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For the die hard Jane Austen fan more pleasure than not. For those who don't admire Austen's oeuvre, this can be skipped. For more:
http://satiasreview...moreFor the die hard Jane Austen fan more pleasure than not. For those who don't admire Austen's oeuvre, this can be skipped. For more:
Because this book is a three-in-one volume, I'll be sharing three links to the separate reviews.
The Dance of Anger is a re-read for me, a book recomme...moreBecause this book is a three-in-one volume, I'll be sharing three links to the separate reviews.
The Dance of Anger is a re-read for me, a book recommended to me by my counselor when I was in college. I enjoyed it then and still enjoyed it now. For more:
The Dance of Intimacy shares a lot of the same wisdom as the first book in this collection but good advice is still good even when it is repeated. For more:
The Dance of Deception departs from the more narrow focus of familial and partner relationships to community and societal ones and explains Lerner's own psychological perspective of the use and abuse of honesty. For more:
As a collection, I don’t think these three books fit as tightly together as they could. The first two are a seamless fit. The first introducing many of the themes that will be further explored and expanded upon in the second. Both focus on familial and spousal/partner relationships. Because the third book doesn’t focus as narrowly on relationships, the themes common to the previous two are merely alluded to with a presumption that the reader has already learned about them from the previous two books.
While it makes sense that the publisher would want to create a book that includes more than one book by Lerner, in choosing the first three books she had published, they weakened the intention. Had they only combined the first two books, perhaps adding a book published later, the single volume would have been better. Or if they chose to add a third book that, like the third, focused on a broader definition of relationship. But in committing to combining the first three books Lerner published, the publisher took an easier and less effective path. Each book stands on its own merit and even stands better alone than when forced into a single book.(less)
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