Book Description
Uncomfortable with the fit of her life, now that she's in the middle of it, Nan gets into her car and just goes--driving across the country on back roads, following the moon; and stopping to talk to people. Through conversations with women, men, with her husband through letters, and with herself through her diary, Nan confronts topics long overdue for her attention. She writes to her husband and says things she's never admitted before; and she discovers how the fabric of her life can be reshaped into a more authentic creation.
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Berg's Shining Star.......2007-07-03
"The Pull of the Moon" is Berg's ultimate delight; it is her diamond in the rough; it is every women's journey into lightness and darkness and her deepest secrets; it is an almanac of what a woman is and where she is going.
Nan is 50 years old and undecided about her life. Although she loves her husband, she still makes the decision to take a road trip to nowhere--anywhere, and the reader is fortunate enough to travel with her. The people she meets along the way are wonderful, insightful, life changing, and strange. But the person she gets to know the most about is
Herself.
This book is overflowing with wisdom and details--beautiful, stunning details about the changes we all go through whether we want to or not; the transformations, internally and externally, we all must endure.
In the first chapter Nan walks into a super market and sees tampons. "I cried for 1 hour," she says.
Every woman will resonate with "Pull of the Moon." It is deliciously sweet and bitter at the same time; it is like a chocolate sundae you want to last forever; the words will spill over the reader like a cascade of truth and love and immaculate realizations.
If you are a Berg lover or a woman or searching for truth--this book will burn beautifully inside your inner chickness. I can't believe Oprah hasn't picked up on it yet.
A revelation and highly reccomended !!!!
meaningless self centered dribble.......2007-06-07
I love to read & never stop reading a book before I'm finished; until I came accross this utter piece of trash. It is extremely pedestrian, mindless and depressing. The writing style equals what you read in a stupid 'women's magazine'. The main character is so incredibly self centered she's a discredit to the female gender. Save your time, save your money, save your brain.
not her best work.......2007-04-02
I find Elizabeth Berg to be one of the best authors around. I love her work yet this was not her best. I enjoyed the adventures Nan went through and wish, for myself, that "finding oneself" could be so easy. It was an enjoyable read and I plan on sharing it with others.
THE PULL.......2007-03-24
ELIZABETH BERG IS A FANTASTIC CREATIVE WRITER. MY DAUGHTER INTRODUCED ME TO THIS NOVEL BACK WHEN I WAS EARLY IN MY 50'S AND I LOVED IT. I CAN SAY THE SAME FOR HER OTHER NOVELS WHICH I HAVE READ. HAD TRIED TO SHARE MY COPY WITH THE WOMEN AT CURVES BUT NEVER GOT IT BACK, SO I MADE SURE TO GET ANOTHER SO I CAN REREAD IT AT MY PLEASURE.
The Pull of Reality.......2007-02-27
When I enjoyed this slim change-of-life novel, I enjoyed it very much. When I did not, well, it was a sore disappointment. Berg's work has, in the past, rated high on my fiction likes, but unfortunately I won't be adding this novel to my Berg favorites.
And still. There was, as I stated earlier, much that I did enjoy about it. "The Pull of the Moon" is about Nan, apparently a financially well-off woman (because it is one of the lackings in this story that Nan does what she does with such carefree extravagance with nary a care about how to pull such things off in the "real world" most of us live in), turning 50 and not quite ready for it. This is the story of her midlife crisis. Maybe not so much a crisis to her, though, as one wonders if it might seem so to Martin, the husband she leaves behind as she suddenly takes off on a cross-country road trip to find herself at midlife. We never do find out how Martin feels about this. The book consists merely of Nan's letters back to him, one would assume posted and mailed, and the tone is usually one of "here I am, having these fine adventures without you, I'll fill you in when it suits me to return home." Nor does it ever seem to occur to her that Martin may not so readily welcome her home.
Okay, so it's an interesting journey. And Nan fulfills perhaps several fantasies of the aging woman. Taking off into the wild blue yonder with no apron strings attached. Ah, yes. If only. She travels where whim leads her, and en route has occasion to contemplate her life backwards and forwards. Many of us in the same age range, I'm sure, will identify with Nan's musings and meditations on a woman at this stage. The restlessness, the eagerness to throw off the old to embrace the new, to understand the process of aging as a woman in a society that is not particularly forgiving of it, to check our priorities, what belongs, and what deserves discarding. We hear you, Nan! She speaks of a renewed "preoccupation with the body" in the 50ish woman, only it has a different flavor now than in youth. One observes, winces, wonders, longs with melancholy, but then, ah enlightenment, realizes... not so bad. This process of crossing another threshold, it has its costs but it also has its delicious payoffs.
