Cameron Books

Please tell me what happens cause i am broke but i really love chobits!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you're into anything CLAMP, or Sci-Fi, then I strongly recommend this book! But, read the first 2 book before this one, okay?

If you watched "Carrie" (The movie) when you were little, then you could totally buy this! Even if your 10 (I'm almost 11, BTW)

No big cliff hanger this time but still compelling enough for one to want to read volume 4.

i love this manga, yes it has some funny(not porn) moments, and i like how chii and hideki are together, and how he treats her!and it's really facinating too see how it all goes! there are some omoments where you can laugh your butt of, and some where you sigh *wow* to see hidekis devotion.. being a girl, i can say this is a manga for all, not just guys! and it's not porn!!
and the drawings are so wonderful!
people should cheack it out!

Yatta for Chobits! I picked up a copy of this at Barnes and Noble, and had no idea whatsoever what was going on! So I hurried up and got the first book, and in no time I was completely hooked! It has spiffy and detailed character design, awesome plot, and Chi is so sickeningly CUTE!!!!! Some people think it's gross because of all the fanservice, but it's meant to be funny, not porno >:P I'm a girl, and I like it! Overall, it's one of my favorite mangas and should be an installment in anyone's collection of mangas and...stuff. ^_^;;

I think most of the pictures are out of focus. A few are so blurry that it hurt my eyes to study them. I was expecting something different, more natural. I think I wasted my money on this, and just may return it.

This is an awesome book for fairy lovers of all ages. The pictures are AMAZING!!! You can't believe how hard those fairies work to produce such lavish places of domesticity! You'll love it, or it would be a wonderful gift

This book was very creative, me and a friend have decided we are going to build faerie houses and this book has given us a few ideas. Of course our houses won't look like these ones, but it helps to see how other artists make them.

The title and cover caught my eye, but the insides blew me away. What a delightful trip! I took it along for my 8 year old grandson to look at on a trip his mother and I were taking. He sat in the back seat ooohing and aaahing the whole way, and informed me that he "couldn't wait to stay with me next summer so he could search the woods,prairie and gardens for little houses--and if we didn't find any, we should probably make some so the Fairies will come--especially around the pond because you know Nana Fairies love water!" What better thumbs-up than that!!!

a very interesting book, I will be looking at the ground in the woods now.

For those of us who are interested in reading about World War II, this is an excellent book (paperback) about some of the brave men and women who were involved in that epic struggle. The story takes place in the Pacific, about a year after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The main character is a submariner named Lieutenant Commander "Jack" Tremain. This novel is about the men of the "silent service" and it is very exciting and informative. Once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down. The writer, R. Cameron Cooke, is a submariner himself and I enjoyed his first book so much, I am now reading his second one ("Sink The Shigure"). This second novel also takes place in the Pacific during World War II and it is a sequel to the first one.

New skipper takes over hard luck sub during WWII and goes out to kick butt. This book probably would have been a John Wayne movie a few decades ago. The action is taught, the plot moves along at a decent pace, and it is definatly a page turner.

R. Cameron Cooke has done an excellent, but not perfect, job of describing WWII in the Pacific submarine warfare. Much to his credit, he frames his story simply. The U.S.S. Mackerel, a submarine, comes back from its second successive unsuccessful patrol. It's captain is replaced and his successor, Lt. Cmdr. Tremaine, becomes responsible for shaping up the crew, keeping them alive and sinking enemy ships.

Cooke keeps the pressure on all through the book, perhaps a bit too much so as he has this particular sub seeing a lot of action. But Cooke wants to tell the stories of the unusually brave men who manned submarines in WWII, the risks they took against an equally determined enemy, the problems inherent to a chain of command that has some putting their lives at risk at the orders of others who sit in chairs behind desks and risk nothing more than drinking too much coffee.

Cooke tells his story well. We see military courage, a willingness to sacrifice life for country, the closeness of a military unit, the tension, even cowardice.

"Pride Runs Deep" is a quick read - and a rewarding one.

