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Adam Blanks is an extraoridnarily talented individual and I had no choice but to follow in his footsteps. Through positive encouragement and a great deal of support, he continued writing as well as dreaming everyday about his one goal which was that of a publication. He finally was able to do it and his dream became a reality. His talent was now shared with the world. Ever since he was a teenager he has been creating countless journeys for us to take and it is indeed a glorious stroll through one's psyche. The imagery and the creativity in this book are just mindboggling. It is surprising to think about how hard it is to reach someone's soul but for Adam, this book shows that he has no problem reaching the soul and actually goes deeper than that. The cool thing about it is that I was reading these poems long before they were in this book and I still love them just as much as I did in the past. It has been his life long dream and I am extremely proud of him and his poetry will live on forever.

What a cool book. I've read it 5 times already! I Have a few poems that are my personal faves, but every one of them made me feel something. People keep asking me if they can borrow it, but I just tell them to go buy their own cuz I don't want to give it up! : )

Mr. Blanks definitely gets you thinking. Sometimes you have to wonder what HE was thinking. He has an uncanny ability to write without inhibition. I think that if these "paintings" in his mind really were paintings, they would be abstract! I absolutely enjoyed the read. I recommend that you give this one a try.

The book was honest and brilliant, vunerable and thoughtful. The author was uninhibited and gives you a look inside that few are able to reveal. Thank you Adam Blanks! I am a true fan. Looking forward to more!

It has been passed all over campus. All my friends thought that it was wierd that I was reading poetry, until they read it too. It was like Adam Blanks could see inside my mind. I could definately relate.

This book arrived quickly and in an excellent condition. A wonderful and useful guide to teaching phonemic awareness to our youngest learners.

I am a new teacher and I am trying to build up a library of resources. I bought this book hoping it would be helpful. I am so glad I purchased it. The activities are simple and concise, but they were developed with the children in mind. They will enrich your higher kids and strengthen your lower readers. Great for Kindergarten to intro basic phonics, super for first grade!! They will be fun to use in the classroom. The book is also FULL of information about phonics and linguistics. Do not hesitate purchasing this book.

If you are teaching kindergarten through second grade, you must have this and use it in your classroom. It has activities that covers every area of phonemic awareness. It gives you many activities for each section so your children will never get bored with your lessons. Uses all modalities. I can't say enough good things about this book.

This is a great book to use with prek students as well as kindergarten and first graders. The lesson plans are there to use as is or to be modified to fit the needs of your students.

I have found this book wonderful. It brings us tools to teach phonemic awareness to children that are struggling readers. It has a lot of activities they like and step by step are taking them to the beautiful world readers have.
This book is a must for every teacher!

This book is an amazing look at the life of this prankster brought low by the weight of his own paranoid but not entirely unbelievable fantasies. I met Thornley in his final days in Atlanta and found him to be warm & congenial but was unaware that he was living in the storage room of the used bookstore in Little Five Points or I would have attempted to offer him what meager assistance I could have. Despite his own problems he still managed to reach out and help others in need in the community and he is sorely missed.

I had never heard of Kerry Wendell Thornley before.I first read the new version of the Manson Family mythos by author Adam Gorightley.This book was also available.This was quite an interesting story about some truth of the sixties counterculture.Kerry Thornley was right in the thick of some rather quixotic prankster activities.I think he was just another hippie guy,who was used by the CIA.Just like Charles Manson was.He lead a carefree and devil-may-care lifestyle that came with a heavy price.Thornley ,like so many other great budding 60's thinkers,could not fully control the explosive politics around him and the frustrations of the peace movement.This book is still worth reading.And be aware that he is forgotten by retrospective books about the sixties.If he had published more writings,he could have established himself as a trailblazer of modern 'paganism'.If he had stayed clear of the anarchists ,venting negative energy over the Vietnam war,he may have seen the folly of a 'lawless' society.The discordian principle that imbrued his moral dogma,left him spiritually bankrupt ,lasting well into the seventies.Nevertheless,this fascinating book about a fringe prankster tells the behind the scenes truth of a youthful provocateur's chaotic search for enlightenment.And the strange characters he met along the way.

