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The Sabbath is the only holiday included in the Ten Commandments, and the observance of it has given the Jewish people an opportunity to rest their minds and bodies. The Sabbath is primarily a home oriented occasion, although there are several prayer services that take place in the Synagogue both Friday evening and Saturday morning, afternoon, and evening. There are also a variety of home rituals which are intended to unify the family and add an aura of sanctity to the home. This volume is a user friendly guide to the Sabbath. Topics include: the origin of the Sabbath from biblical times through Temple times; synagogue and home observance, including detailed how-to Shabbat guidelines; a series of games and activities suitable to be played on Shabbat; the Jewish definition of work on the Sabbath; the laws and customs of the Sabbath and their rationale; Shabbat zemirot (table songs) with illustrations; the liturgy of the Sabbath service and commentary on the various specialized prayers for the Sabbath; Sabbath legends; notable quotations related to the Sabbath; the Sabbath in short story, and a glossary of terms and books for further reading. ... Read more

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Great potential
This is first draft of a potentially excellent book. The few brief pages about the history of Shabbat observance tantalized me, but I wished that the author had fleshed out the information he provided. Furthermore, thesection ends with bullet points, and I wonder why he didn't actually writesomething about those topics.By reviewing the table of contents, youwould expect most of the book to be devoted to history rather than toactivities for families with children.

I expect quite a bit from bookspublished by Aronson because of their very high prices. Their publication,"Jewish Views of the Afterlife," was a tremendous feat ofaccessible scholarship that was entirely worth paying for."Every Person'sGuide to Shabbat" is unfortunately not in the same category.At the veryleast, an editor should have addressed grammar and writing style.

Ifyou're looking for a good book on the Sabbath, I'd recommend "FridayNight and Beyond" by Lori Palatnik, also published by Aronson. It containsno history lessons, but does present detailed descriptions of Shabbatrituals and numerous anecdotes about the joy and sacredness of the day. ... Read more

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Chapters: Sacha Baron Cohen, Damon Hill, Jason Isaacs, Richard Wright, Nicholas Serota, Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Simon Schama, Raj Persaud, Mark Kermode, Isidore Godfrey, George Foulkes, Baron Foulkes of Cumnock, Brian Sewell, Roy W. Brown, Matt Lucas, Frederick Augustus Voigt, Martin Sorrell, David Baddiel, Leon Brittan, John Urry, David Lidington, Robert Popper, Alan Whicker, Alan J. Charig, Toby Harris, Baron Harris of Haringey, Michael Wills, Richard Yeabsley, Daniel Levy, Paul Darrow, Ziggy Lichman, Peter Kosminsky, Roger Deakin, Michael Yeabsley, Adam Thirlwell, Ian Luder, Michael Green, Alexander S. Bermange, Dan Mazer, Andrew Donald Booth, Adam Parsons, Colin Valdar, William Sutcliffe, John Greenwood, Michael Bukht, Frank Noel Chamberlain, Lionel Kochan, Darien Angadi, Patrick Ryan, Ralph Freeman, Nick Goldsmith, Paul Terry, Jonny Persey. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 256. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Damon Graham Devereux Hill OBE, born 17 September 1960 ) , is a retired British racing driver from England. In 1996 Hill won the Formula One World Championship; as the son of the late Graham Hill, he is the only son of a world champion to win the title. His father died in an aeroplane crash when Hill was 15, leaving the family in reduced circumstances, and Hill came to professional motorsports at the relatively late age of 23 by racing motorcycles. After some minor success, he moved on to single-seater racing cars and progressed steadily up the ranks to the International Formula 3000 championship by 1989, where, although often competitive, he never won a race. Hill became a test driver for the Formula One title-winning Williams team in 1992. He was unexpectedly promoted to the Williams race team the following year after Riccardo Patrese moved to Benetton and to...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=78249 ... Read more

