Romeo and Juliet is the best of Shakespeares work ever. Everyone knows the story, but once you read it, it brings the meaning and connection to a different level. The language is beautiful. The words passed betweem Romeo and his love are so moving, you read them over and over. Even if you don't understand what they are saying, you'll still get the general idea and fall in love with this forbidden romance. Even though its a sad ending. The tragedy just adds more to the play. A magnificent book...you have to read it.

Romeo and Juliet has been performed so often that it has become almost tedious. But it might be a thoroughly enjoyable play if it were seen with fresh eyes. The story and its main characters are exaggerated, and at times Romeo appears to be a parody of the young, ardent lover. The play contains more rhymed lines than most of Shakespeare's others, and this can have the tendency to make the play appear less realistic. But it also makes the lines very pleasing to the ear. The pure endurance of Romeo and Juliet's story line attests to its greatness. My favorite character is Mercutio, whose energy and witticism make the play worth reading. I also appreciated the friar, who serves as a foil to Romeo's excessiveness and offers tempering words of wisdom. The play is quite bawdy at times and the double meanings are numerous.

This is one of the best books I've ever read! I think anyone with tast for drama should read this book! Maybe not anyone under seven, but even so, maybe even they could read it!!!And it's also pretty easy to understand! If you do choose this book, I think you will love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love this book. It's the first book in the now-defunct Sweet Dreams series and is about Mariah. She always wanted to write a romance novel and the summer when she turned sixteen seemed to be the best time to do so. Unfortunately, her family ended up going to Palm Springs and house-sit for the summer so that her mother can make ends meet. There she met Paul Strobe. You just have to read the story to really appreciate how bittersweet it is. There is also a sequel to this book, entitled "Falling in Love Again." But "P.S. I Love You" definitely set the par for succeeding Sweet Dreams and other young-adult books. It's a teenage romance story that stayed with me through the years.

My best friend Lia and I started reading the Sweet Dreams series back in our high school days. P.S. I Love You touched us the most.We must've read it dozens of times and still cry at the very end. How we've dreamt of someday falling in love like Mariah and finding our very own Paul Strobe!Lia and I are still the best of friends and are now in our mid-twenties. That book is still well remembered and recommend it to the new generation of people hoping to find their own love story.

Mariah has all sorts of summer plans that ao awry when her parents get divorced. Now she is forced to help her mother with a summer job. She is really not looking forward to her summer and then suddenly she meets Paul. He makes everything all right in her life just because he's in it. It doesn't matter that her personal life is in limbo and things are changing, never to be the same. He helps her through it all. Then Mariah finds out Paul has cancer. Can Mariah help Paul through his ordeal that suddenly makes her problems seem so trivial?

This is a beautiful story of first love coming at a time when a teenaged girl realizes what it is like to "have to grow up" and that nothing will ever be the same. I read this book for the first time quite a few years ago when I was 11 or 12. I can't tell you how many times I have re-read it since. This story has stuck in my mind and I reflected on it often. It's a great story and helps put what turns out to be minor, workable problems of a teenaged girl into perspective.

This was a very inspirational book. Barbara Jordan's life was really incredible and the reason she accomplished as much as she did had to do with her innate abilities as well as her willingness to deal with the enemy. She kept her overriding goal utmost - the welfare of the people of East Texas.

Lots of what she experienced and spoke out against we see today. We could really use her moral voice of authority. She is missed.

This is a well written and effective biography of one of America's most amazing personalities. Mary Beth Rodgers tells Jordan's story with the advantage of being an insider; her access to those who knew Jordan well shows in her insightful and complete telling of Jordan's life.

Jordan is widely remembered by her public persona, the booming orator from Texas - the intellectual constitutional scholar who presided over Nixon's impeachment. But element that makes this biography compelling is Rodgers' depiction of the wheeling and dealing that allowed Jordan to cross barriers and operate effectively in the good-old-boy white male backrooms of the Texas Senate. We get to see Jordan the idealist armed with the constitution in our nation's capital, but we also get to see Jordan the pragmatist cutting deals over a scotch in Austin Texas.