This is a fantastic book, but it left me kind of sad. Prior to reading this, everything I knew about Thornley was filtered through Robert Anton Wilson, and it was all positive (or at least all humorous). This book made me acutely aware that Wilson's Thornley is not unlike Plato's Socrates - an idealized character who reveals more about his biographer than his or her actual self. Unlike Wilson, Gorightly declines the invitation to treat Thornley as a discordian saint/superhero. He depicts a man who was a philosophical and comic genius, but also a raving lunatic (and -perhaps more importantly- an unhappy one).

More alarmingly, Gorightly recounts allegations that Thornley commited acts of sexual abuse against children. Gorightly's case here is pretty slim, and basically amounts to two instances of hearsay, but the allegation changes the character of this story substantially. It is disheartening to learn that the man who you thought was a bodhisattva may just have been a homeless, schizophrenic, child molester with very good PR. (Of course, the same could be said of Socrates...)

Of course, none of this should detract from the appeal of the book, which is very well-written and downright fascinating. Especially interesting are the parts about "brother-in-law," the shadowy CIA/neo-nazi/cowboy who Thornley came to believe had brainwashed him into assisting Lee Harvey Oswald. Did he exist? Was he really E. Howard Hunt? Was Thornley insane, brainwashed by the CIA, or both? With this discussion Gorightly masterfully brings the reader to the threshold of Chapel Perilous and, by the end of the book, the reader may question his or her own sanity.

As the title suggests, The "Prankster and the Conspiracy" is primarily about the nexus between Thornley and the Kennedy assassination, and does not purport to be a full biography of Thornley the man. Still, it is remarkably insightful into his personal character and is based on information from people who were close to him.

This is also maybe the first book to be written about Discordianism (rather than simply being a discordian holy text) which purports to be historically accurate. Anyone interested in Our Lady of Chaos will be interested to hear the backstory to Thornley and Hill's revelations...

If there ever was a perennial scapegoat of the 60's counterculture it would have to be Kerry Thornley, one of the founding members of the patently anarchist Discordian Society. With a kind of insurrectionary bravado, he took it upon himself to sponge up the sordid projections of the Military Industrial Mafia Complex as well those from the plethora of intelligence revenants who trailed and taunted him for years, under various disturbing guises. He managed to keep ahead of the archetypal game by purging himself, from time to time, through various prankster like stunts, self published underground 'zines and the writing of fiction. However the Fool ended up occupying the Hanged Man's place in a Tarot deck that had been stacked against him from day one. As a result of such discouraging and divinatory odds, his self imposed role as Sin Eater freely dining at the table of the conspiracy funeral banquet is what probably turned him upside down and killed him in the end.

In Adam Gorightly's The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture, a most intriguing and vivid portrait of this essential and vital anarchist spirit is effectively painted. Kerry freely ranged about in the JFK/MLK/RFK assassination matrixes like a conspiratorial version of Diogenes, the ancient Greek who loved to mock the philosophers and statesmen of his day. In this case, KT was mocking the real assassins at large without anyone really knowing it, since he was drawing so much attention to himself. The author suggests that KT may very well have been an MKULTRA prodigy along with Lee Harvey Oswald himself since they were both in the marines together and stationed in Japan prior to 1963. Maybe KT's Discordian strategy was an attempt to break free of his handlers. It seems that both he and Oswald ended up being double crossed, the latter by some very real forces at work, namely in the form of a mind controlled entity named Jack Ruby, and KT by his ever snowballing delusions which genuinely got out of hand as the author so convincingly points out, thanks to his wide ranging, unbiased, thorough research and interviews with key players such as Robert Anton Wilson. Gorightly maintains a wonderful balance between compelling factoids surrounding the JFK hit, its aftermath and Thornley's proximity to it all and the elusive yet intriguing metaphysics of the Discordian Society he helped to create and promote. It certainly makes for a compelling and very hard to put down book, I can assure you of that. If you are looking to get a bead on the Thornley universe and how you may obtain a key enabling you to enter into it, The Prankster and the Conspiracy will certainly do it for you.