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Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963) is an English actor born inLiverpool, who is most well known for his performance asthe villain Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, thebrutal Colonel William Tavington in The Patriot and aslifelong criminal Michael Caffee in the internationally- broadcast American television series Brotherhood. Thoughmost of his work has been in film and television, it alsoincludes stage performances; most notably, as theambivalent gay lawyer Louis Ironson in Declan Donnellan's1992 and 1993 Royal National Theatre London premières ofParts One (Millennium Approaches) and Two (Perestroika) ofTony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels inAmerica: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and as Ben, oneof two hitmen, playing opposite Lee Evans as Gus, in HarryBurton's 2007 critically-acclaimed 50th-anniversary revivalof Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter's 1957 two-hander The DumbWaiter at Trafalgar Studios. ... Read more

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Chapters: Paul Dirac, Chris Morris, Klaus Fuchs, Simon Pegg, Angela Carter, Jason Isaacs, Derren Brown, James Blunt, J. M. G. le Clézio, David Bohm, Jemima Khan, Lembit Öpik, Emily Watson, Chris Langham, Liam Donaldson, Michael Winterbottom, David Walliams, Alfred Pippard, Sarah Kane, Rob Leslie-Carter, Euan Blair, Richard and Judy, Matt Lucas, Simon Conway Morris, Marcus Brigstocke, Philip Payton, Irving Hexham, Bob Marshall-Andrews, Alastair Stewart, Sarah Brown, Ghada Karmi, Dawn Primarolo, Cecil Frank Powell, Bernard Lovell, Josh Lewsey, Iain Stewart, Dominik Diamond, Chris Woodhead, Derek Jones, Chris Beckett, Stephen Williams, Theresa Villiers, Paul Boateng, Hugh Cornwell, Mark Ravenhill, Julian Grant, Julie Myerson, Okot P'bitek, Kyran Bracken, David Rappaport, Will Hutton, Helen Clark, Nigel Anstey, Kim Medcalf, David William Rhind, George Ferguson, John Austin, Charlotte Uhlenbroek, Michael Fourman, Emil Wolf, Julia Donaldson, Stephen Crabb, Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver, Graham Wilson, Sean Mann, David Bamber, Jane Hutt, Debby Reynolds, Caron Keating, David Gibbins, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Sahar Hashemi, Arnold Ridley, George Odlum, David Nicholls, Tim Pigott-Smith, Mark Francois, Brian Davies, Philip Campbell, Peter Clarke, Craig Brown, Neil Ardley, Brian Follett, Susanna Reid, William Scammell, Sue Lawley, David Nicholson, Marc Evans, Linda Colley, John V. Tucker, Geoffrey Burbidge, Shaun Mckenna, David Kidney, Charles S. Cockell, Alan Garnett Davenport, Gordon Warwick, William Mckenzie, Baron Mckenzie of Luton, John Saxbee, Laura Wade, Dave Attwood, Leslie Rowsell Moore, Julia Jones, Anastasia Griffith, Martyn Percy, Geoffrey Tovey, David Walker, R. W. G. Dennis, Katharine Mcmahon, Jonathan Evans, Richard Sykes, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, Philip Jackson, Susan Jiwey, Sherrie Eugene, Jonathan Webb, Matthew Warchus, Gregory Doran, Doug Stokes, Deborah Moggach, Letsie Iii of Lesotho, Caroline Goodall, Jake Meyer, Andrew ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=416641 ... Read more

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Reflections: A Jewish Grandparents' Gift of Memories
Most Grandparents memory books do not address the view of life through the eyes of Judaism.Through the presentation of this unique book it give the grandparent an opportunity to transmit his/her family history, culture,traditions, values, feelings and aspirations to their grandchild. It helpsto show the grandchild what it was like growing up in a beautiful Jewishenvironment.The statements in this book provide a framework for thegrandparent to recall and share their Jewish memories with theirgrandchildren.It a sense, this book helps to root the grandchild in thefamily's heritage and offers the chance to look back and forward, to bridgethe past with the future generations. ... Read more

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In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making. Especially in countries where excessive liberty or excessive tyranny favours the growth of that class most usually designated as adventurers, it is true that man, by his own dominant will, or by a still more potent servility, may rise to any grade of elevation; as by the absence of these qualities he may fall to any depth in the social scale. ... Read more