Jerry

Library bookshelves are crowded with WWII submarine tales. Do we really need another? What could a newcomer possibly do that hasn't been done before? I picked up Pride Runs Deep at a used book sale-a low-risk experiment. But after a totally satisfying reading experience I'll be first-in-line for R. Cameron Cooke's next effort, due in January 2006. Pride Runs Deep is one of the most enjoyable, well-crafted books I have read in years. Why? First, the story is well-conceived and maintained. It is not simply a passive retelling of a series of naval battles with staple characters wining in the end. I like how Cooke focuses on only a few believable characters, and uses them successfully to advance the story. Other books in this genre often change the point-of-view so often that chapter headings are needed to help the reader keep track of where he is in the narrative. For example, many action/adventure novels switch back and forth between the protagonist's and the enemy's perspective. But Cooke avoids this crutch, keeping his focus on a set of characters we come to care about. We identify with them; we join in the perilous search for elusive clues as to the enemy's whereabouts and intentions. In addition to a good story, credible characters, and a skillful narrative, perhaps Cooke's strongest suit is his technical knowledge about submarine warfare. It's obvious he knows how a WWII sub really operates, and shows how individual judgments and actions made in the stress of warfare could make life and death differences. I give this book an A+.

Briefly - this is a WW II tale of a Pacific Theater "hard luck" submarine, which is reassigned to be placed under the command of experienced and hard-nosed commander, Jack Tremain. Tremain "whips the crew into top-notch shape" and they "see a lot of heavy action". Pardon all of my quote marks, but there are too many such cliche's in the book, particularly in the early portion.

Possibly this book is better than the 3 stars I rated it at. It seems that there are almost two books here - as if author R. Cameron Cooke was learning how to write in the first half of the story, and in the second half he penned a very good submarine adventure yarn.

In that underachieving opening half, Cooke establishes his characters, which seem to be usually overstated. Example - hero Captain Jack Tremain, that steely-eyed lean-jawed killer of the deep. (On the cold war submarine that I spent five years on we would have simply called this guy a pr----. And the atmosphere would be more akin to The Caine Mutiny). The bar room dialogue was unbelievable (were the participants reading from a book?). Cooke rather neglects the enlisted crewmen. Except for performing tasks, they are mostly unaddressed. (A little attention is given to one that commits suicide).

Although the author earned his own gold (officer) dolphins, apparently engineering was not his forte'. For the mechanically minded, it shows through in the book and is occasionally distracting. For example, arguably the eleven bullet holes (and uh, who counted those?) in a main ballast tank is NOT minor damage to be lived with and remedied by only an occasional blow from the ship's air banks . . . because it's possible that THE AIR LOSS EXCEEDS THE CAPACITY OF THE SHIP'S AIR COMPRESSORS on this WW II boat, which are high pressure, LOW VOLUME units. The bullet holes through the pressure hull described in the book (not sure if feasible, but probably would be on a diesel boat) would easily and effectively be repaired by a ship's diver from the OUTSIDE, but not with shoring from the inside as is done in the novel. I believe we saw the "drain pump knocked off of its foundation" on two different battle occasions. Fix that weak link please. I was often distracted from a very engaging part of the story by one of these technical misdemeanors and sometimes felt like calling out, "Bravo Sierra, Mr. Cooke".

Concerning the technical aspect of the book related to weapons, I'm not a weapons expert, but that analysis of the book seemed OK. By the way - the "jam dive" scenario, as described in the book, would seem to have been been non-recoverable. I believe the author took it overly far for effect, but again, it creates an unrealistc distraction.

On the upside, the book is entertaining, and it does contain a wealth of realistic and accurate detail regarding submarine design and operation. Much more so than one usually sees in this genre'. It starts rather disappointingly, what with the cliche's and flaws that I've criticized - but it seems that once the author established his characters and setting, he warmed to his work and wrote a pretty good tale that ends up as rather a page turner in the last third of the book. The author remains true to the characters he created and they become somewhat "lovable" to the reader. The final battle story is a first-class, white-knuckle tale.

