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Title: A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman by Joan Anderson ISBN: 0-7679-0593-8 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.23 (81 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: STOP THE WORLD and take this one in!
Comment: I loved this book. So much of what Joan wrote that she thought and felt.....so much of how she viewed certain things, I relate to. This book is NOT just for older, married women with children. I am only 34, not married and have no children and Joan's words still awaken my yearning for freedom that she experienced. She is a brave heart. She told of the easy flowing good things and her battles with difficult times...with money and relationships and feelings of sexual desire and aloneness. This story is real. This woman is real and her story is one to be savored every step of the way. Thank you for sharing your experience, Joan. I hope the women who read it find strength and courage to explore deeper realms of their lives just like Joan did. It has certainly stimulated a passion in my life that I buried long ago and now feel ready to touch and feel.
Can't wait to read An Unfinished Marriage. Good luck, Joan. Keep them coming!
Rating: 3
Summary: Thoughts of an Unfinished Man
Comment: A female friend suggested I read a new book by Joan Anderson if I wanted to get a notion of the female psyche going through a sort of mid-life crisis. Admittedly, there may be a general con- sensus that only males, and then only some of us, experience this life phenomenon, that women some- how don't or, worse, shouldn't. They, in fact, have their own rite of passage...menopause. So, without a lot of enthusiasm, I got my hands on a copy of this autobiographical book and began reading. A Year by the Sea is another in the long line of twentienth century self-help books which present themselves with modern answers to modern dilemmas. The problem with Anderson's book, like so many of its type, is that it presupposes a problem, in fact, creates a problem so that it has something to solve. Anderson makes no sound case in describing a married life that demanded rescuing. She alludes to one or two instances of insensitivity on her husband's part, but even these are not of a magnitude to justify in most people's minds the compelling need to abandon the nest and strike out on one's own. If anything, her marriage may have become stale, or predictable, at least as she briefly describes it. It would seem then that her motivation was questionable, even if her intentions were sincere. The conclusion in the twelve month chronicle comes quickly and is more than a bit unsatisfying. Whether the newly reborn couple will live happily ever after we will never know, at least not based on the 195th page. Anderson's solution to her marital dissatisfaction is to escape to the sea...a primal drive to return to one's roots. What she fails to acknowledge, however, is that in seeking to uncover herself, she cannot bury her past.
Rating: 5
Summary: A n Enlightening Journey -- for Every Woman
Comment: A true and empowering story of a woman's inward search for independence and automony during a period of unhappiness with herself and her marriage.
Joan Anderson shares the personal and intimate details of her struggle to find meaning in her life, and takes the reader along on her journey of spiritual and physical self discovery.
This book forces the reader to think about her own life and offers insight on taking risks, and evoking changes within yourself.
A year by the Sea is a book for every woman to read, and for every woman to share with other women in her life.
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Title: An Unfinished Marriage by Joan Anderson ISBN: 0767908716 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 11 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Walk on the Beach : Tales of Wisdom From an Unconventional Woman by JOAN ANDERSON ISBN: 0767914740 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 13 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh ISBN: 0679732411 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 30 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Salt House: A Summer on the Dunes of Cape Cod by Cynthia Huntington ISBN: 1584652942 Publisher: Dartmouth College Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Marriage Sabbatical : The Journey That Brings You Home by CHERYL JARVIS ISBN: 0767910028 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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