April Woodward is an interior designer approached by the rich Joanna Von Leydon to create a grotto of her own imaginations and collected shells and motifs, and never she expect that she would experience a watershed year of her life. April meets Josh, Joanna's husband and with her own manipulations, Joanna finds April a compatible candidate to take care of Josh after she leaves the world with cancer. As an established orchid nursery and corporation, Josh struggles to fend and fortify the legacy from treacherous betrayal, sexual liaisons.... going through life and knowing together with April - what is love and friendship with Joanna's departure.

TIME TO SAY GOODBYE offers a good story premise and a four-hankie tearjerker that strives to touch readers with its melancholy but fail abysmally. The tragedy is trite with little emotional force to render it unsettling, and the plot belongs to a category found in a perfect beachbook which is embarrassingly sentimental. The prose on love and friendship offers no insight, and Josh seems to take it in his stride about his wife's death. April seems like a substitute to take her place, without any ounce of character. Lusty sex scenes to titillate and a predictible mystery plot make this book overwrought with too many banal stereotypes.

Judith Gould is an author who can offer more - take Rhapsody and Too Damn Rich for example - and TIME TO SAY GOODBYE seems to bid farewell to her usual talents in creating interesting woman's fiction.

Joanna and Josh Lawrence are running a successful orchid business on the beautiful Monterey Peninsula and have a pleasant and fulfilling lifestyle, and after nearly 10 years of marriage are still infatuated with each other. Joanna decides that she wants to build a grotto in an old barn on their property with shells that she has collected and approaches designer April Woodward to do the job. Joanna and April are instantly compatible and Joanna loves her ideas for the project.

It soon becomes apparent, however, that Joanna has more than just this creative endeavor in mind. She is looking for a good friend and for a companion for Josh because she has discovered that she has terminal brain cancer. Neither Josh or April are aware of her disease, and she keeps it hidden until the symptoms are obvious.

To keep the story moving along, the author introduces the sub-plot of a competitor who is trying to buy the orchid business, which Josh and Joanna are unwilling to sell. Another sub-plot is built around the antics of Joanna's sister Christina who is a shallow, selfish slut, about as different from Joanna as possible.

Although the novel was meant to be a tear-jerker, I wasn't terribly moved by either the characters or the plot. The descriptions of the orchid business and the lavish grotto that Joanna and April are building are interesting and well researched, but the story seemed just too contrived. There was no mystery, and the ending could be predicted half way through the book.

If you want to lose yourself in a bittersweet love-story, this is the book for you as long as you can suspend your view of reality for the short time it will take you to read this 290 page novel.

The book was good, well written but very perdictable. I actually cried at the end it was that moving but I finished it within a day. Hope to read many more of Judith's works.

I do not care how long it took Ms. Press to exploit Martha Brailsford, nor does she know anything of the Willows neighborhood (despite her residence which is just barely located on the border of the neighborhood). For the sake of everyone, I hope that there will never be another edition of either "Counterpoint" or "A Scream on the Water" ever sold or read again.

i was there during the whole ordeal. it took me a few years, but i have read this book that caused so much controversey within my family and entire neighborhood. my mother vehemently protested the publication of this book, and had the support of many in the community. the other night, a&e rebroadcast a "city confidential" that was recorded a couple of years ago regarding this case. my first comment has to do with the occult: everyone knew that she went sailing. ms. cabot, give me a break. you really did not say anything too profound or important to the progression of this case. my second comment is what i am overall trying to say: let her and her family and friends have peace. there should not have been a single dollar ever brought up in this. where the respect and compassion to those affected by this horrible tragedy? it's almost ten years later, and not only is this book still in publication and t.v. specials being aired, but now there is a "haunted hearse" tour being started in salem which will discuss the case. this is a gross commercialism of an event that devestated a community. ms. press is not a willows resident, and knows little of the neighborhood which she lives beyond the outskirts of. out of respect, i urge anyone reading this to not support this disturbing and violating piece of literature.

