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Each year the pristine beaches, lush pine forests, and picturesque New England towns of Martha's Vineyard draw tens of thousands of admirers to one of our country's most beautiful islands. Some of these visitors have become part-time residents, building contemporary homes alongside the traditional Victorian cottages, sea captains' mansions, and colonial farmhouses that comprise the island's cultural and architectural heritage. Rarely does one find such a concentration of outstanding contemporary designs that complement, rather than overwhelm, the diverse ecology and history of this unique place.
The Houses of Martha's Vineyard presents twenty-four Vineyard homes, built in the past twenty years, by internationally renowned architects, among them Robert A. M. Stern, Steven Holl, and the Polshek Partnership, and emerging practitioners who have produced some of their best work on Martha's Vineyard. Stylistically diverse, the houses featured in this book offer environmentally sensitive designs and innovative solutions that respond to, but do not mimic, the island's rich architectural past.
Glorious color photographs, detailed architectural plans, and project descriptions document the challenges and solutions reached by each architectural firm. Complementing the visual material is an introductory essay by architect Keith Moskow, which sets the historical and architectural context for these gracious new homes.
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Combining unique travel choices, outdoor adventures, and little-known locales into guides where vacations meet adventures, each title in the Hidden series also offers readers the comfort of detailed maps, Internet information for each listing, author picks, suggested itineraries, and walking and driving tours. Hidden Boston and Cape Cod provides selective recommendations and opinionated reviews that lead to colonial sights in Boston, wild shorelines of Cape Cod, and winding bike paths in Nantucket. Plus, author Patricia Mandell guides readers to secret spots in her home state. 22 maps are included.
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Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard
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From the seventeenth century to the early years of the twentieth, the population of Martha's Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of profound hereditary deafness. In stark contrast to the experience of most deaf people in our own society, the Vineyarders who were born deaf were so thoroughly integrated into the daily life of the community that they were not seen--and did not see themselves--as handicapped or as a group apart. Deaf people were included in all aspects of life, such as town politics, jobs, church affairs, and social life. How was this possible? On the Vineyard, hearing and deaf islanders alike grew up speaking sign language. This unique sociolinguistic adaptation meant that the usual barriers to communication between the hearing and the deaf, which so isolate many deaf people today, did not exist.
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Love this book! (a deaf reader).......2007-06-02
This is the right attitude toward the deaf people in Martha's Vineyard back in the 17th and 18th centuries. I only wish it was true in USA and elsewhere today but it isn't.
This book also talk of people that aren't deaf, were using sign language to talk to each other - for example, from one boat to another or from the cliff down to the beach or because the high wind was drowning out their voices. I can think of many examples that people can use sign language today. Scuba diving sign language is so limited so why not use ASL? A person can tell a minister of an emergency problem quickly from the back of the church without having to go up to whisper in his ear. One could 'talk' to another person in the next building without opening windows. (Windows can't be opened in some office buildings) I could go on and on.
Today, parents are using sign language with their babies (not deaf). Some researchers are saying that it enhances language, cognitive, and social-emotional development. However, I am sure that at the same time, there are some parents of deaf babies, are being told not to use sign language. There are few schools that are pro-oral. Those deaf babies need sign language even more. Where are their language and social-emotional development?? This is irony and sharp contrast to this book. This book prove that all deaf babies need to be exposed to sign language everyday by comparing the Vineyard Deaf people to the Mainland Deaf people.
I am keeping this book to show others because it does support my view of point on the education for the deaf.
Excellent Book!.......2006-10-29
I read this book a couple of years ago after reading Oliver Sack's book "Seeing Voices". I read many books each year and I must agree with the other readers here in stating that this is one of the books that has stuck with me. The sense of community and integration encountered by the deaf people on Martha's Vineyard are truley lessons to us all on acceptance and normal treatment of disabilities. I only wish it had a follow up edition.
A book not to be forgotten.......2005-07-20
There are about 10 books I've read in my life that are vivid years later. This is one of those. We're given the chance to see what it might be like to live in a place without prejudices about people being different because of something like deafness. I learned a tremendous amount about deafness, sign language, and life on a New England fishing island community in bygone years. Don't miss this wonderful book.
An interesting look at a unique deaf cultue.......2003-05-05
"Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language" is a look at the effect of a large deaf population on Martha's Vineyard. Though a dry read at times, this book gives an interesting look at how for once in the history of deaf culture the *hearing* adapted for the deaf instead of vice versa. While most people might assume that the large deaf population would force a hefty amount of deaf people to adapt to hearing life, the opposite was actually true; the brilliance of Martha's Vineyard was that nearly all hearing people knew sign language to some degree.