An effective biography of an amazing American figure.

I'm glad that Jordan is not hear to see how the gov't of the people, for the people, by the people has been so completely perverted by special interests and neo patriots, such as George W. Bush and John Ashcroft. I was only a boy, when like many, I was captivated by this incredible person. She gave me hope that govt could actually serve the people. This book does a great job to capture her spirit and remind us that govt was once a tool and not force for opression.

I've never written an Amazon review before, but I felt a real obligation to trash this book. It is riddled with bad grammar and syntax -- I mean several errors on every page. I don't have it in front of me and can't remember the names, but a typical case would be "Me and Grace had a fight," instead of "Grace and I had a fight." Since the book is narrated by the protagonist, these errors are not only in direct quotes but also in the main text.

In short, the book is written the way many kids talk. This is a perfectly legitimate technique for adult books, and can certainly add to the feeling of authenticity, although the hundreds of books I loved and devoured as a child did not suffer for being grammatically correct. But it is very confusing to a child who is trying to learn proper English in school, and it undermines the efforts of teachers. When children read such usage in a book, what are they supposed to think? What habbits will they learn? And how can a teacher correct the child's own usage when the child can point to a book and say "They do it like that here"?

I was dismayed to discover that this book is part of a series by a popular author, and I couldn't believe it when I saw that the publisher is Scholastic! Perhaps this means that an official decision has been made to abandon traditional rules of English usage in favor of those of the playground. But if so, I wasn't notified, and my career effectiveness would nosedive if I followed suit. So would most people's.

Barbara Park and Scholastic are doing a tremendous disservice to children by habituating them at an early age, in print, to usage that can only hurt them both in school and later in life. These books, and others like them, should be blacklisted by teachers, schools and liblaries. Censorship on the basis of content is a tricky subject, but bad grammar in children's books can only hurt their very vulnerable readers.

This is a great book to read with your favorite children. There are many lessons to be learned here about behavior, feelings, emotions, fears, and about getting what you ask for, but not REALLY wanting it. Discussing these stories with your children can help them understand how to cope with life's circumstances. We discuss Junie's poor grammar and the behavior of the children in the stories. It helps the children in our family better understand social skills and discipline. It also encourages them to share their experiences with their family members who may need to know about them. Adults in our family up to the age of 90 laugh at Junie's adventures and delight in the humorous twists to the stories. The children relate to Junie's problems and learn from her experiences.

Written from the very believable point of view of a precocious little girl, this story was at least as enjoyable a read for me as it was for my daughters! If you have a kid, know a kid, ever been a kid, or even ever SEEN a kid, check this (as well as the rest of the Junie B Jones series) out. She's the Eloise of the 21st century.

This book is another wonderful story set in the world of Antryg Windrose, although neither he nor Joanna Sheraden appears in it. I think the Windrose Chronicles happen to be Hambley's best series, and this book certainly lives up to that expectation. ... After she arrives the fur begins to fly between her and her estranged family, but once she meets the prospective groom and his family the fun really begins as she tries to delay the wedding and find out who wants her sister dead. This book is once again a great mix of fantasy and mystery, which seems to be a Hambley staple. Also typical of a Hambley book, the prose just draws the reader in, and enough twists and turns occur in the plot that you are never quite sure what is going to happen next. At various times throughout the book the reader will empathize with each of the main characters, which again points to the wonderful and heartfelt character development that I have come to expect from Hambley. This is a great book, and I encourage new and old Hambley fans to track it down and read it. I only hope she writes a few more stories about the characters in this strange new world.

