Contains all kinds of tips about how to ease recovery. Also lists phone numbers and addresses of places you can contact to check out the doctor, the surgery facility, the anesthesiologist, etc. I read almost every word.

This is an excellent, well-researched book on plastic surgery. The fact that the author is not a plastic surgeon is a big plus. She covers the material thoroughly (including microsurgery) and objectively. There is new information not available in the other books on cosmetic/plastic surgery. She's experienced cosmetic surgery and explains what it's like from a patient's viewpoint. But this isn't just another book about a patient's experience. There is thorough information in this book and it is well arranged and very accessible. Her coverage of the subject is very thorough. I definitely recommend this book.

This is a wonderful book with beautiful photography that explains a lost colorful segment of Americana. The author has done a loving and thorough job of research.

The only difficulty, and it doesn't detract much, is that the writing style assumes a bit of familiarity with these machines so if you're new at it, as I was, it takes a bit of time to understand some of the detail available, and the author goes into ALOT of detail about the various machines. So, it's an enjoyable read like a delicious super-rich dessert -- you'll enjoy it, but you have to read it slowly.

On the other hand, you can just skim the beautiful photos whenever you want to be taken back to a bygone era.

I really like the book Bingo Brown's Guide to Romance. The book is about Bingo's love Melissa. Melissa lives in Bixiby, Oklahoma far away from Bingo. Bingo has decided to write a book called Bingo Brown's Guide to Romance which he has decided to dedicate to his baby brother, Jamie. Bingo writes in the book mostly every day but usually has nothing much to write about until one day, he sees Melissa at the grocery store. Amazed, Bingo's first questions are, why didn't she tell me she was coming? And, is that really Melissa? Because to Bingo she seems much bigger.When Bingo knows that it really is Melissa and he sees her, he doesn't know what to say. Why didn't she tell me she was coming, he always wonders. This book is so good that you won't want it to end, my friends that have read it say. I agree.

there was never a dull moment reading this. inspired by countless tape recordings brashler made with cool papa bell and satchel paige, this books puts you into the lives of back baseball players in the 1930's as they travel through the midwest, often encountering prejudice, con-men, loneliness and self-doubt but sticking to their guns and rising about the drama. the language brashler uses to tell the tale makes it authentic and warm. a perfect companion to the movie...

In her 4th novel, Laurie Foos once again creates a world of unexpected events, absurdities, and characters who are doing their best to cope with situations that are way, way weird: but this time she brings a whole new level of maturity and daring to her writing. The main character of "Bingo" is a young woman who's an artist-figure--she makes dolls, and she's great at it--and she has got to reckon with terrible abuse from her past, abuse that was kept secret. The central point is the grotesque, abrud spectre of a grown man who has mysteriously changed into an infant--in a lesser writer's hands, this stuff would just be nutso. But in Foos's hands, it's highly effective. And the subplot of a teen beauty queen giving birth at halftime of a football game is absolutely unforgettable. It's a wild ride, this, and hugely worth it.

It astounds me how these guys, while being so very handsome fitting thoroughly into the category of boy band, can pull off such funny and satiriacl songs. Brilliant!

Seton's unique gift brings us inside the minds and feelings of the wild creatures who share our continent. His groundbreaking empathy and insight foreshadowed the animal rights movement. A refreshing look into real life.

Barbara Holland writes about her experiences in moving out to "rural" Loudoun County and about the effect of the encroaching development on the country lifestyle.

I grew up and worked on a farm in western Loudoun. As one of the "locals", I enjoyed her account of the old way of life and it was fun to read about places and people I knew--it brought back a lot of memories. I also enjoyed (and shared) her obvious distaste for the suburbanites who have invaded and taken over Loudoun. That being said, I found her book overly simplistic and highly embellished.Despite her apparent love for the "locals", she understands them only on the most rudimentary level, which is why her analyses are often simplistic.

