Friday, May 9, 2008
Books I Like

Pat Gaudette

While the majority of books that are sent to me to review deal with relationship issues, I also enjoy fiction and non-fiction books on a wide range of topics.

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Make Any Divorce Better!

Make Any Divorce BetterMake Any Divorce Better! Specific steps to make things smoother, faster, less painful and save you a LOT of money by Ed Sherman, best-selling author of How to Do Your Own Divorce books. Sherman, a family law attorney since 1967, founded Nolo Press in 1971 with How to Do Your Own Divorce in California, and co-founded Divorce Helpline.

All of Sherman’s books on divorce are written to remove the mystique from the legal system and empower the people going through the divorce process. Make Any Divorce Better! may be his best book yet,  providing tips and resources for any type of divorce, simple or complex, easy or adversarial. Included in this exceptionally well-designed book is a CD which includes worksheets, settlement agreements, parenting plans, child support guides. Read more… »

The Man I Should Have Married

After Sunny’s middle-aged husband ends their marriage by running off with an old high school sweetheart, Sunny wonders if there’s anyone from her past who would have the same effect on her. Author Pamela Redmond Satran’s book The Man I Should Have Married begins with a divorce and ends with a marriage. The middle of the book tells how it all happened. Read more… »

The Men I Didn’t Marry

The Men I Didn’t Marry is another uproariously funny novel by best selling authors Janice Kaplan and Lynn Schnurnberger. After reading, and thoroughly enjoying, The Botox Diaries, I had to read another book by this talented writing duo. Would I be disappointed or could they hit the mark again? I wasn’t disappointed. Read more… »

The Script

Elizabeth Landers and Vicky Mainzer are the authors of The Script: The 100% Absolutely Predictable Things Men Do When They Cheat. The women, both divorced after long marriages, discovered the script by listening to hundreds of real-life stories of unfaithful husbands. Read more… »

A Man’s Guide to a Civilized Divorce

Can any divorce really be civilized? Veteran lawyer Sam Margulies believes there are practical and less stressful ways to go about divorcing your spouse and he has put together a comprehensive guide for men in his book A Man’s Guide to a Civilized Divorce: How to Divorce with Grace, a Little Class, and a Lot of Common Sense. Read more… »