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Summary: What, You Ask, Are "Birdseed Cookies"?
Review: -"Birdseed Cookies" are tasty treats for the soul, soothing food for our individual lives, some of them inspirational, indeed.-"Birdseed Cookies" are actually voices, wonderful to listen to, wonderful to read and wonderful to hold on to.... Armin D. Lehmann Author TOMORROW'S WORLD A Book of Peace
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Summary: Loved it!
Review: A scrumptious read! My daughter gave me this book for Mothers day and we have been passing it around in the family for the past few weeks. We love the illustrations, too. It reminds me of James Thurber's "My Life and Hard Times". (Another Family Favorite)Even our youngest (in fourth grade)has been very much enjoying these lovely little stories. She said she has never read a story before about what it's like to have Attention Deficit Disorder. She has ADD, so that piece has been a source of comfort to her. She reads it again and again.The one about Jaquith stuffing herself with Cheese Doodles when her husband was out of town reminded me of myself. Lots of good stuff in here, too much to mention all of it here! Just get it!
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Summary: A Fun Read
Review: Birdseed Cookies was a romp--the kind of thing that you can read in small bursts, those times when you're stuck waiting in the car for the kids to come out of school. And those are the times that Jaquith writes about, those in-between times when nothing momentous seems to be happening...but what's happening is your LIFE. It's quite funny and sometimes moving, and her life is "ordinary" enough that her appreciation for it makes the reader feel pretty good about her own. I was baffled by one of the reviews below--the "Quack" essay, probably my favorite, had what I thought was an obvious ALLUSION to Arlo Guthrie--hardly the same thing as a swipe. And the heartstopping essay about hearing from a doctor that her toddler son's cancer may have recurred...wow. I don't want to spoil anything for future readers, but contrary to that other review, it is quite clear from other essays in the collection what the outcome was. In other words, funny, light (mostly) without being shallow, and heartwarming without being icky. Give it a read!
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Summary: new discovery!!
Review: didn't know what the deal was with this writer so i ordered the book - happy surprise!! i very much enjoyed the contents - short pieces - just the ticket for keeping in the car for when i'm waiting around for kids after soccer or whatever - laughing all by myself - recommended esp. for anyone with kids - would make a great gift for sombody's mother or wife becuz. no bad language
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Summary: new discovery!!
Review: didn't know what the deal was with this writer so i ordered the book - happy surprise!! i very much enjoyed the contents - short pieces - just the ticket for keeping in the car for when i'm waiting around for kids after soccer or whatever - laughing all by myself - recommended esp. for anyone with kids - would make a great gift for sombody's mother or wife becuz. no bad language
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Summary: I liked it. I really liked it!
Review: I "ran into" Janis on the net awhile back and started reading her essays on her website. Well, I wanted more! So I bought the book and regretfully have finished reading it...I didn't want it to end! It felt like I was having a conversation with an old high school friend, you know the kind you'd wish you'd gotten to know earlier in school and then it's time to graduate and you always wish you would run into them again. Okay, I'm gonna sound cliche', but Janis is "real". When she wrote, "oh, bite me", well, I think that's when a fan was born in me. Her insights into everyday life have helped me to know that there's someone else out there that thinks somewhat like me, and she's written it down for the world to see and even broadcasts it on National Public Radio....so the things I think must not be all that bad, eh? Okay, the book was comforting to me. Anyone who's willing to laugh at themselves and their lives will identify with "Birdseed Cookies". And if you're lucky, you have someone like Janis in your life...a friend, a sister, a cousin, a neighbor. So after you've read the book, buy one for them, too and put it in a basket with a coffee mug and some of that sinfully sweet flavored coffee, and walk it down the street or put it in the mailbox, and know that you've done a "good thing." Now, does anyone know where I can buy some birdseed cookies?
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Summary: I liked it. I really liked it!
Review: I "ran into" Janis on the net awhile back and started reading her essays on her website. Well, I wanted more! So I bought the book and regretfully have finished reading it...I didn't want it to end! It felt like I was having a conversation with an old high school friend, you know the kind you'd wish you'd gotten to know earlier in school and then it's time to graduate and you always wish you would run into them again. Okay, I'm gonna sound cliche', but Janis is "real". When she wrote, "oh, bite me", well, I think that's when a fan was born in me. Her insights into everyday life have helped me to know that there's someone else out there that thinks somewhat like me, and she's written it down for the world to see and even broadcasts it on National Public Radio....so the things I think must not be all that bad, eh? Okay, the book was comforting to me. Anyone who's willing to laugh at themselves and their lives will identify with "Birdseed Cookies". And if you're lucky, you have someone like Janis in your life...a friend, a sister, a cousin, a neighbor. So after you've read the book, buy one for them, too and put it in a basket with a coffee mug and some of that sinfully sweet flavored coffee, and walk it down the street or put it in the mailbox, and know that you've done a "good thing." Now, does anyone know where I can buy some birdseed cookies?
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Summary: Ugh, I've been had....
Review: I admit it; I fell for the reviews here, and because this book is recommended on other book pages, but it looks like I've been had. This book is boring and, like someone else wrote here, like that of a college student, and not a very good one at that. The humor is insipid. The quality of the book is like that of a vanity press, and, sure enough, that's what it is! Look up Xlibris Corporation on Google and what do you find? A statement that anyone can be published as long as they have the money (or words to that effect). Wish I'd done that research beforehand.... Too late now.
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Summary: This is so funny--NOT!
Review: I am just baffled by all these customer reviews, and it makes me a little suspicious where they've come from. This book (and I read at least half of it) isn't the fantastic, incredible thing all of these reviews (self-promotions?) claim it to me. It's not horrible, either. It's just, I don't know, trying SO HARD to be charming and cutesy and folksey. Good, honest writing doesn't read like the author is trying so hard. Sorry to be so negative, but my wallet is lighter after buying this book, and I feel a little deceived.
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Summary: Am I Missing Something Here?
Review: I bought this book based on a recommendation from Amazon and the reviews, all "fives". As I began reading the essays, I kept thinking the next one must be better because what I was reading represented the writing skill of a college junior. The content, with very few exceptions, was about as interesting as linoleum. Jaquith basically relates pedestrian incidents in her life with an uncanny ability to render them even more boring than they could possibly have been.
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