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4 comments about Sketches From a Spy Tree.

1. From family relationships to grouchy neighbors, Tracie Vaughn Zimmer has captured perfectly a child's observations of the world around her and displayed them in a beautiful collection of poetry. This is the perfect book to share with your children while sitting in the porch swing on a hot summer day. Sure to be a summer favorite!



2. Tracie Vaughn Zimmer paints a vivid picture of how divorce can look to a child sitting within its wake. Though this story comes to life in the living color of poetry, Zimmer's clean, crisp words are easily accessible. As Anne Marie opens up and takes us by the hand into her neighborhood, Zimmer makes the reader long to linger there, to laugh and cry with each character... and cheer them all on. Bravo to this new poet with an unforgettable, original voice.
   Kudos to Andrew Glass, whose vibrant paintings and collage are perfectly paired with every poem.



3. THIS BOOK IS A BEAUTIFUL STORY WRITTEN IN FREE VERSE. IT IS AN EXCELLENT RESOURCE FOR EXPLORING THE LANGUAGE OF POETRY WITH SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN. THE TOPIC OF DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE ARE HANDLED WITH DELICATE BUT REALISTIC IMAGES. BUY THIS BOOK!!!!



4. This is a poem book written by a female child. In these poems she tells us the lessons she is learning by living life. She is a twin and has a hard time when people think that she is just like her sister just because they look alike. Her parents have gotten a divorce and some of her poems are about her feelings on this issue.
   
   
   It was written from a child's point of view.
   
   
   There are several lesson plans on the internet that will enhance the reading of this book in a home or school classroom setting.

1 comments about Ending marriage, keeping faith: A new guide through the spiritual journey of divorce.

1. I read the first printing of this book after my divorce in 2000. I loaned it to a friend and never saw it again. I just found out about the second printing and I'm thrilled!!
   
   In all these years I've held Mr. Nichols' words close to my heart. Especially his observations regarding friendship with one's former spouse. He writes that our society pressures divorced couples to maintain a friendship. That pressure is often cruel. "It is unreasonable to expect couples to do in divorce what they could not do in marriage." (Something like that, it has been a long time.)
   
   This book addresses the soulful and spiritual crises surrounding divorce that I have not found anywhere else.

5 comments about Special Delivery.

1. An author can write a short book and it will be well received (i.e. The Gift) but this book falls very short of that lofty expectation. I felt while reading this Steel took her formula of putting wealthy people into everyday situations and just wrote a book to get it out to her publishers for some deadline. I read this book in an hour, and at the end of it, I found myself extremely disappointed. It's one thing if the book is good, and short, but this was not that. I would advise you not to waste your money on this book, but if you do want to read it, borrow it from your local library or a friend.



2. This is the frist book of Danielle Steels I have read. I usually dont read romance, but I did enjoy this. Its not overly mushie and was actually very sweet and charming. As I read the book it was almost as if I was watching a movie of it. It was very believeal and left me with some laughs and a lot of smiles.



3. After 26 years of marriage, Amanda Robbins become unexpectedly widowed. She stayed at home in a depressed state for a few years afraid to give up the memory of her late husband. One day, her daughter talked her into going to a Hollywood party and she finally gave in. Amanda had been a famous actress before and knew lots of people at the party. The party gave her a jumpstart on her lost social life plus she met a new man named Jack Watson, who was the father of her son-in-law. Jack was a boutique owner in Beverly Hills and was a swinging bachelor with a bad reputation. Amanda soon found him to be a charming gentleman. As the story progresses Amanda and Jack fall in love and then one day they have suprising news to give to their family...



4. This book was boring. I didn't find anything in it entertaining. It was set in glamorous Hollywood. A grown woman's husband dies and she remarries.



5. I totally loved this book! Thought it was too cute... many parts made me laugh out loud, but yet other parts pulled at my heart. Really enjoyed this one!!!

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4 comments about Broken Families Broken Homes: Protecting Your Family from the Epidemic of Divorce.

