This seemed like an honest and no B
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This seemed like an honest and no B.S. account.  Lt. Kenda describes himself as a no B.S., black and white kind of personality.  Enjoyed this book.
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This book seemed quit honest.  He didn't  make it  about showing himself as a saint, I love that.  So a good read
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other people had mentioned the lack of weight as an issue-I didn't think I would care...but I do.  They feel cheap
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<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Leading-on-Empty-Refilling-Your-Tank-and-Renewing-Your-Passion/dp/0764207598/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion</a>

When I read the title, I was excited. Not so much when I read the book. I feel there is a great need for something in this space. I had very high expectations and maybe that wasn't fair. I expected something thought provoking and possibly potential solutions. I am not sure being prescribed an anti depressant and/or taking 6 months off work, is really what I was looking for. I don't feel either is practical for most people who find themselves in this situation.

I still think there is a need for some good advice to people who are Leading on Empty. From the void we have in most leadership positions, the best thing we could do is RECOGNIZE when we are leading on empty. Once we acknowledge this, maybe we can start finding some real solutions to the issue.

As for the recommendations made in this book, well they just didn't appeal to me at all. I wanted to like it, I just couldn't. I found myself being even more discouraged at the thought that there wasn't any advice about how to overcome this situation. This is just my opinion and not everyone will agree. That's what makes everything, especially leadership so challenging in today's world!
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Being a little young, and not really knowledgeable about the early days of hair bands and rock I entered this book with an open mind and no opinion about Bobbie Brown. However by the end of the book I was trying to sallow my word vomit about her and piece together how honest this book was.

It seems Bobbie was the only attractive person in LA at the time she got there and everyone wanted to have sex with her. She latched onto anyone and anything that would help her crawl up the Hollywood ladder, which whatever, but I find it hard to believe that so many people chased her when she seemed to be the one looking to advance her career.

She is honest and open about her drug use, admitting it was her fault and that she lacked the parenting skills she had so hoped to have. She is not one to build herself up to be a role model or a victim, she accepts her mistakes and her past and for that I respect her.

A good book with some juicy gossip, I will never look at Leo or Dave Navarro that same again that is for sure.
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Maybe it's a coincidence - but experiment one DID specify there wasn't really such a thing. I asked for something that even I, the biggest doubting worrier couldn't write off as a coincidence, and right now I'm kind of overwhelmed with good things. I have more blessings than I can handle, and that's the best problem I've ever had!
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A review by Kaitlyn W.

I had not planned not ordering this book. If you could look on my Amazon wishlist I have all my blogging books for nearly the entire year, but this one came up when I was checking to see what books I could order. It sounded like an amazing testimony of Ruth A. Tucker and others, I really looked forward to reading it too, but that wasn't exactly what I got.

I am in no way diminish the horrible experiences these women went through, nor do I condone what their husbands or boyfriends did to them. I was expecting a memoir, and there are pieces of that in the book, but if felt much more like a rant about domestic abuse. After chapter 2 I felt like there was some hidden meaning between the lines of these pages that I couldn't figure out, and Im not sure I want to know what it is.

I did find it helpful in becoming more aware of some details of domestic abuse, how hard it is for these women and children to speak of them or to find the lines between normal discipline and domestic abuse. The lines can be more blurred than we think. Still, I found little of their actual stories in this book like I first thought, nor did I see how God played a part in helping her overcome the trauma of the past. There was actually little refernce to God in her actual life and more of a...side by side comparison to stories of the bible. Not to say thats a bad thing, but even that was a bit minimal. I guess I should not expect any more then that from Zondervan books nowadays (Ill explain that in another post) still I had hopes for this book.

Its not a bad book, but if you are looking for an actual memoir that will not only explain the past of the author and illustrate Gods loving ways then I do not suggest this book for you.

That is all I have for now folks. I hope yall have a blessed day!

I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review which I have given.
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I've read several books on the Camino and, by God, this was another one. People have written of how the journey changed their lives, or they had some spiritual experience, or met interesting people along the way. None of that stuff here though. The author probably feels that sort of thing has been done, and he just wants to record a straightforward account of his trip. Nothing really wrong with that approach but I can't avoid the feeling this was just something he wanted to get out of the way so he could go back to his normal life. Hope that's turned out better than his trip.
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A page turner this is not.  I admit I haven't finished it, though I have tried several times.  If you are looking for a support group in a book,  this book is for you.  If you are looking for detailed advice on HOW to get over a BFBU,  I don't think it's in here.  Maybe at the end which I haven't gotten to yet.  Thus far all I've read is, "Friend A and Friend B are no longer friends.  XYZ happened.  This may remind you of your situation.  You're not the only one that has been jilted like Friend A here..."  Not helping.  Knowing I'm not alone in my misery isn't helping me feel less miserable.  This seems more like a chicken soup for the wallowing XBFFs type of book. Without the feel good anecdotes.
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This is was unlike any reality I know...that all I have to say. I don't want to criticize the author but this was not the best book. She definitely make up with the second book
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This isn't a bad read and it pretty much mirrors the blurb, and whilst yes, I do know that Adam had issues and was closeted, I found myself asking why the other guy was so desperate that he kept coming back rejection after rejection. Adam was a butt more than once and kept apologising and seeming really sorry, but I got fed up with the same thing, how he flew off the handle so repeatedly and over things trivial and basically got fed up over the, 'haven't we just seen that?' scenario.

