yes, Pocahontas/Pierron are small towns with not a lot going for them other than a few bars, however it is not like they are a million miles from nowhere. Plenty of opportunity was out there for herself, her mother and her family outside of farm labor and bartending. There are several factories that pay very good wages in Highland and Breese (another town about 15-20 miles south of Pocahontas). Arrow Group Industries in Breese has been providing an extremely good living for many people in that area as their pay is well above the mininum with extremely good benefits, a short drive to the west in Highland will find you at Basler another well paying job that has provided for many families over the years, both of these employers would have been excellent sources of income for Gretchen's Mother, or even Gretchen herself when she came of age however they made a choice to work in the bar scene. Granted both are factories and require a good hard working ethic, however had she finished high school she probably could have landed herself an even better office job in the area and with a little more work and a college degree her opportunities would have been abundent. Did I forget to mention the very well paying state/federal jobs at the 3 prisons within an hour of this area in each direction. These are not jobs that everyone wants however in times of desperation when you have apparently been limited to eating nothing but Possum for three days (another story I find impossible to believe, a good hunter can kill a couple deer in this area and feed a family for a year) these are jobs that are easily obtainable if you have a little initiative. I drink, I have even spent a couple years of my life serving drinks (while I was raising a child and working my tail off in a factory) however it has been my experience that people that live their lives for the bar, in the bar choose that life.....they refused the opportunities that were right there in front of them to make life better. Gretchen is a great entertainer, but that is just it....her story is entertainment and a far cry from most of the lives people live in this neck of Southern Illinois.

In the time it takes you to read this book, 3 REAL writers will haved starved to death..........2007-01-30

...and more than that will probably have shot themselves in despair. I mean, Gretchen Wilson? Is this some kind of sick joke? Gretchen freakin' Wilson gets to publish a book? This is even worse than Paris Hilton recording an album.

A Woman at War: Marlene Dietrich Remembered (Painted Turtle Book)

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Marlene Is Eternal!

A Woman at War: Marlene Dietrich Remembered (Painted Turtle Book)

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An unprecedented look at the life of cultural icon Marlene Dietrich that brings together firsthand accounts, remembrances, and anecdotes with pictorial and historical documentation.

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Marlene Is Eternal!.......2007-03-12

This is a tremendous book on the great Marlene Dietrich. I did see her perform several times and she was unforgettable. This book is a great tribute to her war work and her entire life and career. We will not see her like again and her grandson does her proud in this beautiful volume.

NO WOMAN NO CRY: MY LIFE WITH BOB MARLEY

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The woman behind the man
Rita had plenty 2 Cry About....
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STRONGER WOMAN THAN I CAN EVER BE
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NO WOMAN NO CRY: MY LIFE WITH BOB MARLEY
Rita Marley
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Release Date: 2005-01-26

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Bob Marley was one of the greatest musicians of our time. While much has been written about him, here is a unique, intimate, and honest portrayal written by his wife Rita, who talks about their strugglesboth before and during his rise to fameas well as their dreams, fears, and ultimately, her husbands losing battle with cancer while at the height of his career. This stirringly honest, no-holds-barred account of life with Bob Marley reveals a different, deeper side of the beloved musician that will be sure to strike a chord with his legions of faithful fans.Rita does his legacy a great favor by humanizing him and his astounding musical gifts. Rolling Stone Her writing carries a distinct patois and a directness that makes the book a breezy kind of read. The Hamilton Spectator

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The woman behind the man.......2007-08-20

I really enjoyed this book as I read it at the time of the 30th anniversary of the marvelous album "Exodus." Rita Marley reveals a different side to the Bob Marley story, seperating myth from the man,fact from fiction and adding to the legend of his life with unknown tidbits. Her first person account deals with her life primarily as she was Bob Marley's wife. I was unaware of the hardships that they endured before "making it." Their early years were quite trying. Than later when they achieved a certain success it seems Mr. Marley needed the attention of many other women but Rita dutifully stood by her man. I enjoyed the book and her account, in Jamaican-style-English of Bob Marley's rise to International fame. If you like Bob Marley you need to read this book for a better understanding of the man and his music. Rita Marley is to be commended for her contribution to the Bob Marley legacy.

Rita had plenty 2 Cry About...........2006-09-28

I read this book this past summer and loved it - it was the first book i read about bob & i am glad i chose her book first....Rita went thru alot, i definitely see bob differently - i sense she did sugar coat the book at times, the book makes me respect Rita more and bob less. His woman had plenty of reasons to cry.