In spite of Thornley's Discordian extremism, mass consumption of LSD and being a target of intelligence forces, within and without, up to the time of his death, I tend to think that it was his early dabblings into Ayn Rand's so called 'Objectivism' that ultimately cracked him in the end. Aynny's I've-got-the-Hots-for-Capitalism philosophy served to malignantly magnetize the ever mutating vortex of KT's psyche and attracted some kind of negative free market investment forces into its realm. No amount of Discordian meme subterfuge could have de-railed the Rand dogma (or catma) from rapidly self replicating within the brain of this errant pixie who seemed to be able to defy everything else and get away with it. Not even the electronic dissolution of memory could neutralize these Objectivist toxins within him, no matter how many times his handlers kept pushing the button to keep him raving. I realize that I'm merely speculating in a possibly communist/socialist manner, but Gorightly's fertile biography is triggering my synapses to bridge so rapidly that I cannot help but entertain such cabals. Your own synapses will be triggered/bridged (and entertained too) when you order your own copy of this excellent proto- biography of an anarchist archetype gone delightfully awry.

While reading the final chapters of this sad, wonderful, tragic, inspiring/electrifying book, I flashed that the `evil' Goddess Eris, who brought a well known apple to a banquet on Mount Olympus celebrating the wedding of King Peleus and the Sea Nymph Thetis, decided to jump ahead a few thousand years into the 1960's and toss another solid, golden fruit into the chaos heart of a Discordian party, a fruit upon which was engraved, 'Who is the most paranoid of all?' No telling what kind of Trojan war her question would have caused if she had chosen to roll it into the mix at the time. Who amongst the group would have fought for the title? Fortunately Gorightly`s keen portrayal of Kerry Thornley gives us a sufficient starting place where we can all freely witness the scapegoat himself stepping forth from the shadowed margins and taking the full honors of the title, in the limelight.

Adam Gorightly has assembled a truly fascinating story of the life of Kerry Thornley. Yes, he knew Lee Harvey Oswald. Yes, he hated Kennedy. But, was he unknowingly part of the conspiracy? Well, you are gonna have to read the book to make up your own mind!

This book takes so many twists and turns that you are afraid to put it down - you might miss something. I guess that is the sign of a really good book. At times it reads like a cheap spy novel - but the bizarre thing is...all the events are TRUE!

This has to be one of my fave books of 2003!

When I first purchased this book, I was searching for material to shed light on the Win32 security model. After extracting what little information was available on the topic from this text, it made it's way to the book shelf.

Sometime later, I needed information on Code Access Security, and off the shelf it came. I later needed information on Assembly evidence, and down it came again. Next, was a need for .Net cryptographic and secure programing documentation -- it came down from the shelf and hasn't gone back again.

This is one of those books you need to live with for a time before you realize how great it is. I turn to it 2 or 3 times a week, and regularly carry it back and forth from the office. I've discovered embedded in it's pages are program perls, tips, and background information. It has become and invaluable refefence -- one I whole heartedly endorse.

Programming .NET Security does a great job of breaking down the various aspects of security in a well thought-out manner. In particular, they spend 7 chapters explaining how the .NET Framework has been built to provide a secure infrastructure and how applications can take advantage of this environment to become secured. This book provides one of the best examples I have seen to date covering Code Access Security (CAS). The inclusion of topics on both ASP.NET and Enterprise Services security make this book wholesome for any developer.

To follow, there are an additional 6 chapters that are devoted to cryptography, including sections on providing your own symmetric and asymmetric encryption algorithms. I would highly recommend this book to any developer working in the .NET Framework, regardless of skill; you will take something away from this book.

One of the best book that I will strogly recommend for any one who wants to understand .NET security subject. I was grappling with CAS for some time and how hard I would try, still I could not explain code group, permission and evidence and how they are interlinked. Not only authors have done a tremendous job at explaining CAS but cryptography is yet another section they have done great justice to. The diagrams in this chapter very clearly explains the key concepts of cryptography. A great book that will not disappoint you.

