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Summary: Kissing DoorKnobs is definetely an interesting read!
Review: Ever known anyone with OCD (obsessive compulsive dissorder) or wondered what it made people do? Tara is a 14 year old girl who lives with this problem, however she is unaware of it and thinks something is terribly wrong with herself. She has her little rituals which she practices daily (some include praying when someone swears,counting cracks in sidewalks, and kissing a doorknob 33 times). Her parents think she is crazy and Tara believes she is to. Until she meets someone special who changes her life for the better... If you are curious about the brain and how it works and what makes people do this, I suggest this book. I enjoyed it because I never knew why people did these things and I thought that they were just plain crazy. But as you read you really learn that you can't control yourself,you have no control at all. The rituals are weird,but interesting however it was a quick read and quite enjoyable. Note: This book does include some subject material (including swears,sex,etc.) but I still suggest that you read this book, and hopefully you will enjoy it as much as I did!
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Summary: Kissing Doorknobs
Review: Kissing doorknobs was an easy read but it was an excellent book. It was a story about a girl with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). She spends many years of her life trying to deal with her weird obsessions (kissing doorknobs, counting cracks, and saying prayers when people swear). The girl and her parents search everywhere for a reason for her problem, but no one can supply one. Finally, when things are at their worst, the girl meets a doctor that identifies her problem as OCD. After that, she meets another boy with the same disorder. He has already gone through treatment and is cured. Together they share their problems and help each other. Though this book was pretty easy, it was a wonderful book. The author gave an accurate an interesting account of a young girl living with OCD. This book is a must read.
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Summary: Amazing!
Review: For some reason I have always found the brain - and how it works - interesting. So, as no surprise, I am very interested in OCD. I don't know anyone with it, but I still enjoy reading about it. This book, written with sensitivity and humour, tells the story of Tara, a girl with OCD. She kisses her front doorknob 33 times whenever she needs to use the door, she counts cracks on the sidewalk (and gets mad at anyone who interupts her), she prays whenever anyone cusses, and she worries about things happening to her parents.
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Summary: very kewl
Review: kissing doorknobs is a wonderful book, i had to read a book for a school project and this one appealed to me. tara sullivan is a 14 year old girl with ocd, at many parts of the story tara makes you laugh at the funny side of ocd. but there also is a bad fault to having it, like her mother went crazy and hit her a lot because tara could not stop making the sign of the cross everytime her mother swore. this tells you a teens view of having ocd, so this is a good book for people my age.
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Summary: An excelent book!! a must read for anyone!!!!!!!
Review: I bought this book because I thought it would be cool. I read it in just one night, It's a real page-turner. At first I thought it was funny (and it really got me laughing), but after a while I realized the seriouseness of OCD. It's a magnificient book that tells you how people with this illness become their own slaves without even knowing it. I don't suffer from OCD, nor does anyone I know, I belive it's a book for every one.
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Summary: this book is funny, sad, and touching all at the same time!
Review: the main character's (Tara) disorder is both funny and sad. as a child, Tara was traumatized by the saying "step on a crack, break your mother's back". as she gets older, the disorder gets worse, and she visits doctor after doctor. she soon realizes that there is no hope for her......or is there? this is one of those boks that you can't put down, and that's why i liked it! GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: This was an AWESOME book!!!
Review: Terry Spencer Hesser is an awesome author and she really knows how to make situations real. She made the novel "Kissing Doorknobs" a intresting story- also heartwarming. This book is about a girl named Tara facing OCD. Eveyone around Tara is falling apart because of her strange rituals-even her own family. Every time her mother swears she always prays and her mother hates it. Throughout the book Tara goes through many changes in her OCD.Such rituals include touching the doorknob and kissing her hand, countin cracks in the sidewalk and walking over every crack, having hideous thoughts that her mother or father were dead in a ditch somewhere. Whenever someone would make fun of Tara her little sister Greta would go beat them up for her. Greta got suspended about three time throughout the book.Tara has a bunch of friends. One of her friends is a evil person. Donna her friend smokes and shoplifts. Tara once tried to shoplift but she turned herself in. Towards the end of the book she meets a boy who has OCD too. She never knew anyone else had the same thing she had. Sam (the boy with OCD) introduces Tara to a therapist for OCD. Tara goes to therapy and stops her rituals. Sometimes she can't help but to them but other times she can stop herself. I think people of all ages should read this book because its has good facts in it. This novel also presents another exellent idea. You should never treat a person with OCD any different from another person. Tara's friends only treat Tara different when Tara was freaking out. If you want a good book to read go to your library and check out "Kissing Doorknobs" I guarentee that you won't want to put it down once you pick it up.
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Summary: Hard to put down!
Review: I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone. It shows inside the world of a young girl suffering form OCD. You see how she works and what she is feeling inside. It is really gripping!
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Summary: Great Book for Middle Schoolers
Review: A short and sweet little book about a girl overcoming OCD. Though the writing style and curiousity levels of this book are quite small and simple, a fictional writing on OCD is quite rare to find...unlike the massive amounts of books out there on anorexia and bulimia. Young readers will find this book short enough to catch their eyes, but older and more mature readers will find it easy to fall asleep on this one.
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Summary: A great story and a great OCD information source
Review: I picked up this book in the library and was immediately immersed in the story of Tara Sullivan, an obsessive compulsive teenager who percieved herself as 'crazy.' I'd recommend this book to anyone who suspected themself of having OCD, or anyone who wanted to read a great story! I saw myself in Tara's obsessions and compulsions and was persuaded to get help for my own OCD.
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