Being is the third in a trilogy with Listening and Accepting, each of which was written a few years apart.

Each book alone would rate perhaps 2-3 stars, but together they go off the top of the scale. The first two books were intensely personal and honest accounts of a spiritual search, but somewhat lightweight - rather too glib and self-satisfied. He found what he was looking for?

This book is the opposite and feels as though it were written by a different person. Now he looks with different eyes and searches anew.

Read all three and read them in order. By then you feel you know Lee Coit intimately and the shift in perspective in the third is quite beautiful.

A real treat to read to my kids each Christmas, as my mother read to me and my 11 siblings! A wholesome book that really emphasizes the 'giving is more important than receiving' theory. I highly recommend this to folks that celebrate Christmas!

How many times have my two children asked me to read the Best Excuse? I know it so well it may have been me that wrote the text. This story will charm the reader no matter what age. The illustrations are hypnotic and rival all the classics. I look forward to any new books that Charmain Lee may produce in the hopefully near future.

This book is incredibly informational. I was writing a report on Bestiary. So I got this book.I was completely blown away. I never knew that there could be so much facts on a topic that I had never even heard of before. I recommend everyone who likes a good informational book about beasts to get this book

During a recent game of bridge on Yahoo, my partner stammered that he had a Yarborough (p 56). Ah, I thought: he has no card higher than a nine and he is well-read! He has read Kilpatrick's Bestiary of Bridge. I scurried to dig through my summer stash of reading material to find this wonderful and amusing commentary on the nature of beasts and the best of bridge. I find bridge players to be introspective and certainly those of us who love the game will find our personality somewhere within the forty short descriptions of beastie bridgers. I am wavering between the Yakkity Yak (p88, not yet married to the Yakkity Yak, as suggested by Kilpatrick) and the Little Old Lady (p39) who's aura of vulnerability is fleeting and whose game is kin to a deadly lion kill. Readers of this short and amusing essay will leave the games early to find themselves and their favorite conventions addressed. Bridgers..welcome to Kilpatrick's "animal kingdom" analogy of your games and of those with whom you partner!

Modern Western medicine has little to offer in the way of preventive care for the breasts. Chinese medicine, on the other hand, in the course of 2,000 years has developed an explanation of how and why breasts become diseased. Moreover, there are myriad low- or no-cost treatments for both the prevention of breast disease and the treatment of benign breast complaints.

This is a wonderful cookbook. For those of us who thought buttermilk was just a tangy milk product full of fat, THINK AGAIN. In reality it is better for you than regular milk and has less fat. It makes recipes tastier and better for you too. This book starts out with the history of buttermilk and takes us in to why it is so good for us. Very interesting reading. The author gives us ideas in the introduction on how to make special cooking butter that saves calories time and money. Then come the recipes. They are easy to read and follow. They are delicious. I am looking forward to using this book for many years.

this is an EXCELLENT cookbook filled with all the most popular chinese dishes. from sesame chicken to hot and sour soup, it gives all the tricks on how to make a delicious chinese dinner! if you aren't familiar with lee ann chin, her recipes produce meals similar to PF chang's and other chinese bistros. good luck and happy cooking!

"Between Sodom and Eden" represents an astounding tour de force. Walzer's book is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary Israeli society and politics, as well as the sometimes surprising approach of Judaism to homosexuality. His prose brings alive the tensions, conflicts, and contradictions of a society in search of its identity as Israel becomes an increasingly multicultural, post-Zionist society. That Israel is one of the most progressive countries in the world today on gay rights will surprise most Americans, who think of the Jewish state as the land of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah (with its reputed condemnation of homosexuality). The cast of characters in Walzer's book -- a transsexual pop Diva, openly gay high school students and kibbutzniks, lesbian politicians, and a cast of supportive straight politicians and educators, to name just a few -- guarantees new surprises on each page.

Take one part Truman Capote, one part trailer court trash, and one large part tramp and you get Billie Lee Belle. This is one boy's coming of age and coming out story told through the haze of his recollections and the haze of too many packs of Salem Lights.

In the long-standing tradition of the south, this boy is comfortable in his own skin. That makes for a great read about a likable character. He'd be right at home alongside the girls from Steel Magnolias. This book is upbeat and positive and while there are problems, no one gets bogged down in them as happens in so many books these days.

Having known many Southern grown gay boys myself, I felt like I knew this kid from page 1. When I first came to NYC in the mid 80's I was lucky enough to see a monologue at Folk City by a southern boy that was remarkably like this book. It may have been the same guy. I just can't be sure.

Either way, this is a good light read and perfect for the beach or the pool if you aren't lucky enough to have a big shaded porch out front.