While there is a lot of talk about .NET security, relatively little can be found in terms of documentation, which is one reason why this book is so refreshing. In addition to discussing some of the reasons behind certain security schemes, the theory is explained as well as the C# implementation. While there are some .NET specific security issues discussed (e.g. configuring worker processes), the section on cryptography should be required reading for everyone in the computer industry.

I get really excited about a book when it contains a lot of good information and I am able to actually use it to solve real-world problems. After reading this book, I was able to help solve a really tricky (and politically challenging) security issue quite quickly. If you have anything to do with your company's security systems or write any .NET code, I think this book deserves a place in your reference section. This is certainly the best book on .NET security I have read thus far.

Some books are not going to be easy or approachable, one must already be familiar with either the C# and or Visual Basic language (the easy part) and the .NET programming enviornment to attempt this book. The authors are quick to jump from a discussion of the issues to meta code and sample code, but that is a feature, not a bug to the book's intended audience of very sharp, (as opposed to very basic), well educated coders. I would like to have seen more of an effort to discuss testing, validation and assessment, but at just under 700 pages this is a focused work and a serious coverage of the hooks that make it possible to secure .NET. (Of course that is assuming the underlying function calls are not riddled with buffer overflows and the like. Blaster on a .NET scale is a pretty scary prospect.)

The bottom line, we are awash in bad code and the vulnerabilities that result are the fundamental reason there are so many exploits. When you consider that in the scale of a federated system it is not a pretty thought. Someday there will be building codes for software, but in the meantime, if you are a responsible citizen of this planet and you are involved in .Net development, buy your coders this book. Invest the time to be able to quiz them and do so. Make sure they understand the issues, especially with Chapters 18 and 19, ASP.NET and COM+.

An absolutely wonderfully written fantasy for all readers by a truly engaging writer!

When Molly Doogan asks her father to tell her a story just to pass the time while they were waiting for her mother (a doctor), they combine their imaginations to create a wonderful story. As Molly and her father develop the story, unexplainable things begin happening. The story they created begins to slip into Molly's real life. The adventures they create for their characters are strong models for all kids (and adults too). This is a timeless story and one which I'm looking forward to continuing in the next book.

Rairarubia is one of those rare books that is equally loved by boys and girls. Every one of my students could relate to Molly's amazing adventure, the colorful characters, the puzzling riddles, the magic. This book is a gem, delivering its story with humor and suspense. The ending demands a sequel- now!

I picked up Rairarubia browsing through a bookstore one day and after reading just a couple pages I was hooked. This is a brilliant children's novel, captivating and exciting. I can't wait to start reading the next one.

It started out so innocently. Molly Doogan's mother was a doctor. Due to the many cases of the flu, Molly and her dad had to wait in the car until the last patient had left the clinic so they could all go home. To kill the boredom, Molly and her father decide to make up a story.

Rairarubia (Rare - A - Ruby - Uh) was ruled by an evil man called Mammoth. Young Romey had no knowledge of her past, but was taken in as a pupil by Bovert and Herman. Sam, a boy her age, was in the same situation. The two teachers train Romey and Sam in all types of fighting, weaponry, and how to live with nature. They become a team, but had no idea what was in store for them.

Each night Molly and her father continue to make up the story. However, the story was somehow leaking out of Molly's imagination and into her REAL daily life!

**** Here is the beginning of what promises to be a compelling series! For anyone as young as age nine to anyone over one hundred. (Come on, admit it, those of us over twenty-one still LOVE this stuff!) This author grabs onto the readers quickly and holds onto them as tight as Super Glue until the very end. Highly recommended reading! ****

Rairarubia is one of those rare books that is equally loved by boys and girls. Every one of my students could relate to Molly's amazing adventure, the colorful characters, the puzzling riddles, the magic. This book is a gem, delivering its story with humor and suspense. The ending demands a sequel- now!

This book is delicious!A favorite recipe.A dash of this, a pinch of that.
The right ingredients to make it smooth,perfect and tasteful with just the right consistency and texture to reel in the reader.
It's not just a keeper, but a treasure.
I will not lend my copy,but instead purchase copies for any gift occasion that may arise.
Life lessons for newly weds,memories to celebrate any and every event lie with-in these pages.
All of the characters have become good friends and family.
Dave Adams is one of the greats and in my opinion this book gets the highest rating possible.
Jan Coulbourne

Dave Adams has given those of us who are not poets and, who often cannot understand it, a wonderful book as he explains the meaning of each poem with a story. So often poets do this when before an audiance, but few think to include it in their book of poems. Adams shares some emotional times with the reader describing how rhymes have been therpeudic for him throughout his life. A terrific read!

