May appeal to a straight, Christian audience who haven’t had sex before marriage.
A transcript of an extended conversation between a husband and wife about their theories on what makes for the best sex, including descriptions of specific acts and emotional exercises.
Debut authors Jeff and Sarah Harris were virgins on their wedding night and have learned everything they know about great sex from each other. Married for 20-plus years, the couple stresses that sex should only occur within marriage and that nonmarital sex, including masturbation, should be avoided. The authors contend that trust is the hottest aphrodisiac and that this trust can only be found within the context of a committed, heterosexual marriage (they don’t “see eye to eye with the homosexual community”). Presented as a dialogue between the couple, the book comprises two major parts: “The Principles” and “The Routines.” The Principles includes recommendations to communicate verbally, practice forgiveness, and touch nonsexually throughout the day. The Routines is a series of explicit discussions of the Harrises preferred sexual practices, including anal sex and various oral-sex techniques. The information is presented straightforwardly and nonerotically. Describing the 69 position, for example, Sarah Harris says: “In this position, I could learn to kiss and give proper fellatio while Jeff was busy kissing my crotch.” Joy of Sex it isn’t, but that’s not the point of the book. For Christian couples seeking real, uncensored sex and relationship advice, the book is an intimate dispensary of one couple’s favorite sexual acts, along with the emotional work they’ve done to sustain their marriage. They make the unusual claim that going to bed angry and getting some sleep is sometimes better than attempting to solve the entire fight before bedtime and waking up exhausted. Obviously, they have found what works for them. While they aren’t therapists, psychologists, or recognized sex experts, the authors’ advice provides a narrow but genuine take on conjugal happiness.
May appeal to a straight, Christian audience who haven’t had sex before marriage.Pub Date: Feb. 6, 2015
ISBN: 978-0990774501
Page Count: 180
Publisher: Centerprize Publishing
Review Posted Online: May 6, 2015
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.
The legendary booze-addled metal rocker turned reality-TV star comes clean in his tell-all autobiography.
Although brought up in the bleak British factory town of Aston, John “Ozzy” Osbourne’s tragicomic rags-to-riches tale is somehow quintessentially American. It’s an epic dream/nightmare that takes him from Winson Green prison in 1966 to a presidential dinner with George W. Bush in 2004. Tracing his adult life from petty thief and slaughterhouse worker to rock star, Osbourne’s first-person slang-and-expletive-driven style comes off like he’s casually relating his story while knocking back pints at the pub. “What you read here,” he writes, “is what dribbled out of the jelly I call my brain when I asked it for my life story.” During the late 1960s his transformation from inept shoplifter to notorious Black Sabbath frontman was unlikely enough. In fact, the band got its first paying gigs by waiting outside concert venues hoping the regularly scheduled act wouldn’t show. After a few years, Osbourne and his bandmates were touring America and becoming millionaires from their riff-heavy doom music. As expected, with success came personal excess and inevitable alienation from the other members of the group. But as a solo performer, Osbourne’s predilection for guns, drink, drugs, near-death experiences, cruelty to animals and relieving himself in public soon became the stuff of legend. His most infamous exploits—biting the head off a bat and accidentally urinating on the Alamo—are addressed, but they seem tame compared to other dark moments of his checkered past: nearly killing his wife Sharon during an alcohol-induced blackout, waking up after a bender in the middle of a busy highway, burning down his backyard, etc. Osbourne is confessional to a fault, jeopardizing his demonic-rocker reputation with glib remarks about his love for Paul McCartney and Robin Williams. The most distinguishing feature of the book is the staggering chapter-by-chapter accumulation of drunken mishaps, bodily dysfunctions and drug-induced mayhem over a 40-plus-year career—a résumé of anti-social atrocities comparable to any of rock ’n’ roll’s most reckless outlaws.
An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.Pub Date: Jan. 25, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-446-56989-7
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2009
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