"I just wish I could cross over a little faster," writes Nan in another letter home to confidant Martin. Even as she observes the "formidable camaraderie" of older woman, wearing glasses as they read menus on gatherings in restaurants, self consciousness at long last abandoned, enjoying each other's company, embracing life more fully than ever.
Then there are those moments that Nan starts to resemble the cliche midlife man in his crisis of red convertibles and young eye candy seduced into affairs. She writes, oh yes, home to her husband, how she has always longed for beards on the men in her life, had wanted him to grow one (he did not), and now encounters a young bearded man, recently widowed, ever so sad, and in soothing his grief, ends up pulling him into her on-the-road bedroom -- to sleep innocently beside her (after some lush and lingering kisses) through the night. I'd love to hear Martin's response to this one.
Nan goes home to Martin. One is left to assume Martin opens the door. But one is not sure why this assumption is warranted. Here Berg fails, for many of us may long, many of us may fantasize, many of us may love a manly bearded cheek to brush against. But most of us do not abandon our faithful life partners to feed such whims, fewer partners would tolerate it, most of us couldn't afford it anyway, and perhaps none of us should expect such forgiveness for doing so. Am I being too harsh? I have followed many whims, after all, in my own life, some of them pretty wild. The difference may be, though, that all of those times have carried a cost. That, I think, is the bite of reality.
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Tides and the pull of the moon
Francis E Wylie
Manufacturer: S. Greene Press
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ASIN: 0828903476 |
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The juniper moon pulls at my bones (Blue Cloud quarterly)
Earle Thompson
Manufacturer: Blue Cloud Quarterly
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ASIN: B0006EO46Q |
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The Moon (Pull Ahead Books)
Margaret J. Goldstein
Manufacturer: Lerner Publications
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ASIN: 0822546582 |
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Over the Moon Bear: With Pull-Tabs and Wheels (Pull-Tab Books)
Jasmine Brook
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ASIN: 0764150715 |
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Pull of the Moon
Manufacturer: Recorded Books Inc
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Binding: Audio Cassette
ASIN: 0788717790 |
Product Description
Best-selling author Elizabeth Berg has published fiction and nonfiction in The New York Times Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, and New Woman. She has been nominated for a National Magazine Award for her graceful, witty writing. In The Pull of the Moon, she alternates letters and journal entries to trace a middle-aged womans impulsive, and solitary, drive across country. Can the middle age years still hold as much promise as the full moon of youth? Nan has no answer to that question, but she knows that the moon of her life is on the wane. As she drives away from home, turning the wheel toward an uncertain future, Nan begins to contemplate her relationships with her husband and her daughter. Slowly, over nights spent in highway motels, and meals eaten in booth-lined diners, she regains a focus in her life that she had given up for lost. Funny, poignant, and often dazzling, Elizabeth Bergs novel will instantly appeal to women of all ages. From the moments spent studying the time lines of her body to Nans re-examination of what keeps her in her marriage, each word resonates with gentle honesty and growing strength.
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- This is a great book for all women over 40!
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The Pull of the Moon Signed Ed
Elizabeth Berg
Manufacturer: Random House Trade
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0679452265 |
Customer Reviews:
This is a great book for all women over 40!.......1999-08-17
I read this book this summer while at the beach. What a treat.If you have every felt misunderstood by your mate this is the book for you. I bought copies for several friends and they also loved it. It is a very fast read, great for a week-end or short vacation.
Amazon.com
Anyone who cut some of their genre eyeteeth on the excellent books about the fishing, hunting, and crime-solving (in that order of preference) Boston lawyer Brady Coyne will be delighted to hear that William G. Tapply has brought him back for another mystery that combines expert entertainment with some serious social issues. Sharing a house in Maine with his "virtual spouse," writer Alexandria Shaw, Coyne gives a tough, independent African American woman named Charlotte Gillespie a lift and an offer of help finding the person who poisoned her dog. When Charlotte disappears and red swastikas are painted on her house and on Coyne's car, he--and we--know that something nasty is going on. The complicated plot involves a connection to the KKK and a bunch of deer-hunting, conniving computer scientists, and along the way Coyne gets to fish in several heartbreakingly beautiful locations. Other Coyne books include the equally satisfying Close to the Bone. --Dick Adler
Book Description
Attorney Brady Coyne is on his way back home to Boston from his usual weekend commute to bucolic Garrison, Maine, when he gives Charolotte Gillespie a ride home from taking her sick dog to the veterinarian. But Brady suspects the soft-spoken African-American woman has personal reasons for choosing to live way off the beaten track in an isolated hunting shack, especially when he notices swastika graffiti on her property and learns her dog was poisoned.And when Charlotte sends him a cryptic letter requesting his legal services, only to disappear days later, leaving no clue as to her whereabouts--except more spray-painted swastikas on her land--Brady knows something's very wrong. Now he's taken on a case for an invisible client, in a town where gossip flows freely, but truth is locked away behind closed doors and blank stares.Suddenly, the quaint little New England hamlet doesn't seem quite so friendly anymore. And as Brady follows the trail that brought Charlotte to Garrison months earlier, someone who may now be guilty of double-homicide is following close on his heels--someone who's prepared to silence him for good.
