I enjoyed the picture book Dear Mr. Blueberry greatly. It describes well how a little girl feels when someone tells her that what she says she saw cannot be real. It is a pretty sad book that is made up of letters a little girl, Emily, writes to her teacher, Mr. Blueberry, about a whale she finds in her pond. I will not tell you the conclusion because it is only good when you read the book. I reccomend this book to people of all ages. Even though it is a kids' book you can get something out of it every time you read it.

Do you like to write letters? If you do you should read Dear Mr. Blueberry by Simon James. This is a great story about a little girl named Emily that writes letters back and forth with her teacher. This book has super pictures and some great information about whales. Well, we don't want to give away the story so you'll have to read it and find out what happens! We would recommend this book to someone who likes to write letters and wants some cool information about whales.

I liked Dear Mr Blueberry because it was funny and and because a girl is asking her teacher for information about whales. They send letters to each other. Emily finds out that a whale lives in her pond and feeds it bread and cornflakes. She named the whale Arthur. Her teacher tries to convince her that there is not a whale in her pond. I like this book. This is one of my favorite books. I like the pictures a lot. I give this book five stars.

I must admit, I have read several of these "What would you do?" books, by far..this is the BEST.

Literally, I have had friends over and it supplied hours of in depth coversations, jokes and teases. Individually, it's also a great piece to read and ponder how you would react in these situations. This book really lets you step out of your normal everyday life and throws you in a category that can and will completely throw you off guard.

I definately recommend this book to anyone who is curious to buying it. It is well worth the money.

This book is the coolest! I figured there'd be a few situations that would stump me, but the more I read, the more surprised I was, and not just me, my friends too. Some of the examples are easier to solve than others, but there were many that no matter who I asked, there'd be a different answer. And a few had us howling with laughter. This is a fantastic book to take to parties or nail your family with... make them try to 'solve' these wild dilemmas, because although each and every one could happen to you in real life, it's MUCH more fun to think about them in the imagination!

I bought this book on a whim and haven't been able to put it down since! Fantastic situations to think about...two nights ago at a party everyone ended up playing for hours. I am definitely taking it with me on vacation.

Before I read Dobson's book I was battling with varying emotions as I tried to figure out why my marriage had taken a turn for the worst.

This book was an excellent source of strength as I struggled to move forward. It felt as though I was the only person on Earth enduring these trials, but I quickly discovered that there were others like me. Dobson's Christian-based perspective and advice allowed me to see my situation in a new light. (I needed to stand my ground, at all times!!!)

After reading this, I wished that someone had given me this book prior to getting married. This book not only offers advice for struggling married couples, but for single individuals as well. (A sense of individuality is key, before entering a relationship.)

I strongly urge anyone with or without a love interest to read the guidelines provided in this valuable resource, in order to prepare for the day the "right" person enters your life.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is suffering from the pains of infidelity/divorce in their marriage. It was partciularly helpful to me as I was separated from my spouse and wanting to make reason out of "chaos". Dr. Dobson "calls it like it is". His "Love Must Be Tough" process is the best advice I received from anyone including professional marriage counselors. I found myself so entrenched with this book that I could not put it down. Dr. Dobson's advice is scripturally based yet relevant to today. His advice is "REAL"! I found that it "hurt to read this book", but the result of my experience was truly liberating! I want to personally commend Dr. Dobson for his fine work! PRAISE THE LORD!

To recover dignity, respect, in a relationship and for yourself with the guidance and security of the pefect love.

Anyone who has ever been to a small town will be able to relate to and understand the sense of community Dr Taylor describes in his book and the impact a man like this can make. This is a book that makes you long for the days where people were judged by their deeds and there was an obligation not to just your family, but to the community as well. If you think that one person cannot make a difference, read this book.

This is a great conversation about what life is like in a small town. Anyone who has been to this part of East Texas will appreciate the stories about how remote and isolated life use to be. The book is written in a manner that makes it a very easy read, and it is hard to put the book down.

We just buried Dr Taylor here in Nacogdoches ... The pastor presiding at the funeral had a copy of Dr Taylor's book and quoted from it extensively. I had forgotten about the book until then and have recently purchased it. Buy it.

This is a modern tragic tale. The scenic images, violent, and [explicit] scenes are well crafted. The ending comes at a fast intense pace leaving few able to stand or crawl away. Wardlaw leaves just enough wiggle room for many sequels and hopefully the answer to one question: Are the undead ever really dead?

