Sky Eyes
June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Book Title: Sky Eyes
Author: Kriss Erickson
Niche: Biography
Price: $8.50
Size: 83,300 words (312 pages paperback equivalent)
This is a well-written autobiography of a very intelligent girl who was physically and mentally abused by her parents from birth.
Intelligent people in these situations often create multiple personalities to cope. Unlike many multiple personality cases, folks with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) actually hold conversations between the personalities and are aware of each other. This is what happened with “Stacy”.
Erickson tells the story as a work of fiction, using the name of one of her real personalities, Stacy, for the main character.
Erickson (her married name) avoids sensationalizing the book by steering clear of detailed descriptions of rape by her father. Rather, she focuses on the effects of her environment upon Stacy and her other personalities. She takes us from just after her birth (which she actually remembers) through young adulthood.
The last chapter of the book describes in brief how she managed to get the help she needed to cure herself and to integrate her personalities into one functional individual.
If you have DID or know someone who does, this will help you to understand what DID sufferers go through. If you want to just read a well-written story of abuse and eventual victory, you’ll love this book. “Stacy” survives and wins, and there is something in that for all of us who have to slay dragons every day.
Not normally something I enjoy, I was captivated by the story and the dysfunctional characters.
Formats: Adobe Reader (pdf), ePub, Kindle (prc), Microsoft Reader (lit), Mobi (prc)
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Reviewed by Allan Kalar, Washington state
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Review: A Convenient Solution by Howard Johnson
March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Book Title: A Convenient Solution
Author: Howard Johnson
Niche: Science / Energy
Price: $4.95
Size: 95,000 words (365 pages paperback equivalent)
Discussion of the energy crisis and some practical solutions.
The world is facing an energy crisis. Well, a large part of it. The causes of the crisis are part economics, part supply/demand, and part political. Many myths abound along with quite a bit of greed and chicanery.
Mr. Johnson dives into this morass with a hard-headed attitude that cuts through the “BS” and gets to the basics. In doing so, he debunks some of the myths while realizing that as long as some of the myths are adopted, for whatever reason, into public policy, any solution is going to have to work around them.
The book is basically aimed at the problems as they impact the United States, but I can see where a lot of the content would apply to a number of “developed” nations. The book covers present energy systems, proposed solutions, distribution problems, and tradeoffs. Mr. Johnson finally proposes a number of solutions that are economically and politically possible and would, he claims, make this country energy independent within 10 years.
President Obama must have read this book, because one of several solutions Johnson proposes is a nuclear option — the same thing the President is currently touting.
If you want to be current and knowledgeable about energy for homes, autos, portable toys, etc. this is a book you should have around to educate yourself and as a handy reference for later.
Formats: Adobe Reader (pdf), ePub, Kindle (prc), Microsoft Reader (lit), Mobi (prc)
No DRM
Reviewed by Allan Kalar, Washington state
By it now at AKW Books
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