Readers should be aware that the book is half fiction and half fact. The "Mountain" where she lives is not nearly as inaccessible and remote as she portrays it. Her towns of "Pikesville" and "North Hill" are actually literary conglomerations of several real towns. In addition, Ms. Holland moved to Loudoun in the 1990's. By that point, the County had already been under transition from rural country to suburban life for almost 10 years. Many of the old-timers and old families had long since moved on or passed away. Which is perhaps why she felt the need to embellish the story. However, it was still fun to read about my High School and to recognize the few people and families that she names. All in all it was an enjoyable read. Potential readers should just be aware that it is a work of fiction, with its setting in reality.

It's hard for me, emeshed in the metropolitan area's urban sprawl, to believe that places like the one Barbara Holland writes about even exist, much less just sixty miles from downtown Washington, DC. She lives in a town with a country general store, where keeping a chainsaw is a necessity in order to remove felled trees from one's driveway, where backyards overlook mountains and orchards.

Yet Holland does more than celebrate her small town in this book, a sparkling, lively account of her adjustment to small-town life in northern Virginia after years of big city living. She is also sounding an alarm, because, increasingly, the orchards are giving way to housing developments and the country stores to Wal-Marts.

There is a sadness underneath Holland's light, subtle tone. Though she writes entertainingly about the hazards of life in a rural area (a mouse nest in her car's engine provides one typical example), she embraces its virtues with an unmistakable fondness. There is something to be said for a place where neighbors have known each other for generations, where community means lending a hand in a time of crisis, not arguing over properly mown grass and building anonymous gated fortresses.

Let's hope that Holland's terrific tribute is not also an elegy.

In Bingo Night, Barbara Holland tells the story of how she came to love village life in western Loudoun County, Virginia. She reports precisely on events that take place there---a county fair, a fund-raising rummage sale, an election, winter in the mountains. Her prose style is as clear as fresh water.

Perhaps because of her insider/outsider status as someone "come from away," Holland writes perceptively about the encroachment of the Washington, DC, suburbs on village life in western Loudoun County. Loudoun County is filling up with well-off suburbanites, for whom the small-town rural life is irrelevant. Some villagers have sold out and moved on, and more will follow. Yet the book is not grim. Rather, it is brimful with the pleasures of fine writing and a real feeling for the life she has chosen. You taste, touch, smell, see, and hear this life - quite specifically - as you read. And you feel worried, as she does, at the threats to its survival.

I live across the Potomac River in Maryland, closer to Washington (about 25 miles) than Barbara Holland is (about 60 miles), and I can vouch for the honesty of her comments.

What can i say about BINGO? I loved it. It was the first book I ever read by Rita Mae Brown, and I totally fell in love with Julia and Louise. Yes, The Divine Miss B's work is thinly autobigraphical. Not even thinly - it's pretty much her story out and out. SO WHAT? It's fun and sweet and funny...after I read BINGO, I read the sequel SIX OF ONE and loved that one even more. I promise you will love her stories, and if you want to know more about her, read her autobigraphy RITA WILL. You can trace the parallels between her life and her novels. :) Kick back, grab some coffee and have a good time with this book!

"The stands cheered the skunk, not Ursie. The skunk stood her ground and shooed her babies back into the nest. She waited with cool precision for the arrival of this rabid human." A big grin covers my face and I chuckle as I read about the snobbish Ursie Yost being publicly humiliated as she chases a skunk. A gift of love to the main character, Nickle Smith, touches my heart. Bingo is a book that I will read time and time agian. It is a book filled with everything: joy, sorrow, pain jealosy, laughter, failer, success, romance, mischief, and love. Set in the New England town of Runnymede, the unforgettable characters weave in and out of the story,, always with a tidbit of gossip to share. Middle aged Nickle Smith is going through a period of time in her life that requires some major decisions. She is trying to by the newspaper wher she works as an editor. Her affair ends in an unexpected manner. And on top of that, her mother and aunt, the spirted Hunsenmeir sisters, argue and make public displays as they hanker after the same man. With the loving support of her family and friends, Nickle somehow pulls through. I recived a book for christmas called Loose Lips. I liked so much that I bought another book in the triogy, Bingo. There is another, Six of One , which I have yet to read and am looking forward to.