This book of poetry and the reason behind the poetry is so very interesting and down to Earth. I was able to idinfy with many of the stories. I found a time to both laugh and cry as I read through the book. You can open the book on any page and start reading. It's a great book and could be used as a text book for poetry classes.
David F. Crowther

Dave Adams' book "The Reason for the Rhyme A Matter of Time," is the most beautiful poetry book I have ever read in every way. Each poem is a treasure and the reader gets a rare glimpse into the story behind each poem in the book and what led to its creation. This is what makes this book so special, not to mention the rare beauty of the poems themselves. The poetry in this book touched me on many levels. These poems are magical, moving and awe-inspiring and you will want to share this book with everyone you know.
This book was clearly a work of love for the author and gives you a special glimpse into a man who has had the richest of lives and wants nothing more than to be able to pass the joy of his experiences onto others. I give it a 5-star review!

The Reason for the Rhyme A Matter of Time: Poetry & Short Stories: A Collection, Volume 1This book of poetry has touched me deeply. I savored each and every story and thoroughly enjoyed reading the background on how each poem came to be written. It opened my eyes to so many things and helped me to understand that some feelings are truly universal. It's become my own personal treasure trove of emotions, experiences and points of view and I will read it over many times.

This is a truly inspiring book from a woman with admirable strength and courage. Her remarkable, upbeat spirit shines through as she shares story and makes this reader appreciate and cherish people like Ms. Warden who bring light from the darkness of life.

This book is a "must read" for anyone who is facing any of life's difficulties. Reading this book will do wonders for your spirit.

I'm so impressed with the strength and courage of Betty. It certainly gives you food for thought on your own life and priorities. I bought this book for myself and a friend who has breast cancer. Thanks to Betty's book I will have a deeper understanding on the support my friend will need in the upcoming months.

Thank you Betty, and may the sun continue to shine upon you.

Before I read your book I would have said that only a cancer patient could have known what having cancer is all about. However, you managed to make the whole experience understandable.
While my surgery was not like either of yours the radiation treatments were the same.
Your suggestions for friends and family are a god's send for all.
Thank you so much for your succinct writing of a complex problem.

My mother has been going threw an awful cancer and depression, and I've been bringing her any books I can find to help her cope. This one was a real blessing. Most of the other books were either too clinical or too preachy. This one was just wonderful. It felt natural right from the beginning -- almost as if you were talking to an old friend. It really made my mom feel better. The experiences related by Ms. Warden were immediately accessible and recognizable to her, and Ms. Warden's warm, sensible spin on everything was perfect. Not too much, not too little -- just the right viewpoint to help my mom find her way back home. Thanks.

So you missed the bus, you were late for work, you got into trouble with the boss, you gained 5 pounds. Read Betty Toben Warden's Same Song, Second Verse and rejoice in life. Then share this book with your mother, your kids, and your best friend.

A breast cancer survivor, Betty details her journey from the first frightening diagnosis to her surgery and subsequent treatments, to her relationships with family, friends, and support group members, and her ultimate sense of self-awareness and using this to help others. Especially touching is Betty's evolving relatonship with her son and the sisterhood she develops with her female friends. And I promise you, you will remember and quote "Excerpts from Kathleen's Collection" for years to come. For anyone facing the daunting maze of the health care system this book is a must as Betty offers tips and a glossary of medical terms.

Throughout her book, Betty exhibits a spirituality that will inspire you and sometimes bring you to tears -along with a sense of humor that makes you want to celebrate life. By the end of the book, she'll feel like a friend- someone with whom you'd share a cup of tea and a story of your own.

