As an English teacher, I found this book to be humorous and educational! Lindbergh succeeds in teaching children to use numerous literary elements, including foreshadowing and flashback. The main character, Garet, writes in a wonderfully satirical tone that leaves kids and adults hysterical! The plot can be confusing at times, and my students appreciated it most when they read it in pairs or small groups so that they could discuss the plot! I have yet to hear a negative review of the book! :-)

My sides ached from laughing when I read this book. Lindbergh portrays teens so realistically and humerously, it's hard to believe she was over fifty years old when she wrote this book.True, "Three Lives to Live" is confusing and demands attention, but any eleven year old would gladly give what attention is necessary to this hysterical book.

'Three lives to live' is a book I read a couple years ago and I loved it. Time traveling fasicnates me and I could understand Garet while she was writing her autobiography because I go through some of the same things she does with her english teacher and trying to write stories.

A fine book but the salt ratio is too high especially in the recipe for Rosemary Bread. It could be a typo but 2 tablespoons of Kosher Salt destroyed the taste. If you buy the book, I would suggest that you match the recipe with other similar recipes to check the ingredients.

This book clearly explains how to create great breads without adding alot of yeast. The sponge starters create a "moist, chewy texture with more flavor, a nicer crust, and a longer shelf life than straight yeast breads." Amy is telling the truth. I've baked 2/3's of her breads and am totally happy with the results. I gave this book as a present to a friend who has never been able to achieve a truely Italian loaf of bread. She thought I was a master bread maker. The truth is Amy is a master bread maker and I can read and follow instructions. If you really want to create wonderful breads this is the book for you.

This book has inspired me too also follow my dream of owning a bakery. The recipes are fabulous and easy to make with a easy to follow format.

What a fun book! Like everyone else in the book, the music of 'our time' never dies - everytime I hear one of those songs, I'm back!

Just finished reading this book and found it became more and more interesting as the interviews went along. I especially liked Bruce Bond's tea with the Queen & Prince Charles, Jane Calverley & her mother in the UK and Elliot's own, particularly the photo when he was 17...

The great thing about the book is you don't have to be a baby boomer or a yankee to appreciate the history, the music or the culture - you can feel the essence of the era. The emotion and feelings people have tucked up in their heads and how a simple prompt gets all those emotions roller coasting back as if it were yesterday.

The book illustrates how music has made an impact on our lives... it confirms the fact that we all have similar experiences and hearing the "old song" puts us on the road to REMEMORIES. Reading the book made me feel like I was a part of it all, I became bonded with Fabian, Andrew Young, and several other famious people, knowing that their thoughts and feelings were similar to my experiences. The final chapter (the reunion) made me want to be a part of that little group, they shared life together... the funny thing is... I am a part of it... I am the one the group accepted!

The fastest way for a crewman on a sailboat to demonstrate his or her skills to a new skipper, or to fellow crew members onboard a yacht is to teach them the correct way to tie a knot or to teach them a useful new knot. Nothing builds credibility faster onboard a boat. Long ago I decided to be better at knots than anyone else I knew. It paid big dividends. This was my first choice for a knot book. It is the book I recommend to every one of my sailing students. You will need two 6' pieces of rope, of different thicknesses, a 20' or longer section for practice coiling line. Practice knots in front of your TV set during commercials. It won't take any time out of your life and you will improve. I still carry my original practice line--a 35' piece of 6 mm line, in my life jacket, which is always useful onboard. So, learn how to tie these knots consistently, and quickly--even with your eyes closed. While you do it keep in mind anything you tie should be easy to untie. The only thing I did not like was author's method for coiling and crowning line. It is pretty, but too cumbersome to untie.

Like many people, I just want to learn to tie a dozen or so knots that will be useful to know in particular situations. I do a lot of hiking and I own horses, so getting to know some good knots beside the "double granny" would be a useful thing. I first checked my university library and checked out several books including Ashley and Eric Fry among others. Ashley is a great book but a bit too much information and not the book for learning HOW to tie knots. Fry's book is similar to the format of this book, but a good majority of the "knots" are actually splices and eyes (unwinding fiber rope to form an eye onto itself or splicing 2 lines together) and decorative-type knots for macrame - neither thing I need to know right now.

The Morrow book is a good, general knot book for climbing, camping and sailing. Often there are several different ways shown to tie the same knot depending on the situation (line under strain, two handed, one handed, around a post, dropped on a post) or differently by another method. Illustrations are step-by-step and easy to follow with color coded rope. Inexplicably, some knots are shown tied with green and red rope, so color-blind people beware. Also, upon preliminary examination I noted that the tautline hitch (invaluable to keep a tent guyline taut) is missing. But between this book and some web resources, you will be all set. So, grab about 10 ft of a couple different diameter 6mm or smaller scraps (if no scraps, they are about a buck each) from your local outdoor store, keep them handy, and practice, practice, practice!

