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Title: The Conscious Bride: Women Unveil Their True Feelings About Getting Hitched (Women Talk About) by Sheryl Nissinen ISBN: 1572242132 Publisher: New Harbinger Pubns Pub. Date: December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.94
Rating: 3
Summary: Not Nearly as Insightful as I Hoped
Comment: I was looking forward to a thoughtful & interesting read given the reviews I had seen. However, I have found the book to be fairly mediocre. The ideas within were not terribly original, especially given the author spends half the book quoting other sources.
The strongest feature of the book is the interviews Nissinen conducted with various brides and married women. They are quite interesting and I wish more of the book had been devoted to them. In their abbreviated state they only serve to support the book's weak theories. They are watered down into soundbites, rather than rich experiences.
Nissinen almost exclusively focuses on the negative feelings of being a bride, making this a difficult read. A more balanced focus on the emotions the future bride might be experiencing would be more useful. The reader is left feeling badly if s/he feels at all positive about the upcoming wedding.
The author spends the rest of the time harping on the myth of Persephone & her marriage to the god of the underworld. It seems irrelevant to the modern reader. It comes across as a sophomoric attempt at a college psychology thesis rather than an insightful, fresh take on the subject matter.
I think this is an ideal read if you believe in Jungian ideas about myth. However, if you seek a modern, interesting, balanced, thought provoking read, I would look elsewhere.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book for -anyone- who is engaged
Comment: Upon hearing of my engagement (about a month ago), a friend of mine who was six months into her planning immediately wrote back to me and said, "I'm sending you this book!" I must admit, I still haven't finished it because I find parts of it ringing so true with things I wasn't even aware that I was feeling. I end up crying and needing time just to sit and think through what I've read. In recognizing that sad, angry, and upsetting feelings can (and perhaps even should) accompany engagements in addition to the socially-accepted pleasant ones, this book gives the reader permission to feel a whole range of emotions, all of which must be experienced to make the "transformation" from single to married complete.
In working life, I'm a Ph.D. clinical psychologist, and sadly have never encountered anything like this book in all of my training or experience- I have been praising it to friends and colleagues alike. This book addresses a very specific but very important issue, and I would highly recommend it to anyone - male or female, of any age - who is engaged and wants to better understand the often unrecognized emotional turmoil that can accompany getting married.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must-read before the big day.
Comment: I am an older first time bride (26), and a mother, and cannot imagine what the past three weeks would have been like without this book. I was lucky enough to find it the first night of my engagement, after a bewildering crying jag in the bookstore parking lot. This book set off light bulbs left and right. It helped me draw connections between my own confusing emotions and the universal experience of brides through the ages. It fills a void in the current discussion of marriage experience. Sheryl weaves so many threads from mythology into her discussion of modern commitment, and it adds an element of timelessness that is very reassuring. The gifts I take from this book are that I am not alone, and my sometimes ambivalent feelings do not invalidate my love for and commitment to my fiance. I can't tell you how much this book has changed the quality of my life during my engagement. Buy it and give it to every bride you know instead of that darn tupperware. Even if she doesn't know she's confused, she'll thank you.
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Title: The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say "I Do" by Susan Piver ISBN: 1585420042 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 04 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: What No One Tells the Bride: Surviving the Wedding, Sex After the Honeymoon, Second Thoughts, Wedding Cake Freezer Burn, Becoming Your Mother, Screaming About Money, Screaming by Marg Stark ISBN: 078688262X Publisher: Hyperion (Adult Trd Pap) Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: How Can I Get Through to You: Reconnecting Men and Women by Terrence Real ISBN: 0684868776 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony by Pamela Paul ISBN: 0375505407 Publisher: Villard Books Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: What No One Tells the Bride by Marg Stark ISBN: 1567313612 Publisher: MJF Books Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $8.98 |
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