I give the book Best Enemies by Kathleen Leverich three stars because it's a great book. It's about two girls who meet one the first day of school and become enemies right away. One of the girls is Felicity Doll. Felicity is a snake and does some pretty mean things to Pricilla, who is the other girl. In the book Priscilla says she hates Felicity, but, I wasn't so sure about that. Felicity had taken Priscilla's desk, pencil case, and even her new sweater. Priscilla's sister Eve had warned her about Felicity Doll and told her to stay away from her. Instead, of listening to her sister. Priscilla, well...... read the book because I have said too much already. Hope you enjoy reading his book!

It is about a girl named Priscilla Robin. She is eight years old and is very excited to go to school. It was her first day and she couldn't wait to find out if her friends were going to be in her class. She meets a new girl whose name is Felicity Doll. She is very mean becuse she takes Priscilla's desk, then her pencil case, her lunchbox, and ever her sweater! When she tells her parents about it, her sister, Eve, gets mad and wants to have a word with Felicity. Priscilla wants to take care of it herself. This book is really good and should be read by everyone. It is funny and exciting at the same time.

I bought this book for my daughter when she was six---and it became an often-quoted family favorite. It is very realistic in the way it deals with the way girls pick on each other in school, and was just what my daughter needed to hear---you don't have to like everyone, you do have to get along with them. It is also terrifically funny! After she read the book my daughter would often refer to a girl she didn't like as a "Best Enemy" and I think the lesson she learned has helped her to do better socially. If it were up to me, it would be required reading for every little girl out there!

This guide is for the experienced traveler. Judith Wylie is a good writer and she makes the places and attractions she describes come alive. On a recent trip to the West Coast I bought this book and found its recommendations which I followed to be accurate.

However, the Best Places series' emphasis on selectivity means an awful lot of choices as far as lodging and dining are concerned are left out. For someone beginning to explore an area a more inclusive guidebook might be a better choice. Also this book has no illustrations or photographs (save for the cover), which lessens both its attractiveness and usefulness.

This book proved to be really helpful... I had already purchased and done lots of other practice tests before and this book really helps you improve by more practice. Any student knows that learning how to take tests is what counts most - put it to the test yourself. Don't be looking for too much reinforcement though. You have to know the material... the book won't teach you everything.

I attended Juilliard for one year and all I can say about this book is that every word is true. I enjoyed the book and would recommend it as a primer for any young person contemplating auditioning for Juilliard. It is not a place for the faint hearted.

The book was okay. I read it with excitement. But ultimately, I was disappointed. The best never came. It is like the author got tired around page 225 and decided to end it as quickly as possible. Carolina, the main character, must have had her head in a flower basket not too see all the things going on around her. Things get really bad. Then, all of a sudden, things are explained and tied up quickly with a big ribbon like a fairy tale. If you want only the happiest of endings read this book.

P.S. I did learn a lot about flowers and decorating and haute whatever.

Everyone who knows Carolina Mountcastle has to feel a bit of envy even as they like and admire the almost fortyish woman. Caroline is happily married to a stud Lyon, who loves her as if they just met. They have a wonderful adjusted teenager Richie. Finally she runs a very successful florist shop in Manhattan that is thriving, as the elite seem to always want her to do their functions. Perhaps the only downturn is that Lyon spends a lot of time conducting business in Amsterdam.

However, Carolina's ideal world crashes when she receives the call from Dutch police officer Verhoeven that her spouse suffered a fatal heart attack. Thinking she hit rock bottom, Carolina's comfort zone collapses further when she learns her beloved husband kept a woman in Amsterdam and sired a child with her. As she struggles to adjust to the betrayal, her florist business comes under attack from a ruthless foe with no scruples. Only her brother, and to a lesser degree her son, and Seth Foster appear in her court unless she can forgive and forget in order to embrace the future.

