I loved this book. It is chocked full of some famous pictures of the American icon, Lucielle Ball, as well as other not as well known shots. Its filled with well known episodes like the chocolate factory and the grape smashing. I really recommend it.

I loved the pictures that were in the book. They were detailed enough to where it didn't tell you too much and you where never asking "why?". If you liked this book you'll love her audobiography LOVE, LUCY.

WOW! This book is filled with information, pictures, and interesting facts that the world never knew about Lucy. This gives you a look behind the clown and into Lucille Ball, the woman. Here is a side of Lucy few people know or see. It has great pictures of Lucy's life, both private and public, and it covers her life up until the day she was born on August 6th, 1911, till the day she died on April 26th, 1989. This pictorial biography takes you on an entertaining and informative tour through the life of a legend, a must-have for ANY Lucy fan!

I really enjoyed reading this book. A great read for anyone who has been in love. This book deals with an aspiring cellist and her friend Emily's bout with anorexia. While Sarah spends time with Emily in her New York home, she becomes attracted to Emily's brother David. He also begins to like her. Then it gets really good. I couldn't stop reading, the book is a real page-turner. I could relate to the book. The part about being in love was a major thing I related to. The title really caught my eye. I thought it was an interesting and neat read.

I adore the way the romance is handled. Boy meets girl, but boy is flawed. I squirmed and kept turning pages. The romantic in me wanted happy ever after. The feminist in me wanted girl to stick to her guns. Romantic and skeptic were satisfied in the end. Mighty satisfied! This is a marvelous read!

i reall enjoyed this book. I felt it dealt with everyday life and what some have to go through to acheive a dream. The main character and her boygriend seem so real. The problems wqith anerexia really relate to some of the troubles girls go through. I really relate to this book because it talks about real life situations young people have to go through these days.

Iris, in trying to purchase her first bra-an item she needs desperately-starts a business called "Just ask Iris." Unfortunately the elevator in her building is out of order so she uses the fire escape instead. She not only meets the inhabitants of her new Manhattan apartment building, but also, she manages to pull you into the story. A very fast paced read. I'm a middle school teacher and find this a fun resource to discuss landlord laws and living conditions in the city.

I thought that Oy Joy was a very fun book. I thought that it really displays a teenage life and really puts it into perspective. I thought that the book was very discriptive about certain things. I really like books that the main character expresses his or her own opinion and view. I also thought that the book was fun when Joy tryed to play matchmaker with her uncle Max and Rose Nussbaum. The climax of this book for me would have been Joy's relationship with Max. I thought that it really showed how much teenagers all need really good friends to talk to, not just their parents because friends may know exactly what they are going through. I think that I would recommend this book to you if you are going through a "teenage trial" or if you just like to read about other people. It was a very fun, light book.

"Oh, Joy!" is a whimsical novel told through the eyes of Joy, the protagonist of this third novel by Lucy Frank. Joy is a fourteen year old entering high school. The freshman would like to find a boyfriend. She finds it difficult to focus on the school's Match Quiz because she has to give up her room to her great-uncle Max who has moved into her family's cramped New York City apartment with his old, super terrier after he had a stroke. Now Joy and her younger brother Nathan have to share his room along with his pet mice.
This all adds to the tensions as one might imagine. Joy has a problem with her life long girlfriend, Maple, when she finds her love interest in Wade. Enter Max, Joy's age, who become close. As Uncle Max said, "A boy named Max couldn't be bad."
The story is a quick read. It is probably suited best for teens who can relate to the young characters in the story.

Oy, Joy was a great book. It makes you want to keep turning pages. Joy is faced with real life situations. Oy, Joy is a book about a young, teenage, nice girl named Joy who takes a whole bunch of twists and turns in her life. Joy and her best friend Maple are closer than ever until "matchmaker" pulls them apart. "Matchmaker" was something done by her highschool that was supposed to match you up with the perfect someone. Joy and Maple fill out the "matchmaker" quiz hoping to find good results. But when Maple runs off with her new boyfriend, Joy is left with no match and no best friend. On top of that, Joy's helpless Uncle Max is home from the hospital and cannot live alone. This even forced Joy to have to babysit Uncle Max every day after school!! Uncle Max tries to set Joy up with boys from her match list, but always seems to get the wrong people. Until one day, Joy's luck rises and Max jumps into her life; a dream come true. Everything all of a sudden has a better side to it.

I am a medical student taking my radiology elective (finally) in the spring of my fourth year. Our department loaned the book to us during the rotation. I've found it to be one of those few books that I will actually purchase to have on my shelf at home (and I'm NOT going into radiology). It is written in a pleasing, conversational manner. The illustrations are of high quality. The discussions are at just the right level for an introduction to radiology. And there are many little "problems" presented throughout the text for the student to puzzle over. The answers are either listed in back, or turn up later in the "conversation" within a few pages. Although it seems long (over 500 pp?), it is mostly pictures. I highly recommend the book.