Customer Reviews:
Disappointing.......2004-06-30
I bought this book expecting a lot. I have read Snake Eater, The Seventh Enemy, and Close to the Bone, other novels in the Brady Coyne series. I loved them all. This book is not even in the same league. In this story, we have a middle aged African-American woman with a Tennessee accent who looks like Lena Horne, exactly the same as Cammie in Snake Eater. We have Brady's friend Charlie finding information on his computer about Brady's suspects and then getting in trouble with the Federal government because the suspects are CIA/FBI whatever, just like in Snake Eater. In the end, the guilty parties arn't prosecuted because of a big government cover up, just like Snake Eater again. Even if you haven't read other books in the Brady Coyne series, this is a disappointment. The plot is not believable. I won't go into detail so as not to spoil the book for you if you should decide to buy it, but believe me, the plot is not remotely plausible. The synapsis on the back cover is just plain wrong. The front cover looks like something from Logan's Run, but Cutters Run has nothing to do with running. I may try one of the other books in the series, but I would not recommend this one.
Dented Coyne.......2000-07-06
In this one, both Brady Coyne and especially Tapply seem to be a bit world-weary. The plotting is weaker and more forced than usual in Tapply's books and the development and especially the denouement of his mystery is much weaker than we have come to expect from Tapply. Coyne spending a lot of time wondering like some big-city Jimmy Carter about sexual desires for another woman gets a bit tiresome. Still Tapply makes for easy reading and Coyne is one of the most interesting of such series characters.
Very good.......2000-01-13
CUTTER'S RUN is very good, although not quite as good as the rest of the books in the series. Over the last couple years I ahve forced myself to leisurely read this series, because I enjoy it so much and don't want to run out of Brady Coyne mysteries. Alas, I have just the current one remaining. These books are written intelligently and exceedingly well. Brady is like an old friend. Tapply deserves to be a best-seller; his books are so much better than the drivel by Grisham and other mystery/thriller writers.
Tapply crafts his tales with pure art........1998-11-08
Brady Coyne is back--in CUTTER'S RUN--latest in a series Wlliam G.Tapply fans hope will take us through Brady's old age, eons from now. Brady drives a second hand Jeep in this one. He's his usual funny, thoughtful self, in a beautifully drawn Maine setting, where pollution kills, (and nearly gets Brady). CUTTER'S RUN combines superb writing with an entertaining mystery that transcends the genre, something Tapply does in every one of his novels: In CUTTER, he uses a romantic encounter to ponder the meaning of "betrayal", just as he uses baseball to talk about "life" in FOLLOW THE SHARKS. In Tapply's hands these are not your usual metaphors. The Maine country setting in CUTTER'S RUN adds depth to the action and characters and becomes part of the plot, like the glittering moon over the powdery beach in DEATH AT CHARITY'S POINT. Tapply crafts his tales with pure art.
Tapply's Brady Coyne just keeps getting better and better........1998-10-31
This is Brady Coyne's 15 appearance, and having read every one of them, I am delighted to see that Brady just gets smarter and wiser, but never loses his sense of humor. Tapply takes us to Maine for a visit with his lady of the moment, a little fly fishing and a truly interesting little mystery with overtones of racism, environmental economics, missing persons and of course, murder. "Deputy" Coyne becomes a lawman of sorts, eludes the red herrings, blends comfortably into the bucolic Maine scene, and endures significant personal and physical danger as he gets to the bottom of some very murky waters, pun intended. We meet some terrific new characters who just feel right and sound real. As in previous Coynes, lawyering (Brady's profession) does not get in the way, and his (and the author's) love of the outdoors is skillfully woven into the story. Its a wonderful story, wonderfully well written. If you like this one, you'll love the others, especially The Seventh Enemy, Tight Lines and The Dutch Blue Error. My personal favorite is Client Privilege (very Nero Wolfe-ish).