This is really a great book. Contrary to what another reviewer said, Ms. Press does live in the area - perhaps not technically in the Willows neighborhood, but close enough to know a lot about this case. In addition, she did a lot of research for this book. This wasn't something written in a weekend but something that took many, many months of painstaking effort. I reviewed an early copy of this book because I used to work with the author. She is not trying to exploit the victim of this crime, just to write an interesting book and get the facts straight. Note that this book was later re-issued under the title "A Scream On The Water: A True Story of Murder In Salem".

Oh, wow! A turtle shell! So cool! I can't believe it! Oh, Peter, sharks! Far out! Did WE get attacked by sharks? Of course not. (At least, I don't think we did. I was asleep and don't really remember.) We just heard a story about somebody who did a long time ago, and that was cool enough. WOW! A talking bird! (If you want to see one up close, just go to a pet shop. Don't bother getting stranded on a deserted island. It's not very safe out there.) Of course, we found Peter's mother and father. Basic Plot 101: Always end happy. Well, that's about all we can remember about this really cool mystery-- and what was the mystery again? We forgot. ~~~~written by the Boring Children--I mean, Boxcar Children~~~~ P.S. Madeline, thanks for refreshing our memories about this mystery! Oops, sorry, I keep using that word by mistake: "mystery." Anyway, now we don't have to re-read our own book. That's always a pain.

This book was a longer boxcar, and fun to read. But it got kind of boring after a while, and one day I just read two pages of it because I just thought it was so borring. But then it got good, and I finished it. At first you might think about just not reading it beacuse it's kind of boring in the first part, but after a little more reading it gets really good.

I used to read this and think it would be so fun to go to a tropical island with Lars and the Boxcar Children and live on sea biscuits.

I still find it a very good book. I'm not sure what the other reviewers mean about its being slow at the beginning - every story has to have a beginning. You can't jump into the action without a bit of setting or you fall flat. Anyway. I didn't find it slow.

I recommend it greatly, especially if you like stories of survival on remote islands.

This book covered many areas, however, didn't go into enough depth. I would have liked more trail detail, wildflower, wildlife information.

I have chosen over a dozen hikes from this book so far, and I have to say the driving directions are not very good. 3 of the trails I could not even find- after driving for over 1 1/2 hours, I gave up and just went to stinson beach with the dog (waiting patiently in the back seat). I have lived in the Bay Area for 15 years, and like to think I know the area pretty well- but this book made it difficult!

The trails I did find were great.

A great guide to hikes of all varieties in the SF Bay Area. Describes the locale, distance, difficulty, and basic map of all the hikes. Found lots of new & interesting places to go hiking in the area that I'd never seen or heard of before. There are also color photos of some of the areas in which to hike.

There's also a similar book from Foghorn Outdoors which I've seen, both are excellent companions to exploring the many great trails in the Bay Area.

I could not stand to read more than two pages at a time! This book takes a very one-sided look at a very specific set of Psychological Cases and tries to explain the actions of Psychiatry on the basis of Society. When in fact the doctors were working in the best interest of the patient. Warren makes very little effort to explain how psychology has improved and dismisses any modern improvements as sociological propaganda. If you respect the science of Psychology, do not read this book.