1. This is a must read for any man who is getting married, having an affair, unhappy at home, fantasizing about other women, raising children,or using drugs or alchohol. It is a must read for clergy, marriage counselors, or any person giving counsel to men, women or couples on marriage. The author comes accross as giving a lot of advice, however the advice is powerful, hard hitting and will cause you to think about being a better person. Rick Douglas hits the nail on the head about our elected leaders in this country and what needs to be done to begin a cure to this epidemic of broken homes and families. I suggest that any women feeling a victim of husband or ex-husband behavior needs to read this. It is easy to read with no hidden meanings or agenda.



2. A tremendous read for every person! The author really brings out cutting edge points on the divorce conundrum. This book needs to make it's way into every home in the country. This is a must read for every politition on Capital Hill as it spells out not only the damages caused by divorce on a personal level but the damages caused by divorce on a social scale as well.



3. A totally cathartic experience for me. I realized my marriage was,unfortunatly, not unique-not the only one to go through these devastating ills. The author lays out clearly the things that chip away and erode a marriage. Truth is no couple imagines their marriage will be temporary. The issues this seemingly "regular guy" talks about are the exact things that led to end of my marriage. I wish my first husband would have read this before he decided to cheat, before I couldn't forgive and before my kids had to start their life in a broken home. I recommend this book to all married people and those considering marriage. It is a frightening reminder of how easily we can crush something so precious, and just how far reaching the effects are. A great wake up call to America and a must read for any man you love and want to be happy.



4. In today's society, one mired by mass marketing geared toward instant gratification, microwave dinners, the commercial promise of the good life and the drive through divorce Mr. Douglas has worked diligently to lay down a road map to avoid the pitfalls of the all to common broken home. In what could be referred to as the "me first" era the author explains the incredibly destructive effects such thinking can have not only on our personal relationships but those of our children and our children's children. Mr. Douglas espouses upon his belief that popular culture, the media, and even our politicians are to blame for the shortcoming of our commitment as a nation to the sanctity of the family unit. In the classic sense, we have all become a product of our environment one in which jealousy, adultery, divorce, and gross miss use of power have become all to common place. (Perhaps so much so that they have become almost the accepted or expected norm). An interesting read that I think anyone can learn from.

1 comments about Boys Without Dads: When Dads Abandon Homes.

1. Before the Americans settled here, there is quite an extensive history of English bastardy from the practices of warlords building their armies by producing bastard children, loyal only to them, but not a part of their family as we know it today. Although leaving a family does not subject children to this same outcome, the dynamics of "children alone" may be much the same when they are left. The same might be considered true of children of divorce, or in cases where Dads are gone constantly, and especially in cases where unwed mothers have children so that a child does not, and cannot, know who his or her father is. Such children have no role model at all and are forced to take by observation and interaction what they can learn in order to fill that intellectual and psychological void. The emotional void is likely never filled for there is simply no way of doing so. When they become men, such loners are especially dependent upon the emotional attachments they make with their mothers, usually, if that is possible, and certainly with the spouses who become their wives, requiring often an unreasonable level of trust and loyalty because of the substitution requirement of having had no Dad, and even sometimes, no Mother who was reliable or caring. These neglected and forgotten children are not well represented in our culture since there are so few of them, and people often do not think about the fact of their existence, how they exist, and/or what encouragement and motivations they require to thrive. Very, very few books, if any, are written on how to deal with bastard children, particularly bastard males who have the most extraordinary uphill battle of children without fathers (or parents) since they must invent themselves as they go along. There are huge gaps between what we surmise is the nature of family, and what are the actual practicalities of what exist in the human marketplace, over the wide world. One might suggest they exhibit characteristics of refugee children, and that might begin to characterize the nature of the dilemma of having no role models by which society expects children to learn about life, love, community, and the world, as well as how to work. Some do extremely well by virtue of the fact that they haven't preconceived notions, provided they have someone who cares about them, but there is absolutely no certainty that they will have this kind of relationship. It is something society should give considerable thought to, regardless of gender, and regardless of our minimal efforts to typecast society as we tend to do. What attitudes does a fatherless child bring to the task of parenting, being a spouse, or even being an employee with no role model?

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