It was a wonderful book full of creative ideas. I really enjoyed it. And got to put it to use with some new nieghbors.They loved it. Thanks again for all your creativity. :-)

Love You Can Touch is a creative collection of beautifully illustrated ideas for giving away gifts of love. After enjoying the book so much myself, I purchased several copies for friends as birthday gifts -- especially appreciated by young, active moms. Not your average book of creative ideas, this one's more than "a cut above." Don't miss it!

Sometimes I know a gift is appropriate, but I'm scratching my head over what to give, then I'm shuffling through a stack of crumpled paper trying to wrap it up. Believe me, when I'm in such a stuck place, when I want to show love but can't figure out how, I don't mind borrowing an idea or two. Jane's book is chock full of ideas that make my friends feel special and happy. Thanks Jane!

Lucy's E-Journal is the best book I have ever read, and Jane Harrington is an amazing author. There is another book that is coming out in the fall, and I can't wait to read it! If you really like Lucy's E-Journal, you can visit the website.... It is totally awesome, and there are details on the upcoming books, information about the author, Jane Harrington, writing tips, and more! There are even contests that you can enter! Anyway, my conclusion is: Lucy's E-Journal is the best book in the world, and the author totally rocks!!!

Lucy's (Completly C00L and totally true) E-Journal by Jane Harrington was one of the best books I have EVER read! It was wonderfuly writen,and very funny! I LOVED this book soooooooooo much that I decided to make a E-Journal just like Lucy. I think it is a great way to write a book.

This book is off the hook! It keeps getting BETTER EVERY TIME YOU READ IT!!! I am more of a dog person but this book made ferrets one of my favorites. I want to read it over and over all the time because this book is written very well to capture many kid's heart. The author's style is very descrptive and also explain every kid's lives. I wish I were Lucy because she had a pretty happy ending. I am a 4.00 student (straight A not lying), and even thought the book is a little easy I still love it!

The husband and wife team has made another excellent book. I specially liked the way the authors moved the most important (from my viewpoint) topics first. I and probably hundreds of students here in Manila use their book and it's an outstanding source of information.

Used this book with a group of 18 managers on a management course. All acclaimed it as a very easy to understand book, very well written and comprehsive.

For business students this bok may give you an excellent updated view of Information Systems.

I read this book in short bursts so that I could savor the characters. What fun. To really get the most from this book, I recommend reading The Funeral Makers first.

This is the second book I've read by Cathie Pelletier and the story keeps getting better. The Funeral Maker being the first of the trilogy, I can't wait to read the third. These caracters just won't quit. What a great read when you just want to relax and have a good laugh. I will definitely read every book by this author and I dare say if you read one, you're hooked. Keep them coming.

For the unabridged flavor of northern Maine, Cathie Pelletier delivers. I've read three of her books so far, and they've all been good. For a good story, I recommend them strongly.

Although published in the early 1900s and outdated in certain areas, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion is still an essential read for anyone interested in Greek Religion. Perhaps the best description of the book would be to call it the Greek Golden Bough.

In this classic work, Harrison sought to uncover the primitive substratum of Greek religion, so rather than focusing on the
Olympian deities, she spends the better part of the book discussing ghosts, 'demons', and the chthonic deities. The religious landscape that she illuminates is therefore nothing like the cheery and rational world of the Olympians. The dark, the creepy and the uncanny tend to predominate.

The book is very well-written, and the author's fascination with her material is infectious. I found it so powerful a reading experience that I can only describe Prolegomena in terms of a kind of anthropological prose poetry. Although its ostensible topic is a rather specialized and obscure field of enquiry, one comes away from the book with a feeling of having gained a deeper insight into that most general of topics, the human condition.

I have to agree with the other reviewer who emphasizes that this is not a book for those completely unfamiliar with ancient Greek religion. Moreover, parts of it might be frustrating and tedious for readers without knowledge of the ancient Greek language, since Harrison is constantly engaged in the elucidiation and discussion of Greek religious terminology.

