Being personally acquainted with the author, it was inspiring to read many of the poems that are in this collection and relate to the moments and people that many of them draw from. I sincerely hope she continues to write, as I will always look to her as a inspiration that we can get thru it all with God by our side.

I think the book is excellent! This is definitely a work of art and I hope there will be more!

I found that the Collage of Life was just that. Marilyn was able to sum up the gament of emotions that we encounter throughout every aspect of our lives joy, sorrow, peace, love, etc. This particular book can be enjoyed by youth, middle aged, and the elderly. I think that its phenominal how she is able to capture each moment and communicate it so elequoently. Its an excellent piece of work. And to only think that she's just begun on the road to publishing her work. I look forward to what's in store.

Not only have I read Jenny's book, but I have seen her give a clairvoyant demonstration to a sold out audience of 1000 people.

She is for real - and her book is just a taste of what she has to offer people in person.

I recommend Jenny's book, Through the Eyes of Spirit along with John Edward's book - One Last Time.

It is exciting watching both mediums when they are giving clairvoyant demonstrations - both seem to offer so much accuracy and proof of life after-death. Jenny Crawford brings through names of those who are deceased - I am impressed!

I am looking forward to reading Jenny Crawford's next book.

Love & Blessings

I found reading Jenny Crawford's book "Through the Eyes of Spirit" so enlightening. I am a developing medium and Jenny's clear explanation about how the process of communication works between our world and the next world was amazing.

I feel I can now work with more confidence in helping those in need of communication with loved ones who have passed over.

Thank you Jenny and I look forward to reading your next book. God Bless you in your work.

Reading Jenny Crawford's book "Through the Eyes of Spirit," has bought me even closer to God. I have met many people who have had private readings with Jenny, and each person gives a detailed account of her accuracy and information she has passed on from the spirit world. I believe that Jenny has written a second book - yet to be published! I like many others look forward to her next book with excitment and anticipation. I highly recommend "Through the Eyes of Spirit," a well written book. Thank you Jenny for the wonderful work you do, and for blessing so many peoples lives with love and understanding about the life-hereafter. I commend you as a medium, and support your mission in life of helping others. God Bless you. Gloria

It doesn't get much better than this. And I've read most of the top books in this field. If you have an interest in Baseball -- and want to read about the sport when it was really a "game" try this book. The book is truly told by the men who played the game in the early 1900's -- as transcribed in oral history fashion -- one chapter devoted to each player. Ritter brings to life players that most of us have always read about (Ruth, Cobb and Walter Johnson) and many more greats from that era -- Harry Hooper, Paul Waner, Rube Marquard, and Goose Goslin. (And yes, the author is my Uncle, but the book is STILL a great one!)

This is one of the greatest books I've ever read and may well be the best non-fiction book I ever read. The book is actually a collection of reminiscences of old-time baseball players compiled by their interviewer, Lawrence Ritter. The original book was written in 1966 with additional chapters added for the revised 1984 version that I read. What comes across first and foremost in all the recollections is the joy and dedication of the long-retired players. At a time when labor strikes, hold-outs and escalating salaries are standard sports stories, this book takes Baseball nostalgia to a new level. It isn't just about the joy of the game, however. This book brings to light a lot of forgotten Baseball history. I fancied myself a bit of a Baseball historian but there were a number of major events in Baseball's early history that I had never heard of before. I think the most memorable was Fred Merkle's "bonehead" play that cost the Giants the pennant in 1907. That was a situation where he forgot to touch second base and thereby cost the Giants the winning run. It is told (and referred to often) with better embelishment than I just gave it but, then, that's the point of my praise; the whole book is a poetic look backwards at the game we sometimes take for granted these days. It's no accident that the best parts of the book are the earliest recollections. You can almost see the corrupting effects of popularity creep up on the game in the 1920's. The stories that these veterans tell and the details that they give make you feel like you've been there yourself. If you're a Baseball fan, you'll love this book. If you're not a Baseball fan, reading this book might just make you one.

I have heard so many stories about Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb, I can't tell fact from fiction. Lawrence Ritter and undertaken an extremely long journey to bring you a true record of the early days of baseball.

Packed with stories from legends Goose Goslin, Harry Hooper, Joe Wood, Hank Greenberg, Sam Crawford and others the spirit of baseball past comes to life. Ritter's ability to bring baseball alive is nothing short of spectacular.