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A translation of the early Kabbalah of Rabbi Isaac Luria, the founder of the most influential Jewish mystical school of the last four hundred years. ... Read more

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Not for the uninitiated
As a Kabbalist Jew of Spanish descent, I'm not really certain what the author of this book seeks to achieve for the uninitiated.If any wonder why the mystics such as Luria died at an early age, including the Ari Kaplan of blessed memory, it may very well be because they violated the Oral Law prohibiting the dissimination of this mystical knowledge outside the realm of the faithful.For many, including pop stars of today, not understanding what is to be taken literally vs. figuratively has led people astray from the simple truths of the written [revealed] Torah/Pentatuch which form the very foundation of Kabbalah through the Hebraic science of Gematria.

Radical translation of a classic text
This particular text is the Second Revised edition by the translator.Rabbi Klein has produced a translation and running commentary on the Shaar HaKlalim, the introductory chapter to Haim Vital's Etz Chaim.Rabbi Haim Vital was a disciple of Isaac Luria, the 16th Century mystic from Safed.The provenance of Shaar HaKlalim is uncertain.Rabbi Klein speculates that it is by a student of Isaac Luria, Moshe Jonah.

This translation is radical.Specific kabbalistic jargon has been idiosyncraticly translated by the author into English, rather than leaving the jargon untranslated as other English translations of kabbalistic works do.This leaves the reader who is familiar with kabbalah continually flipping back to the glossary to figure out which of the sferot are being referenced.

Apparently, the first edition was printed with the original text, this edition is only the English translation, which limits the utility for the serious scholar.Unfortunately, the Lurianic system is very complicated and is really only accessible to more serious scholars.

The utility to the seeker is limited.As Rabbi Klein recommends, the book is best used in the context of a havurah - i.e. in group study - preferably with a spiritual guide.

Creative interpretation, but not entirely reliable
Rabbi Eliahu Klein has done a service for those studying kabbalah in English by providing the first-ever translation of Shaar HaKlalim, the introductory section to Etz Chaim. He also includes a concise and insightful commentary, which is filled with interesting chiddushim (new teachings).

Unfortunately, one must take some chaff with the wheat. He uses somewhat idiosyncratic translations to refer to basic terms; for example Binah he calls "Intuition," which in truth probably better describes the nature of Chochmah. Hod he calls "Praise," and so on. These terms are probably better left transliterated, as they usually are in English translations, to avoid misunderstandings. The reader will most likely need to mentally translate these translations back into their usual terms as they read, thus making the text a bit unwieldy in places.

In his commentary, Rabbi Klein also misunderstands the RaMChaL, one of the most important and brilliant commentators on Lurianic kabbalah, dismissing his work as "a failure," and inexplicably criticising it again elsewhere. Rabbi Klein is also so PC that he misrepresents the Ari's views of women and is deliberately vague on the Ari's view of homosexuality.

"The Kabbalah of Creation" is, in summary, a personal interpretation of the kabbalah of the Ari, and it shows the translator's creativity and insight. It is not entirely reliable, however, and thus I hesitate to recommend it for those new to the field. For those seeking an authentic overview of Lurianic Kabbalah in English, Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan's "Inner Space: Introduction to Kabbalah, Meditation, and Prophecy" remains the best text available.

Radical translation of classic Jewish mysticism
This is a radical breakthrough translation of an earlier work by the Ari -Rabbi Isaac Luria, the founder of the Tree of Life school. Check out, the Kabbalah of Kissing, the Gay tikkun and the thoughtfull readers notes at the end of every chapter.This is first time someone has translated an entire mystical text with an ongoing commentary and comprehensive Lexicon of Kabbalah in the back.Professor Miles Krassen of Oberlin College has written, "Even advanced scholars in Jewish mysticism can learn soemthing new from Klein's insightfull approach." ... Read more

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The story of The Prince and the Pauper, fully illustrated with an audio cassette narrating the tale word-for-word ... Read more