The book analyses cultural impact of the large deaf population within the Vineyard's communities, which was biologically caused by the genetic predisposition for deafness. The book, largely written like an anthropological study, focuses on both physical and cultural aspect of the deafness in the communities. However, the most interesting implications within the book are those discussing deaf and hearing interrelations.
Inspiring and interesting.......2002-02-10
This is one of my favorite books of all time. Originally written as an ethnographic study, it is also completely readable for a non-professional popular audience. Basically, it is the story of the islanders of Martha's Vineyard, a large island off the coast of Massachusetts. The islanders originally came from the same 2 or 3 boatloads of colonists from England, by way of Boston and Scituate, from a region in Kent which already seems to have had a high incidence of hereditary deafness. Due to the geographic isolation of the island, recessive genes for deafness, which were already prominent in the original Kentish colonists, came increasingly to the fore. As the proportions of islanders who happened to be deaf gradually increased, what was the islanders' answer? Not shunning the deaf. Far from it. Rather, a tradition arose that EVERYONE on the island, deaf or hearing, simply learned sign language as children!
This book is full of fascinating little anecdotes, about how island society worked to include its deaf members. For example, we learn about families and friends, some deaf and some hearing, who would regularly sit next to each other in church. The hearing members would sign the sermons to their deaf friends. Or, sometimes groups of people who could hear perfectly well might be together, for whatever reason, and they might happen to converse by signing just as much as in spoken English. Everyone spoke both languages.
Some of my favorite parts of the book focus on the benefits of signing. For example, perhaps two neighbors wanted to converse, while being separated by 200 yards of noisy space, made vocally impenetrable by sounds of surf and sea. Whether they were deaf or hearing, they could get out their spyglasses (this was a 19th century whaling community, where spyglasses were in every household) and sign to each other across the distance while viewing each other through the magnification afforded by the spyglasses. One entertaining anecdote tells of two young men, who could hear perfectly well, who would use their signing ability to pick up girls off-island. They would pique the girls' interest in them by signing amongst themselves, and would claim that one of them was deaf. After they had secured the girls' interest, they would put on a lengthy, well-practiced charade of deafness to keep the gils curious about them. Do they ever let on that they can really hear? You'll have to read the book to find out! Bwa ha ha haaaa ( that's the sound of an evil laugh).
Those are a few minor anecdotes. The whole book is packed with stories like that, and it's endlessly amazing. The last couple of chapters make excellent, general points about the human issues raised in the book, and about how we as a society think about the "handicapped" -- perhaps, as Dr. Groce points out, we should not use the term in the first place.
Anyway, I'm really pleased to call attention to this book. I wish it were more widely known. If you're reading this because you linked to my reviewer's page from my review of "Jeepers Creepers," or something at a similar level, then, well, I'm just happy you're reading about this valuable story as well as "Jeepers Creepers." Two thumbs up.
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Completely updated every year (unlike most of the competition), Frommer’s Cape Cod, Nantucket & Martha’s Vineyard has something for everyone, whether you’re looking for romance or family fun. You’ll find details on the best towns, beaches, whale-watching cruises, bike rides, clam shacks, bird-watching, antique shops, and art galleries. The guide is written by a longtime resident of Cape Cod, who has personally inspected all the B&Bs, inns, cottages, and motels she recommends.
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A decent mystery novel.......2003-05-20
Philip Craig's recurring character, ex-cop J.W. Jackson, is back to solve another Martha's Vineyard mystery. Jackson is engaged to Zee, a nurse who one day discovers an additional hunderd grand in her bank account. Zee's windfall disappears as mysteriously as it came. The bank is getting a new computer system and dismisses it as a glitch. When a college student winds up dead in Jackson's driveway near some bank statements revealing she'd just withdrawn a hundred grand, Jackson smells a rat and begins to investigate. Craig's mysteries are intriguing, but they don't have the rapid pace and high body count of many mysteries. He describes the laid-back lifestyle on Martha's Vineyard and the book moves along at much the same pace. In this book, Jackson's buddy shows up with a world renowed pianist in need of some personal time and Zee's mother visits and meets Jackson for the first time. As in all of Craig's books, much detail is given to the dishes Jackson makes. Die-hard mystery fans may not like Craig's style, but I enjoy being transported to the simple life in Martha's Vineyard for a little while.
