Book Reviews
This is a fabulous book for women if they really would like to understand their men, so if you have a partner and/or sons I strongly recommend you read this book as well as Steve Biddulph’s other books ‘Raising Boys’ ,’Stories of Manhood’ ‘ The Secret of Happy Children’, and ‘The Making of Love’. Most of all though it is a book especially for men to gain recognition and a sense of hope that life can be different for them. So if your man or son’s like to read buy it for them, if not buy it for yourself and read it, then read it to them. Since its initial publication in 1994 it has sold 150 000 copies in Australia and New Zealand, making it the most popular book on men’s lives in both countries. Topics include:
You and your father – healing the rift
Men and Women – how to find trust again
Sexuality – Coming alive
Being a real father – not just a walking wallet
Real male friends
Finding a job with heart….. and so much more
Dr Phil Pringle has written one of the clearest, most biblical works on leadership I have ever read. It is comprehensive and compelling
If you want to read a great book about understanding guys, this is great, I got a lot of laughs out of it and
found it highly amusing, but it has such common sense info that every single woman should take heed of
and it is written by the writer and consultant of ‘Sex and the City’.
Oprah Winfrey says on the back cover “Six words to change your life forever….This book should be on every single womans
nightstand!”
Tuesday’s with Morrie
This book is a must read………. Tuesdays With Morrie
In the best-selling memoir of all time, Mitch Albom recounts his time spent with an old professor, Morrie Schwartz, as he was dying from ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gherig’s disease. The memoir, based entirely on recorded conversations between Albom and Morrie about life’s most important lessons, was initially proposed for the sole purpose of paying Morrie’s medical bills. Four years later, it had spent 205 consecutive weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List.
Morrie Schwartz
Morris “Morrie” Schwartz was born in 1916, and grew up in the Jewish tenements in New York City. His father, Charles Schwartz, had emigrated from Russia to avoid being drafted and raised Morrie and his brother in poverty. Morrie earned his undergraduate degree at City College in New York and later his Masters and Ph. D. from the University of Chicago. He later became a professor at Brandeis University, where he taught Mitch Albom, class of 1979. Morrie taught at Brandeis until his ALS diagnosis in (tktk). A Boston Globe article on the professor caught the attention of Ted Koppel, who later interviewed Morrie on Nightline. Albom caught the broadcasts and after learning of his old professor’s illness, reconnected with Morrie. their time spent together and Morrie’s insight into death – but especially life – became the subject of the bestselling Tuesdays With Morrie.
On Sunday April 27, 2003, Aron Ralston set off for a day’s hiking in the Utah canyons. Dressed in a t-shirt and shorts, and with a single bottle of water, he figured he’d hike for a few hours-he never even bothered to tell anyone where he was going. Little could he know that he was at the start of a terrifying, life-altering ordeal. In a freak accident, Aron Ralston became trapped when an 800-pound boulder snared his right arm against a canyon wall. For almost six days he faced hypothermia at night and dehydration and hallucinations by day. He thought back to the life he’d led and the people he cared so much about. And then, on May 1, he finally faced the most terrible decision of his life: his only hope was to amputate his own arm. A story unlike any other, Aron’s account of his life leading up to the accident, the accident itself, the five and a half days, the amputation, and the subsequent rescue and recovery take on an epic quality in this stirring, real-life adventure. Combining the power of a Jon Krakauer adventure with a stunning survival tale, this is narrative nonfiction at its best.
Mayada
Mayada was born into a powerful Iraqi family. One grandfather fought alongside Lawrence of Arabia. The other is acclaimed as the first true Arab nationalist. Her uncle was Prime Minister for nearly forty years, her mother an important politician. When Saddam Hussein and his Ba’ath party seized power, and instituted his reign of terror, Mayada found herself alone in Baghdad, a divorced parent of two children, earning a meagre living printing brochures. Until one morning in August 1999 when she was summarily arrested and dragged to the notorious Baladiyat Prison, falsely accused of printing anti-government propaganda.There she was thrown into a cell with 17 ‘shadow women’. Like latter-day Sherezades, these women passed their days, while waiting for the next interrogation and torture session, telling each other their stories. They were eager to hear Mayada’s stories of her privileged former life, of the history of her proud family, of kings and queens, of meetings with Saddam himself.Not only the story of a woman intimately connected to Iraq’s cultured, ancient history, this book is a powerful witness to the terror and horror wrought by Saddam on the lives and souls of its ordinary citizens.
Shares practical wisdom on deepening the enjoyment of everyday life, including such sections as “Make Peace with Perfection,” “Allow Yourself to Be Bored,” and “Remember, When You Die, Your In-Box Won’t Be Empty.” Original.