by Bookworm
‘Brilliantly and sympathetically written, it will strike cold fear into the heart of every parent’ - Daily Mail
This is a sad story about a recently widowed man and his young teenage son, Jamie, who have moved house and are settling into a new life in outer suburban London. When Sam discovers that Jamie is skiving off school he becomes paranoid about his son’s welfare: is he fitting in? is he coping with his mother’s death? is he being bullied?
But he never seems to DO anything about his parental concerns, leaving Jamie to his own devices without truly getting to the bottom of what’s going on and jumping to all kinds of conclusions.
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by Bookworm
Swapping Lives is one of the best Greens books. At times it was repetitive, but it was an interesting read. Its a story of a single London Girl, Vicky, as the magazine she works for sends her over to America. The idea is for Vicky to switch lives with Amber, a supposedly all-American housewife in the Manhattan suburbs. Following along on their adventures was great fun, and Green also added in a few good life lessons. If you’re a fan of Green’s books, don’t hesitate to buy it! If you’re new to the whole ‘chick-lit’, get this from your local library and devour it.
Synopsis
The New York Times bestselling author of The Other Woman returns with a wry tale of two women who discover the grass is not always greener on the other side of the Atlantic
Vicky Townsley is single, solvent, and seriously successful. Features director of the hugely successful Poise! magazine, she has an amazing flat, good friends, a fantastic wardrobe . . . in short, everythingâ€â€except the life she wants: marriage, children, and a house in the country.
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by Bookworm
In Cutler’s book, the Dalai Lama comes across as as a wonderfully happy man, thrilled with life and all it has to offer, good and bad. His happiness is achieved through years of meditation and the training of his mind based on the teachings of Buddha while interacting with the real world of people and their problems. Cutler summarizes a collection of lectures and through those summaries the reader can access a sense of how to achieve happiness, through training one’s mind to be compassionate and kind. Sounds simple, but it’s not. No one becomes as blissful as the Dalai Lama without a lot of hard work. But what a happy and positive goal…to be happy… and worthy of a life’s work. I did find Cutler to be wordy, repetitive and I would have preferred more Dalai Lama and less chatter on the psychological implications of his teachings. This book is a great introduction to the Dalai Lama and inspired me to read more books about and by him.
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by Bookworm
Synopsis
Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has a busy legal career, a solid marriage, and a way of managing her thriving family with grace, humor, and boundless energy. With twin daughters finishing high school, a son at Dartmouth, and a kindergartner from her second marriage, there seems to be no challenge to which Olympia cannot rise. Until one sunny day in May, when she opens an invitation for her daughters to attend the most exclusive coming-out ball in New York–and chaos erupts all around her. One twin’s excitement is balanced by the other’s outrage; her previous husband’s profound snobbism is in sharp contrast to her current husband’s flat refusal to attend.
For Olympia’s husband, Harry, whose parents survived the Holocaust, the idea of a blue-blood debutante ball is abhorrent. Her daughter Veronica, a natural-born rebel, agrees–while Veronica’s identical twin, Virginia, is already shopping for the
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by Bookworm
Book Description
The Man of Steel is back on the silver screen when Superman Returns hits theaters June 2006. Directed by Bryan Singer (X-Men) and packed with explosive action, this blockbuster film documents the super hero’s returnâ€â€after a mysterious absence of several yearsâ€â€to a troubled Metropolis, where he is compelled to face his destiny in a world that has forgotten what it’s like to have a hero. The Art of Superman Returns is an in-depth celebration of the concept and developmental art that served as an aesthetic foundation for the highly anticipated film. [click to continue...]
