I have read all of Lavyrle Spencer's books and I have to admit that this one is not my favorite. But there is something about this book that is different from the rest. This book does not focus on a new romance, or rekindling an old one, like the rest of Spencer's books. This is about a happy, well-adjusted family who gets hit by a catalyst and has to deal with the consequences of a mistake the father made 18 years ago.
I liked the all of the characters in this but I did get really tired of the way Claire stayed angry at Tom, not because of what he did, but because she refused to believe that he wasn't fooling around in the present. That just got old after awhile. I really liked the way the kids reconciled at the end, though.
All in all, I did really enjoy this book and would recommend it as a good, light read, just don't expect a romance novel.

I loved this book - I had a hard time putting it down! I really felt sorry for Claire. When she found out a terrible secret after 18 years of marriage and two children, it broke her heart and mine, too! I really liked how LaVyrle created this story, and I was very happy with the ending! This is a terrific, must-read story!

Lavyrle is one of those gifted story tellers that keep you turning pages. Although I've enjoyed every book she's written, so far, Endearment and Home Song have been my favorites. I'm not alwyas looking for "the great American novel", and after a long day of work, I just want to be entertained - not challenged. Lavyrle tells wonderful stories and at the end of them all, you can't help but continue to think of the characters; how you might have handled the situation or what you might have said. Home Song posed the difficult question as to how an entire family was asked to handle news of infedelity, and a child that another woman bore, and will now have to be acknowledged both emotionally and financially. The end of the story cleaned up a lot like a one hour television drama, but I don't feel that in any way negated the rest of the book. Don't be afraid to purchase this one. It's a keeper.

Having bought this book about a year or so ago, I just picked it up from the bookshelf and had a look at the current URLs of the examples provided. Given the rate of change of the web you would expect many of these example sites to be different - I found that many were no longer there - and those that were have changed their style radically. Hmmm. Not a good advert for the book!

I used this book largely as a reference and for the samples on the CD-ROM. The book emphasizes the importance of incorporating feedback from web surfers and using this feedback to customize the site as well as other applications.

The book is lengthy and does not offer many pictures; however, the advice is very sound and definitely comes from one who has been there. It is a good reference and worth the purchase for the CD-ROM.

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This book was the worst LSAT book I used to prepare for the test. It's compact size made it stressful on my eyes and the book was hard to keep open during a practice test. The questions were misleading and sometimes irrelevant. I would estimate my score went down from using this book.

I would recommend this book to someone who is wanting to narrow down their trouble spots and then move on to another source to tackle them. This book is excellent at helping you sort out your problem areas and gives questions that are about the same as those found in other test prep books. I found this, combined with a pile of prep tests availble from law services prepared me well for writing the lsat. I wouldn't suggest one use this book on its own and expect to get gleeming scores. It works great to a point, but another study aide is essential to compliment it.

This book is great. I've taken a lot of these standardized tests, and I've found that for a test like the LSAT, the best preparation is to know the format of the test well, to practice each section (timed and untimed), and to finish with taking a few full length practice tests. There is no need to buy a big ... book for the LSAT. There's no need to take a course. Simplicity is the key and this book is all you need. It's a ... good little book.

This is an extremely superficial book on hair loss. You can find out more on the internet in about 15 minutes than you can by reading this book. Nearly half of the book is devoted to transplants, wigs, etc. rather than talking about WHY people lose hair and what can be done about it short of these drastic measures. So many women suffer from hair loss that is treatable and this book does not offer any real help or advice. Stick to the internet and the wealth of knowledge available on hair loss sites.

Although I liked this book, I already knew most of the information that it contained. I was somewhat disappointed that the book did not have many specific recommendations for hair loss products, i.e.: dosages, amounts, application procedures. The book also spent way too much time discussing hair transplants which are not an alternative for most women due to diffuse hair loss and unstable donor sites. The book gives far too few doctor recommendation and once again, the doctors recommended were mostly hair transplant specialist. If you are a beginner to female hair loss, you will probably find this book helpful as it does contain good basic information. I, myself, was disappointed.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. This book has given me hope after months of heartache and frustration. My doctors have not helped me at all, it seems like all they know about is Rogaine and nothing else.