I read all of it, and overall, enjoyed the novel. It could have easily been better with a consulting editor to clean up the technical errors, occasional overcharacterizations, and awkward start.

If Mr. Cooke was indeed "learning as he wrote", I look forward to a superb second novel from him.

Julia Cameron has done it again. I read her first book The Artist's Way and this book is just as great. I've experienced an increase in creativity that I never thought possible. It truly is a journey inward. I'm 35 yrs. old and a mother of two. I had no idea that there was still so much to discover about myself. As mentioned in the book, a great symptom of increased creativity, is greater spirituality. This book has truly changed my life!

Plumbing the depths to find the creative you is done as ever it can be done with this book. Julia Cameron takes the reader on a series of journies to find the nature of relationships, spirituality, the senses of sight and sound,the nature of one's attitudes all leading to the discovery that all things are possible. When those possibilites are realized they are expored and it is that exploration that opens up the creative soul.
A great book.

I have made a permanent connection. With who you ask? Me. What made me think I was disconnected? I just knew like you know. Traumatic life experiences during childhood, tragic episodes, etc. It doesn't really matter how you got disconnected with your inner artist child only that it's possible to reconnect right now if you pick up Julia Cameron's book: The Artist Way and work through the exercises. Your life will change for real. The Vein of Gold (the sequel to the Artist's Way) focuses on finding your specific source of treasure/talent. Both books ensure that you will stay well-connected to your inner artist child and not lose him/her ever again.

There are no short cuts, but Julia Cameron's program works. I don't know why it works, but it does. Before you do one more thing to improve or change your life buy both books and do the exercises faithfully. I still journal, take artist dates and buy little gifts for my inner artist child. Why? It works, but I would have never made the connection without these two wonderful books. The books are like treasure maps to find the treasure (the gold) in you. You and you alone are your own gold-digger.

Vein of Gold has met my expectations and beyond. As someone who has never felt "creative" it has helped me to broaden my defintion of what that means.It has practical exercises that are reasonable and useful as I continue my self-discovery of what being creative means. I highly recommend it.

Julia Cameron's books should be mandatory coursework in all creative writing classes or any kind of dramatic and performing arts programs around the world! Luminous, loving, and healing are the trademarks of her artistic recovery programs. Climb this mountain and find your creative muse! The book follows a weekly development plan to exacavate the voice within. A gradual mentorship no matter where you are on the journey to expressing your artistic birthright.

Don't we all have a story to tell that is uniquely our own? Or perhaps there is that song that is one which places us in our element like nothing else? And then again, there are those stage roles that seem written just for us, or are they? The answer in Julia Cameron's Vein of Gold is ... YES! Cameron describes in her book how the actor Robert De Niro seems born to play certain mystery roles and when he steps out of them the thespian magic seems to disappear. This is the basis for the Vein of Gold, which followed the very successful Artist's Way, as a 12-week study in artistic recovery.

The Vein of Gold continues upon Cameron's practice of morning pages, artist dates to be taken solo, and a series of tasks designed to coax out the creative child. Each chapter begins with a rich collection of Cameron's wisdom as a professional writer herself and follows a particular theme. Readers are encouraged to stay on each theme presented in the chapter, such as abundance, and do homework assignments such as a collage or add decoration to their living space. The point of this is to draw out in a reader what is uniquely their own story, song, or poem to birth. In the commercial world of art, Cameron notes, a lot is being quantified by how much money a movie earned, how much a painting was sold for, or how many hits songs a record spawned. This message is often what gets in the way of finding one's vein of gold because the artists believes that they must deliver art that is "acceptable" rather than "authentic". In the Vein of God, Cameron strives to draw out what is already there and meant to expressed rather than mould a person's art into a template of popular opinion.