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J. W. Jackson, the ex-Boston cop turned fisherman, cook, and jack-of-all-trades, delves deep into the mysterious depths of his beloved Vineyard in author Philip Craig's most compelling caper yet.
With his wife, Zee, and two kids visiting relatives in "America," J.W. is alone and quickly tiring of his temporary bachelor status. A request from Carole Cohen comes as a blessed diversion. Carole wants J.W. to find the person who's stalking her brother, Roland. Known locally as "The Monk" for his reclusive ways, Roland lives on a beautiful piece of Vineyard real estate that he co-owns with his cousin Sally Oliver. A number of people, including Sally, would do almost anything to convince Roland to sell his valuable property. But does that include violence?
J.W. is happy to take on what looks like a short and easy assignment, though he soon realizes that Roland may lead a more complicated life than his austere living arrangements suggest. And when a body turns up near Roland's land, what seemed like a property dispute takes a detour into murder -- with J.W. in the midst of the action once again.
Featuring a rich mix of money, lust, pride, and jealousy, spiced with a little poignant regret, Vineyard Stalker is a page-turning and deftly plotted addition to this popular and engaging series in which Martha's Vineyard itself is always the star.
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Another Great Book.......2007-08-03
What a fun book, quick read great for summer and always on the mark. I've gone through four of his this last month...keep them coming!
The last vineyard Mystery.......2007-07-20
Sadly this will be the last vineyard Mystery from Philip Craig. He died this past May and will be sorely missed by those of us that have read every one of his books. I totally recommend starting this series from the beginning and you will get to know all of the characters that are repeated in each book. Watch JW fall in love with Zee and watch their two children grow. JW is always able to figure out the mystery and the reader can never figure it out before he does. Philip Craig will be a hard act to follow.
Obit.......2007-07-16
We lost the author, Philip Craig, on May 8. Those of us who love mysteries will miss him very much.
A darker, excellent Craig.......2007-07-09
First Sentence: Zee and the kids had gone to America to visit Zee's parents in Fall River, so I was having breakfast in the Dock Street Coffee Shop listening to Chad Martin trying to decide just which of Martha's Vineyard's public institutions was the most maddening.
With his family away, ex-cop J.W. Jackson is open to helping one of the town's realtors. Her sister controls a valuable parcel of land she'd like to sell to developers. The only thing stopping her is their brother Roland, a Vietnam Vet, who lives a simple life there on the terms of a trust. Someone has been vandalizing the property in an effort to encourage Roland to leave. A wealthy neighbor and Roland's lover, turns up dead but J.W. doesn't believe Roland is the killer and set's to prove it.
It is sad knowing this is the last book Mr. Craig authored alone before his passing, [NOTE: I understand he may have finishing two more books yet to be published] but it is also a wonderful tribute to him. I do feel this was his best book and not because it is the last book. Perhaps because the family wasn't there, it was very much J.W. detecting on his own and seemed to have a bit darker tone to it. None of Craig's classic elements were missing; not the humor, or the recipes or the wonderful sense of place he creates or the solid development of the characters. I, too, knew people who fought in Vietnam and appreciated the way Craig handled the character of Roland. The end surprised me but didn't. One can easily read this book as a standalone, and I highly recommend you do.
A Martha's Vineyard mystery.......2007-06-26
Philip Craig passed away in May, leaving three completed novels in the publication pipeline. This is the first of the three. While all the novels are set on Martha's Vineyard, he managed to maintain the readers' interest by varying the characters and local settings.
The present novel relates to the skyrocketing prices of real estate on Martha's Vineyard - something that the author witnessed first hand. It is about greed, jealousy, lust, and rage. An older man has a one room cabin on a prime piece of real estate, allowed to occupy the land under conditions of a family trust. His cousin wants him to move so that she can sell the property. Now someone is trying to drive him off the land.
The man's sister has hired J. W. Jackson to find out who is behind the harassment of her brother. When you turn over rocks, there is no telling what you will find. There are many relationships involving the principals in the case, and someone tries to eliminate J.W., which is not a smart move. Money talks and some high priced attorneys become involved.
There are some victims in the novel, and some sleezeballs that may walk away clean. It has a sad ending.
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Up Island
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Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.