I am a historian, not a psychologist, so, perhaps my evaluation of this book is not valid. However, I picked up the book because the very title addressed 1.) the basic reason why I became a feminist of my own sort; 2.)something frightening that I noticed as late as 1972. 1.)During the late 1950s, alcoholism among women -- no, make that housewives because the concern was not for all adult females -- began to be a theme in women's magazines and in private conversations. Women, bored and lonely in their homes, were falling prey to Demon Rum. On the other side of the fence, men were dying too young of heart attacks because as the sole breadwinners they were far too stressed. The call went up for a new synthesis: another way of approaching the family and its income. Co-incidentally or perhaps not so co-incidentally, Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan published their essays on women. The first wave of Baby Boomers went to college, convinced that their's would be a life different than their parents: those who wanted to be married were positive that each wife and each husband would find part-time jobs and would share the tasks of child-rearing equally. That, for many women of my generation, was feminism and we became that kind of feminist in order not to end up tippling at the kitchen table. 2.) Once all those Baby Boomers had their degrees in hand and were working or in graduate school, it seemed that friends would sometimes fall from the ranks. Where was Karen? Linda? Diane? In mental hospitals. If we ever knew a male mental patient, he was always a total whacko, but Karen was successfully pursuing a ph.d in English and Linda had a wonderful baby and a husband who adored her and Diane's career was blossoming. Do you catch my drift? Women who seemed normal, who had every reason to go on with what seemed like productive and happy lives ended up in hospitals but there never seemed to be a male population of mental patients. I found Carol Warren's book helpful in addressing the issues of women and alcoholism and other social ills of the 1950s and in answering the still lingering concerns about people like Linda and Karen and Diane. As for the previous reviewer from Kansas who was irritated by this book: in Kansas, they're still doing battle with Charles Darwin.

As a future clinical psychologist, I see it as my responsibility to not take past abuses of the field lightly. This book is a reminder that, whatever one's motivations, to carry the title of "psychologist" entitles one to a great degree of power over the lives of others. Despite what my fellow reviewer wrote, Warren makes no claims that the field has gone stagnant. Her critique of psychiatry and institutionalization as forms of social control is powerful and insightful. To paraphrase the old adage, those ignorant of the past are doomed to repeat it. If only for this reason, this is a must read for clinicians of any background.

Somewhat disappointing. Not well written, poorly researched.

This book is a excellent companion to another great work by author Linda Turbyville entitled Bay Beacons: Lighthouses of the Chesapeake Bay, which describes the existing lighthouses of the Chesapeake Bay region. Like that earlier work, this book is a must-have for lighthouse and history enthusiasts desiring to learn more about the lighthouses and history of the Chesapeake Bay.

The book is divided by three time periods, and describes the lighthouses and lightships constructed during each of them. The text is teaming with interesting information on the lights themselves and the time period under which they were constructed, with information on their physical construction, the people involved, local events surrounding the lighthouses and lightships, and their ultimate demise.

Glossy black and white photographs abound throughout the book for each lighthouse or lightship under discussion, with lengthy descriptive text accompanying them which highlights the particulars of each light and its ultimate disposition (retirement and/or destruction). Other photos and text of interest include lighthouse lenses, attendant apparatus, unique lighthouse construction methods, lighthouse keepers, keeper's quarters, lighthouse tenders and depots.

A final chapter concerning the Maryland and Delaware Canal ends the book, along with a summation of the final years of manned lighthouses and the Coast Guard's ultimate automation of the remaining lights that dot the Chesapeake Bay. It's a wonder to consider how many lighthouses and lightships were implimented in the Chesapeake Bay over the years. The reader will be left to conclude that the end of an era has indeed passed along with these "forgotten beacons."

This is more than a nice picture book, and provides a very interesting and informative look at those so-necessary early Chesapeake lighthouses that have since "passed the bar."

This book deserves no stars. This is the worst guidebook I have ever used! The information is inconsistent and not organized well. It lacks a language section. I found the references to "clubs for men" offensive. In addition, this book included inaccurate generalizations of the women in Honduras. Although this book is in its fifth edition, there are still several errors in it. I would have been better off using the Rough Guide to Central America.

I brought two guidebooks with me on my recent trip to Honduras, which is an amazing country to visit by the way, and this book was the better resource by far. (The other book was Lonely Planet's Central America on a Shoestring.) J.P. Panet writes about Honduras with sincere affection for its people and a sensitivity to their culture. Hotel and restaurant listings are comprehensive, phone numbers are accurate (not so with Lonely Planet's book), and descriptions are useful. I almost didn't buy this book because of another review on (...) site, but I'm glad I ignored it!