I now have the knowledge I need to seek out alternative and new treatments that have never been mentioned to me before.

Not only do I recommend that every woman reads this book, but every doctor treating women for hair loss should read it too, you may just learn something!

This book consists of an introductory section followed by three parts covering three major divisions of linguistics. Part 1, "Sounds" (chapters 1-7) covers phonology; part 2, "Words" (chapters 8-16) deals with morphology; and part 3, "Sentences" (chapters 17-26) is about syntax.

Part 1 is particularly difficult for the typical American reader because most of the English language examples are based on Received Standard pronunciation (or something near enough to RS to be less than illuminating for one brought up to speak a dialect close to Network Standard).

But worse by far than that is the authors' lack of understanding of how the English language works. For example, on page 227 is the following sentence: "Additionally, . . . "I dog Bill" and "Bill dogs me" are interpreted quite differently, and these different interpretations are due to the choice between nominative "I" and accusative "me" and the related choice between "dog" and "dogs." (because I cannot italicize here, I have put quotation marks around words that are italicized in the book.) Once upon a time, several centuries ago, case inflections of pronouns had some grammatical significance in English, but English has since evolved into a positional language. In modern English, direction of action is determined solely by position, and the remaining vestiges of nominative and accusative case inflections have no grammatical significance whatever. The only case inflections that retain any grammatical significance are the possessives, and in some dialects of English even those are disappearing.

The third and final part of the book discusses syntax, and features an altogether ludicrous reclassification of the components of sentences. If the authors were to describe a house like they describe the structure of English, the living room might be viewed as subsidiary in importance to the coat closet, and the kitchen and dining room as minor adjuncts to the pantry. Auxiliary verbs are accorded more importance than content verbs. Here we find no Noun Phrases; they are called Determiner Phrases if they contain no case marker, otherwise Prepositional Phrases.

For an introduction to the fascinating subject of linguistics, as Consumer Reports might put it, there are better choices.

I found this book to be a decent survey of Linguistics. It is written at a higher level, assuming the reader already knows a bit about language, which I appreciated, yet is not so complex you cannot follow it. Obviously a graduate level read. I recommend it for anyone who is brushing up on linguistics and already has a background in it. It is an overview with more depth than typical linguistics books.

I found this book more confusing than helpful. The test questions were not comparable to those actually on the LSAT. They were more vague and misleading than those questions on the actual test, particularly the logic games. Using poor study materials can really hurt you, so I would spend time working with more beneficial materials than this book. I would recommend Kaplan books instead or just getting the official tests produced by LSAC. Good luck on the test!

I bought this book primarily as a source of practice analytical (games) questions. I didn't pay much attention to the test-taking tips, which tend to be the same in every test prep book anyway. However, the sample material is so poorly constructed and edited that it is completely useless.

Consider just the 15 questions on page 112-113. There is at least one question which cannot be answered correctly. There is another which has two correct answers, unless you make an additional assumption which is not stated in the question. There are two questions which ask exactly the same thing, with slightly different words. And there is at least one question for which the answer given (on page 121,) though correct, is accompanied by an explanation which is complete nonsense.

That's just two pages. The rest of the book is filled with similar garbage. Flipping through this book and picking out all the logical errors might actually be a good exercise for a future lawyer, but it's useless as preparation for the LSATs.

Luckily I just took this book out from the library and didn't waste my money on it.

Please, please, please do not buy or use this book. It is a waste of time. Unfortunately sometimes the only way to find this out is to use the book yourself. Please though believe my review and the others (who rate it low). I wasted about a week and a half. Perhaps I learned some basic reading comp. tactics, but that's about it.

I just bought Master the LSAT by Nova. Haven't used it yet, but the reviews (which I should have believed for this book) are pretty high.