Continuing the thread started in her Windrose Chronicles,
Barbara Hambly weaves yet another yarn that is well-spun
with character depth and a plot that, convoluted as it may
sometimes seem, is internally consistent and easy to swallow -
despite its liberal sprinkling of wizards, ghosts, spells and
curses. The story includes characters and a historic setting
that is comfortable and familiar to any who have read her
Windrose Chronicles, yet the story is independent of those
works and stands on its own, with a very different perspective
on the politics and day-to-day lives of the inhabitants of the
Empire.

Kyra - whom we met briefly in Hambly's "Dog Wizard," is the
central character, and her unravelling of the mystery as to what
has twisted her own developing magic skills, who and what is
threatening the life of her sister, and how to navigate through
the quagmire of paternal resentment, socialite scheming, the
suspicions of the Church's Magic Office and her surprisingly
conflicted heart over the man who would be her brother-in-law,
are expertly and masterfully interwoven by Hambly's skills as
a storyteller. A very good read - even more than once.

This was one of my first forays into fantasy several years ago. I enjoyed it then, and upon rereading it, I find it holds up rather well.

Hambly excels at describing, in a matter-of-fact manner, surroundings that may be fantastic, unreal. Kyra is bold, even fierce, and in Spens we find a surprising equal. The magic in the book is fun, the plot engrossing, and the ending is perfect.

This book SUCKS! I hated this book and I recomened that you just turn around. I hated this book from cover to cover and I'm sure that you will too

This is a wonderful, detailed book about Joan of Arc as a girl. You will not want to put this book down!

I read this book a couple months ago but, here's what i remember. Even though this book is about Joan of Arc, it's a great book for anyone. My friend told me to read this book a while ago because she loved it so much, and she's jewish, and right now, not that much into religion. So truly this book is for anyone who wishes to read something out of the ordinary. Not just a plain fictional book, but one that allows you to think and experience what the life of someone living in the early 1400's

A Star Trek/Here Comes The Brides crossover? Yet believe it or not it works. The Klingons are trying to change Earth's history which is how an amnesiac Spock finds himself in 1800s Seattle posing as the nephew of Aaron Stemple, (the 'Ishmael' of the title). Meanwhile back in the twenty-third century Kirk, McCoy and the rest of the crew wade through tons of old records to locate Spock *and* the Klingons - eventually arriving just after the nick of time but before it's too late. The real fun is trying to identify all the walk-throughs: The scruffy looking space pilot and the two brown uniformed men from some refugee fleet; the fancy gambler and the two cowhands from Virginia city; the chess playing man at the San Francisco Hotel; the shabby little man with the flute and the pretty female companion....

This book definitely has a place of honor in my bathroom library. It's one book that you can't put down. I really enjoyed this one, seeing what Spock would do if he were to live as a human. I especially like what Barbara has done, using the back drop of "Here comes the Brides". Very, very clever. She really captured the show and made an excellent marriage between it and "Star Trek". What a lot of people may not realize is that Barbara did something unique. She paired Spock with Aaron Stemple, right? Well in the "Here comes the Bride" show, Stemple is played by Mark Lerner. And all of us fans know him as the actor who played Spock's father, Sarek. Neat, huh? Great book. I would highly recommend it.

Spock disappears after investigating the strange behavior of a Klingon ore transport. We find him in Earth's past, unconscious and injured, with amnesia caused by resisting the Klingon mind-sifter. When he awakes in the care of Aaron Stemple he discovers that he is near Seattle in the 1860s and realizes that he is not from Earth, but no more.

His human benefactor convinces Spock that when there's life there's hope and presents him to the area as his nephew Ishmael Marx. Those in the know -- a gradually widening circle -- respect Spock's privacy as he establishes himself and tries to figure out what his mission was and whether there is a hope of success. Meanwhile, the Klingons, the Enterprise crew, and a mysterious third party are all working towards changing or not changing Earth's history...

The story draws you in with vivid historical detail and very human characters. It explores the familiar yet continually fascinating theme of how Spock copes and learns from human culture. Highly recommended.

