First I will tell you what the book is about and then I will tell you what my thoughts and opinion is about the book.
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Found this about the book on Amazon. "In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can’t have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself. "
My thoughts and opinions about this book. I thought this was a really good book. Started reading it Saturday afternoon and finished it about 7 something last night. Someone once told me that if I liked The Hunger Games that I would love this book also and they was right. I do love this book. Can not wait to get the other books in this series. I love how the author keeps you in suspense of what is going to happen to Beatrice and how Beatrice starts to find herself. I do think it is a little about finding yourself. I will recommend this book to everyone.
Monday, November 18, 2013
Sunday, November 3, 2013
An Open Adoption by Lincoln Caplan
An Open adoption by Lincoln Caplan
About the book: This is the true story of an adoption in which the birth and the adoptive parents not only met but formed a complex relationship--one that illuminates the psychological challenges and rewards of what is now called open adoption. Like many couples, Dan and Lee Stone reached the decision to adopt a child after several years of infertility, and much thought about the nature of adoption. Through a lawyer specializing in open adoption, they were brought together with a twenty year old college student who was unmarried and seven months pregnant. Peggy Bass chose the Stones to be the future parents of her child after considering the letters of several couples describing themselves and why they wanted to adopt. The Stones and Peggy Bass were thus launched on what is still considered perilous experiment by those who favor the conventional form of adoption. In fact, closed adoptions in which the identities and all the details about the birth and the adoptive parents are known only to the officials involved in the adoptions are becoming rare. But as Lincoln Caplan shows in chapters interwoven with the absorbing account of the Stone's and Peggy Bass's developing relationship the debate is intense within the adoptive world over whether and how much the birth and the adoptive couples should learn about one another. Mr Caplan explains the changing social values and assumptions about the nature of family that shape the debate, and the psychological and anthropological studies that fuel it studies which look at the impact of adoption on the child and investigate how significant a role genetic endowment plays in determining temperament and achievement. Mr Caplan's dramatic true account of the bond formed by Lee and Dan Stone and Peggy Bass, the social and psychological pressures with which they contended through the birth of Rebecca, and the surprising aftermath, provides extraordinary insights into those questions faced by every adoptive parent, birth mother, and adoptee, as well as anyone who works in the field of adoption.
My thoughts and opinion on the book: I thought this was a really good book. It really explains what open adoption is and what it is like for both the adoptive and birth parents. I will recommend this book to anyone who is thinking of adoption and open adoption.
Happy reading.
About the book: This is the true story of an adoption in which the birth and the adoptive parents not only met but formed a complex relationship--one that illuminates the psychological challenges and rewards of what is now called open adoption. Like many couples, Dan and Lee Stone reached the decision to adopt a child after several years of infertility, and much thought about the nature of adoption. Through a lawyer specializing in open adoption, they were brought together with a twenty year old college student who was unmarried and seven months pregnant. Peggy Bass chose the Stones to be the future parents of her child after considering the letters of several couples describing themselves and why they wanted to adopt. The Stones and Peggy Bass were thus launched on what is still considered perilous experiment by those who favor the conventional form of adoption. In fact, closed adoptions in which the identities and all the details about the birth and the adoptive parents are known only to the officials involved in the adoptions are becoming rare. But as Lincoln Caplan shows in chapters interwoven with the absorbing account of the Stone's and Peggy Bass's developing relationship the debate is intense within the adoptive world over whether and how much the birth and the adoptive couples should learn about one another. Mr Caplan explains the changing social values and assumptions about the nature of family that shape the debate, and the psychological and anthropological studies that fuel it studies which look at the impact of adoption on the child and investigate how significant a role genetic endowment plays in determining temperament and achievement. Mr Caplan's dramatic true account of the bond formed by Lee and Dan Stone and Peggy Bass, the social and psychological pressures with which they contended through the birth of Rebecca, and the surprising aftermath, provides extraordinary insights into those questions faced by every adoptive parent, birth mother, and adoptee, as well as anyone who works in the field of adoption.
My thoughts and opinion on the book: I thought this was a really good book. It really explains what open adoption is and what it is like for both the adoptive and birth parents. I will recommend this book to anyone who is thinking of adoption and open adoption.
Happy reading.
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