This book makes an excellent selection of knots. Four stopper knots, including ways of making them in series; eight hitches, including very thorough coverage of various ways to tie the clove hitch including under tension; eight loops; four running knots; eight bends; seven knots for eye hooks; five knots for flatted hooks; two bends and a stopper knot for fishing line; two fishing line loops; two swivel hitches, and quite a few decorative knots.

So this is not 70 knots for the sailor, since quite a few are for fishing, but it's a really solid core of knots for sailing. I'm not well able to judge its broadness for the fisherman but it certainly seems to cover the bases.

The pictures are good, the instructions are good... you really couldn't want anything more except for the book to stay open more easily. But, there's no way they could have accomplished that while giving you so many pages (254) in a compact book you can easily take with you. This book is an excellent buy.

As one who has been interested in the kidnapping of Chas Lindbergh since a child, I found this book to be very interesting. The author takes historical facts and turns them into a magnificent work of fiction.

The downside to the book is that it ends without giving the full reaction to the ending. Although the book skips around from personas, toward the end, it skips too much to give the full perspective of anyone.

Due to some sexual content, I do not recommend this book to those under the age of thirteen.

This was a wonderful book to read. I could NOT put it down. The characters were so full of life. They could have been people you knew, members of your family and even a little of yourself could be recognized in them. I didn't feel that the book ever lagged in any spot and it grabbed you from the first sentance. I don't want to give anything about the book away because, if you choose to read it, you should have the full enjoyment and all the wonderment that comes with it. In my opinion, though, it was very well written with just the right amount of detail, not so much that you get bored and enough to picture every scene. The story was beautiful; full of human nature. Andrew Coburn makes his characters real and easily identifiable. I will definately be looking for other books written by this author.

Coburn's Birthright takes you by storm. His language is poetry; his metaphors music. The power of love, anguish, fraility, self-preservation,and death resound in the music of this sonata--note by note.

Hear the tainted timbre of Helen's maternal voice; the rasp on consumption in Rudy's. We want to wipe Shell's desperation from our sweaty palms. We know Father Henry's meancholy as he views with awe a rush of river that he knows will continue to flow, though he won't. And we feel the rod of Mrs. Dodd's spine straighten with cold resolve.

Coburn's words breathe; the metaphors emote. Don't miss it. And beg Coburn for more.

I found Ariel's Crossing difficult to put down. In fact, I skipped Morrow's reading in New York for fear of something being revealed that I had not yet learned. Not only does Morrow tell a fascinating, multi-layered story, he creates wonderful characters. I was struck with the realization mid-way through the book that I really LIKED all the characters (except David, but that is his own fault), not so common an experience. Which is not to say that they are some kind of exemplars, they are ordinary, flawed human beings who make mistakes, but grow; people who I could care about.

I found Ariel's Crossing difficult to put down. In fact, I skipped Morrow's reading in New York for fear of something being revealed that I had not yet learned. Not only does Morrow tell a fascinating, multi-layered story, he creates wonderful characters. I was struck with the realization mid-way through the book that I really LIKED all the characters (except David, but that is his own fault), not so common an experience. Which is not to say that they are some kind of exemplars, they are ordinary, flawed human beings who make mistakes, but grow; people who I could care about.

I have been waiting for this book for five years, and it is so worth the wait! I fell in love with Morrow's "Giovanni's Gift" and went on to read everything I could get my hands on, and my favorite was "Trinity Fields", which is the sister book to "Ariel's Crossing". But now that I've read "Ariel's Crossing", it tops my list. Ariel is a wonderful, inspiring young woman whose journey to self-discovery, through some amazing yet completely believable twists of fate, so often resonates for me personally. I also love Franny (aka Mary), who discovers herself by simply re-inventing herself as someone else, and Sarah Montoya, the wise mother who guides her whole family (adopted and otherwise) with wry intelligence. (Not to mention Francisca, the ghost whose very presence seems to make a place home.) Also, Morrow's use of language is sublime---so rich and lush---and yet, unlike so many writers, it enhances his storytelling rather than interfering with it. You really *live* with these characters, you feel like you're walking through the landscapes with them---you're right there on horseback with Ariel when she---but I won't blow it for you--you've got to read this book!

This attempt to extend a masterpiece of poetic philosophizing on matters a woman ponders at mid-life is a whiney and disappointing series of personal complaints in the self-congratulatory self-pity mode followed by trite self-help suggestions at the end of each chapter.

