The author of this book, Neil Clark Warren, might sound familiar to you because he's the founder of the popular eharmony.com website. But before he did that, he wrote lots of books. His book,
Finding Contentment, greatly influenced my own life and I try to read it once a year.
I first came across this book,
Finding the Love of Your Life, back in the 90s when I was visiting a friend and stayed in the guest bedroom. I flipped through the book and found it to be pretty interesting, especially since dating seemed like a mystery to me. Well, I think dating still does kinda seem like a mystery. I didn't have time to read the whole book that night, so I skimmed some sections.
When I saw the book a couple of months ago at a booksale, I picked it up so I could finally read it cover to cover.
Warren describes choosing a spouse as "life's single most important challenge." This is what he writes: "Your choice of whom to marry is more crucial than everything else combined that you will ever do to make your marriage succeed...Most of the failed marriages I have encountered were in trouble the day they began. The two people involved simply chose the wrong person to marry."
He goes through ten principles for choosing a spouse, most notably:
Get yourself healthy before you get married. And
Master the art of intimacy in which Warren writes: "Most individuals don't have time to figure out what's really going on inside of themselves - let alone take time to share it with others."
This is a great book, full of good things to think about in terms of emotional health and the dating process. I'm gonna keep it in my library so that I can pass it on to any of my single friends who want to read about dating. Or, if you're one of those single friends and would like to read it, let me know and I'll send it to you.
This is the story of a housekeeper who works for a math professor who, due to a brain injury, has only 80 minutes of memory.
This book is about two sisters living the high life in Shanghai until they discover that their father has lost all of the family's money. The father sells his daughters as brides to two brothers living in the US.
Sometimes my reviews are really simple: either "Read this book" or "Don't read this book."
This is one of the books I picked up. One of my teenage cousins must have brought it since it's in that young adult genre. It's about freshman, Echo, and the year after her sister, Zoe, is brutally murdered. Echo reads through her sister's diary and gains a more complete picture of what led up to Zoe's death. This is a book for all teenage girls to read who think it's cool to meet people online and who post sketchy pictures of themselves. It's not cool. It can actually be quite dangerous.
When I found out that Richard Russo had a new book out, I immediately went online to reserve it at the library. I had to wait a couple of weeks and when I received an email notification saying that it was ready for pick-up, I went to the library that morning to check it out.
Back in September 2007, I was on a Wallace Stegner kick and read a bunch of his books. A couple of weeks ago, I re-visited Stegner and found one that I hadn't read yet.
The author of this book, Neil Clark Warren, might sound familiar to you because he's the founder of the popular eharmony.com website. But before he did that, he wrote lots of books. His book, Finding Contentment, greatly influenced my own life and I try to read it once a year.