Great Book.......2006-07-10

No Woman No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley is an awesome testimony of a woman of strength and virtue. I am a huge Bob Marley fan and Rita Marley told her story with love, passion compassion and truth, concerning her relationship with Bob Marley. Through her story she makes you feel as if you want to comfort, applaude and cry with her all at the same time. She reveals the very core of her struggles with Bob, his fame, his affairs, the business, the family and his death, and her life after Bob. And she writes not as a bitter woman but a woman who knew her destiny and her role as the wife of Bob Marley. I LOVED IT!

STRONGER WOMAN THAN I CAN EVER BE.......2006-04-06

THIS BOOK WAS EXCELLENT! THE STRUGGLES THAT THEY HAVE BEEN THROUGH TOGETHER LETS YOU KNOW JUST HOW STRONG THEIR LOVE REALLY WAS. BEING A JAMAICAN WOMAN MYSELF, I KNOW HOW OUR JAMAICAN MEN CAN BE. BUT RITA HAD ALOT OF HEART STAYING WITH HIM ALL THESE YEARS EVEN THOUGH HE BLATANTLY FLAUNTED HIS WOMEN IN HER FACE. THE ONLY GOOD THING WAS HE MADE THEM PLAY THEIR POSITION BECAUSE NO ONE COULD TAKE HER PLACE. THIS WAS THE BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY I HAVE EVER READ!

Wonderful tribute to a woman's love.......2006-03-01

This is a wonderful book. An initimate portrayal of Bob and Rita Marley's life from poverty to worldwide reknown. Its insights into how Rita dealt with marital infidelity and frequent absences from Bob Marley are also very interesting. Rita was one strong woman! Highly recommended whether you are a reggae fan or not

A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sing Them

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Where are all the blues women?
Compelling take on blues history

A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sing Them
Buzzy Jackson
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The women who broke the rules, creating their own legacy of how to live and sing the blues.

An exciting lineage of women singers—originating with Ma Rainey and her protégée Bessie Smith—shaped the blues, launching it as a powerful, expressive vehicle of emotional liberation. Along with their successors Billie Holiday, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, and Janis Joplin, they injected a dose of reality into the often trivial world of popular song, bringing their message of higher expectations and broader horizons to their audiences. These women passed their image, their rhythms, and their toughness on to the next generation of blues women, which has its contemporary incarnation in singers like Bonnie Raitt and Lucinda Williams (with whom the author has done an in-depth interview). Buzzy Jackson combines biography, an appreciation of music, and a sweeping view of American history to illuminate the pivotal role of blues women in a powerful musical tradition. Musician Thomas Dorsey said, "The blues is a good woman feeling bad." But these women show by their style that he had it backward: The blues is a bad woman feeling good. 70 illustrations.

Customer Reviews:

Where are all the blues women?.......2005-07-02

It's not what is said in this book, but what is not. When Elvis Presley gets more space then Memphis Minnie, and Ike Turner gets more pages then Dinah Washington. I began to frown. Where is Big Maybell? Where is Big Mama Thronton? Where is Ruby Glaze? Where is Bessie Tucker? Where is Lucille Bogan? Where is Victoria Spivey? Where is Sippy Wallace? Where is Alberta Hunter? Where is Bonnie Lee? Where is Julia Lee? Where is Nellie Lutcher? Where is Ivy Smith? Where is Katie Webster? Where is Lil Johnson? Where is Bernice Edwards. Where is Ethel Waters? Where is Georgia White? It's not that I appreciate the contributions of Tina Turner or Janis Joplin they have record some fine blues, but Courtney Love? She may be a bad girl, but she is certainly NOT a blues singer. Not to mention the above women who lived the blues to the fullest is a real shame!

Compelling take on blues history.......2005-03-19

Some readers may be familiar with the general contours of the lives of the women presented here--Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Aretha Franklin, and others. But the way that Jackson weaves together these stories against the tapestry of 20th Century American culture is original and compelling. Jackson convincingly shows how different woman blues singers (and later rock and alt country singers) drew on each other's work for inspiration. Their contributions were cultural and social as well as artistic. Most importantly, for potential readers--Jackson tells a good story. The writing is gripping and fast-paced. I recommend it highly.

Don't Ask Forever: My Love Affair With Elvis: A Washington Woman's Secret Years With Elvis Presley

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Affair With Elvis
HER light will never dim
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One of the best I have read......
What a book !..........

Don't Ask Forever: My Love Affair With Elvis: A Washington Woman's Secret Years With Elvis Presley
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Affair With Elvis.......2005-12-29

I think this story is true. so many people claim to have been close to Elvis but do not have the people to back it up. but joyce does all the guys close to Elvis are still around and she talks about them a lot. I take it she was the woman before the well known Linda. this book is good and gives us a close up look at the last years of Elvis's life. and a look into the drug use and how it really messed up his life. this is a book you will want to read again someday i know i will.