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When a mistake is made during patient care, practicing apology and disclosure is the right thing to do. Do you need help in moving from understanding the benefits of apology and disclosure to actually practicing it? "Healing Words: The Power of Apology in Medicine" helps health care providers understand and practice what to do after unexpected outcomes. Dr. Woods is one doctor speaking to other doctors and health care providers about how to offer the best possible care for patients in difficult circumstances - by actually caring more about patients. ... Read more

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Golden Rule
Understood the book, but how are you going to retrain providers until they are sued! Why aren't they trained in medical school from the beginning the golden rule (Treat others as you want to be treated)? Every organization needs to make this mandatory reading before they are allowed to see patients within their facility! Who knows, if they learned that patients are real people, their patient capacity might fill real fast!

A much-needed counterbalance to the defensive hostility widely promulgated by today's modern sue-happy society
Written by a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Healing Words: The Power of Apology in Medicine is a call to doctors and medical professionals everywhere to question the widespread belief that an apology is an admission of guilt and an open door to a costly lawsuit. Woods reveals how the value of a proper apology and cultivated communication skills can actually prevent lawsuits, and promote emotional healing in doctors, patients, and patient's families even in the wake of terrible medical tragedies. Healing Words discusses the components of a proper apology, how doctors can improve their ability to communicate with patients, matters of medical ethics, and much more. Strongly recommended for physicians, Healing Words is a much-needed counterbalance to the defensive hostility widely promulgated by today's modern sue-happy society.

An Impassioned and Thoughtful Plea from a doctor to doctors to say "I'm Sorry"
Given all that has been recently reported on physicians saying "I'm sorry,"this short, straightforward book couldn't have come at a better time.

Dr. Michael Woods has written a practical, motivational book directed at physicians on the why's, how's, and what's of apologizing to patients.Drawing from personal experience, stories from other doctors, examples from other industries, and research data, Dr. Woods does not hold back in making an impassioned plea for physicians to master this tricky part of the patient-doctor relationship.

At ~82 pages, you can probably read this book in one or two sittings (In fact, I read most of it in the waiting room as I waited to see my doctor. Luckily he didn't have to apologize for anything that day).Dr. Woods moves quickly from topic to topic, breaking down just about every aspect of "I'm sorry" - why it's so difficult for physicians in particular to apologize, what an meaningful apologize entails, what the patient is thinking/feeling in apology-worthy situations, how to build more authentic relationships with patients, and even what exact words you could say in difficult situations.

Overall, doctors should apologize appropriately (and probably more often)- it's the right thing to do, it's the compassionate thing to do, and if that's not enough, it might even prevent some lawsuits.

I'm just sorry that I didn't read this book sooner. ... Read more

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Case Histories, once again featuring ex-cop turned private investigator Jackson Brodie.

It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident – an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander – until he becomes a suspect.

With Case Histories, Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In One Good Turn she takes her masterful plotting one step further. Like a set of Russian dolls each thread of the narrative reveals itself to be related to the last. Her Dickensian cast of characters are all looking for love or money and find it in surprising places. As ever with Atkinson what each one actually discovers is their true self.

Unputdownable and triumphant, One Good Turn is a sharply intelligent read that is also percipient, funny, and totally satisfying.


From the Hardcover edition.Amazon.com Review
Kate Atkinson began her career with a winner: Behind the Scenes at the Museum, which captured the Whitbread First Novel Award.She followed that success with four other books, the last of which was Case Histories, her first foray into the mystery-suspense-detective genre.In that book she introduced detective Jackson Brodie, who reopened three cold cases and ended up a millionaire.A great deal happened in-between.

In One Good Turn Jackson returns, following his girlfriend, Julia the actress, to the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh.He manages to fall into all kinds of trouble, starting with witnessing a brutal attack by "Honda Man" on another man stuck in a traffic jam.Is this road rage or something truly sinister?Another witness is Martin Canning, better known as Alex Blake, the writer.Martin is a shy, withdrawn, timid sort who, in a moment of unlikely action, flings a satchel at the attacker and spins him around, away from his victim.Gloria Hatter, wife of Graham, a millionaire property developer who is about to have all his secrets uncovered, is standing in a nearby queue with a friend when the attack takes place.There is nastiness afoot, and everyone is involved.Nothing is coincidental.

