I used this book to audition for a certain show (which can not be named) but i got the lead. I think any broadway lover will enjoy the contence of this book. I enjoy to sing out of this book the most. And who can beat this faboulous price. This is the only place I could find this book. I looked every where. Where did it end up at none other than amazon.com.

This book gives us a warm place in our hearts to share a cup of tea and sweetness. A reason to renew old friendships and perhaps bring back the art of afternoon conversation. Celebrate parenthood, friendship,and just being human. My mother and I shared many things over a cup of tea some good and some not so good, but we discussed each topic and I remember that today.

Vinta Hampton's treasury of quotes is like reading the journals of incredible men and women, like Eric Liddell, Hudson Taylor, Isobel Kuhn and others, who have labored in the mission fields before us.

I have used these quotes over and over again in talks and mission conferences as well as project notebooks for those going to serve in short-term missions. The quotes seem to fit well with the same things missionaries face today in dealing with finances, lonliness, people who don't understand them and other discouragements. It was well worth the price and then some.

Despite all of the hype, NIGHT CRIES is a vastly overrated, artistic mess, placing Batman in the middle of a crisis and trying to make a statement about child abuse. While I'm one of the greatest advocate for comics having adult themes, this one fell flat on its face from Page One. Besides that, the artwork (coloring, especially) is horrible. One sad day in Gotham.

The art in Night Cries is cut from the same cloth as Arkham Asylum. If you liked the latter, then there's a good chance that you'll like the former. I personally found the art in both unappealing and uninspired, but to each their own. Night Cries is also drug down by a poor story with too many confusing elements that get further muddled by the poor art.

Goodwin and Hampton create a beautiful graphic novel. And when these two collide it makes a graphic novel on a problem that is timeless. Child abuse. A very important topic that is taken very seriously in this graphic novel.

Commissioner Gordon faces this problem with his son while trying to solve a child abusing case. While Batman is being accused of being the insane homecidal killer of the child abuser. His only hope is a young girl that has been so afraid she won't talk.

This book has overwhelming pictures that push the boundries of comics. As you can see on the cover. I recomend this book to anyone (mature enough).

Like She Knows Single is the story of a 26 year woman who feels successful in
every area of her life but one. She can't seem to find Mr. Right. Nala, the
protagonist, is from an unnamed town in the Bible Belt and she has become her
own worst critic when it comes to men and relationships. She puts a lot of
energy into finding a man and works hard on building a relationship with the
man even if he is not interested or worthy of her attention. Nala's search for
relationship happiness forces her to leave her hometown in search of more
prospects in the big city of Atlanta. Upon arriving in Atlanta, Nala finds the
same issues that she had in her small hometown.

Like She knows Single is the story of a young woman's search to find oneness
and happiness in a relationship and ultimately marriage. The story falls short
because the main character does little introspection and fails to truly reflect
on her real issues. It is told in vignettes of her meeting men and pursuing
them. Nala is vulnerable to the process of dating and often accepts any type
of treatment from would be suitors for a temporary feel good. She romanticizes
marriage and fails to work on the one relationship that she can control -- one
with herself.

The book ends with a shabby conclusion, and lacks the ongoing character
development of Nala. The author had a good idea but it somehow got
lost in the telling of all of the dating war stories. Despite the flaws, Ashan

Hampton's writing style is entertaining and engrossing. I look forward to
future work by her.

Reviewed by Diane Marbury.

I just finished Like She Knows Single--It was very interesting reading. I finished it in only a day which is really good for me considering my schedule. Very witty and candid! You are a star.

Ashan Hampton's "Like She Knows Single" is a breath of fresh air to the reading public written with style and tastefully done; she leaves no nuance or single life dilemma untouched. With a lively flair all of her own she will keep you turning those pages and
discovering more about your self than you ever dreamed.

The first three quarters of this book are excellent, if a bit difficult to follow due to time changes and information that is left out for later. But overall I liked it. The last 1/4 is a bore. The same emotions repeated and the same family interactions with no one really growing or changing. Everyone resigned to the status quo. The mother is particularly unlikable. No way for me to know if the WWII stuff is accurate. I wasn't alive.