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If there was ever one woman who knew what was important, that woman was Molly Bell Redwine. From childhood, Molly was taught by her difficult, charismatic mother that "The Family" was the world's most vital entity -- and its maintenance would be Molly's special talent. But, in a heartbeat, Molly is set adrift: her husband of more than twenty years leaves her for a younger woman, her domineering mother dies, and her Atlanta family scatters to the four winds. Molly takes refuge by visiting friends on Martha's Vineyard. The very different world of the Vineyard hastens her changing identity, and Molly decides to stay on after the seasons, in a small cottage on a remote up-island pond. Her duties includes acting as caretaker to her bitter, aging landlady, as well as looking after the woman ill and estranged son, Dennis.Keeping watch over Dennis, her landlady, and her newly-widowed father, Molly at last lets go of her outworn notions of family and begins to become a part of a strange -- and very real -- new one. As the long Vineyard winter closes in, Molly braces herself to search for renewal, identity, and strength until the healing spring finally comes. Up Island is Anne Rivers Siddons at her lyrical, storytelling best.
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When Molly Bell Redwine's husband of more than twenty years leaves her for a younger woman, and her domineering mother dies, she takes refuge with a friend in Martha's Vineyard, and becomes part of a strange -- and very real -- new family.If there was ever one woman who knew what was important, that woman was Molly Bell Redwine. From childhood, Molly was taught by her charismatic, demanding mother that "family is everything." But in what seems like an instant, Molly discovers that family can change without warning. Her husband of more than twenty years leaves her for a younger woman, her domineering mother dies, and her Atlanta clan scatters to the four winds. In a heartbeat Molly is set adrift. Devasting by her crumbling world, Molly takes refuge with a friend on Martha's Vineyard where she tries to come to terms with who she really is. After the summer season, Molly decides to stay on in this very different world, renting a small cottage on a remote up-island pond.As Molly's stay up island widens the distance between her and her old life in Atlanta, she lets go of her outworn notions of family and begins to become part of a strange -- and very real -- new family.As the long Vineyard winter closes in, she braces herself for the search for renewal, identity, and strength, until the healing spring finally comes.
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A BOOK FOR A WOMAN.......2007-08-05
I read the Editorial Reviews and I have to look at the book in my hands to make sure we're all reading the same one. Can you tell I don't always agree with their summary?
This author writes for women. Men could never understand the emotion she puts into her characters and their lives. This book is good. It's well written and the plot won't take you in a million different directions. It also won't quench your thirst for sex, violence or vulgar language.
It's fiction at it's best but not one you can read in between classes or whenever you get the time. You need to sit down, tell everyone to leave you alone and begin to read. Then feel the magic as you get pulled into a wonderful work of fiction, not total reality. After all, isn't that why we read fiction instead of non-fiction?
Uneven at best.......2007-04-17
Lucky for me I am a very fast reader because I would have hated to spend any more time than necessary with this book. Although I thought the beginning was pretty good and found myself being drawn into Molly's story, the feeling was gone before the novel was half over.
One of the reviewers correctly pointed out an example of poor editing at the start when Molly contradicts herself about her mother's age (19 or 21?) and marital status (pregnant at the wedding or a year later?) and I also found another glaring error. The University of Arizona (where Teddy decides to attend architecture school) is in TUCSON not Phoenix. Arizona State University, which ARS may have been referring to, is in TEMPE outside of Phoenix. She needs a more careful editor.
As for the writing, I found it very uneven. Most of the dialogue was first rate, I thought. Many of the descriptions were right on, too. But some of the characters were badly drawn. I was sick of her mother's hat, Lazarus the dog and the swan couple pretty quickly. I thought the book really lost momentum once Livvy left Chappy and Molly began her new life Up Island.
This was a disappointing introduction for me to ARS, an author I have heard good things about. There are so many fine books out there to read but this was not one of them for me.
Fascinating read.......2006-06-22
I picked this book basically because I have enjoyed most of the author's other books and it is one of the very few that I have not read (or heard of). This book is definitely perfect for a winter reading since it's more of a depressing book than an uplifting book like some of her others.
This book focuses on Molly Redwine whose world just shattered when she found out that her husband, Tee, is having an affair and was leaving her for an upstart from Florida. Then her son, Teddy, tells her that he's not returning to Georgia and her mother dies. So with her life basically in shambles, Molly accepted her best friend's invitation to stay at Martha's Vineyard. That month-long invitation turned into a much longer stay as Molly didn't want to return home and pick up the pieces. Together, with her father, they nursed two ailing women and a former schoolteacher who lost his leg due to cancer. Along that journey, Molly rediscovers what family really is and rediscovers who she is as well.