This is a wonderful midlife (or early life) book for women! Is it available in French?

Anne Johnson has given the reader a great gift. This book is an excellent companion for the journaling soul. Written with a warm, insightful and sensitive voice, not unlike Lindbergh's in Gift From the Sea.

Here is an initially sharp social satire set in a city where you must tell the truth and lies are against the law. The authorities have literally scared lying out of the population. The book starts hilariously with the citizens of Veritas telling it like it is - ending letters with "yours up to a point" and eating at a restaurant called Booze Before Breakfast. It turns out that Veritas is really obsessed with empiricism (based only on observation and rules) rather than the much deeper "truths" of life. Morrow brings up this point very briefly in chapter 5, but unfortunately fails to expand on this intriguing theme. After that brief insight, the book becomes nonsensical and melodramatic, as the main character escapes to the secret city of Satirev to deal with the real truth about his son's fatal illness. The city of Satirev, in which people are allowed to lie but ultimately are more truthful, is a ridiculous construct that is hard to take seriously, while the story devolves into sentimentality rather than the sharp social observation that was hinted at earlier. Morrow's examination of the real meaning of truth, even if lying is necessary to achieve it, ultimately does not materialize even though he was really onto something big for a while.

The above falsity(Pigs can fly!) could not be said in the City of Truth. For it is a lie. And lies are irreproachable in the City of Truth. Imagine being a politician in a city that won't allow it's citizens to lie. Imagine telling a pretty looking young woman you just met that you'd like to make love to her before you even had the chance to ask her name. In a city that does not lie nothing is sacred.

James Morrow is an excellent storyteller to be sure. His novel is funny, touching, and often absurd. The first half was better than the second half, but overall I'd recommend this delightful little book. Give Morrow's book "Only Begotten Daughter" a shot too, it's quite good. He's funny, his characters are interesting, but more importantly he spins one heck of a good yarn.

Although the subject matter does cut amazingly close to home with me, Morrow's City Of Truth is an amazingly powerful look at truth.

In short it is about a man living in a city where everyone has been conditioned to tell the truth, but a freak animal attack has struck his son with a fatal disease. He feels his only hope is to learn to lie and keep his son in good spirits, thus fighting off the disease with mind-over-body.

Although there is so much satire in this book that you could fill a dozen sig files with it, Morrow really gives us a hard look at the need for a median between lies and truths and when to use either...

I read the book in about 3 or 4 hours, I could not put it down, I was in tears at the end...

This is definitely a book I will start recomending to everyone, and I am now very interested in Morrow's other work.

Hi! I am a third grade reader in the U.S.A. I give Aldo Peanut Butter three stars because it just didn't interest me very much. The book Aldo Peanut Butter was kind of funny and kind of boring. That's why I give it three stars.

The book is about a boy named Aldo who got five puppies for his birthday. One is from his sister Elaine, and one is from his other sister Karen. His parents gave Aldo a puppy and so did his friend DeDe. And of course, he got one for himself. Had had to give three away. The two he kept were named Peanut and Butter.

The story mostly takes place in Aldo's house when his parents are away to see his grandparents. That's when the trouble begins!

I wasn't much of a reader when I was younger but I read all the Aldo books when I was in elementary school and I thought they were wonderful. My Little brother will be starting school soon and I already began my list of must read books I plan on purchasing for him. I enjoyed them so much I wouldn't dream of letting him miss out on the experience of an entertaining story. I recentley re-read Aldo Peanut Butter and decided it was my favorite. If you are searching for books to start your child's interest in reading, the Aldo books are "easy reading" that will be sure to hold their attention!

I'm a kid from the U.S.A. I've read Aldo Peanut Butter. I think this book deserves five stars becaues it is spectacular! I would recommend this book to everybody. This book is great becaues it is very funny and different! I liked the part when Aldo spilled the syrup on one of the dogs.

There is an even better DVD for this play that has all the same sort of stuff that this has and a performance. Check it out. It's easy to understand the play because they explain it in modern english and there's this thing that lets you look up words while you're watching the DVD. You can get it here at Amazon. It's the one directed by J. Bretton Truett and EJ Kerwin. I bought it and these Cliff's Notes and the DVD had way better stuff and it was easier to use when I was studying for a test for this play.

I read the play with this book and was able to understand it because of the commentaries. It was very helpful for writing a great thesis paper. It identifies reoccuring themes throughout the book to assist in writing reports of thesis papers. I would recommend this to anybody who is doing a report or just want to read the play and understand it all.

Cool! I wanted to be first!