This is the kind of novel that may challenge a reader's investment. It is a book worthy of reading, but one that may take deeper reflection and patience for the story line and time period to assimilate. For some one that lived in this time, I imagine it could be an entirely different experience. O'Nan has obviously researched the era; the references to war events, the battles in Alaska, the names of songs and radio stations could bring back potent memories to the right persons. Even though it is not a time period I am intimately familiar to, I did feel caught up in much of the storyline.

The novel is subtle. Unlike many war stories, it concentrates on the family left at home. The war did not stop people from living their lives, making mistakes, having affairs and coping with the usual events any family must deal with. The investment the reader must make is to be patient enough to allow the characters to reveal themselves and for the gentle ambience so well presented by the author to enhance the story.

The story may not be as gripping as is the feel of the book, the emotional and crystal reminisces of the characters and the incredibly unique years of WWII.

The young men go away to war but family and life still goes on.
The story shifts from one era to another to give the reader an idea of how a veteran feels while at war and again when they are back at home, many years later.
This is a story of the effects and the memory of war and the lost innocense of young men. The sadness that stays with a war veteran during his daydreaming of fighting and fear.
A very worthwhile book to read.
A lot of different emotions and outcomes are entwined through this story of family, love, and war.

Unfortuneately, this book renders the East End vulnerable to the influx of undesirables. It offends the very core of my being that the Della Feminas have launched this kind of assault on one of the city's few retreats still left to the elite. The media buzzword "The Hamptons" is one used only by the kind of people we desire to keep out of our getaway. Buying this book is social suicide. GET OFF OF MY ISLAND.

As a born and bred East Hamptonite, I was intrigued by Mrs. Della Famina's book. After all, her husband owns a wonderfully charming east-end restaurant. I was dismayed, however, to read the review from the "Maidstonite." The east end is not a place to quabble over and bar certain peoples' admittance to, it a a place to revel in and enjoy. Note to Ms. M: Being so proper and seemingly wealthy, one would think that you'd have checked the spelling of your review before posting. I guess it was all that cringing. Getting back to the subject, this book stands as happy medium between daytrippers and locals alike. Bravo Mrs. Della Famina!

Until I read this little blue book, I thought I knew the Hamptons, its ins and outs and just about everything else. As a frequent visitor, I keep it in my back pocket at all times. This book is amazing - the shortcuts are excellent as are the lists of things to do and places to do them at. Can't wait for the 2000 version.

Halfway through the novel I realized it actually WAS "The Custom of the Country" reinterpreted by Candace Bushnell. Janey Wilcox is certainly the modern version of Wharton's character, Undine Spragg. Both women are beautiful, ruthlessly self-indulgent and so self-focused that they easily rationalize their destructive behaviour towards others. And Bushnell's characters such as Seldon Rose, his mother, George Paxton, Comstock Dibble, and others clearly mirror Wharton's.

Trading Up is probably the first of a trilogy. Wharton's character marries "up" three times in her novel set primarily at the turn of the century (20th) in New York. After decimating her first husband and her position in New York, Undine Spragg sets out for France and husband number two, (she snares her third one when she returns to New York). Similarly, at the end of Bushnell's book, Janey Wilcox sets out for LA after destroying both her husband and her own reputation in nice society. It can be assumed that her story continues along the same lines as Undine's in a next sequel.

Bushnell does a nice job with contemporary New York society both in the city and in the Hamptons - it's a superficial stab at a highly shallow world, but she gets the whole 'successful man and hostess wife' partnership down. Unlike Wharton, she's not a true insider so she doesn't go too deep, which would have been more entertaining.

As I loved The Custom of the Country, I am interested in Trading Up and would definitely read a continuation. But I agree with some previous reviews that parts of it ramble on a bit. The only moment I found completely incongruous was when Janey Wilcox mentions Wharton's novel to another character at dinner. This part was unbelievable as Wilcox was supposed to be smarter than she looked and even she couldn't have failed to see the parallels between herself and Undine Spragg...

