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Summary: POSSIBLY THE MOST HELPFUL BOOK ON OCD AVAILABLE!!
Review: I found this book to be both fascinating and helpful. Having OCD myself, it was really interesting to read about the onset of the disorder from the perspective of a kid, as I developed this way of "magical thinking" as a kid too. Unlike other books about OCD, this book really captures the insidious way that this disorder creeps up on people... Besides being well-written and interesting, it should be read by all childhood-onset-OCD sufferers, as the author eloquently puts into words the thoughts and processes by which many of us have entered the world of OCD.
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Summary: A fast, funny read.
Review: I read _Kissing Doorknobs_ this afternoon--I couldn't put it down. It was very funny and very *real*--I could easily picture Tara and her friends and family. They acted like human beings.I don't have OCD, but my family jokes that I do because I can't walk through the kitchen without shutting drawers and latching the cupboard. But that's nothing compared to Tara. I feel so blessed in comparison.
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Summary: The book shows an excellent look into a not so ordinary teen
Review: I think the book Kissing Doorknobs is a great book for any young adult to read. It's very intimate look into Tara Sullivan (a teen with Obsessive compulsive disorder)gives you a sense of what is going on outside of your bedroom door. It is great I recomend it to anyone interested.
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Summary: Interesting... and yet not too long
Review: This book is not too long or not too short. It gives you a front row seat to explore the mind of an obsessive compulsive. Good descriptions and a very good ending.
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Summary: Excellent and quick read--I didn't want to put it down!
Review: I think this book is a real eye-opener for parents and other concerned individuals who deal w/a child with OCD. I think it will help others understand the demons that one with OCD experiences and perhaps enlighten those that think that this is just a stage that someone is going through. Physicians and therapists would also benefit greatly from this book and perhaps better understand what OCD is really like. I intend to have all the grandparents, my husband, and anyone else who questions what my son lives with read this book (I may order a copy for each of them!)
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Summary: Good and educational!
Review: Kissing Doorknobs is a great book. It talks about the life of a girl with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. It shows what life is like living with OCD and the challenge to over come it.
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Summary: Cool
Review: This book scared me some. Despite being scarred I thought it was really good. It was freaky learning that a mind diesese could actually do that to someone. This book is a must read for anyone.
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Summary: this book was great!
Review: this was an asowsome book
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Summary: I hope this book helps kids suffering from OCD to cope.
Review: My intention was to write a funny story showing that although ocd is painful, embarassing and difficult, it isn't the worst thing in the world...people can live with it...and recover from it...with grace and humor. I hope kids suffering from this condition laugh out loud at things they will recognize...I hope that parents laugh with them...something that's difficult to do when you're frustrated and baffled by a condition your child "can't stop" doing.
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Summary: More form Jedi Girl
Review: Tara Sullivan is your normal popular elementary student until one fateful day in the fifth grade. She hears the age old rhyme "Step on a Crack, break your mother's back," and her whole life changes. Now every where she goes she has to count the cracks in the sidewalk and the road. She avoids her friends and her condition tears her family apart. But she doesn't stop at crack counting, no she moves on to praying when someone curses, arranging her food in a certain way, people sitting in the same place every time, and finally kissing her front doorknob 33 times before she can go out. Will this madness ever stop?!!? Read Kissing Doorknobs and find out. This book is very hard to get into, it take you a long time to figure out that she has gone back and is recounting what happened when she first heard the rhyme. After a while the book gets better and you start to feel her pain when all of her new quirks surface. I felt that it was well written and well researched about her disorder. When that came out I felt like kicking my self for not knowing. I was there for Tara's triumphs and there for her losses and I felt like I was really there. Read this book I guarantee that you will enjoy it. Fiction
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