Beyond the 12 distinct chapters, the book is divided into kingdoms to illustrate the kind of inner journey that Cameron is taking her students on. Each kingdom (sight, story, sound, attitude, relationship, and spirituality) reflects the kind of "sense" training that is intended to help readers excavate their own vein of gold as practical exercises probe leading questions into the psyche. What Cameron wants is for those who seek their inner gold, to not only find it, but to claim it as theirs alone.

The Buddha once said that there are three things never hidden for long: the sun, the moon, and the truth. Finding gold in the hills of our inner life is only possible through the truth. Cameron's Vein of Gold is a literary prospector's guide to seeing our truth underneath all the beliefs, emotions, and patterns we have long hidden under.

Deborah Jackson's Our Elders Lived It takes the reader inside the world of an upper Midwest Native American community and gives the reader a rich, respectful, and highly-detailed experience of that world. Jackson uses anthropological data in a discriminating fashion, not overreaching the data itself in search of theoretical constructs or generalization. Her book is very readable and engaging and would be an excellent classroom resource for teaching about urban Indians.

Our Elders Lived It provides a riveting and yet sensitive portrayal of the circumstances and experiences of a contemporary Native American community. The setting is a mid-sized city in the Upper Great Lakes region, but many of the issues can be found in other urban Indian communities throughout North America, as well. I very much enjoyed reading this book and found it to be a great way to get away from the stereotypes of reservation life and 19th century traditions to learn about how present-day Native people are adapting to urban life. A must-read for those who care about contemporary Native American issues, as well as questions of ethnic identity in North America!

In Our Elders Lived It, anthropologist Deborah Jackson gives a vivid account of the complex issues experienced by a contemporary urban American Indian community. Historical depth adds an important dimension to the analysis, and a semiotic notion of the self allows for a more nuanced approach to ethnic identity than is usually offered. I highly recommend this book!!

I highly recommend this book to those who are interested in learning about the history and the contemporary issues of Native Americans in the Great Lakes area - especially those who live in urban areas.

I really enjoyed reading this book - especially the descriptions of the interaction style - the "actions speak louder than words" technique that Jackson emphasizes. Another important theme that runs through the book is how, when the Anishinaabe communities Jackson describes, practice religion as Christians, they incorporate many of the native beliefs and rituals. This is a phenomenon I noticed while working with a Native Christian congregation in Arizona, and I found it to be very liberating the way they took many of the same beliefs non-Native Christians have, and express in their own way. I highly recommend this book to others who are interested in these kinds of issues as they play out in Native American urban communities.

If you are going to get one book to learn or improve your Google Maps skill, this is the book. This very well organized book introduces you the basics and then moves on some advance staff that you have to learn if you want to develop serious Google Maps application.
You can check out the table of content and sample chapters from its website.
I enjoyed reading it and therefore I highly recommend it for Google Map developers.

Wow and Kool are the first words that come to mind after reading just the Into and Chapter 1.

As a Web Programming Instructor, I am always searching for easy ways to get my students motivated. Page 2 of Chapter 1 shows an XML and XHTML strict - but the code is so straight forward - that you are not in the least intimidated with the strict XHTML. To find something students can relate to that gives a solid example of two abstract things - is great. There is nothing to be intimidated with, the explanations are clear and the web site - give corrections. Each chapter offers a lot fore each level user.

Chapter 1 is fun for a wide range of web skills: Web Development, Digital Photographers, Digital Imaging, and more advanced.

Chapter 2 - gives the JavaScript, XHTML developer's lots of detail on what is going on in the script. Each exercise builds on the previous one, until by the end of the chapter you have a robust program, you can use immediately.

Chapter 3 - adds user input, it begins the discussion of adding to a Database & Ajax. You have a dialog wit the authors of why they did what they did - it's insight to working with a database. The chapters keep getting richer and draw you in. You hate to put it down!

Appendix B has a generous 28 page summary of the important API commands, making learning Google Maps API easier.

I am adding this to my Reference Book list
and it will defiantly be a required reading for Advanced PHP classes.