Forget about Collins' "Hollywood Wives" or Susann's "Valley of the Dolls". With "Trading Up", Candace Bushnell has ascended to the top of the beach book heap, proving that summer reading can be so much fun. Grab the sunscreen, cop a squat on the beach and settle in for a wild, well-written romp through New York society, as experienced by one of Manhattan's prettiest upstarts, aspiring model Janey Wilcox. "Trading Up" is like a chilled vodka tonic on a hot summer's day -- impossible to resist and hard to put down. I can only hope that Ms. Bushnell will spend her summer days penning another tome, so that the summer fun will continue for years to come.

As an author Candace Bushnell shows with "Trading Up" that she is the female counterpart to Rikki Lee Travolta's "My Fractured Life."

Actors and models (Janey Wilcox in Bushnell's "Trading Up" and the narrator in Travolta's "My Fractured Life") are glorified prostitutes, selling themselves not for money, but for fame and advantage.

In a way it hurts to read these stories, but both Bushnell and Travolta seem to have a knack for keeping their characters from being fully demonized; each has attributes we admire. Yet before we can idolize them, their demons reappear.

I normally review biographies, but Bushnell has a realistic writing style that so naturally matched Travolta's (one of my favorite, if you couldn't tell) that I wanted to recommend it. It's an excellent debut for a new novelist. I truly enjoyed it.

...I would not recommend it to anyone looking for info on historical houses or their restoration...basically he just tells about how he found a particular house and then bought it...he also gives some of the social history associated with each house...no details regarding the actual restorations...very little information regarding the architecture...frustrating little floorplans with no details...he doesn't seem to possess any insight regarding the architectrual significance of these places...if it was pretty he bought it and here are some pictures.

If you believe in reincarnation and love old houses, you would surely want to "come back" as Richard Hampton Jenrette! (Who knows, maybe HE is the reinarnation of Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, a peer, certainly, in the collection of wonderful houses.)

This man has the most exquisite taste, a passion for historic houses and the decorative arts, and the means to indulge a lifestyle that can simply be described as sublime.

This book is NOT a "how to" manual. It is an elegant recollection of a number of houses he has owned and obviously loved over the course of many years.

You can read glowing priase for this book and profiles of Mr. Jenrette's in House Beautiful (May 2000); Architectural Digest (March 2000); Southern Accents (July/August 2000); Old House Interiors (March 2000); Antiques Magazine, Preservation Magazine and Veranda (April 2000).

Although this book is beautifully illustrated and gives somewhat good examples and tutorials, I would not recommend it for beginners.Experience with Illustrator 7.0 and Photoshop 4.0 is (to be realistic) REQUIREDIt barely touches on important subjects and leaves you with a feeling of that for the money you paid for this book, you must have accidentally skipped a page or two.Better off buying Adobe Web Publishing and Design Unleashed.

as someone who is overly familiar with photoshop and fairly new to online design i learned some of the basics of web design techniques from this book - it was a very easy read but there couldve been a little more detail on some of the techniques used - considering this is a book with the name adobe on the cover i expected more - if you have never used photoshop or any adobe products i would shy away from this book - i bought this book in the store for the full price of 40- and i dont think it was worth it - i would loan it to a friend if they were looking for a specific technique and were familiar with the program already but i would not tell them to buy it

Why is it too little too much? First of all for a beginner, you should forget it and DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. This book will treat you as an intermidiate advance user of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. So you will not learn step-by-step short cut. This book is good for giving a general idea on web design using Adobe products. Thus if your Adobe software can't do a certain thing like creating HTML table, the author will teach you in using Notepad Editor instead of Adobe Pagemill. What I like about this book is, its design will help advance users of Adobe Photoshop to make it as a reference in designing a web page. For the advance user who never learn about web limitation also will learn a great deal of knowledge from this book. What I would suggest to the author for the second edition of this book is to add an "INDEX" and also incorporating more sharewares like Microsoft Gif Animators, LviewPro (for capturing the screen), and others.