By Gail Bradney on December 30, 2011
One month after her husband-to-be proposed to Dr. Diana Denholm, he was diagnosed with colon cancer. She married him, and for the next 11 years until his death she was his primary caregiver as he suffered through surgery, chemo, and congestive heart failure, followed by a heart transplant, skin cancer, a choking disorder, Parkinson’s, and many more dire conditions—ranging from gout to osteoarthritis—too numerous to name here. Upon hearing this story, is it so wrong to feel sympathy for the wife?
Posted in Gail Bradney, Health, Home/Family/Food, Self-help/Motivational | Tagged caregiver, caregiver story, caregiver wife, caregiving, Diana Denholm PhD, gail bradney, hunter house publishers, The Caregiving Wife's Handbook |
By Gail Bradney on November 10, 2011
The Shaman and the Ironman—it sounds a bit like a pair of superheroes. But when shaman-healer Brant Secunda and six-time world champion triathlete Mark Allen teamed up to write their newest title, Fit Soul-Fit Body: 9 Keys to a Healther, Happier You, they really did create something extraordinary.
Posted in Gail Bradney, Health, Self-help/Motivational | Tagged BenBella Books, Brant Secunda, Fit Body, Fit Soul, gail bradney, Mark Allen |
By Shannon Yarbrough on November 7, 2011
It’s Flu season again! That time of year when most of us get a yearly shot at our workplace or local pharmacy. That time of year to invest in extra Clorox wipes, Purell, and any other disinfectant that claims to fight viruses. That time of year to pull out the ole chicken noodle soup recipe from Mom’s recipe box, which you only make at this time of the year anyway.
Posted in Self-help/Motivational, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged acupressure, cold, cold season, cupping, flu, flu season, heat therapy, home remedy, home remedy for cold and flu, oriental medicine, remedy for cold and flu, soup therapy, tom ingegno, treating the cold, treating the flu, you got sick |
By Peter Hassebroek on October 26, 2011
Joel Friedlander is a well established authority in the self-publishing world and the force behind The BookDesigner website. His old-school self-publishing efforts, before Print On Demand, led to his becoming a provider of customized self-publishing services—a book producer, to use his term. Much of his new book is culled from blog posts of the past years, with an emphasis on the why of self-publishing more than the how.
Posted in Non-Fiction, Reviews, Self-help/Motivational | Tagged Book Designer, book review, Joel Friedlander, non-fiction, print on demand, publishing, Self-Publishing |
By Shannon Yarbrough on July 10, 2010
I’d been following the journey of Judith Schwartz’s book for several months now, mainly because she used the Espresso Book Machine to publish it. The first Espresso Book Machine in the U.S. belongs to the Northshire Bookstore in Vermont where copies of Judith’s book can be born in a matter of minutes. The word therapist in the title pretty much kept me away from reading it, but after Mrs. Schwartz’s approached me with her book, I decided to give it a try. And I’m glad I did.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Educational, Self-help/Motivational, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged espresso book machine, judith schwartz, the therapist's new clothes |
By Shannon Yarbrough on May 15, 2010
The subtitle of Marc Zirogiannis’s book is A Guide to Life Outside the Asylum. I admit it was this subtitle that immediately caught my interest. After reading the preview, I decided to to commit to reading the full book. The manuscript is packed into only 78 pages, which is a bit unfortunate because there is a lot of good material here which I believe the author could build upon in order to give us a more full bodied story.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Educational, Self-help/Motivational, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged lessons from 1 north, marc zirogiannis, motivational book, psychiatric book, suicide help book |
By Dan Marvin on March 14, 2010
The Curable Romantic is an amusing and insightful look at relationships and the people silly enough to have them. It’s harder to write humor than just about any other genre. Humor has to connect to an absurdity that other people can relate to and find a common ground. Luckily human relationships are imbued with enough silliness that poking fun of them usually strikes a chord.
Posted in Dan Marvin, Self-help/Motivational | Tagged katharine miller, the curable romantic |
By Guest Reviewers on June 30, 2009
As a grandfather to five grandchildren, aged seven to ten, I was interested to learn what this book has to offer in the way of advice on how to be a grandparent. The answer is it has much to offer. The two authors offer great insight with ideas and suggestions that should be beneficial to any grandparent, but especially to the new grandparent.
Posted in Educational, Harry E. Gilleland, Jr., Home/Family/Food, Self-help/Motivational | Tagged grandparent, Lulu book, michelle johnston, rosemary weis, welcome to grandparenting |
By Shannon Yarbrough on June 29, 2008
My own golfing experience is lacking. Remember what I said in Review 14? I’m no sports fan! I had an uncle who let me drive the cart when I was ten, and run out and remove the flag for him. I remember games of putt-putt at the lake during holidays.
Posted in Self-help/Motivational, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged book review, golf, Lulu book, lulu book review, lulu.com, lulu.com book, stephen outram, there's no sex in golf, tiger woods |
By Shannon Yarbrough on May 5, 2008
Since beginning this review blog, I’ve probably read more nonfiction than I’ve ever read in my life. The success of authors telling their stories about overcoming obstacles in their everyday lives has been astonishing, such as Shirley Cheng who used Lulu to share her words, enthusiasm, and spirit. Writers like her constantly reiterate why I started this blog in the first place.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Self-help/Motivational, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged ALS, book review, Extra Hands, Jack Orchard, Lou Gehrigs Disease, Lulu, lulu author, lulu.com |