Wardlaw has the great ability to bring intensity to his characters, their situation, allowing us access to their hopes and dreams. I have enjoyed reading other stories by this author. He is very able to handle anything from flash fiction, to short stories, (The Snowstorm, Neon Moon, Eating Joe, The Phone, and Don't Go Near Neally Swamp are my personal favorites), to Dracul. I am looking forward to reading his next creative endeavor.

just finished reading DRACUL. IT IS VERY RIVITING. I LOVE THE WAY JAMES WARDLAW DESCRIBES IN DETAIL HOW EACH PERSON IS FEELING. I LOVED THE WAY HE DESCRIBES JEFF'S DREAM IN CHAPTER 11. THE MIST FLOWED INTO THE ROOM LIKE A WATERFALL FILLING THE SPACE AROUND JESSICAS BED. THE MIST GLOWED GREEN THEN RED BOIING OVER THE TOP OF THE CANOPY. WELL YOU WILL HAVE TO READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT MORE OF HIS DREAM. THE MORE YOU READ THE MORE YOU WANT TO KNOW. I REALLY ENJOYED THIS BOOK AND I AM WAITING FOR THE NEXT ONE. I HOPE HE DOES NOT TAKE TO LONG TO GET ONE ON THE BOOK STANDS. IF YOU LIKE A REAL GOOD BOOK TO READ THEN YOU WILL LOVE THIS ONE

just finished reading DRACUL. IT IS VERY RIVITING. I LOVE THE WAY JAMES WARDLAW DESCRIBES IN DETAIL HOW EACH PERSON IS FEELING. I LOVED THE WAY HE DESCRIBES JEFF'S DREAM IN CHAPTER 11. THE MIST FLOWED INTO THE ROOM LIKE A WATERFALL FILLING THE SPACE AROUND JESSICAS BED. THE MIST GLOWED GREEN THEN RED BOIING OVER THE TOP OF THE CANOPY. WELL YOU WILL HAVE TO READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT MORE OF HIS DREAM. THE MORE YOU READ THE MORE YOU WANT TO KNOW. I REALLY ENJOYED THIS BOOK AND I AM WAITING FOR THE NEXT ONE. I HOPE HE DOES NOT TAKE TO LONG TO GET ONE ON THE BOOK STANDS. IF YOU LIKE A REAL GOOD BOOK TO READ THEN YOU WILL LOVE THIS ONE

I had to write a term paper about the Internet and privacy issues. I was initially overwhelmed by the amount of information on this topic and didn't know where to start. This book helped focus me and identify major issues whereas I got lost in similar volumes. Some of the info is more technical than I needed, but I'm sure it is useful to other readers with a different perspective. If you are trying to understand what the privacy debate is about, I recommend this book.

I'm an information technology manager for a large municipality. This book helped us get a handle on the issues involved when migrating city applications to the web. One of our main concerns was protecting citizen privacy and I thought the book provided a great overview of the issues involved. The book is clearly written and it is particularly good at shifting gears from what starts out as an overview of the issues to specific concerns that we were having. For example, we were able to use the sample privacy policy provided as a jumping off point for what has evolved into our city's web privacy policy. I strongly recommend this book.

I have waded through several volumes on privacy issues, but most of them are too academic or legal in their focus. I needed a book that clearly explained my rights and responsibilities vis-a-vis my customers' privacy. I am a small business entrepreneur of a successful dot.com, and I need to understand the issues affecting me and my customers. I found this book extremely helpful. Whereas it only touches on several topics of interest to me, the scope is comprehensive enough to get me started. I highly recommend this book to anyone struggling to understand the thorny problem of privacy in the electronic age.

I read this book when it first was published, so I am obviously not in the best position to critique it at least a couple years later. However, when it comes to James Dean I am an admitted addict and have read almost everything that has been published about him over the past 30 years. What makes this book a standout is that it concentrates on Dean's death as opposed to his life. It provides very detailed information re: his last ride and how his death and the subsequent hoopla surrounding it was handled. It also provides quite a lot of previously unpublished material in regard to the period immediately before and after his death. The author has saved us all a lot of pain and irritation by researching this material in a factual and precise manner.
What makes this book a positive departure from the other Dean book is that there is no psychological stuff about Dean's tortured youth or attempts to affix a death wish to him, just a lot of good hard facts. Joe Friday couldn't do a better job in that area.
The best part of this book? It sticks to the truth and makes for an interesting read.

Beath makes the death of James Dean a very personal experience for the reader. This is not a book one reads and forgets - the reader has participated in the author's passionate search for the substance behind the tragedy and the reader is changed. I'm ready for more from this author.

The most amazing aspect of Beath's book is the original and innovative research. Basically, Beath was the first Hollywood biographer to dig into public records--traffic reports, lawsuit testimony--and uncover facts about Dean's death that had been previously overlooked. If Pulitzer Prizes were not the preserve of Manhattan writers and their pals, Warren Newton Beath of Bakersfield, California would have won one for this book.

This was the second Donleavy novel I read back in 1980. Since then I have read all of his novels and biographies. This book is also the reason that i stayed at the Shelbourne Hotel.

Full of gratuitous sex, violence drunken ribaldry, indeed it is almost a training manual for students.

It opens the door to positive thinking and instils in one that when things are really bad, they are not as bad as they are going to get, but never give up.

Learn negotiating skills, if a fist in the gob doesn't work, buy your man a drink.

Sex education, from aristocrats, whores, artists, teachers, plebean masses.

In all an excellent life changing book in which Donleavy displays true comic genius and has caused me hours of laughter.