Jil MacMenamin
http://JilMac.com

This book is very well written. Very concise, clear and focused in the real world problems and solutions. Following the advices and codes of the book, you will can afford most of your google maps projects knowing exactly what to do, and how to do it. I specially find very interesting the chapter dedicated to how to code a map with multitude of markers. Very clarifying.

Must have-read book if you are working in a Google Maps project.

Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax, provides a very easy to understand clear path for getting started with Google Maps. As a PHP developer, (not as much javascript), the book shows an intelligent and useful approach to working with client side scripting and document objects. Great samples throughout the book. I highly recommend this for anyone getting started with Google Maps, regardless of PHP or Ajax...this book is still very useful for any developer.

I am a fairly inexperienced, self taught programmer. I bought the book partly due to the fact that it had "beginning" in the title.

The code that is used in the book is not laid out very well. There are parts of the code that they don't explain (such as what apikey.php is) until you go and find out on their website what it means.

They are also very inconsistent. Sometimes they used apikey.php and sometimes they didn't. Going through the examples they use the same file names for different examples so you don't know if you are suppose to use the old files from the previous examples or not.

Even after I got all of the files that I needed for the tile overlay example it failed on me. This is after spending 3 hours reconstructing the MySQL table (which I didn't care about) because that information wasn't provided with the tile overlay example. After doing all of that work and using their unmodified code (except to change my database logins and api key) the code didn't work. And it failed BEFORE it even got to the MySQL database which means all that work I spent was for naught.

The authors suggest that you can email them (and I did a couple times) and they will get back to you. Its been several months and I still haven't heard back from any of them. The questions were about problems using their unmodified code.

This book may be good if you have some experience with coding. But on the other hand if that is the case there really isn't any need to buy the book.

This book has a lot of examples and is a keeper. This was a required text in one of my college courses and was a fun easy read. It is structured by common mistakes others have made so it allows you to learn quickly by example.

This book is very dry and hard to read. There is some great information enclosed yet it is really hard to access. I also didn't appreciate that at every moment possible the author seems to downgrade the ability of the self employed, multiple times it is suggested that under no circumstances should you chose to be a sole proprietor, which for me seems to disregard those that are starting out on a smaller part time basis.

This book was a perfect tool to benchmark my design studio. After 14 years of business I found that Foote's advice, assumptions and calculations were right on the mark ... even for a business in New Zealand. Highly recommended.

This is not for me. It is pretty good for interesting reading, but not made for freelancers like me.

This book is divided into four sections: organization, personnel, marketing, and operations. It also has four appendices. I really liked this book very much. I'm a volunteer SCORE counselor who regularly counsels SCORE clients on starting their own small businesses. I highly recommend the instant book to people similarly situated to my clients since it will help them better grasp and understand what is involved in starting a business.

If you want to put together a business plan (and you should if you want to start a business), then use this book to help you by looking at the following chapters:

1. A Solid Foundation
2. Structure and Facilities
4. Organizing
9. Positioning
10. Promoting
12. Pricing Your Services
15. Financial Issues

After you prepare your business plan and have your business up and running, then you'll be able to:

14. Grow the Business
16. Personal Issues (Cash Out).

I particularly liked the Case Study #6 in Appendix 2 (Failing to Institutionalize the Company). And Appendix 3 (A Designer's Short Course on Marketing) was very well done. Chapter 10 on "Promoting" was very well done given the amount of pages devoted to it.

I was a bit disappointed with the Sample Business Plan Form included in Appendix 4. But the book is not exactly set up to cater to people trying to write a business plan. So I can't be too critical here.

This book is packed full of content regarding the business of graphic design (and small business, in general). It will be well worth your time in reading it if you have any interest in small business. 5 stars!

Help in good manner to diagnose culture in organization. Have developed based on their approach a light software application.Very useful. Help to develop competency models based on cultural approach.

This is a great book. In addition, I recommend "Strategic Organizational Change" by Michael Beitler.