Probably the best baseball book I have ever read, The Glory of Their Times, is more than a amazing collection of stories. You'll read about how baseball has transformed from a love of the game to love of money.

Each story has so much packed into it that I found myself re-reading each chapter just to make sure I got everything. I am so very proud that I have had the opportunity to read and review this extraordinary work on baseball. Thank you so very much Lawrence Ritter!

Joan Crawford's book is clearly stating the importance of priority to one's life. This is a great book and I recommend it to both women and men who want to grasp the principle of holding their own grounds as they progress towards in life. Joan Crawford teaches how to value time for oneself and others, the importance of making things everyday activities convenient and the ultimate challenge of being able to present the right athmosphere for his/her partner.
The Desiderata part is also beautiful, I'm very impressed with this work.

A friend who works at a stuffy private library loaned this to me, and it kept me in stitches for literally weeks. From recipes for peanut butter-and-bacon hors d'oeuvres to hilariously self-serving anecdotes about throwing parties, raising children and satisfying your man, it's equal parts Hints from Heloise and "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"!

I always wondered how to instruct my maid to pack the sleeves of my Chanel suits for travel. Of course, Joan comes to the rescue. I was thrilled to find this book at a used book sale. I treasure it, and refer to it often, especially if I'm feeling a little too picky about my housekeeping. For me, it's a portrait of Joan trying desperately to keep her star burning bright. No one ever did it like her. No one ever will again.

The descripiton of my zodiac sign in this book fits me perfectly. I also amazed some of my friends and family with it. A great resource if you want to "really" get to know someone before you "really" know them! The book is very thorough. It gives an extensive theoretical explanation instead of a quick "what's my day going to be."

Every single person I have looked up in this book has been to a T to their personality, the positives, negatives and everything, Give or take a trait or two, so far this has been well worth the money! I LOVE this book, it's amazing. Anyone you want to know, just get their Birth Date and look them up, it's very VERY accurate that it's almsot scary! It hit me to a T. I'm still trying to understand abit of it, but I'm older now and I've had this for years, it's been very handy and fun!

I HIGHLY recommend this book, two pages for each day of the year it's amazing!

I think this book is probably a lesser known version of the big hardcover one called "The Secret Language of Birthdays: Personology Profiles for Each Day of the Year".
When I first discovered these book that was the one I read at the book store, but one day I went back and read this one that was right next to it for my birthday and compared the content, and this book was by far superior.
It is an exceptional book that I have gotten rather hooked on, now anyone that I just meet and get to know their birthdays I go and read up about them.
It used to be I didn't really believe in astrology but this one on your birth date I have found to be very accurate.

This book divides your astrology into several different sections i.e. your love, your career, numbers, advice and more. It is so indepth and in plain language and not astrology jargon, that you will find it hard not to look up everyone that you know and their birthdays.
By the way, the price is a lot higher than this if you plan on purchasing at a book store. Amazon, once again, has the best deal on this book and they ship it to you for free.

Volume IV of the Lymond Chronicles shows a marked improvement from the somewhat draggy Pawn In Frankincense, if not quite climbing the storytelling heights of the first three episodes.

Ringed Castle spins two riveting tales, Lymond's attempted remaking of Ivan the Terrible's Russia and Philippa's rise into the upper reaches of the English Royal Court. Vivid supporting characters abound: explorer Diccon Chancellor, chess afficiando Tsar Ivan, astrologer John Dee, and Margaret Lennox, Elizabethan femme fatale. The evocation of the Kremlin is gorgeously detailed, as are Lymond & company's adventures in Russia's unforgiving winter and the heartstopping voyage back to England -- Dunnett's uncanny ability to recreate the exotic past with such force you feel yourself there is in full flower. The book's first two thirds are excellent.

But as in the previous volume, Ringed Castle starts to feel like work down the backstretch. Dunnett's authorial sleight of hand in hiding much of Lymond's viewpoint until the final pages begins to frustrate in its familiarity, this ruse particulary trying given the ongoing story regarding his mysterious parentage.

One hopes for less of this in the final volume...