Darcy Dancer live's among the Irish aristocracy. This seems to be something of an oxymoron, like jumbo shrimp as the aristocracy is disorderd, drunk and badly behaved. That said, J.P. Donleavy manages to take havoc and add order, excellent writing and a good plot to a fairly slender novel that had me weeping with laughter throughout. His father chasing him through the house, only to crash through a rotted floor to the waist was perfect and only to be outdone by the fox hunt.

J.P. Donleavy may well be the most hilarious writer on the planet. Darcy Dancer is a Bildungsroman about the coming of age of a young, educated member of the landed gentry in Ireland. He learns about love first- and second-hand through the auspices of a broad range of tutors including the brilliant Mr. Arland, a stablehand named Foxy, the sublime Miss Von B, the artist Clarissa, school chums, butlers and Rashers Ronald. Kildare wanders from one total fiasco of his own making to the next from the hunt and the stables to the mansions of the gentry and private schools and Dublin high society. He always emerges through chance and pluck and the kindness of others none the worse for wear and perhaps slightly wiser. What are we to make of this dubious young "gentleman"? As Kildare correctly surmises: "Every madman thinks everyone else is mad." Donleavy writes with a unique pointillism, using words as brush strokes, that is engaging, endearing and even breathtaking as each chapter ends on a brief poetic note, a pithy line of stacked type. The dialogue is outrageously real and human and uproarious. The character development is precise and each character lives and breathes with a separate unique identity that only a supremely talented writer can render so credibly. Having real nearly all his books, Darcy Dancer is his best: it's truly a well-written, literary comedy. Discover J.P. Donleavy -- possibly the most under-rated writers alive. You'll laugh your head off.

This book has it all. It shows what types of materials are needed along with basic techniques. From drawing to mixed media, types of brushes, papers and art history - you can find it in here. A great volume for beginners. Loaded with information and lots of how to pictures.

I am nearly done reading this book and find it excellent, wonderful. I haven't painted in years and am looking forward to starting again. This book is very detailed in explanations of materials and techniques. Perfect for the beginner or intermediate painter. I think an experienced artist would already be aware of these techniques and would have done a great deal of experimentation already, but this is great for the rest of us!

I have wanted to learn more about art techniques for many years so that I could begin painting although I have no instinctual skills. This book provides step-by-step instruction with very good illustrations. For me, someone who could only draw stick men as art, can now paint something that I would hang on a wall. It was a wonderful investment for me and provides so much information that it will be quite some time before I will feel the need to buy another book to take me further - if ever. I hope that if you purchase this book that you will enjoy it as much as I do.

Boise really explains Calvinistic views well in this book. He draws off of scripture and not just philosophy. My main problem with the book is that Boise tries to go beyond what needs to be covered. If he would just stick with verses that are plane spoken he'd do good. But he takes a lot of verses that are kind of gray, and tries to force them into his Calvinistic views. This is not good exegesis. It really weakens a Calvinists argument when you try to fit verses into your theology. Boise would be better again, by just sticking with the verses that clearly point to the doctrines of grace. Overall this book is adequate, but if you come at it from a mind seeking truth you will see where he does force his meaning onto verses. If you come at this book as a Calvinist, you'll cheer as he uses all verses to support his argument. If you come to it as a Arminian, you'll be swayed when he shows the clear cut verses that show how God elects, but you'll be repulsed when he forces his belief on the not so clear verses.

I bought this book with a desire to understand more of Calvinism. I came at it with, I believe, an objective view. Boice expounds convincingly the Calvinist texts, redefines the TULIP acronym so that it is more clear and precise, and gives direction on how a Calvinist lives.

As other reveiwers mentioned, Boice does a good job on the easy texts and leaves some wanting on the hard texts (see Michael Horton instead). Also Helpful are the verses of the hymns that Boice composed before each chapter. In the final chapters Boice (and Ryken) attempt to refute the claim that Calvinists are the "Frozen Chose" and points to history and the example of 10th Presbyterian Church as signs of a lively Reformed faith.

Final Analysis.
If one is a seasoned Calvinist or Arminian, then this book probably will not be anything new for you. However, for a new Reformed or an Arminian wishing a debate, this book will be interesting. For those more seasoned, try Michael Horton's Putting Amazing Back into Grace.

James Boice and Philip Ryken present a cogent, easy to understand
presentation of the Reformed faith. The church today generally does not read church history and are therefore not aware of the doctrines that were preached and died for. This effort plainly
expounds the profound deep truths of the Bible without losing its
audience. I highly recommend this as the beginning book for anyone dealing with the issue of God's sovereignty. The question truly is "Who birthed you into the kingom; yourself or Jehovah God?" If "every good and perfect gift comes from the Father of Lights", salvation is one of those gifts and comes "from" God and not ourselves. The question that this book helps answer is this: is man TOTALLY depraved or partially wounded? Ephesians 2:1,5 says "you who were dead, God made alive". This book explains in simple language one of the deepest truths of the Word of God.