THE BEST IS YET TO COME is an exciting relationship drama that focuses mostly on Carolina, but indirectly on Lyon through the thoughts of several cast members. The story line is at its finest when the tale centers on Carolina and those close to her. The characters are well written except for the unnecessary devious competitor who makes Cruella de Ville seem like Mother Theresa in comparison. Still, readers will take pleasure from Judith Gould's inspirational tale.

Harriet Klausner

This is NOT the best written book I've read. The style is actually a bit trite and tired. However, the information in this book is very informative and interesting. I think this book is essential reading for anyone interested in going to Juilliard, either for a degree or as part of their pre-college division. It's also a great read for people just interested in learning the "behind the scenes" of the school.

This description of life at one of the world's most famous music schools is remarkably accurate. The author explores the good and the bad, the wonderfully exciting and the surprisingly mundane, from entrance auditions to graduation juries. A great choice for those who really wish to know what Juilliard is like.

"Send your crock pot on a world tour," one reviewer wrote. Well, if your crock pot can't behave any better than this, you ought to lock it in the cabinet and never let it out.

I borrowed this book from the library and purchased ingredients for 3 recipes. The Savory Cheddar Cheese Soup was a C-. If it hadn't been for all the salt and msg in the beef consomme, I'm not sure it would have had any flavor at all. Next, I tried Shepherd's Pie with Creamy Corn Filling. It was Ok, as in "strictly OK." It looked nothing like the lovely picture of a potato-topped casserole. Instead, it was a sloppy stew-like mixture. As for the third recipe. . . well, I'm not going to try it at all.

As others have noted, the majority of the preparation is outside of the crockpot. Basically, the crockpot is your cooking device - just like you might prepare everything on the stovetop and then put it in the oven. For example, for the Sheperd's Pie, I (1) browned the meat, (2) separately sauted the onions, garlic, and spices, (3) added beef broth and thicken it with flour, (4) made and seasoned mashed potatoes. Then, I layer it in the crockpot and cooked. Definintely not the "dump and go" system that many crockpot users desire.

I wish I could recommend a better crockpot cookbook. All I can recommend is "this ain't it, honey!"

This lavishly illustrated, obviously well-researched cookbook suffers from a mistake so fundamental that it veers into self-parody: at least 95% of the recipes (I'm not exaggerating - I checked) start with or contain the phrase "In a skillet..."

What is the point of using a slow cooker if I have to haul out a skillet first?

I mean, if I'm going to have to tangle with the skillet, I might as well skip the slow cooker and use the Le Creuset dutch oven. Since I can brown and simmer in one pot, I save on clean-up.

This author clearly cares deeply about her cooking. But she's insane. The slow cooker is helpful because you can dump everything in at once, turn it on - and forget about it. Once you turn the stove on, you're not in slow-cooker country anymore.

I'm sure many of her recipes produce lovely results. But that's not the point: they don't keep within the limitations of the device they're supposedly written for. That means they're useless.

Even if you're e.e. cummings, you don't produce free verse when a sonnet is required.

If you're a purist about using *just* the slow cooker, even though the browning step produces more intense and balanced flavours and only one extra item to clean, this book isn't for you.

If you aren't interested in a mixture of English/North American standards along with a number of spicy recipes (Korean, Indian, Chinese, Mexican, Italian, Hungarian, etc.), or if you will have a difficult time finding the ingredients because your supermarkets has a limited selection, this book may not be for you.

But if you love a variety of national cuisines and can get the ingredients, you'll love this book. The Easy Chicken Paprikash (using canned soups and sweet paprika, easy to find anywhere) was amazing. The New Potato Curry (using curry powder available in any supermarket, although I made up my own mixture) was wonderful, even though I left out the fresh cilantro as I didn't have any on hand. Time required to clean the cast iron skillet for each recipe: 30 seconds.