Written entirely with journal entries and letters, this is a wonderful account of a young girl learning how to be a writer, a friend and discovering unexpected truths about herself.

Elizabeth Beech is a sophomore when her English teacher gives her the name of an editor in New York who is "generous to beginners". She makes it her personal assignment for Elizabeth to give her the first chapter of a book she is writing because she thinks she has talent.

Julia, the editor, tells Elizabeth that she can send her a chapter but advises her that the chances are slim that it will be able to be published. When she reads the first chapter tho, she is impressed with it and more letters are exchanged.

Julia encourages Elizabeth in her writing and over time, they become very good friends. Elizabeth finds herself telling Julia things she has never told anyone. They even arrange to meet.

But eventually, things spin out of control and Elizabeth is forced to find that words can not only be entertaining but very hurtful. She hurts Julia and Julia suddenly disappears. Elizabeth is left to wonder if she can repair what is the most important friendship of her life.

This book shows what doubts writers go through but also shows the importance of true friendship. Written for 12+, this is a great book for any age.

--After taking her teacher's suggestion to write to a friend's sister, Julia Jones, an editor in New York, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Beech is surprised and pleased to receive a reply. The two develop a close relationship which is backboned by Liz's confusing life which is echoed in her writing, and Julia's thoughts on her childhood, which has started to come back to her more than ever since Julia's parents have been in the hospital and she has gained control of the house she grew up in. --Since I am a writer and want to write novels when I grow up, I could identify with nearly everything said in this imaginative and nicely written novel. --Marisa

I thought that Letters to Julia was a wonderful book. I liked how you wrote in three different ways. I also liked it how you really developed Liz and Julia's friendship and then we slowly saw it break apart.

I am 8 years old and Iiked the parts where Junie B Jones kept going into her mom and dads room. This was a fun and easy book for me to read but I think it is for littler kids, not third grade. I also have read Junie B Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus and I liked it more. Katie, Wade Elementary School

I am a first grade teacher in Seattle. A friend of mine showed me this book and insisted on reading me parts of it. I don't think I have ever laughed so hard at a children's "chapter" book. Barbara Parks' description of the cheese man, the poor fellow whose job it is to take school pictures, is delightful. I took the book to school the next day to share with the other teachers. I am now buying several other Junie B. Jones books for my students to take home to read to their parents. Margaret

I read this book the other day with my 6 year Kindergartener and I don't know who laughed harder, me or her! I encourage her love of books and the Junie B. Jones books are a great way for her to transition from picture books to big kid books. I hope new ones come out on a regular basis, because I am sure will read our way through the current books no time at all!

This new edition of Wheater's features more quick-reference tables and diagrams, while still focussing on the relationship between structure and function of cells. The authors understand that not all students enjoy histology. It is designed to dip in and out of, and makes the time spent on histology slightly less tedious and more productive. The slides are of very high quality and more EM slides have been included than in previous editions. This edition is keeping up with the needs of students.

Also included is a CD ROM of all the slides in the book and a programme to enable these to be arranged into tailored presentations. This can also be used as a random slide presentation to test knowledge.

Young and Heath have improved an old classic, making this a very good buy for all with an interest (voluntary or enforced) in Histology

I found this book very helpful for understanding the concepts of histology. It's well-written and quite thorough and gave me a good foundation in understanding histology. ...

Wheater's Functional Histology is a life vest in a sea of confusion. I am a first year veterinary student who was told that the best text for histology was the vet school's own published text. Ha! What a joke! The vet school's text has black & white micrographs and has a text that puts you to sleep within nanoseconds. Wheater's is a marvelous color atlas that is extremely user-friendly. Without Wheater's I would be totally lost. If you are entering vet school, make sure you purchase this book. Even though Wheater's Functional Histology is a human based book it is still superior to the black & white veterinary texts. The information is basically the same. Histology is histology afterall.