I didnt actually read most of this book although it was assigned for our english class. I would say it was much too predictable because i picked up on it really well from just hearing about it. Most of my friends said that it was very sad/touching though. From what we read out loud, the dialog was hard to understand, and although there were some rascist parts, it was all in the interest of making a point about rascism, and it certainly did make some interesting points about society. The only thing that really bothered me was that she used a lot of sentence fragments. If you like to read books for fun I think that most people would enjoy it.

These cliff notes are written very well and have nice summaries for anyone who is reading this book for school (like me!). Don't forget to read the actual book too though, you're missing out on great literature if you don't.

I had to read this book for my 11th grade English class, and I can seriously say this is the first book I've read that I liked. I've never been into reading much and only do it if I have to, but I finished this book in 2days and I'm glad I got a chance to read it. I would suggest it for anyone because it's a sad story when she is put on trial. But it is also happy because she finds love.

My child had to read this book as an assignment in class. I read the first page and was horrified that in 2002 a teacher would have the class reading a book where the first page says "she's no wise pretty, but she's strong as a mule" and in that same page it says "She (Mary McLeod Bethune) was a champion cotton picker."

This book was offensive to me as an African American woman. I was enraged that my child would have to wade through all of the negative stereotypes (e.g. Mary was uppity b/c she used a fork and no longer sopped her gravy up with her biscuit) before she can begin to appreciate all of the remarkable accomplishments of Mary McLeod Bethune.

Although Mary McLeod Bethune endured a hard life, focusing on the aspects that perpetuate negative stereotypes of black people minimalizes the importance of Mary's story.

When I was in fourth grade our teacher read this story to us. I was so touched by it, that at the end of the school year my teacher gave me her copy.

Several years later I found that during moves I had misplaced this book. I found another...I cherish this book very much. I just finished reading this story to my second grade daughter. She learned so much about how life was and how life should be. I think it is a wonderful expression of how everyone should and can get along in this world.

I picked the very thin book up at the ASU "kitty lit" library, mid quarter, early 1973. I needed a book for oral review and I needed one I could read in a hurry. I was mother of four, wife for their dad, working part-time and going to college. It had to be read for tomorrow's oral report. After supper, dishes still on the table, I pulled the book out of my book bag. The first page got my undivided attention. A couple pages and I was tearing. About middle ways I was sobbing. I couldn't see the large print to read through the tears. I stopped, tried to compose myself and stop the tears so I could read on. The kids and their dad were in the other room; they would think the stress had finally brought on the breakdown. I read on. Finally, she had broke through the impossible and had brought freedom of reading to Black Women. I felt her pain. I felt the joy of her success. With tears streaming from my eyes, amid sobs and laughters I stood and cheered her success as she lead the march across campus to make a stand for the freedom of education. Class time and my time to do my report. The title and author identified, the book in my hand, I started my report. Tears welled up, my throat tightened, I felt a sob coming on ... "just read it," I said, holding the book up for the class to see. Mary McLeod Bethune should be every Black Woman's hero. She sure is this White Woman's.

Drama student, Gina, must chouse the leading man in the play she is in or the charismatic Carles,who is financing the play.

Wow, got all hot'n'sweaty reading this one. Its got a traditional structure - girl, good guy and bad guy, but it's gripping to read - racy plot - and with sex, sex, sex! All kinds, all combinations, and all of it super-strength-steamy (especially the scene in the hothouse!)

This book starts out with Mandy and her sisters talking about trees. Thay live in Kentucky and all that, so ya know Her brothers hated ham so they ate at the hotel.

Mandy is twelve years old,and she has to take care of her two younger sisters,nine-year-old Anna and five-year-old Helen.Her
two older brothers,Ben and David,are 14 and 16.One day they have a new baby brother,Willie.Mandy's mother is tired from Willie's birth and really weak.So Mandy had to keep the house running with David and Ben.And she gets to escape all this work by going to her grandparents' house for two weeks in Memphis as a christmas present from her presents.

Despite its age, "Desertion During the Civil War" remains the standard introduction to the topic. The book's major shortcoming is touched on in William Blair's introduction to this reprint: "Lonn relied primarily on the 'Official Records.' Although adequate for the time, this would be considered merely a good beginning today."

The "Official Records" are the most complete and impartial documentation of the Civil War, and the necessary foundation for any serious research. But they were never edited for accuracy, and many reports were condensed for space, and the information about the South was especially spotty in the 1920s. Modern historians are severely cautioned against relying on them without corroborating evidence.

Historians from Prof. McPherson on down have been saying for years that there needs to be a fresh study of desertion, especially in the Confederacy. But that would require a couple of people to spend the rest of their natural lives sifting through tens of thousands of provost marshals' reports and muster rolls of thousands of regiments.

So we're left with Ella Lonn. Her analysis of the "disease" takes into account both North and South, as well as mentioning the Napoleonic armies, Wellington's experience in Spain, the U.S. military before 1861, and the Franco-Prussian War.

Part of her thesis, now much-shaken by better information than was available in the 1920s, was that the South had a serious desertion problem for much of the war, and that it spiraled out of control in the last months. She wrote that the North seemed to get its own desertion problem under relative control about the same time -- largely by draconian measures.

Her conclusion is that one out of every seven men deserted from the Union Army, and one out of every nine men deserted from the Confederate army. Though the Union lost proportionately more to desertion, she feels the South suffered more because of the initial difference in manpower, and that desertion ultimately was instrumental in the South's failure to achieve independence.