I simply cannot imagine that ANYONE could read this and not absolutely LOVE it!! I've read it at least 10 times, and I've loaned out too many copies; time for another one. It's funny how you can learn so much from works of fiction; there's something to love and hate about all the characters and that's what makes this book so wonderful. I can honestly say I have a new appreciation for living life to the fullest and accepting people for who they are. Although I've enjoyed Ms. Brown's mystery books, what I really want is a third book to complete the stories told in Bingo and Six Of One. If you love books that are REAL and oh so touching, this and it's prequel are must haves. I also would like to see a sequel to "Southern Discomfort."

In The Bingo Queens of Paradise I encountered characters who made me feel hate, disgust, pity and love. I also had several good laughs. Shamir fascinated me, but I couldn't quite grasp is place in the book.

Elijh True evoked feelings of love and respect. When Mama left I was glad and thought, good riddance, being sure everyone would be better off without her. I was disgusted with all of them for gambling their money away in the Bingo hall, even borrowing money so they could play.

When Granny looked for her frogs I had to laugh even though I felt pity at the same time. I hated Frank, Darla's brother-in-law, and was proud of Darla for doing all she could to free her sister, and children, from his abuse. However, the most unique character is the tired little town of Paradise. It is an interesting, if dismal, reflection of all of the troubled people in the book.

I had hoped Darla would marry Spirit Jackson and finally have someone to love and care for her, but she chose another way.

The book is bawdy, somewhat vulgar and masterfully written. A book which evokes such feelings is a great one. I am proud to know June Park as a friend and author. I'm looking forward to reading her next book.

There are certain books we read which strike a chord in our hearts and fill our eyes with tears. And when we finish these books, we find ourselves wishing we could go back and read them again for the first time. The Bingo Queens of Paradise by June Park is one of a handful of books which did this to me and I am so glad I found this author.

In her first novel, June Park, has written a keeper in the tradition of Billie Letts' books Where the Heart Is and The Honk and Holler Opening Soon. Like these books, The Bingo Queens of Paradise introduces the reader to memorable characters who remain part of our lives long after we finish the book.

Paradise is a small town in Oklahoma where trailers are found almost everywhere. The nightly activity in this town is a good game of Bingo where an interesting group of women who name themselves the Bingo Queens assemble. Among the women is Momma Moon, mother to Darla and Rhonda. These two sisters have grown up taking care of each other while their mother pays more attention to her male customers and Bingo games. While Darla works in Paradise, she dreams about moving to New York City to design dresses. Her younger sister, Rhonda, already the mother of two children, is married for the second time to an abusive husband she can't seem to leave.

The one man the two sisters have relied on for most of their lives is a black man, Elijah, who is the only person who is consistently there for them. It is Elijah who more than anybody encourages Darla to put Pardise behind her, and move on with her life in New York where she can pursue her dream. As Darla finally plans to leave events occur which will not only test her but may force her to face a great loss and perhaps alter her dreams.

This book is not always easy to read. There are scenes which are quite sad particularly when the reader learns all that Darla and Rhonda had to endure as they grew up. I found that at times Momma Moon was so cruel, uncaring and selfish, I had all but to do to compose myself and continue reading. For me it was as if these were real women living in a small town nearby and I had a glimpse into their lives. But I did continue reading as I knew I would and now consider this title one of my top ten reads for 2001. I did wonder at the end if Darla would ever leave Paraidse and found tears on my face when I closed the book and wished her a godspeed on her continuing journey.

I do hope that you enjoy this book as much as I did. As for me, I've already reread this book twice and am eagerly waiting for this authors next book. For me, this title can't be published fast enough.

The Bingo Queens of Paradise is a realistic story about the trials and tribulations of a poor family in a small Oklahoma town, with a memorable cast of characters that will make you laugh and cry. You'll root for the protagonist, Darla Moon, as she struggles with her self-imposed obligation toward needy family members and her desire to pursue a career as a designer in New York City. Fast paced, superbly crafted, this novel would translate well to the big screen. A must read!