All in all, an unforgettable book that, unlike most academic studies, is a piece of great literature.

This book is an indispensible classic for anybody interested in Greek religion. I was considering following up Prof. Harrison's weighty tome by writing the sequel: "Avgolemeno to the Study of Greek Soup Making," but I couldn't find an interested publisher, for some reason.

*Note: "Avgolemeno" is a well-known Greek, lemon-flavored soup.

Indispensable, for anyone interested in archaic rite, comparative religion, or ancient Greek culture.

Reading and studying Jane Harrison's Prolegomena was such a pleasure. Her brilliance and wide knowledge shines on every page! Even today (Professor Harrison died of leukemia in 1928) modern scholars and intellectuals such as Walter Burkert and Camille Paglia continue to draw on her magnificent work. There are particular passages -- on ecstasy and asceticism, for example -- of such beauty that they seem to transcend scholarship and border on the divine. Her work is so thorough one begins to understand the weight of a great and complex society which myth itself only brushes. Her other works, including Themis and the dazzlingly concise Epilogemena also enlighten and inspire, but Prolegomena is the place to start.

This is the perfect companion to the first Cross-Training book. It's for the riders who want to better and further their dressage training. It picks up where the first book left off, and like book 1, it is clear, innovative, explanative and illustrates the basic principles of more advanced dressage. It leaves the reader/rider with a better understanding of riding mechanics and harmony with the horse. It gets a little bit more in depth and into more advanced, challenging dressage excercises. Suited for any horse and rider in any sport, which makes it so different than any other dressage book out there. A great buy.

Both of Jane's cross training books are a great resource for trainers, riders, and instructors because of their content and their readability. The photos are numerous and first rate. They illustrate commonly made mistakes as well as the ideal and are well captioned. The text provides readers with easy to follow instructions on how to correct common mistakes, how to introduce new movements, and how to improve our horses overall. You can enjoy the book reading it from start to finish or just selecting sections that deal with a particular point of interest to you.

i am a life-long rider in hunt seat, jumpers, and dressage, and i found this book to be well-written, straightforward, and illustrated with great photographs of horses and riders, showing both correct and incorrect movements and aids. anyone who wants a more disciplined, athletic, and well-balanced horse, as well as an improved attitude towards his or her riding, should read this book. it doesn't matter what your riding discipline is--dressage, hunt seat, or even western, trail, or endurance. the techniques that jane sets forth in her books will help every rider be more in tune with his or her mount, be more in control of the tremendous physical power of the horse, and therefore end up with a performance, whether in the show ring, or on the trail, that is a joy to ride.

I found this to be a great book for any dancer or child that feel that they are not as good or won't shine as much as someone else might. Nina felt that her mother wouldn't notice her on stage that she would blend in with the other children. The book teaches us to do our personal best and we will all shine to whomever is watching us!!!!!

I like this book because I wanted to be a ballerina. It told me what ballerina's do and how they dress, and what types of dancing they can do.

This is a wonderful book for any child who feels they just blend in,either in dance or life itself. It teaches them that when you do your best, you will be noticed for what you can do. Your personal best will let you shine to those who love you. Never let other people intimidate you.

I really hope the author and illustrator read this review so they will know how much their book is loved!

... The rhymes are fun to read and the illustrations are gorgeous. My son is clearly entranced by the pictures and loves to look at them by himself. The book contains a few animals we don't see in other books (moles, spiders) which I like - it is nice to have a break from cows/horses/etc. The pictures are also fairly realistic.

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The beautiful illustrations of this lyrical story exuberantly fly off the page, mud splattering, water splashing and more. The text - telling how various animals make their way to Grandma's house in all differnt ways - is the type of sing-song sound laden verse that's fun to read and re-read and re-read along with your child ("Tip-toe, tippety toe, Hip-hop, hippity hop, Dig-deep, diggety deep"). But, its the illustrations that make the book sing. Watercolors that are at once delicate and exuberant, Laurel Molk has captured dazzling webs woven by spiders, crumbly earth thrown out by digging moles and mud and pond water following a frog's leap through the air. Great book!