HER light will never dim.......2002-10-25

I was completely blown away by the strength of emotions presented to me as a reader.
Joyce's courage and love for Elvis was so palpable, so intense, I was almost embarassed by the emotions I would find inside myself when reading this book.
I often would talk to my wife of Joyces' story and together we would sit and reflect on how intense this love was.
The dispair, fear, futility and finally (sadly), her resignation to the fact that, despite how powerful their love was for each other, despite how much Joyce was willing to sacrifice for that love (for sacrifice she surely did), the only way she could save herself from a terrible fate was to leave the very thing that made her feel complete.
If my words make no sense to you, I apologize. Every time I try to put the feelings that this book caused me to have into words, I inevitably cannot.
I would often talk to a dear friend of this story as well. More often than not, I would have to just stop and catch my breath because I could not put my feelings into the right words.
Joyce, you truly are a remarkable, wonderful and beautiful person. Your strength to finally end your life with Elvis was probably one of the toughest things to do.
But it made you a much stronger person.
Truly remarkable. Thank you.

My review on Joyce Bova.......2002-05-16

I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in hearing the story from a woman who truly loved Elvis- I found myself completing this book in 3 days. It has been one of the best books that I have read regarding Elvis as a person. If I was able to say anything to Ms. Bova it would be "thank you" for allowing a fan like myself to get to know how Elvis was on a more personal level. I admire your strenght and think you were a very special and memorable piece in the complex life that was Elvis Presley.

One of the best I have read.............2002-03-24

I really enjoyed this book and hope to read it many more times. I felt a real empathy with Joyce Bova and think she truly cared for Elvis. I disagreed with many of the things she did [especially the abortion] but who knows what we would have done in her place. It is not for others to judge her. I felt I really liked Joyce Bova through reading the book and would love to know what she is doing now and whether she would feel able to make contact with Elvis fans.

What a book !.................2000-12-09

I have read this book about 3-times. And I can honestly say that I liked it very much. Bova gives us alot of insight to Elvis the "man" and not so much the Entertainer. Although Im not sure how she can recall every conversation they every had. And I did get the feeling, she was not so much in love with him ( I say this because she chose to abort his baby, without ever teling him! ) And I have a problem with her acting like it was ok, to be sleeping with a marraide man, since she says "Elvis assures me he and Priscilla are marraide in name only" However, over all this is a very good book, and gives alot of information about him, most people prabaly dont know. I would recommend this to anyone who would like to know more about Elvis the man.

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Integrated learning manual to love inside out

Attracting Genuine Love
Kathlyn Hendricks , and Gay Hendricks
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Attracting Genuine Love distills the Hendricks' essential principles for finding and keeping love into one immersive, results-oriented program. With them, you will learn how to: · Identify your Three Absolute Yes's and Three Absolute No's. Your relationship must-haves and deal-breakers essential for relationship success. · Remove the number one obstacle that prevents you from having the relationship you want. · Move through the three crucial psychological and emotional shifts necessary to find lifelong love. · Attract a partner who shares your deepest desires and values · Make a "soul-level commitment" to yourself, the critical step to invite love into your life · Discover the power of fearless honesty, moment-by-moment communication, and the three other "real rules" to create a conscious relationship.

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ok.......2007-03-09

This book has good ideas-it's a short, simple read. It's another book about thinking positive thoughts and looking at your fears and confronting them. The included CD skipped on the 8th track which had the 'big secret' ..so I am not fully sure what that is. I survived.
Using this and other positive thoughts I opened myself up and am going on a 2nd date with a girl I met a few weeks ago. So basically the message is to think, percieve and believe and you'll get it. I know I had and still do have fears and apprehensions about stopping 'the seach' for 'the one' --this book assisted in hammering into my head that I am the one who is behind the lack in my life- and if I REALLY want something- I need to focus on it, define it, let go of fears and go get it.

Integrated learning manual to love inside out.......2005-03-13

Drs. Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks offer a step-by-step learning manual complete with a CD on attracting in love. The path is developed from inner love, removing emotional and sub-conscious blocks to a healthy loving relationshipw ith oneself ... and then extending it outward. The meditations offer a chance to experience the lessons in action. If you want to learn from people who have achieved what you are looking for, the Hendricks are one of the best teachers in conscious loving.

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Still Woman Enough: A Memoir
Loretta Lynn , and Patsi Bale Cox
Manufacturer: Hyperion
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L oretta Lynns first memoir, Coal Miners Daughter, was a #1 national bestseller that sparked an Oscar-winning movie and left fans hungry for more. Now Loretta finishes that story, and the second half of her life is every bit as remarkable and inspiring as the first. In a friendly, down-home style that belies her stature as country musics most celebrated performer, Loretta writes candidly about the price of fame and the stresses of stardom; tells of friends and family shes loved and lost along the way; and shares secrets not included in her first book. But at the heart of this memoir is her stormy relationship with Doo, the man she married at thirteen and stayed with until he died, through his drinking, their violent arguments, and their passionate reconciliations. Loretta reveals the devotion behind one of the hardest love stories in the world. Filled with intimate portraits of country legends, and brimming with folksy humor, this personal tale of grit, determination, and loyalty will enthrall Lorettas countless fans and anyone who adores a good old-fashioned love story.

