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Summary: An intimate look at the lives of women on an average day
Review: "This Day: Diaries from American Women" is the product of a unique idea. What if you asked women all over America to write down their experiences on a particular day? What you would have is a book of the experiences of women from all walks of life sharing their day. That is exactly the premise to this book. Over five hundred women participated and shared their experiences of October 15. Of these "day diaries" thirty-five are reproduced in their entirety and over a hundred excerpts come from other ones. The range of occupations include business managers, retirees, teachers, a Mennonite woman, an actress, a professional basketball player, a lawyer, and an inmate as well as women who don't work outside the home. This book provides an inside look at the lives of many, many women around the United States, If you ever wanted to know what goes on in other women's lives, if you ever wanted to know if you are alone with your problems or joys, if you ever wanted to just know about someone else's lifestyle then you will enjoy this book. An inside look at how we are all different and yet all the same, "This Day" is a recommended read.
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Summary: An intimate look at the lives of women on an average day
Review: "This Day: Diaries from American Women" is the product of a unique idea. What if you asked women all over America to write down their experiences on a particular day? What you would have is a book of the experiences of women from all walks of life sharing their day. That is exactly the premise to this book. Over five hundred women participated and shared their experiences of October 15. Of these "day diaries" thirty-five are reproduced in their entirety and over a hundred excerpts come from other ones. The range of occupations include business managers, retirees, teachers, a Mennonite woman, an actress, a professional basketball player, a lawyer, and an inmate as well as women who don't work outside the home. This book provides an inside look at the lives of many, many women around the United States, If you ever wanted to know what goes on in other women's lives, if you ever wanted to know if you are alone with your problems or joys, if you ever wanted to just know about someone else's lifestyle then you will enjoy this book. An inside look at how we are all different and yet all the same, "This Day" is a recommended read.
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Summary: A one day glimpse into the lives of several American women
Review: Have you ever looked out of an airplane and wondered about the people living in the match- box houses below? Who are these people? What were they doing when you just flew over them? Feeling down one day, writer Joni B. Cole decided to email a few women from different circles of her life and ask what a day in their life was actually like? I guess this would be something akin to looking down from my airplane. As she points out, "the responses they sent back were illuminating. Part itinerary, part journal, these `day diaries' revealed their lives from the inside out-showing not only how they spent their time, but what was in their heads, and hearts as they went through those twenty-four hours." Prodded on by the responses she received, Cole and two other partners, Rebecca Joffrey and B.K. Rakhra, decided to invite women across the USA to participate in a kind of survey, where they would write a personal and candid diary as to what they were doing and thinking on Tuesday Oct 15th, 2002. Why Oct 15th? "It was a window in the American calendar, unencumbered with holidays or national significance." The culmination of the survey resulted in the publication of a book entitled: This Day: Diaries from American Women.
Five hundred and twenty nine women contributed day diaries, and of these, thirty- five had been published. In addition, there were excerpts taken from several other day diaries. Many of the respondents displayed a great deal of optimism, notwithstanding that their lives were not always a bowl of cherries. One very touching diary concerned a wife who was a full-time caregiver to a husband with Lou Gehrig's disease. She read books to look for magic in her life. What is fascinating is some of the data extrapolated from the diaries. As an example, 64% of day diarists felt stressed out, 47% worried about money, 57% didn't get enough sleep, 22% cried, and 55% prayed. When I interviewed the three editors, and asked them what information did they feel came as a surprise, Cole indicated: "she was moved by the honesty of these day diaries. Women wrote the truth about their daily experience, their relationships, and their feelings. Their openness and generosity still takes me by surprise. It makes me appreciate these women-and women in general-all the more." To this, my reply is, Amen! Although the book is not meant as a scientific study, it certainly is an eye-opener.