As for the setting, again, yes I get that it's in a complex where people seem decent and seem to deserve a chance, but come on, this wasn't like real life but like one of those syrupy sweet Bollywood movie endings where you end up rolling your eyes going, 'yeah, right'.

I kind of think this has been over-hyped, and more than a little.
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I read this book after reading about it on Page 6 of the NY post.

My curiosity was piqued and I wanted to get some dish on how things are "really" done at the "mansion". I wanted to know, the "TRUTH" about what goes down there. I have heard interviews with former Hef girlfriends and they don't really say if there is sex involoved with being a Playmate/Girlfriend or not!? It really bothered me, because like Jill Ann I have always thought highly of the Playboy magazine and thought the girls were not having sex to get to a certain level. I guess I was disillusioned.

I appreciate the brutal honesty of this book. I feel she has written a book from the heart and have a hard time doubting her. Some of the conversations that may have taken place seem very well remembered, and I did a few times wonder if she took artistic liscense to maybe fill in some blanks, but honestly her tone didn't give me that impression. It was just the fact that (I) am totally unable to remember conversations that well, so I automatically question when someone else is able to.

I feel bad at how things ended up for Jill Ann. She is a beautiful woman who was working hard towards a dream, and from the sound of things because she wouldn't "put out" paired with the absolute "catty" attitudes of some of the women in the playboy "family" she was totally shafted. I am sorry you were rejected the way it went down Jill Ann. You have written a great book and I think it shed some light on a subject many wonder about.
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She "said it like it was" and held nothing back.  This must surely be an encouragement to those in similar situations.  It certainly made me feel different about my very much less important things I can't do.
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This is interesting as a concept, but there are several arguments for this "bursty" self-organization that simply don't ring true.  I walked away feeling like I got very little from this book.
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As a non nuke I found it too slanted toward a nukes point of view. Not much in the way of patrol adventures but more of a personal viewpoint. The author also used terms that were not used, i.e., combat patrol, war patrol neither of which were used in the community. Much happened forward of frame 85.
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I was bullied in high school. I also had a painful family life, which I believe fed into the bullying, as well as made it all the more difficult to process. And so, I thought reading this book would offer some sort of catharsis, as well as a deeper understanding of what happened to me and what I may do in the future to protect my children from similar cruelty. This book did indeed drudge up my past, but not in a cathartic way. Eventually, it dawned on me: I want to slap the s&%t out of this woman too. I do not fault her for being the narcissistic, self-righteous brat she was in high school. She certainly did not deserve violent attack, and, in this, she is correct, and has a right to her rage. But she seemingly has not come far from the person she appeared to be then. Her adult reflections on the issues are startlingly adolescent--and an immature adolescent at that. Her self-aggrandizement and her portrayal of herself as a martyr are annoying but, dare I say it, call into question her reliability as a historian.  Her black-and-white, hero-or-villain portrayal of herself as well as her tormentors are the tell-tale signs of a histrionic narcissist incapable of considering another human being outside of how they relate to her. Again, as a girl who endured some of the same cruelties (all though no one beat me quite as senselessly as she claimed to be beaten on a regular basis), I went in expecting to relate. That expectation set me up to feel confused and sick to my stomach. Jodee Blanco, if your stories are in fact accurate, you are seriously deluded if you believe yourself to have truly grown past them, or to be of any use to fellow victims.
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Quint Benedetti is clearly not a writer and he thinks a lot of himself for someone who's done extensive therapy. For someone who says he spent a lot of time with her, he did not seem to know about her personal life outside of how it applied to him and his rival, Tamara. He even goes so far as to mention sleeping with her crossed both of their minds. Sheesh!

I do believe that he was able to pull some things together for her (get her a better school location and plan out the logistics of her one woman show for the road, assist with getting her farmhouse built) that would have been tricky even if you knew the right persons to help you - which it does not appear she did, so good that he was able to assist her.

I wanted a better explanation of how Mr. Benedetti decided that he'd had enough of sticking his neck out for her. He claims that he wanted to be better compensated for the work he was doing for her and then said (after she broke off most contact with him) he had no idea as to why she wouldn't talk to him anymore. It would be stressful to work for someone who expected perfection all the time and not be adequately paid especially when you knew your employer had the money. Still, it makes for an interesting read for the loyal Agnes fan. Casually interested persons may want to skip it.