Siddons has the magical touch of keeping me spellbound while reading her books ~~ her characters are vividly drawn and the story keeps moving. But this time, instead of giving this book a four or a five ~~ I was a bit disappointed. It lagged towards the end then bam! The ending was here and left a lot of issues unresolved. The book starts out with Molly's divorce (or not wanting one) and ends on a different note. It is a bit confusing to read. And it was a let down too as if the story didn't have the ending neatly wrapped and tidy for the reader.
If you don't care how it is as you're a Siddons' fan ~~ then be sure to read this book. It's wonderful as always except for that flaw. If you're new to Siddons' books, don't start with this one. It is definitely not one of the best one in her library.
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Captivating story.......2005-09-25
Up Island is the first work I have read of this author' and I will read more. the overall pace and storyline kept me reading. At times I did skip ahead when the description became a bit much and once or twice the deatial seemed confusing or unbeliable, but the charachters always came across as real and to me that is the most important.
excellent and touching story!.......2004-07-10
The is the second novel I have read by this author. I find her writing enthralling. Her tale of an aggrieved woman grips you and you must read on and on... I found myself engrossed in her characters as though I had met them myself. The story will also make you want to tour every inch of Martha's Vinyard.
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In Shooting Star, ninety-two-year-old poet Victoria Trumbull becomes embroiled in controversy at the community theater on Martha’s Vineyard. The new artistic director has announced plans to replace local amateur talent with off-Island professionals, and the cast and crew react murderously.
Victoria intended the theater’s current production, her adaptation of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, to debunk the common farcical movie-monster interpretation by returning to Shelley’s original serious commentary on the Industrial Revolution. However, after the night of the dress rehearsal, Victoria loses control over the production, and her drama begins to take a strange course.
On that night, the eight-year-old boy playing the part of Frankenstein’s young brother disappears, and before a search can begin, a killer strikes. The Vineyard’s police forces mobilize for an Island-wide search. In the original story of Frankenstein, the boy is the first victim of the monster, and Victoria fears that a copycat killer is following her playscript. She determines to find the missing boy and track down the killer before more deaths occur.
Along with familiar Island characters from her previous books, the author introduces a cast of new and often eccentric players. Shooting Star, the seventh book in the Martha’s Vineyard mystery series, explores the rich setting of the Island that author Cynthia Riggs knows well, from the rose-covered Dukes County jail on Edgartown’s Main Street to the quaint ferry terminal in Oak Bluffs. It’s a delightful read that both fans and newcomers to the series will be sure to enjoy.
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Disappointed .......2007-08-09
I was disappointed in the latest Cynthia Riggs. I've enjoyed all the previous 'Victoria Trumbull' mysteries but found this one a bit tedious and confusing.
Nice summer whodonit.......2007-05-16
In Cynthia Riggs mystery, Shooting Star, Martha's Vineyard is not just the touristy locale that is loved by so many. Island Players, the local community theater, is the setting for a fast and interesting story of child disappearance, and murder.
The actors are performing an adaptation of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. Victoria Trumball is the 92-year-old poet who has written this serious adaptation, and she is also an part-time sleuth. The new artistic director is causing a stir when he continually pushes to turn the playhouse into an equity theater with professional actors. A controversy is abounding with those that want the theater to stay a community theater with local amateur actors.
The book starts the night before opening night when an eight-year-old actor, who is playing the part of Frankenstein's young brother, disappears. He was last seen with one of the other actors, Peg Storm, who has been found dead. The child is missing and an island-wide search is started. A visiting forensic scientist is called in to help the local police. More actors turn up dead and other characters are brought into the story to keep it interesting. The fast pace of the book kept me guessing just who was the bad guy, or gal--and even though I thought I had it figured out, it was not who I thought.
Armchair Interviews says: Recommended for a nice quick read for that summer vacation.
fun lighthearted Martha's Vineyard mystery thriller .......2007-05-02
On Martha's Vineyard, nonagenarian poet Victoria Trumbull is excited as she is the playwright of Island Players, a local amateur group's summer stock adaptation of Frankenstein that is truer to the Shelley novel than Hollywood's poetic license. Many of her friends have parts in the production and all seems to be going fine at first until maniacal martinet director Dearborn Hall begins spinning the production closer to Hollywood than Shelley's condemnation of the horrors of the Industrial Revolution. Still Victoria feels good about her work as the theatre prepares for opening night.
