1 comments about Backward in High Heels.

1. This novel is a change of pace for Judith Kelman, who is renowned for her
   novels of suspense. But readers who have had the privilege of reading
   Kelman's other fiction will recognize her penchant for combining
   humor and pathos. There are many laugh-out-loud funny one-liners
   and scenes throughout. (The chapter titles alone are worth the price of
   the book!) In between chuckles, readers will root for Maggie
   as she gradually rediscovers and reinvents herself, despite the many
   obstacles she must overcome.

2 comments about Life After Your Lover Walks Out: A Practical Guide (10-Step Empowerment Series).

1. "Life After Your Lover Walks Out" is a practical guide to help you find life after the break up of a long term relationship. Lynda Bevan takes the reader through the emotional shock of the first two days after a break up, and through the questions of guilt and self worth. She addresses fear of the future, offers suggestions for financial crisis, and walks the reader through the grieving process. Lynda guides the reader through ten steps in this journey of self acceptance and recovery.
   
   The author offers innovative, creative methods for developing strategies to help the reader with finding answers to coping with diverse situations.
   
   Within the text Ms Bevan includes lists of negative steps to avoid and positive steps to take as you work through each process. These suggestions are in an easy to read format which makes them easy to read, review, and assimilate.
   
   Step ten helps you change your mindset to become a new you. The process is defined, explained, and action steps are given for finding new relationships and for letting go of the past.
   
   Lynda Bevan has a long and successful career in the Social Services and National Health Services in the UK. She is well qualified to author this treatise. This is Book I in the 10 Step Empowerment Series, published by Loving Healing Press and is edited by Robert Rich, Ph.D.



2. Reviewed by Mary Greenwood for Reader Views (9/06)
   
   "Life after Your Lover Walks Out" is a well-written book focusing on the emotional and practical issues that arise when your lover moves on. The author, Lynda Bevan, has over twenty-two years of service in the Mental Health field in the UK. Her marital/relationship counseling and her own personal experiences have given her the expertise and strategies needed to write a good book on coping with life after one's lover walks out.
   
   "Life after Your Lover Walks Out" is designed to be read in less than two hours so that the reader can quickly see the options on how to handle each Step on the way to emotional recovery. "Life after Your Lover Walks Out" identifies the thoughts and feelings that emerge during this difficult time and provides suggestions and ideas on how to cope. There are ten chapters or steps from Step 1: Falling Apart/Shock, and Step 2: Why is this happening to me? to Step 9: Look to the Future, and Step 10: The New You. There is also a bibliography which includes books by Wayne Dyer, Louise Hay, The Dali Lama and James Redfield.
   
   Bevan writes with empathy for the reader. You can tell that she writes from personal experience as she acknowledges the various emotions and thoughts someone feels when a loved one leaves. She gives very practical and sometimes humorous advice, too. For example, in the Grieving Process Step, she has a list of things not to do which include: 1) "Don't do a Bridget Jones and slob out in front of a weepy film" and 2) "Don't replace a relationship by eating lost of food (comfort food)." Bevan anticipates the negative thoughts of the reader and suggests alternatives on how to get through this experience a happier person.
   
   Lynda Bevan's approach is very personal; she is like your best friend who does not judge you and nudges you to go to the next step in your life and recovery. She understands what the readers are going through and wishes the best for them. I highly recommend "Life after A Lover Walks Out" to anyone going through a major relationship upheaval.

5 comments about Stacey's Choice (Baby-Sitters Club).

1. I liked the book Stacey's Choice because Stacy was very mature and responsible. I liked the way she took care of her mom when she was sick and made the sistting chart for when she was in school. I think the neighbors were very nice to watch Stacy's mother. But in all the drama with her mom Stacy forgot she had to go to New York for a dinner in her dads honor. Stacy needed to choose between her sick mother or her vice president dad. I think her choice was very responsible.



2. stacey has to choose between attending a promotion dinner for her dad in new york and staying home in stoneybrook with her mother who had pneumonia in this book. Stacey felt like she had to choose between her parents, and I know how she feels because my own parents are divorced too though just half an hour away from one another. Stacey seems a little too mature for thirteen in this book, it showed her maturity in handling the situation and standing up to her dad when she decided to go for the dinner but not stay the whole weekend. I guess being a single child and parents splitting up makes one grow up way too fast at times, it was a great read. I enjoyed reading about the shopping trip with the BSC at the beginning of the book too when stacey was choosing an outfit for the dinner.



3. Stacey has a choice. 1. She will go to New York and celebrate his father's promotion day, 2. She will stay in Stoneybrook and take care of her mother with a disease.