Basically a good account of the seasons of the Packers and the Cowboys leading up to the 1967 NFL Championship Game. However the author throws in a lot of unrelated information that appears to filler material. It was if the author decided that the 1967 season and the "Ice Bowl" would not be enough material for a book. That is not the case because the author focuses on the recollections of a few key players. There were many other players, fans, coaches, sportcasters that the author did not consult, or referenced with little detail. For example, he notes that Don Meredith complained about the game not being a fair test of football because of the weather. He could have noted that Meredith also stated that the icy field took away ninety percent of the Cowboys offense (Dallas Times Herald) You hear a lot from Pete Gent, but nothing from other more notable figures. He also uses stereotypes to describe the cities of Dallas and Green Bay. In his description, Dallas was a place full of ultra right-wing millionaires rolling in their own money and Green Bay was a place where people live wretched lives only brightened by their beloved Packers. The author often uses awkward references to events like the Vietnam War to start his chapters. It was like he was couldn't decide whether to write a football book or a David Halberstam-like account of the era. He should have stuck to football.

Mike Shropshire needs to do a better job doing his homework! On p. 37 he notes Tony Canadeo as the Packer president in 1967. Canadeo never was. Dominic Oleniczyk was from 1958 through 1982. Name mispellings, such as referring to Packer OT Bob Skoronski as "Skronski" (p. 46) hurt the author's credibility. He refers to "St. Thomas Hospital" on Webster St. in Green Bay on p. 6. I am sure he meant to refer to it as either Bellin or St. Vincent, which are the only two hospitals on that street. He also listed the "Tropic" (actually "Tropics") on p. 81 as a common Packer haunt in the '60s. This was a strip joint in town at the time. Did the editors care enough to check out facts before this book went to print?

Author trashes the present-day Cowboys in first chapter and paints Green Bay as a town full of drunken slobs as he searches for a bar to watch the Super Bowl.

Slow developing, but still worth a read for those fans interested in the glorious '60s. I just wish the author would have done a little more research when compiling the facts.

This book should have been updated long ago - it still talks of tuning with pitch pipes and pianos, and all the songs are old folk songs ("Nellie Gray", "Oh, Susanna", "My Bonnie ...").
Though aimed at absolute beginners, there are very few written instructions - you are expected to start playing your guitar just by looking at a few diagrams. Also, some basic music theory should have been included.
There are much more comprehensive and well-written beginner's guides on the internet (and available for free, too).

This book is imperitive for all beginners, I have been playing the guitar for 3 months now, and this book gave me the flying start. The book is 'stupid-proof' anyone can learn all the basics for guitar with this book. Bottom line, buy it!

This book is about a boy named Ben Warren who lives with his family in Maryland. He and his friend Matt Go down to Marsh Harbor and find oil in the water. So Ben and Matt Go down at night to Marsh Harbor To find out who is dumping oil into the water. So they tell David Watchman(a scientist) who did it and the people that are doing it get caught.

Waterman's Boy is about a 10 year old boy who wants to be a waterman (a person who catches crabs, oysters, and fish) when he grows up. The only trouble is that the bay where he lives is being polluted and the fishing industry is failing. The boy stuggles to find out why this bay is being distroyed. In the end, the boy learns about the effects of chemicals on the enviroment, sticks up for his believes, and discovers what he is ment to do in life.

This book has a very slow plot, not very much action. It wouls be great to read if you are interested in the enviroment or fishing. Overall, it was pretty good.

This book is about a boy named Ben Warren who lives with his family in Maryland. He and his friend Matt Go down to Marsh Harbor and find oil in the water. Ben and Matt sneak down at night to Marsh Harbor to find out who is dumping oil into the water. They tell David Watchman(a scientist)what they saw and you'll have to read the book to find out what happens next!

I liked this book, even though it was a school project!