Freeing Your Child From Anxiety by Tamar E Chansky

Another book on anxiety in children. This one is a little more structured. It goes through what is fear and what is anxiety, when help is needed and strategies to help your child. The approach recommended is basically to teach your child that they don’t have to listen to that “worry voice” in their heads. [...]

Your Anxious Child by Mary Ann Shaw

My older son shows some signs of anxiety over a few things and I thought it might be useful to read how the professionals recommend dealing with, so it doesn’t escalate (’cause that’s what I do – read books !). This one was pretty basic. It just dealt with the basic forms of anxiety and [...]

Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez

I have been waiting to read this book for ages. Its been on my request list at the library for months, but its apparently very popular.
It was a good book. Its not one of those “you HAVE to read this” books. It’s certainly worth reading. I mean, surely a story about an American woman who [...]

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo

This book has been on my “to read” list for quite a while. The title fascinated me. I’ve had an interest in all things Chinese for quite a while now. I’m not entirely sure why. When I started ot read novels again, after I finished university, there seemed to be a lot that were, in [...]

Dymocks Best 101 Books

always good to get some ideas …
http://www.dymocks.com.au/Promotions/3for2_Booklover101.aspx
and here’s my take on them …

1.

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen – saw the movie but never read the book

2.

The Lord of the Rings Series – J.R.R. Tolkien – love it, a favourite even if it is a bit heavy on the description for me

3.

To Kill [...]

The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner

This is a book about women and anger – how they express it, deny it and repress it. At first, the book kind of annoyed me because there was a lot of blaming society for the way women express anger and that is something that bugs me – I don’t deny that there are societal [...]

Charming Billy by Alice McDermott

If I hadn’t given up on the last book, I probably would have given up on this one too. It was hard work and just didn’t click for me. The storyline was good – a retrospective story about lost love and lies that become central to someone’s life, plus an undercurrent of the sacrificies someone [...]

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

This book is a satirical look at an office situation, all cubicles and competing over the good chairs and petty politics. I read about 50 pages but found myself skipping through them, so I’m going to just return it to the library. Maybe I have been away from that situation too long, or I was [...]

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

I will admit this book has been on my “to read” for at least a year. I deliberately haven’t read it because I knew the subject matter dealt with teenage school shootings and I just didn’t know if I actually wanted to read something. I will admit, I tend to hide from the nasty subject [...]