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Highly Recommend!I wasn't sure what to expect from "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett. I had heard about it in passing prior to reading it. I had heard people talking about the fact that a white woman had written a book mainly from the perspective of the black women who worked in the upper-middle class homes of white women in Jackson, MS. As a white woman (raised in Minnesota), I was nervous to confront my own feelings of discomfort with the issues raised in the book.
All this said, after about chapter two, I was completely absorbed and transplanted to the 60s in Jackson, MS. I really loved how Stockett placed herself into the character of Skeeter, the young recent college graduate who naively stumbled into this project of telling the stories of the domestic workers who surrounded her life, but who had previously been so one-dimensional to her.
This book has stayed with me in the weeks following reading it. I am really glad that I read it and highly recommend it to you.
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Very enjoyable read!I bought this book truthfully not expecting much but wanting something to read. From the first page I enjoyed the book immensely and am looking forward to reading the other two books written by Larsson. I passed the book along to my dad who while an avid reader, tends to be a little pickier than me and he enjoyed the book as well. I thought the plots were well written and believable and the characters were very interesting. I would not hesitate to recommend this book to those who enjoy murder mysteries with a nice touch of suspense.
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I wanted to love this book but... just not happening.I've liked Alicia for a long time because of her obvious love for animals. In fact, I've often thought that Alicia and I could be BFFs if time and geography were different. But, I'm pretty frank with my IRL BFF so I will be frank with you too, Alicia.
This book... I wanted to like this book. I really did. I pined for it for a long time until I finally bit the bullet and bought it, sure I would just be enamoured with it. I was sure that it would be the answer to all my food-related prayers.
Yeah... not so much.
I'm glad I have it; I'm glad I read it. There are a few good tips scattered here, yonder and there in it. A couple of good recipes too. As a result of reading about "daikon" in your book, I have it growing in my garden now. So, some positives there.
But, all in all, this diet is not for the average joe (or jane). What all do you limit in this book? A LOT! Tomatoes, potatoes, soy milk, bread, this list goes on. Basically, you eat greens. A lot of them. I love greens but I love them alongside a nice, juicy, heirloom tomato! And I don't want greens for each and every meal.
Now, I realize that there are many kinds of greens and many ways to "shake this up" but I live in a small town and there aren't that many kinds of greens here. Besides, I don't have the time to go out in search of a hundred different kinds of greens just so I'll have something to eat.
Really.
I kind of got the feeling that Alicia was a bit disapproving if you didn't go all out "superhero". That is her ideal, of course. But, that is pretty darn unrealistic for a lot of us. Or, at least it is for me.
And, my last point and perhaps the biggest turn-off for me in this book... Alicia has her DOGS on a vegan diet. It says it right there in the book. This to me is taking it a bit far. I don't want to eat meat but I know that my dogs and cats are instinctually programmed to eat meat. That is how their bodies and digestive systems are made. To deny them their instinct is just wrong, in my opinion.
All in all, I was disappointed. I wanted to love this book and looked so forward to it but... nah, it was a letdown.
Sorry, Alicia... I do still love you though.
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A Valuable, Well-Written BookIn "Change Your Brain, Change Your Body" Dr. Amen explains how he has used SPECT imaging to study the blood flow and activity patterns in the brain. SPECT is an acronym for single photon emission computed tomography.
He offers many examples of how he has used SPECT to obtain critical information about the brain function of his patients, and determine the best treatment to help those individuals to overcome a wide variety of problems, from depression to obesity to colds and headaches. The book makes use of illustrations of brain scans taken before and after treatment at Amen's clinics. He clearly explains how he interprets these scans, and how he determines the appropriate treatment for an individual.
Dr. Amen presents 15 solutions to assist you in boosting your brain to enable you to attain and maintain the kind of body and sense of well-being you have always wanted. Among the many benefits that can be derived by learning to love your brain and apply the easy-to-follow solutions are increased energy, sharper memory function, and relief from unwanted stress.
Sounds to good to be true? Not really. I can attest to many of the strategies and techniques this book offers because I have used them and taught them with amazing results for four decades. What's really new and different about Dr.Amen's approach is that he is employing some recently discovered scientific diagnostic equipment such as SPECT along with his unique treatments.
Back in the 1980's, I presented health conferences at the University of Minnesota and other colleges featuring "pioneers" in using the brain/mind for healing, and maintaining good health. Participants in those conferences included Norman Cousins, O.Carl Simonton, Bernie Siegel, Deloris Krieger, Norman Shealy, Raymond Moody, Gerald Jampolsky Karl Menninger, etal. Dr. Amen is to be congratulated for building on their work and currently being on the cutting edge of discoveries and treatment in this field. The world could use more like him.
This is a valuable, well-written book, and deserves five stars.
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Great research, believable characters, but somewhat predictable and lacking a last chapterI agree with some of the other reviewers. Great research and insight into Asperger's - we all know a "Jacob" these days and she really nailed it. Picoult always has excellent insight into the impact on families, especially teenage siblings - although it seems like she's told this story before of the ignored/overlooked/resentful sib acting out without the parent noticing. We get it - sibs of kids with special needs, medical fragility, etc., often have a hard time and sometimes you just want to reach into her stories and shake the parents for not getting it. I'd like to see her branch out a bit beyond this story line. I do think the twist wasn't really one - you could definitely tell what was happening - but what really surprised me was that the book ended - plop - with no resolution. I thought she definitely needed an epilogue. Do we really think that Theo and Jacob would go out of this happily ever after just by taking a ride to the court to confess all? This is hard to believe when Theo was breaking into houses and witnessed a death without telling anyone (and is it believable he kept this secret and watched his brother go on trial etc. without speaking up?)? DO we think that mom and her new laywer boyfriend were going to last on the basis of sharing blue food? Seriously, I think she needed an epilogue. My personal bet would be that the family would have packed up and left town and started over somewhere else. No way could either boy have returned to the community with what went on. Picoult is so meticulous in her storytelling, it seems strange to me that she didn't finish this off with an epilogue.
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