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James Crazy toplinkbro95bb — I've enjoyed Anita Renfroe's humor and her "Mom sense" video on Youtube. Her wit and wisdom are terrific and her comedy is wholesome and motivational. This is a very good book for Mothers and Daughters, especially as they enter some of the more particularly difficult ages, or perhaps even more so afterward. There is a very heavy emphasis on Christianity in this book, however, which may turn off folks from other religions. Quotes I found interesting: "We cannot undo what has already been done, but if we ask God to forgive us and try to make things right, we can do better the next time." (p. 114) "You tell them that our lives can change with every breath we take." (p. 178)

Luis Effio _uis_ffio — Perez Firmat fled Cuba with his family in 1960 when he was about 10 years old. The first part of the book, focusing on his first years here and the general Cuban experience, was somewhat interesting and helpful in understanding the difference between exile and immigration. The author was married to a Cuban woman for 15 years with whom he had two children. He left her for Mary Anne, a married American woman who had children of her own. The two eventually left their spouses and married. The second half of the book descends into cathartic psychotherapy as the author struggles with his relationship with his father, his brother, his affair, and his Cuban/American identity. The author shows no sympathy for any but his own exile community of formerly wealthy Cubans. He complains about the influence of other hispanic groups moving into Miami in the eighties, without considering the influence that the influx of Cubans had on Miami. He notes that his mother has to do chores that she never did in Cuba, but doesn't give a thought to the experience of servants left behind. He claims that the Cuban Revolution cost him his father, partly because his father was no longer the man he was in Cuba, and partly because if they had stayed in Cuba, he would have had no choice but to be a chip off the old block and follow his father’s footsteps into the family business. No appreciation at all for the choices and freedom that America gave him to find his own destiny.

Ana Veiga aninhas101 — How I Came To Read This Book: Harper Collins sent me an ARE. The Plot: A plane is hijacked and downed in the jungles of Colombia - and the 68 surviving passengers are taken hostage. What the guerrillas in charge don't know is passenger #69 - Emma Caldridge - is alive, well, and a force to be reckoned with. Emma's an extreme long distance runner, able to top 100 miles in a single race. She's also a botanist / researcher with an extensive knowledge of the plants of the world, especially in the Colombian jungle she had just visited in the past year. Despite these traits that should give Emma greater odds in a hellish situation, her own agenda - and tense government interactions - may put everyone (good and evil) in more danger than imaginable. The Good & The Bad: I don't really read thrillers / mass market books, so I felt like a bit of a genre fish out of water here. That being said, the bad is what you'd expect from a book like this: relatively flat characters (with the exception of Emma, although her lost love backstory, odd familial relations, and motives for being in Colombia all felt a bit forced), way too many loose ends, a relatively convoluted plot, surprisingly predictable in the who will live and die aspect, and frustratingly - not as tense as it could have been. The main saving grace, aside from the overall readability and speediness of the chapters, was the two unique elements of Emma's character I mentioned in my synopsis. Learning about the plants and their unique effects (which are mostly real, according to the author's note) was quite interesting, and Emma's advantages as a runner made certain elements of the book a bit more realistic. The Bottom Line: Your typical thriller...I think? Too many loose ends to make for a tight, tense book. Anything Memorable? Nope. 50-Book Challenge?: Book #14 in 2009

Rogerio Balieiro rogeriobal03b9 — This book is interesting, especially for psych people! It is pretty graphic and very disturbing but the story behind all that is suprisingly good.