In fact, it would make a useful addition to a suggested reading list for university or college courses pertaining to feminism or relationships. This review first appeared on the reviewer's own site
Bookpleasures.com
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Summary: A one day glimpse into the lives of several American women
Review: Have you ever looked out of an airplane and wondered about the people living in the match- box houses below? Who are these people? What were they doing when you just flew over them? Feeling down one day, writer Joni B. Cole decided to email a few women from different circles of her life and ask what a day in their life was actually like? I guess this would be something akin to looking down from my airplane. As she points out, "the responses they sent back were illuminating. Part itinerary, part journal, these 'day diaries' revealed their lives from the inside out-showing not only how they spent their time, but what was in their heads, and hearts as they went through those twenty-four hours." Prodded on by the responses she received, Cole and two other partners, Rebecca Joffrey and B.K. Rakhra, decided to invite women across the USA to participate in a kind of survey, where they would write a personal and candid diary as to what they were doing and thinking on Tuesday Oct 15th, 2002. Why Oct 15th? "It was a window in the American calendar, unencumbered with holidays or national significance." The culmination of the survey resulted in the publication of a book entitled: This Day: Diaries from American Women.
Five hundred and twenty nine women contributed day diaries, and of these, thirty- five had been published. In addition, there were excerpts taken from several other day diaries. Many of the respondents displayed a great deal of optimism, notwithstanding that their lives were not always a bowl of cherries. One very touching diary concerned a wife who was a full-time caregiver to a husband with Lou Gehrig's disease. She read books to look for magic in her life. What is fascinating is some of the data extrapolated from the diaries. As an example, 64% of day diarists felt stressed out, 47% worried about money, 57% didn't get enough sleep, 22% cried, and 55% prayed. When I interviewed the three editors, and asked them what information did they feel came as a surprise, Cole indicated: "she was moved by the honesty of these day diaries. Women wrote the truth about their daily experience, their relationships, and their feelings. Their openness and generosity still takes me by surprise. It makes me appreciate these women-and women in general-all the more." To this, my reply is, Amen! Although the book is not meant as a scientific study, it certainly is an eye-opener.
In fact, it would make a useful addition to a suggested reading list for university or college courses pertaining to feminism or relationships. This review first appeared on the reviewer's own site
Bookpleasures.com
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Summary: No Nintendo?, WTH!
Review: I borrowed this book for a friend due she assured me that it was worth, then she told me 'page 146', was underlined "Harrison asks if he may play GameCube. I say no. No GameBoy either....", what the hell !?, poor Harrison.
I must suppose that it is, after all, a good book.
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Summary: No Nintendo?, WTH!
Review: I borrowed this book for a friend due she assured me that it was worth, then she told me 'page 146', was underlined "Harrison asks if he may play GameCube. I say no. No GameBoy either....", what the hell !?, poor Harrison.
I must suppose that it is, after all, a good book.
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Summary: Amazing stories from amazing women like me!
Review: I first read about this wonderful book on one of the services that provides reading guides for book clubs. I was intrigued by the premise, and knew I had to buy it. This is one book that did not let me down! I was captivated from the moment I began. I read in greed, hungering for the next diary entry. I completed it much too quickly, and had to re-read some entries. I found myself wondering about some of the women. (Many are still on my mind.) I am so pleased that book two is in the works. This is a book that is too good to miss.
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Summary: A novel in every page
Review: I heard one of the editors of this book speak this morning, bought the book, and read it all in the same day. It is absolutely riveting, which is strange, because none of these women has a truly earthshattering day. Yet somehow, each one of these diaries or excerpts is a story in and of itself, and I found myself caught up in the trivialities of their daily lives. From sippy cups and string cheese to chocolate cravings to memorials to lost loved ones, each one of these women has so many stories to tell. Some ones that stick with me - the newly widowed woman writing her entries to her late husband, the funeral home director going to pick up a dead man and meeting his wife, the president of NOW cuddling with her children, a 60 year-old woman getting her GED, and the barista at Starbuck's with the lovely metaphors for her line of work. And oh so many more. What is nice about this book is that you could read it in bits and pieces (bathroom reading), or inhale it in one greedy gulp, as I did. I recommend it highly.
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Summary: No Nintendo?, WTH!
Review: I read these diaries at one gulp. A great gift book for your favorite woman, you will find yourself between the pages. Miss America, Ravi Shankar's daughter, the President of NOW, a probation officer. Women from all walks of life and then some. Divorce, problem marriages, happy women, young women. It's all here.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: I read these diaries at one gulp. A great gift book for your favorite woman, you will find yourself between the pages. Miss America, Ravi Shankar's daughter, the President of NOW, a probation officer. Women from all walks of life and then some. Divorce, problem marriages, happy women, young women. It's all here.
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