Most reviews of the Lymond series focus on Francis Crawford of Lymond, the enigmatic, often-tortured central character around whom all the other characters revolve. This isn't surprising because he is the central player on the stage. But my favorite character is Philippa, not just because she is genuinely good, but because whenever she enters a scene, it simply begins to sparkle.

Dorothy Dunnett obviously feels a great love for Philpipa because she gives her the best lines and gave her a marvelous sense of humor. She is a wonderful character, both funny and wise. But her greatest attribute is her strong moral character, her desire to do the right thing. In the prior novel, her desire to save Lymond's son caused to her to risk everything--not everyone would become a member of a harem in an effort to save a life. In Ringed Castle, her desire to reconcile Lymond with his family causes her to place herself at great risk.

With regard to Ringed Castle, I didn't find it as consistently compelling as Pawn in Frankincense, but it is still a wonderful book, particularly the haunting and tragic voyage back to England and the last 100 pages at the English court.

I have a tinge of sadness in the realization that I have only one more installment to see how it all ends, to see if Philippa can ultimately tame Lymond.

Luckily, this series is so strong on many levels I can look forward to many productive and enjoyable re-readings.

This book has less action in it than the preceeding novels in this series, but even so, more action than most. We see our hero making his way in an 15 Century Russia. As each book goes by I find that I have difficulty maintaining a liking for this man. He is extremely hard and bitter, and appears to have no loyalties to friendship while he tries to make his point. Even so, I find I still have to keep reading because these books are so powerful. In this book Lymond falls in love, but in true Lymond fashion, feels that he can't share this with anyone, let alone his lady love. I await with much trepidation the final installment in this series in order to find out if Lymond bears any human characteristics or not.

Wow, what a book! I really wonder why I bothered to buy it. There are lots of mistakes in it. For example, check out chapter 21, The E-commerce: change the number of items in the quantity field and you get the subtotal as if you had only one item. Outward appearance is great but when it comes to practice it does not work the way it should. Web application development is an art. Whether you do it with Cold Fusion or PERL, the degree of difficulty is the same. This book did not help me. It is like a bazar, too many applications. They don't work as the authors claim. It gives you a rough idea what you can do with Cold Fusion but the applications don't function with the provided code unless you make some manipulations. These writers should win a noble prize for their "creative writing".

Forta takes you from the start of Cold Fusion and SQL. If you are new to programming and SQL, this is the book for you. I was writing data interface apps in a few hours. A great book overall. Worth the read. I still use it as a reference regularly! A must have for the Cold Fusion developer.

This book was fantastic. Sure there are the few editing errors common with computer books. I knew NOTHING about Cold Fusion or database connectivity to the web before I got this and now I've written a dozen or so Cold Fusion applications for the UPS intranet. An EXCELLENT resource for beginners and professionals with a tag index for quick referencing. A chapter on SQL also for those who don't know it. It will teach you everything you need to know to get your application online and running. Great Great Great!

Dorothy Dunnett continues to impress me. I'm a big fan of Dumas and his trilogies. Dunnett comes darn close to his writing. Her books are engrossing, weave a great story, and draw me in more each time I read another book. This is the third in the Lymond Chronicles series. It is very well written. I enjoy how the story stands on its own but also weaves into the first two books. If you have the time, read the entire series from start to finish. I'm looking forward to reading the next one! I also can't wait to get into her House of Niccolo series. This book, and series, is well worth a read!

Good for you if you've made it to this, book three in the Lymond series. This is the best series I have read in a long time. It is so worth reading! The book is action-packed and thre are so many plot twists and turns that you have to be extremely sharp to follow them all. Make the effort and take the time, and you will not be disappointed. For anyone who loves adventure books this series cannot be beat. I can't wait to read Book Four, and the other two books in the series, but it will be sad when my adventure is over. Lucky you if your adventure is just beginning.

If you've made it to this, book number three in the series, you are no doubt an Lymond addict like me. This book was yet another incredible "fix" in my terrible, obsessive craving for more of Lymond and his heart stopping adventures. I am an impatient soul by nature. And because my time is limited, I loathe the thought of seeing a movie twice and it has never crossed my mind to re-read any book, no matter how good. This all ended when I discovered the Lymond Chronicles. I not only (happily) read and reread passages of each book (often by necessity to puzzle out the complex plots) as I am reading it but as soon as I finish a book in the series I want to start rereading it, and the entire series, right away. These books are like a drug. I cannot get enough of them. They are the most wondrous, satisfying reading experience I have ever had.