4. Stacey's parents are depending on her again! It's either she stays in Stoneybrook to take care of her mom with a desease or she will go to New York to celebrate his father's promotion job.



5. Normally I'm not the world's biggest fan of Stacey, but in this book I liked her a lot. Stacey is in a bind; she feels if she decides to stay home and take care of her mother who has pnuemonia, she will disappoint her father, who invited her to a very important company dinner. She tries to do both, and even though it kind of fails, I feel she acted very responsibly.
   The book itself is one of the most realistic BSC books. It focuses on some common problems for "divorced kids" and mostly highlights the fact that they constantly are choosing between their parents.
   
   The sideplot is also great, even though it has absolutely nothing to do with the main plot. It's pretty funny, actually, and in a way is kind of like comic relief.
   
   The book is great and realistic. You will not be disappointed.

No comments about How to File for Divorce in California, 6E (How to File for Divorce in California).

No comments about Growing Up Divorced: A Road to Healing for Adult Children of Divorce.

1 comments about The Psychotherapist As Parent Coordinator in High-Conflict Divorce: Strategies and Techniques (Haworth Practical Practice in Mental Health) (Haworth Practical Practice in Mental Health).

1. The Psychotherapist As Parent Coordinator in High-Conflict Divorce: Strategies and Techniques (Haworth Practical Practice in Mental Health) (Haworth Practical Practice in Mental Health)
   
   This is a great resource for a guidebook for practicing parenting coordinators.

No comments about What the Bible says about marriage, divorce & remarriage.

No comments about Every Other Weekend/Straight Talk to Divorced Men Who Love Their Children, but No Longer Live With Them.

5 comments about 1-800-Deadbeat: How to Collect Your Child Support.

1. Simone Spence knows how to hit below the belt! Even if you don't collect your back child support, there is insightful information on how to ruin the credibility of your ex! What may seem to be an overwhelming job in tracking your ex and collecting your support - Simone gives you hope!



2. I heard the author on the radio and decided I had to read the book. It's great information to have it you are chasing a deadbeat as I have been for 10 years. This book arms the reader with important facts and laws that the courts, lawyers, and state agencys will never tell you. It's empowered me to keep trying to collect the 17K that is owed. I highly recommend reading this book if you feel there is no hope. There is.



3. I bought this book for my daughter! I two weeks, she already has siezed money from her ex's checking account to pay back child support. She is also having the child support payments increased because he is making more money now. She now knows what she needs to do to keep on top of the situation. This book has payed for itself more that a hundred times over!



4. Spence is yet another self-described expert on child support collections taking advantage of human difficulty and ignorance. The vast majority of child support that is not paid, is not paid because the person ordered to pay doesn't have the money to pay, which results in a low probability of collections -- if he's not already paying. The fact that 80 percent of payments are normally made without problem never surfaces in this sort of book, which finds its roots as just another unfounded attack on men. Outside the very very low percent of actual "deadbeats" (those who can but won't no matter what), there is a much greater percent of those who can't but don't -- and a very easy prescription for getting greater financial support; stop blocking visitation, stop ripping the guy off, call off the war, grow up, and allow him to be involved in his children's lives the way he wants to. Then you won't ever have to waste money on a book like this one.



5. YES!!! I collected $11,225 in back child support thanks to Simone Spence's awesome book.
   The information Spence provided took me step-by-step on what I could do to conduct research and make a plan of action. The result was that the deadbeat dad's employer had not only reported the deadbeat dad as terminated from the company, but continued to garnish wages without sending them to the state. With the power of a subpoena, I obtained evidence from the employer and uncovered his scam. This forced him to pay me the money he should had been sending to the state for the past two years. Now, the employer will be getting a visit from the friendly state prosecutor and the deadbeat dad has been absolved. He only owes $890 instead of $21,000. And best of all, I did all the legal work myself for under $200. No lawyer needed. The only lawyer involved was the child support enforcement staff attorney who was put into action by the judge when I revealed the employer's negligence.
   Get this book and get your money!!!!

1 comments about The Divorce Recovery Sourcebook (Sourcebooks).

1. I had been married for 15 years to the only woman I ever had a relationship, then one day she divorced me. I was totally lost in the new world. I do not have any bad feeling against my ex-wife, but I kept slipping in some sort of depression. This book did a great job of explaining that I get in the depression because I miss daily contact with my only son. The book taught me to go slow in new relationship, I wish I read this book two months earlier. I was the worst case scenario in new relationship. However, The book cheered me up by pointing out that I am the best case scenario in many other areas such as financial, career... I think it will help those divorced people with financial problems as much as new relationship.