I'll admit that I picked Sam Adams to do my report on for my American Political Thought class because well, the man made beer! But as it turns out he not only made beer but he founded the United States as well. WHO KNEW?! Here I thought I was buying this book to learn about a totally rock'n dude that partied with Spud McKenzie and George Washington and I got a well devised thesis of an extraordinary man's life. I would recommend buying the book and drinking it up.

Who would have thought that a man with such an image was a gang leader, an instigator, a trouble maker and by todays standards could be charged as a terrorist. This was Samuel Adams as this biography tells it. This shows that one man's terrorist is another man's hero. It is amazing that Samuel could get so many people to follow him in such an idealistic venture as a countries independence. I do not think he could do it today, in America, because of the attitude of the populace. We are complacent now, maybe then they weren't. I think the were of the bent of Australian prisoners in Australia. They would fight over the smallest thing, thinking they were being persecuted. It is a well written book full of the history of one man who will live in history.

Dennis Fradin's book on Samuel (as he was known in his time, not "Sam") Adams was a pleasure to read. Although it seems to have been written for high school students, its 170 pages of text really got to the heart of who Samuel Adams was and why we owe him a debt of gratitude.

In short, more than any other colonist, he worked the hardest and most effectively to convince the colonies that they needed to obtain independence from Britain. He successfully orchestrated the Boston Tea Party raid as a propaganda stunt and published thousands of letters during his lifetime advocating independence. He also convinced the super rich John Hancock to join the independence effort and was responsible for organizing the first Continental Congress more than any one else.

The book also begins to explain who he was a a person and what happened to him after we won the war and his personal fame diminished. These aspects of his life were just as interesting.

The book is very well written, and read easily.

This is a biography of Samuel Adams for young readers and it is, quite properly, a "hagiography" - the tale of a saintly hero of radical values, including freedom and social equality. Adams's unhesitating commitment to the cause of American Independence is aligned with his opposition to the slave trade and to other acceptable socially liberal positions. On that basis, it's a fine book for those young readers, especially those whose parents or teachers have tried to tell them that the American Revolution was essentially conservative.

However, not only was the American Revolution fomented and conducted on radical anti-hierarchical principles, but also leaders like Sam Adams and John Hancock were far from temporizing conservatives. The shortcoming of this book is the failure to accurately portray the "extremism" of the Sons of Liberty, not just in Massachusetts but throughout the thirteen colonies. Adams's leading role in the Sons of Liberty is qualified and minimized, and his role in the destruction of property called The Boston Tea Party is made to seem quite jolly and respectable. (Take a look at the book "The Shoemaker and the Tea Party'). The effigy burnings, the ransacking of government officials' homes, the brawls in the street, the burning of the British ship Gaspee, etc. before 1774 were followed, in the early years of the Revolution, by tar-and-featherings, arson, and innumerable acts of intimidation directed against "loyalists" and legal British authorities, as the Sons of Liberty transformed themselves in "Committees on Safety". In short, the American Revolution was launched by a calculated campaign of terrorism, and Samuel Adams was the Founding Terrorist.

Time to rinse off the whitewash!

Although this is a children's book, it is "must reading" for any adult who wants to re-energize their enthusiasm for the origin of America. I got this book for my grandchildren, but after reading it myself, decided that it's an adult book as well.

The author has succeeded in making the reader understand the genius of Samual Adams of Boston. The type of grassroots politics practiced by Adams and other patriots, clearly is as valid today as in theirs.

Always focused upon the ultimate goal, "the last Puritan" was given the title by his peers of "the father of American independence". Author Fradin has been successful in pointing out why Adams deserves the title.

The story is breathtaking. If I had one wish regarding this wonderful book, it would be that every American child hears or reads the story. They would be better Americans for it.

Thanks to Dennis Fradin for writing it. I was so impressed with it, that after reading it I called the author to personally thank him.

I grew up with L. Smith and Adam's family-they went to my church. I remember Adam and the amazing changes in him when he was taken in and mothered by this extraordinary women. Her funeral was the first I ever went to and it sticks in my mind to this day. All who knew her felt the loss. Adam was truly a lucky young man to have been loved this way. I haven't read the book but plan to buy it and read it soon.