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Cutter's Run
William G Tapply
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTX8TW |
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Cutters Run
William G Tapply
Manufacturer: ST MARTINS PRESS *
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ASIN: B000SFLT7U |
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- An Epic Quest
- An excellent dungeon crawl
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The Tomb of Abysthor
Clark Peterson , and
Bill Webb
Manufacturer: Necromancer Games
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Binding: Paperback
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Customer Reviews:
An Epic Quest.......2003-02-20
I agree with the critics, this is an incredibly well written adventure, However it is more Epic quest than dungeon crawl.
by this I mean that Tomb of Abysthor has a well developed and detailed plot design which allows the players to unfold a story as they explore the dungeon. although it has a fair share of "Roll playing" theres an incredible oportunity for "Role-playing" as well.
An excellent dungeon crawl.......2003-02-04
I bought this adventure based upon recommendations of other gamers, and let me say that I have not been disappointed. I have been DM'ing this adventure with a party of PC's for a few weeks now, and it has been great. The party that is exploring this area is high level, at least 7th or above. At first, it seemed like it was not going to challenge them, but as they have delved further into the complex, the danger has steadily increased.
if you are looking for a good, old-fashioned dungeon crawl, then this is the module for you. The only complaint that I have is with some of the maps. They are not really clear how some of the different levels of the dungeon connect.
One piece of advice for DM's. This can be a very challenging, and lethal module for PC's. If you are running a party of low-level PC's, you need to probably be active in steering tham away from some of the encounters in the dungeon. Also, I would not want to take on this dungeon without a cleric.
Otherwise, it is well-worth the money, and in my opinion destined to become a 3rd edition classic.
Book Description
Compelling and easy to understand, this book explains the medical and social issues surrounding fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and fetal alcohol effects (FAE). Compassionately written by the expert psychologist who conducted some of the earliest examinations of chidren with FAS and FAE more than 20 years ago, this guidebook explains how to identify and work with children and adults who have the disorder and how to educate prospective mothers and society at large. Photographs, illustrations, and case studies reveal the physical and behavioral manifestations of FAS and FAE, particularly in children. For parents, educators, pediatricians, psychologists, adoption workers, social workers, nurses, and child care providers, this timely book speaks to everyone seeking an understanding of the challenges faced by children who have these entirely preventable disabilities.
Customer Reviews:
A Truly Grateful Parent.......2003-01-12
Dr. Streissguth's Book is the best explanation of the effects of alcohol on the unborn child, that I have ever found. For years, I did not know what was wrong with the beautiful little girl that my husband and I adopted. Twenty-seven doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, school counsellors, guidance counsellors, religious leaders, police or addictions counsellors over the past 16 years never once, suggested that FAS/E was the problem. For every person in those positions dealing with troubled children, "Fetal Alchohol Syndrome: A Guide for Families and Coommunities" should be compulsory reading!
I cried over and over while I read the book when I saw how my community, my family and I had let my daughter down, because we didn't know. I wrote to Dr. Streissguth and thanked her personally, and I am doing my best to help my daughter and to educate others, so no one has to fail their child the way we did. Thank you again, Dr. Streissguth!
The first book to read on FAS.......2002-09-30
Written by one of the leading behavioral experts in the field. A must for anyone with a problem child, in medicine or psychology, social or justice work...it is a recognized primer for the topic of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
Excellent FAS resource.......2001-07-26
Dr. Streissguth is one of the pioneers in the identification and treatment of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the entire spectrum of congenital damage arising from in-utero exposure to alcohol. 25 years after the identification of this common and devastating disability, most efforts in the academic community still focus on definition and diagnosis, with relatively little attention paid to treatment. Dr. Streissguth stands atop the heap in extending her basic science research into the actual lives of affected individuals, their families, and the communities in which they live. I consider her the foremost authority in the academic community on exploring pragmatic options for helping affected individuals, families, and community.
This little volume is jam packed with useful information.
Best and most thorough guide to fetal alcohol syndrome.......1999-05-11
After reading Dr. Streissguth's book on fetal alcohol syndrome, I feel this book should be given to every parent or caretaker who receives this diagnosis about their child. This is the most thorough book I have found on this subject. Dr. Streissguth's knowledge in this area is so extensive and her book offers a step by step approach and guidelines on what you will need to know to in raising a child with FAS. I truly recommend her book and am so grateful for her insights.
awesome.......1999-05-08
the most informative book i have ever read on fetal alcohol.easy to read, easy to understand. i was absolutely floored by this book. i cannot tell you how many times i said " thats my kid ".thank you so much ann streissguth for making these kids count.
Book Description
This digital document is an article from Journal of Studies on Alcohol, published by Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc. on September 1, 1998. The length of the article is 761 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Guide for Families and Communities. (book reviews)
Author: Barbara A. Morse
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Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1998
Publisher: Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc.
Volume: v59
Issue: n5
Page: p620(1)
Article Type: Book Review
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