Through a labyrinthine plot which is hard to follow because the points of view are constantly changing, the real story is played out, complete with Russians, false and mistaken identities, dead bodies, betrayals, and all manner of violent encounters.Jackson gets pulled in to the investigation by Louise Monroe, a police detective and mother of an errant 14-year-old.There might be yet another novel to follow which will take up the connection those two forge in this book.Or, Jackson might just go back to France and feed apples to the local livestock.

Atkinson has written an enjoyable and lively story of no degrees of separation among the most unlikely cast of characters.Some plot lines have been left to drift, but it does hang together in a satisfying fashion.--Valerie Ryan ... Read more

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Surprise solution makes up for slow start
As unlikely resolutions of mystery stories go, this one is a humdinger, epitomized by the matryoshka dolls that keep cropping up. It's also one of those stories that spends well over 100 of its 300-plus pages introducing characters and moving them around, requiring them to bump into one another like chess pieces, so that the poor reader who has a life beyond the book she is reading is hard-pressed to keep it all straight.

Also, while it opens with a brutal road rage attack, the book doesn't deliver up a body or the obvious commencement of the whodunnit till well into 100-plus pages, either. So the poor reader feels disoriented about the whole thing and in fact almost gives up in frustration. But, as with Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum, things begin to pick up toward the end, and the unlikely resolution is weirdly satisfying.

Hard to say who the hero is -- but Atkinson has written another book featuring retired cop Jackson Brodie, so he's a likely candidate. In Edinburgh with his sexy actress girlfriend for the Festival, he witnesses the road rage incident and gets sucked into its consequences.

Another candidate for protagonist is Martin Canning, a mystery novelist so mild-mannered he's not credible but who was accidentally responsible for the death of a Russian woman while he was traveling the year before the story starts.

A third candidate, and my favorite is Gloria hatter, wife of a corrupt home builder, who has become wildly judgmental in her late middle age and at the end of the book sees herself as a scourge of injustice, traveling the world righting wrongs. I think she is meant to be just horrid with her collection of Staffordhsire and her peach-colored living room, but I loved her.

The final significant character is Louise Monroe, a Scottish police woman, single mom, with a dreadful teenage son named Archie and a sick cat. Archie, thank goodness, turns out to be okay in the end.

A chuckle every page.
It's Scotland, the charaters are hinky and a lot of fun to get to know.

A good mystery book
This book contains a series of very improbably events that somehow come together to make up an interesting and compelling plot.

It ios the type of mystery that gets you going through it because you must find out how the story comes to an end and that is the mark of a good mystery.

Enjoyed this book and would read others by the same author.

J. Robert Ewbank, author "John Wesley, Natural Man, and the 'Isms'"

Have to work to read this one...
This author knows how to write, but didn't use that knowledge in creating this book.Trying to follow the plot (?) is hard, hard work.We meander from one disconnected character/event to another so haphazardly that the mind is stressed trying to put them all together, eventually.And that ending??Is that supposed to make sense out of all the ridiculous happenings that preceded?No, Case Histories was great, but unless you have a masochistic streak, leave this one behind.

Interesting story!
#2 Jackson Brodie mystery, this one taking place in Edinburgh during The Fringe Festival, a city-wide art/craft fair. Jackson (a former cop, former PI and now a man of leisure, having been left a large bequest by a client) is in town because his girlfriend Julia is performing in a play. The book is really a conglomeration of stories about different people and how their lives intersect during this intense few days, beginning with a case of road rage in which a large man leaps from his Honda (thus becoming "Honda Man") and brutally attacks the driver of a rental car that he rear-ended with a baseball bat. Jackson witnesses this crime, as do several other players in the book, and the story follows each of them around in turn as their lives continue to intersect in one wacky coincidence after another.