I couldnt' put it down!! I mean, it is a very short book. About 60 pages or so, but it was wonderful. I read it in an hour.
I think that every foster parent should read this. I only wish there were more details about his childhood before he got sent to the Smith's. I liked that it had a happy ending and that Adam found success in his life after what he had been through.
Read this book. It's a must!!!

If you liked "The Christmas Box", you'll LOVE "Saving Adam"! If you were unimpressed with "The Christmas Box", you'll be VERY impressed with "Saving Adam"! It also contains elements comparable to "A Child Called 'It'" by Dave Pelzer and the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series. I've never before seen a book written so masterfully as to contain no places, no dates, no times, no names (other than "Adam") and done successfully. It's hard to tell whether this story is about the boy or the mother. What is clear is that one miracle after another adds up to one miraculous, true story that no one should do without! This book should be mandatory reading for anyone who works with children!

"Saving Adam" by L. Smith is one evening's read that will stay with you. Told primarily from the viewpoint of a woman for whom perseverance and faith are bywords, I was inspired to read it through to the end in one sitting.

A tad short on some of the writing skills we are accustomed to finding in memoirs, this story works for me. It is told with humor, the language is spare and the protagonist is a woman in charge of her own destiny. It also does not preach. It simply tells the story of a woman who loves and, in doing so, affects the lives of those around her.

One of the other reviewers mentioned that this book should be turned into a movie. Darn right! The central character is any novelist's or screenwriter's dream.

"Saving Adam" is, in short, a poem to the universe without a single poetic phrase between its covers.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of "This is the Place"

Saving Adam was a book that can be enjoyed for the purity of human love it provides for the reader. When one is looking for the "perfect" family situation to put a child into, they don't always find what is considered "normal" for everyone. Adam thrived because he was loved, accepted and given the opportunity to grow with his family. Biology doesn't insure that a child will be loved and taken proper care of. I laughed, I cried, I loved every word of Adam's story. It is sad only that he has to wait to be reunited with his Mom in Heaven. They had such little time together, but it was quality. Who could ask for more from a parent/child relationship? I recommend this book to anyone that needs to be reminded how lucky we are to have the loving families that we do and to never take advantage of the love we are given so freely by our families.

This book is a great support to women, definitely no signs of being anti-male. From from a caring perspective, I appreciated the hope of reconciliation offered, and yet the firm advice on what life might look like ahead, carving out a new future for myself. Really enjoyed the lawn care humor and the chapter about lightening up during such a stressful time. In fact, I'm buying an extra copy for a friend whose marriage is in turmoil. It may help her make better decisions, too. Thanks much!

Last week my husband came home and out of the blue announced he was leaving me. I was shocked, devistated, angry, hurt...you name it. Right away my friends and family were there to support me and help me realize that I'm better off without this man. I deserve someone better. I read this book in two days and I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I'm in for a rough time ahead but I know that in the long run my life will be so much happier! I recomend this book to anyone facing the pain of separation or divorce.

My niece is separated from her husband and going through a divorce. This is a difficult time for her and her two young children. I had recommended Surviving Separation and Divorce to her as a great resource and to offer her some guidance during this difficult time, knowing the author had experience some of the same situations as my niece.

I must correct Tim McWeeney who writes that this is a book about taking an ex husband for all he's worth. He DIDN'T READ the book. He couldn't have. It says so right up front in the introduction, and throughout the text. For all I read (and I'm half-way through it, at least), it's a great support for women reeling in shock when separation is forced upon them. And I see in the table of contents there is indeed information about reconciling a marriage as a possible outcome.

If you only judge a book by its cover, you're missing out. You won't be disappointed if you read this book, I assure you. I know the author is appearing locally at my nearest bookstore soon. I'm looking forward to learning more.

You know, when you are alone suddenly and scared, not to mention disillusioned by all you thought you had that really wasn't, it's really comforting to read a book that puts you at ease. That's what I felt reading Ms. Oberlin's book. It was just the right balance of empathy, friendly support, and facts you need to know to make better decisions during this difficult time. The chapter on learning to laugh was very welcome too. I'd recommend for all women facing this and plan to buy one as a gift for a friend I know who is still struggling with a separation and pretty ugly divorce.