It is a very well written basic introductory book. This book is a must for any medical student interested in imaging. To get the most out of a radiology elective, suggest reading this book cover to cover.

I used this as my main text during my radiology rotation as a medical student.

I loved it. read it cover to cover and found it to be very easy to read and every page was worthwhile.

I would HIGHLY recommend it to medical students who want to gain solid introductory skills in radiology. I now feel that I can look at just about any imaging study and either make an easy diagnosis or follow the readings of radiologists with ease.

I don't normally read celebrity biographies but as a die-hard I Love Lucy fan, I wanted to find out more about the woman known by the world primarily as Ethel Mertz. Vance's talent deserved more regognition than she's gotten and this book helps to shine the light on her a bit more. It's a well-written, entertaining book which explores Vance's life fromchildhood to her death a few yearsago. It tends to drag a bit after Vance's exit from show business but overall, it's definitely worth reading and a nice tribute to a fine actress

As is observed in this book, I LOVE LUCY without the Mertzes would probably not have been an immortal show, and more properly it was Vivian Vance who was key to the chemistry that made this show such an icon. It was high time there was a book about her, and what we get is a solid narration of an interesting story. Vance was a working third banana on the New York stage of the Golden Era, respected and dependable but never quite hitting the top, just missing getting Mary Martin's spot in LEAVE IT TO ME, just missing a key role in CAROUSEL, etc. One can read quite a bit about musicals and straight plays of this era without realizing that the future Ethel Mertz was one of the people regularlly filling key character roles on the Great White Way. The "slice of life" of one of the "state-of-the-art" performers in this world is great reading.

After this we get to Vance's work with Lucille Ball, and at this point, if one has already read the growing number of books on Lucy and her television work, there is really only so much more to be said that hasn't been said before. This is not the authors' fault, however, and they more than compensate with fascinating information about Vance's two main marriages and her bout with depression.

If there is one flaw in this book, it is that the authors appear to lose interest in their subject after Vance leaves THE LUCY SHOW. Vance was quite distraught that she was forever associated with the Ethel character, and yet for the last fifteen years of her life, the authors -- belying that what they are at heart is Lucy fans who came to wonder what was up with Vivian Vance -- seem mainly interested in her life to the extent that it occasionally reconnected with Lucy's. Yet during this period Vance did several theatre tours and stock appearances and television productions. Things like this can make interesting reading as well -- witness William Henry III's book on Jackie Gleason, THE GREAT ONE -- but the authors seem to consider all of this mere "postscripts", not having gone to the trouble to view the TV appearances, dig up info on most of the plays. I now feel like I more or less knew the Vance of her New York days, but the post-LUCY Vance remains a kind of footnote.

However, overall, hats off to the authors for bringing this wonderful performer to light. Now it's time for someone to give Eve Arden similar treatment...

Castelluccio and Walker do an excellent job chronicalling the life of Vivian Vance. It was easy to follow, sometimes sad, but at a few points I found myself laughing out loud! It was an amazing journey through a life of a person that most of us know from I Love Lucy but do not know anything about her private life. From the quotes in the beginning to the triumphant end the book did not have one boring moment. Packed with little-known facts it is a must read for any I Love Lucy fan. You'll never look at Ethel Mertz the same again!

Hey if you live in a great big huge city where you can buy almost anything, this is the book to get. Unforunately for the REST of us, not everywhere in the country has REAL Cherry extract or REAL Mint Extract, and if we do, it is more expensive than if we'd just gone out and bought a bottle of Pantene Pro-V. However, if you are really into making your own beauty products and you live in a big city, go for it!

I got this book back in 1995 when it was first published, I can't imagine it was that long ago because the book is still in such great condition. Not that I don't use it, on the contrary, I use it at least once a week. The pictures are lovely but the recipes are the real gems. Philip B. was the first to introduce me to the thought of using flavor extracts, which really do work nicely. Some of the ingredients are not what you would find in your cupboard but they are not so exotic you need a round trip ticket to Bali. Everything can be found in your super market or right here on the net. I highly recommend it!

i liked this book and lucy frank's description of emily's mother. i was dissapointed that sarah's cute guy turned out to be kind of a jerk.... i was so proud of sarah when she stood up to her parents :)

I read, "I am an Artichoke" when I was in seventh grade(I'm in tenth grade now) and I absolutley loved it! It was one of my favorite books and I would always get it from the library. I was not at all disappointed when I first read it because the writing was so much more different than any other book. It's one of those cozy books that you can read over and over again! It takes place in New York City and has a sense of depth and reality which is refreshing. Read it and you will enjoy it.

Lucy Frank writes with this amazing, refreshing honesty. Her portrayal of the young anorexic Emily is so real, it is capable of provoking tears from the easily frightened or previous anorexics. The most stunning part of the novel, though, is the innocence the main character, Sarah, has in luring her beloved friend away from the eating disorder. It seems as if she does not realize the effect she has influencing Emily. She is just naturally inspiring... a novel with a frank, fresh quality to each glorious page.