The authors provide a great model for understanding and diagnosing organizations. Their cultural quandrant methodology also provides a common language for people within an organization to talk about what they have and what they want. I recommend this for everyone who wants to understand their own organization. Their instrument (OCAI) is both easy to understand and easy to use.

The model presented is an interesting and for the most part effective one. For an alternative model see O'Reilly, Chatman and Caldwell's OCP Method and in particular the commercially available web tools from ThinkShed (www.thinkshed.com) that leverage the method.

Whichever method you use, culture change is ultimately about the application of a consistent approach...my personal preference is the OCP because of the availability of robust web based tools that enable one to penetrate the organization to a much deeper level than is otherwise possible with a paper based model or an interview based model. This can be important if you are wanting to get at deeply rooted and/or problematic sub-cultures.

Smith

This is the most helpful book available on organizational culture. Their OCAI instrument (for diagnosing organizational culture) alone is worth more than the price of the book. I use Cameron & Quinn's material with every one of my clients.

Dr. Michael Beitler
Author of "Strategic Organizational Change"

I have to agree with the other reviewer who noted the contradictory advice on pages 8 and 26. The author opens the book by telling us to eat less than 60 grams of carbohydrates a day. He closes it by warning us to eat at least 60 grams of carbohydrates a day. I can't believe this slim little valume has been around for so long without some editor correcting that fundamental mistake.

That said, this is a good and easy to follow diet. By comparing the charts at the back, I realized I did not need to analyze every meal. Just cut out bread, beans, potatoes, pasta and rice -- these are the highest common carb foods. And deserts. If you are a beer drinker, well, too bad. This book is aimed at cocktail drinkers, as only 5 non-lite beers will put you over the 60 gram limit. But tell me this Jameson/Williams: if tonic water has 0 grams, and gin has 0 grams, how can a gin and tonic have 9 grams of carbs? And how do you know a sandwich has 87 grams of cholesterol? Doesn't it depend on what you put in the sandwich?

I'm glad they reissued this little book, but it would benefit from a careful review and editing.

I think the premise of the diet is a good one. Thebook is very short and easy to read and entertaining. I liked the book. The problem I had with it and it is a big problem, is that it tells you two different things.

In the first chapter titled- What The Diet Is, the author begins by stating:"This really is a simple diet. It can be summed up in one sentence: EAT FEWER THAN 60 GRAMS OF CARBOHYDRATE A DAY."
He continues in that vein by giving a sample menu for what he says "Is what we serve ALMOST EVERY DAY IN OUR HOUSEHOLD WHEN WE ARE KEEPING STRICKLY TO THE DIET. The total grams of carbohydrate to be consumed in that day are 33 grams.
But at the end of the book he states: "You don't have to go overboard on cutting down carbohydrates. Get AT LEAST 60 grams a day."
So which is it? Eat less than 60 grams a day or get AT LEAST 60 grams a day?
Oh editor! Calling the editor! Was there an editor for this book? You missed a pretty big goof up there. What's a reader to do?

No problems with seller - fast ship, book like new. However, price was inappropriate for such little material as book is more like a pamphlet.

As the author of The Beer Drinkers Diet also available on Amazon, I know a thing or two about this subject. However, this book was first written before I was even born!
It is hard to believe that many of its principles still have merit today after four decades. This book is truly old school.
Although this book is nothing more than a small pamphlet, it is hard to lose for a book that costs a few bucks.
The bottom line is that it still has merit after all of these years! Cool lil' pamphlet!

This was the original low carb diet. I remember the book from my childhood and it's almost identical. I love the fact that it doesn't give advice, doesn't try to 'nanny' you into following the diet -just states the facts. This is a weight loss programme that works, follow it if you want to and if you have deeper issues with food than simply overeating you need counselling and if you have issues with drink you need AA. Basically, what we put into our mouth is up to us but doing it this way allows an enjoyable 'liveable' lifestyle and still lets you lose wight.