Lonn concludes that Union desertions helped prolong a war that the South was losing, because the news of them gave the South hope and allowed it to cling to a dream of eventual victory long after that was practically out of reach.

Lonn seems to be writing with an eye on her own time, in the wake of World War I, which brought up a great many of the ugly things in American democracy that we think only emerged during the Cold War. She alludes to it often, and seems intent on pointing out that the horrors of war -- any war -- are more worthy of note than the characters of men who desert from armies.

I was prompted to read this book after having read "Cold Mountain" and having someone complain to me about the hero of that book being a deserter. How could someone write a book glorifying desertion! That got me to wondering and led me to Lonn's book. I found it very informative about many aspects of desertion, including: the reasons men deserted, what happened to them if they were caught, the means the governments (both Union and Confederate) used to persuade deserters to return to their units, the bounties paid to capture deserters, and many more aspects that I had never considered, most importantly, the effect it had on the outcome of the war. She also examines the effects of desertion on the civilian population, and how the stigma of desertion became what it is today. Some chapters were a bit redundant (she covers both North and South), and the sections on the numbers who deserted and from which states, etc. bored me, but overall I would recommend it to anyone interested in the Civil War.

In 1973 I, as a re-entry woman, went to the community college portrayed in this book. I took a class with Dorothy Bryant, and thus, I read this book. It was almost me in those days, so of course I could relate to so much of it. I sat in the same rooms, watched the same students, walked the same campus. It is now decades later, and I am still thankful for that experience, this book, and especially for the talents, wisdom and kindness of its' author, Dorothy Bryant. I am so glad to see it still in print. READ IT!

Thirty-four year old Ella Price is a wife, mother, and college student. Ella returns to college in search of herself or something that will give meaning to her life. She takes an English class from Dan Harkan, a professor who requires his students to keep a journal. The reader learns about Ella, her hopes, dreams, frustrations, and disappointments by reading her journal, a series of writings that is both humorous and revealing. Near the end of the semester, Ella writes in her journal, "I'm still the same neuroitc I always was. And my life is still a bad soap opera."

First published in 1972, Ella Price's Journal touches on some timeless subjects including marriage, divorce, parenting, and religion. Ella Price's Journal is a quick, enjoyable read.

Generally a good way to teach very young children French, although I'm not really crazy about the storyline. In the story, each animal is unhappy with its various attributes and wants other ones, i.e. my nose is too long, I want a shorter one, etc - not exactly the kind of message I'd want my toddler to absorb.

Having said that, the illustrations are wonderful and the quality of the hardback book ............. is just great.

Although there is a glossary and pronunciation guide, I would not recommend this book to a parent who does not have a rudimentary knowledge of French.

As a Spanish teacher in an elementary school, I use this book to help teach describing words. The children love how the elephant and giraffe make silly changes to their appearance; it holds their interest in the story and helps them learn the material. At the end of the story they clearly recognize the lesson: you don't need to change who you are because friends like you just the way you are!

As luck would have it, I happened across a poetry book one day that included some of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's work. I was immediately fascinated. I was not a usual poetry reader, but by the time I finished the few poems in the book, I had aquired a thirst for E.W.W. poetry. The author died in 1919 so her work is very hard to find today. I was thrilled to see it at Amazon. I titled my review "Timeless Emotions" because Ella speaks of heartrendering plights we have all experienced, but never stop to really analyze. One poem titled "Lady Of Tears" expresses the anguish of an oncoming sorrow, yet realizes that the tears are actually a relief, a conclusion to the sadness. Ella is also the author of "Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone..." I'm sure if Ella Wheeler Wilcox were alive today (physically), she would be at least as popular as she was a century ago.

Black Lace books are supposed to have interesting plots and exciting sex scenes. This book has neither. Oh sure, the heroine, who isn't really all that likeable, has lots of sex. She'll sleep with almost anybody at the drop of a hat. However, there's not a lot of detail in the sex scenes and who cares anyway since Maddie and the reader never get to know anything about any of her partners. There is no buildup, no getting to know any of the men and hoping she will get together with them soon.

I read all the Black Lace books, so obviously, I'm not a prude, but I couldn't like Maddie because she was such a slutty woman. I guess the reader is meant to find her near public sex acts daring and titillating. I just found her unsympathetic and got bored by the lack of detail and character development.

a great, sexy read - hot'n'horny, great locations and an interesting plot. Wish they'd make a movie of this one! I thought the whole point of these kind of books was to get as much sex in as they can!

This is among my favorite 3 Black LAce Books. There is one scene I still like to re-read on occasion, and I rarely get off on the same passage twice. I envy the good-times the main character has with so many different people, and the frequent setting changes make for good atmosphere.

While somewhat entertaining from a plot standpoint, the sex scenes were quite vanilla and didn't go very far. This book is best for those relatively unfamiliar with the Black Lace series.

Although the writing wasn't the best and the plot a little thin, I couldn't put this book down! The scenes were pretty believeable and interesting. This was my first book in the Black Lace series, and I'm going to order more now.

Enjoy!

I loved this book - if the point of the Black Lace series is to turn you on - then Ella sure knows how to press my buttons! Set mainly in France, it is soooo sexy ... I only wish I was Louise, the heroine!!