I love Atkinson's writing style and her interesting way of plotting books, but I found this one to be a bit long and too convoluted at times, and I struggled, especially mid-book, to stay engaged. In the end, though, Atkinson skillfully brings all the parts together in an interesting conclusion that I didn't see coming. I do look forward to the next in the series though, as the author does leave Jackson's life on a bit of a cliffhanger. ... Read more

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International Bestseller

When Will There Be Good News? is the brilliant new novel from the acclaimed author of Case Histories and One Good Turn, once again featuring private investigator Jackson Brodie.

Thirty years ago, six-year-old Joanna witnessed the brutal murders of her mother, brother and sister, before escaping into a field, and running for her life. Now, the man convicted of the crime is being released from prison, meaning Dr. Joanna Hunter has one more reason to dwell on the pain of that day, especially with her own infant son to protect.

Sixteen-year-old Reggie, recently orphaned and wise beyond her years, works as a nanny for Joanna Hunter, but has no idea of the woman’s horrific past. All Reggie knows is that Dr. Hunter cares more about her baby than life itself, and that the two of them make up just the sort of family Reggie wished she had: that unbreakable bond, that safe port in the storm. When Dr. Hunter goes missing, Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried, despite the decidedly shifty business interests of Joanna’s husband, Neil, and the unknown whereabouts of the newly freed murderer, Andrew Decker.

Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is looking for a missing person of her own, murderer David Needler, whose family lives in terror that he will return to finish the job he started. So it’s not surprising that she listens to Reggie’s outrageous thoughts on Dr. Hunter’s disappearance with only mild attention. But when ex-police officer and Private Investigator, Jackson Brodie arrives on the scene, with connections to Reggie and Joanna Hunter of his own, the details begin to snap into place. And, as Louise knows, once Jackson is involved there’s no telling how many criminal threads he will be able to pull together — or how many could potentially end up wrapped around his own neck.

In an extraordinary virtuoso display, Kate Atkinson has produced one of the most engrossing, masterful, and piercingly insightful novels of this or any year. It is also as hilarious as it is heartbreaking, as Atkinson weaves in and out of the lives of her eccentric, grief-plagued, and often all-too-human cast. Yet out of the excesses of her characters and extreme events that shake their worlds comes a relatively simple message, about being good, loyal, and true. When Will There Be Good News? shows us what it means to survive the past and the present, and to have the strength to just keep on keeping on.


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Focused plotting::Terrific characters
First book I've read by Kate Atkinson and I see why this author is so popular.Great story line, leaving just enough outside the margins to let the reader have a little speculative fun.I'll be reading all her other books now.

Confusing plot, confusing characters, couldn't finish the book
I thought Kanigan's review right on target.Atkinson is a good writer, but trying to be too innovative, to put it in a nice way.I love mystery novels and ones that focus on relationships, but I couldn't finish this book for the following reasons:

1.The first 3 chapters seem to have nothing to do with one another, and by the time I had read more than 50 pages, I had lost patience and interest.

2.One of the key characters as a child reappears as an adult.Atkinson give you a couple of clues if you are reading carefully.That was fine, but I found the personality and character of the child completely different from her adult persona, and I found this unbelievable.

3.I haven't read the first two novels and found this one terribly confusing.

4.There are too many coincidences and similar experiences by different people.I like books that are more realistic.

5.There is too much extraneous material and redundant information.

If you want a good mystery, read P.D. James, or is a good book about relationships, Erica James.

The flip side of tragedy is comedy
Like the Very Hungry Caterpillar, I happily munched my way through all 3 books in Kate Atkinson's superb trilogy.Like the first 2, this book begins with a horrific tragic event.Then our unlikely hero, Jackson Brodie enters the scene.Jackson is a wonderful protagonist, a real good guy---foibles and all.
This book defies classification.It's a murder mystery/thriller, a tragedy with hilarious comic elements (or a human comedy with striking tragic elements!), and a wonderful study of character.The icing on the cake is Kate Atkinson's delicious style of writing.And it's a page turner, too.Very highly recommended and you'll get more out of it if you read the other two first.Start with Case Histories.You're in for a treat!