Jane Yolen's Off We Go! tells of baby animals who embark on ajourney to Grandmother's house. Each animal has a very different homedestination in this simple rhyme story.

An interesting conjoining of two very different stories. I read them in order, starting with "Ordinary Love" and then moving on to "Good Will." At the end, I found myself wondering what links the two stories?

In both, there is a father who directs his family to such an extent that he could be called controlling or even an egomaniac. In "Ordinary Love" the father is not present; he is the "fifth man", invisible, but the scars left by his words and actions have sunk deep. In "Good Will", the father is the protagonist, and through his own eyes we see the results of his actions.

Unlike the other reviewers here, I preferred "Ordinary Love." I enjoyed the character of the mother, who narrates the story. She strives to be objective and offer a balanced viewpoint. She has a depth of self-knowledge. Also, she watches her children with great love, and that lends the story real warmth, which I thought was missing from "Good Will."

I plan to read both stories again. There's a depth of character and thought here that can't be fully taken in with one reading.

Smiley gives us an intimate view into two very different families and the ways in which their different parenting styles affected their children's lives irrevocably. Smiley is a master of character development. When each story begins, you have a certain view of the protagonist and other characters. As the stories unfold, your feelings about each character change. This is a book to be read more than once.

Good Will is by far one of the best novels I've ever read. Ordinary Love was good too. There is nothing ordinary about Jane Smiley's characterizations in Good Will. Those characters could not have been more real if they were real people in the room with me. The psychological, emotional, and moral complexities and motivations they display, the remarkable way in which it was all written and put together..2 years after reading this book, I'm still in awe of it.

This book really spoke to me. I loved it!

Princess Sophie is such a fun & loving person you'll laugh at some of things she does in order to live as a normal person. You'll be cheering for Steven and Princess Sophie to figure out a way to make things work. This story is well written and makes you believe the characters are real people. I didn't want the story to end! I highly recommend this book! This is a book you'll want to keep in your romance book collection to read over & over! Enjoy! :)

All Princess Sophie of Carpathia wanted was some time living like a normal person before she returned to her country, married the man who'd proposed (but whom she didn't love) and resumed her duties as one of the royal family. Well, she got her wish and landed smack dab in the middle of Steve Koleski's life. Steve, electrician (and darned good photographer) and guardian of his best friend's 5 kids doesn't know who the woman with the strange hair and clothes is, but he does know that after running through a handful of housekeepers in a matter of weeks, he wasn't about to look a gift in the mouth. So, when Sophie (now aka Lisa Stone) offers her service for two weeks, he hesitates but not for long. A person would have to be blind not to see the rapport she had with kids. So, Steve gets his housekeeper and Lisa gets her two-week in the real world. Little did either know that both would get the lesson of a lifetime in the game of love or that along the way both would learn what is really important in life-and sometimes it's not what we think it is. Sophie must decide whether or not to accept the proposal of a man she likes but doesn't love and Steve must make the painful decision over whether to pursue his dream of photography or stay and take over the family business. I read the book during a time when a medical problem had me wanting a comfort read, and Plain-Jane Princess gave me exactly what I needed. I loved the hero, Steve and the banter between him and Sophie/Lisa is priceless at times. The author's knack for internal dialogue is amazing, especially for Steve. *His* dialogue, both external and internal had me laughing many times throughout the book. He's an honest, caring man with a wicked sense of humor (much comes through in internal dialogue, which for me in a lot of cases is much funnier). Plain-Jane Princess more than deserved its 4½ Top Pick Rating from Romantic Times Magazine. If this book isn't nominated for awards, there is no justice in this world. Ms. Templeton, you've outdone yourself. Thank you for giving readers a story that will stay with them long after the last page is read.