Disorderly Knights made me laugh so hard, especially Lymond's early escapade with not a small number of sheep. Knights made me cringe during Lymond's terrible beating (particularly since he had known this torture as a galley slave). And, Knights took my breath away with its exciting, brilliantly staged climax with Gabriel.

Although this book is the biography of Nancy Randolph, who was the daughter of one of the great Virginia planters, Unwise Passions is rich with history of Virginia, and it has a cast of characters that includes not only the haughty Randolphs, but also Thomas Jeffereson, Patrick Henry, and John Marshall. This book offers a valuable look at the lives of historical figures that we have previously known only as public figures of great stature. Here the reader gets a "real" view of these figures. The research process for this book was obviously conducted painstakingly with excellent results. It is an delightful read. It brings all the characters to life. I would like to go back to some of the original documents. I hope tjhat Mr. Crawford will write another book, bringing the history of our country into real focus for us.

This is a fun and fascinating book. It is a great story, all the more so because it is true. The characters are among our country's founding families, including Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson. The author shows us the very human side of the people involved. He smoothly works in quotes of letters to and from the characters to give us an eyewitness account of people and events. Crawford tells the story impartially so we are free to draw our own conclusions and opinions. I found myself unable to put the book down and read it in a weekend.

Highly recommended: If you're fascinated by true-crime stories, American history or just like a good read, you should really enjoy this compelling story about the Crime of the (18th) Century. Imagine a cross between Dominick Dunne, Stephen Ambrose and "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," and you'll get a sense of the author's power at telling a gripping tale. The book tells the story of a young, tempestuous aristocrat, Nancy Randolph, part of the legendary Randolph clan of Virinia, who is accused of killing the love child she had with her brother-in-law, Richard Randolph. The two Randolphs were defended by Patrick Henry and even Thomas Jefferson was caught up in the family's crises. The book then traces the fate of Nancy Randolph in the wake of the scandal that clouded her name forever, as she tried to remake herself as the wife of Gouverneur Morris of New York, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence. The story is played out against the crumbling of the Virginia tobacco aristocracy and the politics and passions that swept America in the wake of the American Revolution. This is as riveting as any book published so far this year. I loved it, and I think you will, too.

I hate to be a spoil sport since so many comments about Dunnett have been so effusive- however, I have to be honest and admit that I just don't get it. The plot lines are very confusing and the characters are not well enough developed to identify with. In Game of Kings Lymond communicates solely by spouting erudite witticisms in various languages. Every uttered sentence is either joking, tongue in cheek or nebulous in some way. I never felt for one moment that I understood this character. In fact, there is almost a comical aspect of the larger-than-life adventures that undermines the historical accuracy. Another problem is that Dunnett uses a lexicon that is so archaic and erudite that it becomes annoying after a while. I never thought that I would ever feel this way about a book since I love a good challenging read. This is over the top! I started reading this series in the sincere hope that I would discover something as wonderful and entrancing as the Patric O'Brian novels, I have been sorely disappointed. To tell the truth, I had to stop reading Queen's Play after the first few chapters.

A friend lent me her much loved copies of "The Disorderly Knights" and then "Queen's Play" and I've been hooked on this series ever since. It has a richness of prose and depth of character that set it apart from the average hero story. It also has an intriguing plot line and an interesting view of Renaissance politics. All six books fit smoothly together with a tasteful use of foreshadowing. This is perhaps the slowest moving book of the series, but I find that each time I re-read this I enjoy it more. I would recommend starting at the beginning (with A Game of Kings) instead of in the middle and out of order, as I did. While each book is self-contained, there are enough references to previous incidents to make following the series order worthwhile. This is the series I always recommend when a meet someone who TRULY loves to read. I can't say enough good things about it.

I love Dunnett books because the characters are so well developed, and the plot so intricate yet discernable, I read in awed admiration. I have been fooled by the plot twists so many times, I have now come to expect it, and just smile when I see that I had been totally wrong yet agian. Dunnett has such a profound understanding of history and the human nature of both her characters and readers, that the story lives in my mind stronger than any movie that I have ever seen. I recommend this series to everyone, even if you don't speak French and Latin. It's worth the effort.