Genevieve Review

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(More customer reviews)In yet another amazing tale from EJD, another nameless husband narrates the story of his wife, his marriage, and his own infidelity. Genevieve Forbes is an accomplished businesswoman with a doctorate in her field. She is beautiful and smart, but leaves her husband wanting in the bedroom. She says she loves him, but she seems only able to perform her marital "duties," leaving her spouse feeling inadequate as a lover, and subconsciously looking for passion elsewhere. Elsewhere appears in the form of the gorgeous Kenya, when his wife is summoned home to Alabama as the result of the death of her grandmother. Kenya is young and uninhibited, and the husband of Dr. Forbes finds her impossible to resist. But this southern journey also affords this husband a glimpse into his wife's past; a past that is so filled with abuse and neglect that it has continued to impact her life and the way that she loves in the physical sense.
What her husband soon finds out is that this in no way affects her ability to love him from her soul.
Filled with secrets, drama, and the author's poetic prose that we've come to know so well, Genevieve is a beautiful story that forces us to examine our closest relationships and what we view as important.DYB

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Telling Christina Goodbye Review

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(More customer reviews)Telling Christina Goodbye is the story of three teens, Trisha, Cody and Tucker, struggling to move on through senior year after their lives are changed one night in a fatal accident leading to the death of their close friend Christina. Tucker Hanson, Christina's demanding boyfriend, was driving the four of them home one night when his car hit a patch of black-ice and over-turned killing Christina, leaving Cody in a coma, injuring Trisha, but barely sratching Tucker. Trisha struggles to remeber the detials of that horrifying night, but can't. Was it really an accident? Will they find the will to move on? Telling Christina Goodbye will keep you keep you turning the page again and again! This is must read!

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Absolutely Normal Chaos (rpkg) Review

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(More customer reviews)I remember when I got this book in my Easter basket two years ago. I picked it up, and didn't stop reading until I was finished. Since then I've read it about 65 times, and I still read it almost every day. "Absolutely Normal Chaos" led me to read "The Odyssey," which is another one of my favourites, and I've also taken up Mary Lou's expressions such as Omnipotent, cabbageheaded and all that other sum and substance. It is also my inspiration for journaling. I recommend "Absolutely Normal" to absolutely everyone I meet. And they all tell me I'm exactly like Mary Lou... har har har. Anyway, I guess I should go ahead and review the book.
Absolutely Normal Chaos is about a 13-year-old girl named Mary Lou Finney who is assigned by her English teacher, Mrs. Zollar, to keep a journal over the summer. Mary Lou has no idea what a journal really is, so she decides to just write away and hope she's doing it right. Over the summer, Mary Lou's cousin, Carl Ray, comes to stay with her family. She also becomes involved with Alex Cheevey, a boy from school. What happens next is an odyssey in itself, and I don't want to give away the ending to this wonderful book.
For my final sentence, two words: READ IT!

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Signs of Life: A Memoir Review

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(More customer reviews)Signs of Life is a rare and wonderful book that should be highlighted as an example of what a good memoir can be. There is a long list of things remarkable about this memoir, starting with the author is only in her early twenties but possesses a remarkable degree of self-awareness. As an English teacher, not only is the book well written, but also Ms. Taylor weaves in beloved bits of literature that adds even more depth to the story. Signs of Life depicts an emotionally wrenching journey of highs and lows through two life changing events without ever slipping into the self-absorption that can ruin a memoir.
Natalie Taylor and her husband Josh were an average, young, married couple, perhaps a little bit happier and luckier than most. When Josh dies in a freak accident, Natalie is twenty-four years old and pregnant with their first child. Ms. Taylor easily draws the reader into sharing her journey of grief, uneasiness, and awkwardness. The death of a young person holds a unique degree of tragedy, and the descriptions of how Josh's friends and family memorialize him are seen through the unique perspective of how Natalie both yearns and dreads to hear Josh spoken of publicly.
Enhancing Natalie's story are the friends and family that surround her. Often, they provide comfort and company, but equally, they can also irritate and annoy. Ms. Taylor writes across a wide spectrum of relationship joys and challenges with affection and a wry wit. When her son Kai is born, Natalie leans on her family for help and support while they equally struggle with joy and grief.
As time passes, Natalie comes to terms with one of the truisms of life--things change. She returns to her job teaching school, gets counseling, and finds a support group for single mothers. It is not that she loves or misses Josh any less, but that as life proceeds it becomes different, creating a new context in which we must live.
I highly recommend Signs of Life to anyone faced with a difficult personal challenge. Ms. Taylor's frank and detailed depiction of facing a stunning loss and the demands of single motherhood will affect and inspire you. Fans of memoirs will enjoy a well-written book with the exactly right degree of personal revelation, humor, and strength.

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Gypsy World: The Silence of the Living and the Voices of the Dead Review

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(More customer reviews)If you're looking for a highly readable book, this may not be the one for you. But if you want a dense, scholarly account of the world of the Gypsies, this is it. A fascinating look inside a world very few outsiders are privy to.

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For many of us, one of the most important ways of coping with the death of a close relative is talking about them, telling all who will listen what they meant to us. Yet the Gypsies of central France, the Manuš, not only do not speak of their dead, they burn or discard the deceased's belongings, refrain from eating the dead person's favorite foods, and avoid camping in the place where they died.In Gypsy World, Patrick Williams argues that these customs are at the center of how Manuš see the world and their place in it. The Manuš inhabit a world created by the "Gadzos" (non-Gypsies), who frequently limit or even prohibit Manuš movements within it. To claim this world for themselves, the Manuš employ a principle of cosmological subtraction: just as the dead seem to be absent from Manuš society, argues Williams, so too do the Manuš absent themselves from Gadzo society—and in so doing they assert and preserve their own separate culture and identity.Anyone interested in Gypsies, death rituals, or the formation of culture will enjoy this fascinating and sensitive ethnography.

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Trailer Park Zombies Review

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(More customer reviews)Have you ever felt like you were trapped in a B-Movie? That is what the main characters of Trailer Park Zombie's felt like throughout this creepy little fun romp. The story revolves around three high school friends and one really bad weekend they are having in their trailer park. The story is told from the perspective of Duke (leader, birthday boy and possibly something more) and lets us into his world and what it was like before and after the undead walked into it. With zombie hordes infiltrating their homes and reeking havoc, the three friends have to protect themselves and their neighbors from becoming a zombie buffet. Love, epic battles, a hero, a mystery - what else could you want? Plus, it keeps you guessing until the end. TPZ is a funny, gory, easy read! It has all the best aspects of those B-Movies we all love! I loved it so much I read it twice :)

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On the night of his 16th birthday Duke Johnson and his friends go out joyriding near the local cemetery. After a friend's horrific rape, Mason -the school bully- is killed in a tragic accident.Duke, Fannie Mae, and Barrett, go home to the Rosie Acres Trailer Park and desperately try to figure out how to keep themselves out of trouble. This could wreck any chance for a future and ruin their one hope of getting out of the trailer park.What they don't realize is that Mason has come back from the dead and he hungers for flesh. And revenge.The trailer park is cut off from the world and over the course of the rest of that fateful weekend the inhabitants try to fend off the ravenous zombies. Most are eaten, then killed, then rise back up.http://www.tpzombies.com

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