I cannot praise Ralph Moody enough. This book is so well structured and well written that it is obviously a "made" work, but that certainly doesn't make it false. It is a truthful story inasmuch as the characters speak as they should, and the times are brought alive as good writing should do.
An emotion-packed experience perfect for taking us back one hundred years. Highly recommended!

I recommend this series as a great alternative for boys who just don't like the idea of the Little House series. It is a well written series that really keeps the young and old alike interested in the way life was 100yrs ago.

This is the chronological fifth in Ralph Moody's series of memoirs, and while I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I have the previous titles, it definitely chronicles a major phase in his life. In 1912, at age fourteen and a half, he has repeatedly run afoul of the police chief in Medford, who seems to think he's bound for reform school, so his mother sends him to Maine to stay on her father's farm. Unfortunately she neglects to explain to her father exactly why she's doing it, and Grandfather labors under the delusion that she wants him to "make a man of him." And there Ralph's troubles begin.

Grandfather Gould is perhaps the most vivid character I've found yet in Moody's books. Past 70, he is (as his younger brother, Uncle Levi, explains to Ralph) bound by his position as a son born when his father was even older than himself (and already had a grown-up "first family") and "spoiled rotten" in consequence. "Father and the Almighty stand about shoulder to shoulder in Thomas's eyes," says Levi, "and the land they left him is holy ground." He can't see any way of doing things except the way his father taught him--the old, pre-industrial, farm-by-hand way--and as age closes in on him he has let the place go back mostly to pasture. Ralph sometimes comes close to tears at being called useless and worthless and a "tarnal fool boy," getting senseless jobs to do and being rebuked for "wastin'" or wanting to use "work-saving contraptions." Cranky, erratic, often laid low by the chronic malaria that is his legacy from a term in a Confederate prison camp, Grandfather succeeds in driving away just about everyone who cares about him, including his brother and his long-suffering housekeeper Millie. Another splendid character, as well drawn as any human in the book, is "the yella colt," an irascible buckskin work horse who's far from being a colt but apparently was never told so; to save his own hide Ralph is forced to improvise a way of teaching him who's boss, though Grandfather keeps undoing his efforts.

In this book, Moody admits for the first time how difficult it was for him to adjust to life in the East after his years in Colorado and how much he missed both the "wide open spaces" and his work with his understanding father. More than once his grandfather's ways rub him so raw that he makes plans to run away and go back to the West he loves. Yet he also experiences the innocent joys of first love, and in the end he realizes how truly alike he and Grandfather are and how Maine has a beauty of its own, and the book ends on a positive note as the two seem to reconcile, having finally agreed to try some of the boy's ideas.

I have read all of the Little Britches books many times over the years, including reading them aloud. I recommend all of them heartily.
Now I have some real problems with the audio books versions. Mispronounced words! And I checked everyone I questioned, just a few listed here. Cameron Beierle, the reader, should check a dictionary.
This may seem nit picking, but I wince every time I hear one of the many mispronunciations, and I think of those who may not understand what he is saying, or worse, might think he is right.
Victuals -- it is not pronounced as it is spelled. It is vit'ls. We may mock what we consider illiterate pronunciations, but it is correctly vit'l (vittles)
Mow -- you moe - long o - the grass or the hay, but you then store the hay in the mow -- to rhyme with cow. Over and over the reader says moe.
Row -- same objection. Things grow in a roe, long o, but when you have a fight or a quarrel, you row -- again rhyming with cow. It may be a back formation from rouse, and that gives a key to how it should be pronounced.
My comments apply only to the books as read by Cameron Beierle. The books are wonderful, but I should have read them aloud myself and recorded them.

Having read the first several volumes of Ralph Moody's works, I didn't think they could get any "better" than they already were. "Fields of Home" is better though, although perhaps I feel that way because it struck a chord with me in where I live, in the cold northernmost part of New York State. The descriptions of the farming and other activities resonated with stories of my grandparents, my parents and my childhood experiences. The characters seem to be people I know. Awesome book in a great series of books that are appropriate for all ages (my parents love them too).