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great.......2007-08-22

I loved this book even more than her first, as it was more complete and honest. However, I still question whether or not Loretta was so faithful all those yrs knowing her husband was always cheating and she had so many opportunities. It seems like maybe she left something out, making her look a little too perfect, maybe because of her children. I did really enjoy the book.

loretta lynn.......2007-01-04

This book was so easy to read, I could hear Loretta speaking to me!!! She writes like she talks, which is not all that common...but a definite plus. A must-have for Loretta Lynn fans.

A Great Book!.......2006-09-04

I really enjoyed reading this book. It was hard to put down. I bought it in West Virginia at one of her shows. I hadn't read her first book but after reading this one, I also bought it. She had a facinating life and I still enjoy going to see her shows when I can.

A good read.......2006-09-04

This is the third Loretta Lynn book that I've purchased. I first got "Coal Miner's Daughter" then I got, "You're Cookin' It Country." Both of those books are true Loretta and this book is no different. It's sort of "Coal Miner's Daughter" Part Two. She tells stories in an easy to understand way and the book flows as if Loretta is in the room telling you the stories face to face. It is a really great book

Couldn't Put It Down.......2006-08-17

Having read Loretta Lynn's memoir, "Coal Miner's Daughter" and seeing the movie, Coal Miner's Daughter, and having recently visited her Ranch and also her homeplace, I couldn't wait to read her latest memoir, "Still Woman Enough". I honestly could not put the book down. Loretta Lynn proves she is a pillar of strength as she describes the trials, tribulations and secrets of her marriage, and the demands of show buisness, much of which she did not mention in her first book. She is friendly and down to earth throughout the book and is an inspiration to many women.

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Funny Woman: The Life and Times of Fanny Brice (A Midland Book)

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Will The Real Fanny Brice Please Stand Up?.......2000-06-18

This is a satisfying,well reasearched, and enlightening look into the real truths behind famed comic and Ziegfield star Fanny Brice. With harsh facts yet obvious respect for her subject author Barbara W. Grossman peels away the myths propagated by the Streisand films and gets to the facts and the core of the real Fanny Brice. This is a very entertaining biography and may also be used as a great tool to research the early days of Vaudeville, Burlesque, and the Ziegfield Follies.

The Woman Behind the Lens: The Life and Work of Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1864-1952

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The Woman Behind the Lens: The Life and Work of Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1864-1952
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Try to picture Mark Twain, or Uncle Remus, or even Theodore Roosevelt. More than likely, you have a Frances Benjamin Johnston image in your mind. Johnston was a significant--and arresting--figure in early twentieth-century photography. Beautifully illustrated with forty examples of her work, this first full-length biography explores the surprising range of Johnston's talent, as well as her high-stepping, controversial character.

Johnston produced a good deal of the usual society portraiture of the time--including a nude photograph of a debutante that prompted the girl's outraged father to file a lawsuit--but she was also an important photodocumentarian. Students of African American history can reexamine life at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) or Tuskegee using hundreds of photographs made by Johnston at the turn of the last century.

Through Johnston's work we can see Admiral Dewey on the deck of the USS Olympia, the Roosevelt children playing with their pet pony at the White House, and the gardens of Edith Wharton's famous villa near Paris. Johnston's major project on early vernacular architecture of the American South preserves scores of buildings that no longer exist except on her film.

However, while many are familiar with Johnston's photographs, most know little about the woman who made them. And without the context of her life, which Bettina Berch gives us in all its contradiction and color, Johnston's subjects may seem inchoate, her choices part feminist and part reactionary, part radical and part retrograde.

Johnston entered photography when the field was relatively new, and professional gender boundaries were still being defined. The invention of lighter equipment and changing technologies in developing meant that photography could be moved from the studio and darkroom--male provinces--out into the street or the home. But the repressiveness of late nineteenth-century society sometimes cast a shadow: there were a host of prescriptions governing proper female behavior, and certainly the sensuality of the human body as a subject caused many to argue that this new art form should remain a male preserve.

Within these boundaries, Johnston defined herself as an artist. Raised in an upper-middle-class household in Washington, D.C., she declined to "marry money" and instead made her living as an artist, although she enjoyed the cushion of her family's wealth and connections. In the course of her career, she moved through a series of interests, from portraiture to historic preservation. It is her restlessness, her resistance to easy categorizing, that makes this upper-class bohemian photographer such a fascinating subject herself.

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