There are a lot of slow cooker recipe books out there with great recipes for beans, stews, and soups. Get one of those if all you want to make are those great standards. Keep in mind, though, that you will find similar recipes in this book, such as Bakers' Potatoes with Onions, Creamed Onions, Shredded Chicken for tacos and sandwiches (no pre-browning!), Cheesy Chicken Noodle Casserole, Homestyle Chicken with Gingersnap Gravy, Pork Ribs and Beans, Pork Chops with Onions in Mustard Sauce, Pot Roast with Tomato or Gingersnap Gravy, Beef Noodle Casserole with Cheddar-Crumb Topping, Meat Loaf, Southwestern Brisket, Shepherd's Pie, Swiss Steak, Smothered Steak, Chicken Fried Steak, Mushroom Barley Soup, Black Bean Soup, and Seafood Gumbo.

But you'll also get Indonesian and Spicy Chinese Chicken, Chicken and turkey curries (spicy and mellow), Caribbean Pork Roast with Rum, Portuguese Pork with Clams, Pork Vindaloo, Morroccan Lamb, Lamb Keema and Korma, Greek Beef Stew with Onions and Feta Cheese, Korean Style Short Ribs, Osso Bucco, Potato and Cauliflower Dahl, and Caribbean Pepper Pot Soup.

If you're counting, that's nowhere near 150 recipes yet. And did I mention the desserts? Flans, crips, cobblers, custards, pudding, cake and, yes, cheesecake.

This is a great book. If you want to move beyond the standards, here's your chance!

First of all, it should be said that Best makes a good argument for the electoral college in that it upholds the federalist principle, and that we are not a direct democracy, but a democratic federal republic, but this is the extent to which she's right.

She argues that the "will of the people isn't always the will of the numerical majority." By that she means that a candidate should have a broad base of support, not just run up votes in one region. This is why, she argues, that a direct head count vote system wouldn't work. But this is what we have in each state to determine who gets the electoral votes. She's basically saying it works in one area, but not the other. She also fails to mention that in our current system, a candidate would only have to win a plurality in the 11 largest states to get an Electoral College majority. This is not a broad base of support.

She also comes up with these nightmare scenarios about all the third party and single issue candidates that would pop up if we didn't have the Electoral College. Everything she argues is protected by this country's two party system, not the Electoral College. After all, the Electoral College doesn't vote for Congressional or gubernatorial races and there aren't many third parties that flood those elections.

Finally, she claims that a candidate could only win the popular vote and not the electoral vote if they didn't have a broad base of support, which after 2000, we know isn't true. So after all the hot air she lets off, it's all for nothing...history did not vindicate Judith Best.

Everything anyone could ever want to know about the debate to change the U.S. Presidential election system from the present Electoral College to an all-national popular election. Dr. Best presents the arguments others have written against the Electoral College before explaining why those arguments are incorrect. Her defense of the Electoral College is witty, concise, and well explained. A must read for anyone interested in American politics and government.

If you have not been near a Biology syllabus in a while, this is the book for you. The authors do not assume that you know everything. The chapters cover all the major topics (the only supplementation you may need is diagrams such as those of plants). I found that the practice tests could have been better structured because the Ecology tests are separated from the Molecular tests without the common core section that's used in the actual exam. All in all, a good book - using this book alone I earned a score of 660!

I do not appreciate you making comments about our food in such a way. So many of the recipes that are such a raving success now are still made from old recipes from the old dirt roads of Santa Fe. The recipes that are new don't taste the same way our native food is made. People that don't know any better go for it because of all the hyp on it. Native Santa Feans and their decendants know the difference of today's foods and the originals. Please don't make such a comment that until these chefs came along that no one knew how to cook...we are the ones that taught the likes of them.

First, I really enjoyed reading this book, with all of the history she included about each restaurant, cafe, market or bakery. It was published in 1997 and most of the establishments are still there. We just returned from visting in Sante Fe and used the book everytime we were going out to eat. It was fun to read her explaination before entering the door. She was correct with her rates on every one we frequented.I recommend reading this before your vist and using it while you are there.