Lit/Crime - The New Genre
Continuing to blur the line between great crime fiction and just great fiction period, Kate Atkinson has delivered, once again, a terrific can't-put-it-down read that is as human and as it is suspenseful.If you don't know her, check out CASE HISTORIES, the first in this series, and catch up!

Complex mystery
Violent events (a triple murder, a drowning, a car accident, a train wreck, a kidnapping, as well as beatings and break-ins) set the background against which two heroines struggle to come to terms with their tragedies and establish stable lives. The setting is Edinburgh where 16-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for Joanna Hunter, a young mother and physician. A thirty year old tragedy in Dr. Hunter's life resurfaces and intertwines with current difficulties her husband is experiencing. Reggie and her police woman friend are pulled into solving a mystery and coming to the aid of the good doctor. When Will There Be Good News? is a good read. The only things I found unsettling were the many divorces and total absence of a good marriage. ... Read more

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Profound spiritual reflections
'Orot' contains the profound spiritual reflections of one of the great Jewish thinkers of modern times. ... Read more

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Chapters: Isaac D'israeli, David Jason, Norris Mcwhirter, Elena Baltacha, Steve Morison, Vernon Handley, Neil Kilkenny, Philip Tew, Scott Neilson, Lionel Morgan, Alison Goldfrapp, Cameron Mackintosh, Henri Lansbury, Michelle Ryan, Paul Mckenna, Sarah Teather, Jessie Wallace, Alan and Michael Perry, Stephen Twigg, Lloyd Opara, Michael Duberry, Michael Garrick, Ross Mcwhirter, Andy Abraham, James Eatock, Pete Way, Michael Jordan, Chris Tame, Brian Hart, Jonathan Obika, Mikele Leigertwood, Paul Taylor, Julia Mckenzie, Steve Sedgley, Ryan Charles, Norman Lewis, Hugh Jenkins, Keith Bertschin, Jake Livermore, Stuart Thurgood, John Biscoe, Roger Gibbins, Hakan Hayrettin, Ryan Mason, André Boucaud, Tony Jarrett, Stuart Douglas, John Wilson, Bob Cobbing, Tim Sandercombe, Russell Kane, Tom Goodman-Hill, Scott Sutter, Denis Ovens, Kacey Barnfield, Martin Grainger, B. J. Cole, Charles Cowden Clarke, Bernard Bosanquet, Alan Connell, Jude Stirling, Cian Hughton, Ernest Tipson, Danny Stevens, Jack Howe, Aiden Palmer, Michael J. Smith, David Hutton, Gary Bennett, James Dayton, Neil Etheridge, Helen Metcalf, Peter A. Judd, Ruth Symes, Aden Durde, Paul Moran, Leslie Smith, Marisa Warrington, Neil Willey, Cheryl Kennedy, Claire-Hope Ashitey, Joseph Whitaker, Valerie Holmes, Sid Crowl, William Field, Ben Maher, Sean Welch, Benjamin Mendes Da Costa, Adrian Pierson, Andy Lewis, Gem Souleyman, Edward Augustus Bowles. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 380. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Elena Baltacha (Ukrainian: ) is a double AEGON Award Winning, British tennis player of Ukrainian parentage who has played for Great Britain and formerly Scotland in the now defunct Aberdeen Cup. She is the current British number 1, with a current ranking of World No. 59. Her career high ranking of World No. 59 was achiev...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2006077 ... Read more

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A biography of the rabbi active in the Zionist movement that founded the independent Jewish state of Israel. ... Read more

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Not a Biography
I buyed, thinking was a biography and it's not!. It's a story with facts of Rav Kook life writen in a biography way but not a serious one. For a giant like Rav Kook I don't like the way the author describe his life...RavKook deserved more.

A good book describing the unique personality
A good book describing the unique personality of the greatest Jewish thinker of the 20th century-Rabbi AI Kook. Presents stories from Rav Kook's biography in anecdotal form. Good introduction to Rav Kook's biography ... Read more

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Author: Javier Betancourt
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