However, disaster strikes when eight-year-old performer Teddy Vanderhoop, performing the role of Victor's five years old younger brother vanishes. At about the same time he disappears, someone kills Peg Storm, the actress performing the part of the Frankenstein housekeeper. Frightened by the tragedies as everyone assumes Teddy's dead, cast members quit before they are killed too. Dearborn refuses to close the production down as the show must go on even while the police search for the child and the killer as does the ninety-two years old first time playwright.
The seventh Martha's Vineyard mystery thriller is a fun lighthearted tale that fans of the series will fully enjoy. Besides insight into the original Frankenstein, the whodunit is shrewdly set up from almost the onset keeping readers wondering who and why. SHOOTING STAR is a wonderful amateur sleuth tale (although the feisty heroine has become certified as a graduate of the Tisbury Citizen Police Academy) that will have the audience applauding for encore performances.
Harriet Klausner
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21 Pounds in 21 Days: The Martha's Vineyard Diet Detox
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Detox diets are making news as the quickest, easiest way to shed pounds, boost your energy, and get yourself on a wellness track. Popular in the 1970s, cleansing fasts are again all the rage among celebrities like Gisele Bundchen, Gwyneth Paltrow, Stella McCartney, and Madonna.
One of the key advocates of the health benefits of cleansing detoxes is Roni DeLuz, ND, a licensed naturopathic and health practitioner at Martha's Vineyard Holistic Retreat, part of the renowned Martha's Vineyard Inn. The idea behind DeLuz's new detox plan is the belief that the foods we eat (along with the coffee, tea, and alcohol we drink and the air we breathe) contain harmful and toxic substances that accumulate in our bodies and need to be removed in some way. In 21 Pounds in 21 Days, DeLuz offers three different detox programs, including the original and most effective 21–day "MasterFast," which promises a 21–pound weight loss in just three weeks and focuses on detoxification through antioxidants, fasting, stress reduction, and lifestyle changes. Also included in the book are:
• Maintenance plans
• Dozens of easy, delicious recipes
• Real–life tips
• An extensive glossary of terms
• A guide to supplements
Meals consist of supplement–laden drinks, herbal teas, thick, delicious vegetable purees, and "live" juices, along with nutritional supplements, vitamins, and enzymes designed to keep the body's systems stable and its cells nourished while harmful toxins are flushed out. 21 Pounds in 21 Days isn't just for those looking to lose weight; everyone can benefit from this revolutionary detox diet that results in a clean, refreshed system that functions at its best.
Customer Reviews:
Great Health & Dieting Information.......2007-09-28
This book was extremely well researched and written. Easy to read and totally made sense. I am always interested in weight loss but more importantly on how to feel better. Would certainly recommend this book.
Do your own research and use common sense.......2007-09-17
I found myself flipping rapidly through the pages and pages of testimonials waiting for something really beneficial. I was disappointed, but kept reading because after all the hype I'd heard about this book, I thought it was going to be something helpful. Instead, it's merely repetition of "information" that could have been surmised in two pages. DeLuz does go to great lengths to give the pros and cons of other diets, mainly siting her verdict that they're too restrictive or complicated for people to implement. Yet, even here in other reviews, this plan is defended with things like, if you want results, you have to stick with it. DUH! I think that is the plain common sense advice for what it takes for anything to work.
This book is extremely lacking in recipes. Sources for all the toxins claims could have been organized better. The recipes should have been in the front, or at least somewhere near the claims. Jack LaLane already has a great juicer and juice program; go with his deal. It's cheaper, easier to follow, his books are about a page and a half of why to do it and then bam, bam, bam, he gives you a bunch of recipes and their nutritional breakdown. That and he's living long-term evidence.
Earlier this year I'd really made a mind set change about my health, and wanted as much information as possible to help me stick with the changes. I didn't want a pill or whatever; I wanted to change my habits.
After listening to Robin Quivers talk about her lack of success sticking with healthy eating, and subsequently gaining back all her weight following the cleanses that she did, I thought this book would be helpful for me. I was disappointed mostly by the lack of references to back up Ms. DeLuz's claims. Mainly it's many referrals to www.mvdietdetox.com. You go there and can get a 21-day "special" for ONLY $199...HMMM...I was disappointed that, on page 132, she teeters on a version of the Urban Legend of John Wayne's 40 pounds (or 45 or 50, depending on which online site you're on, plus Elvis' 60 pounds of impacted fecal matter at death - check out Snopes.com on that - John Wayne never had an autopsy. He'd already had several surgeries and died of cancer, there was no need, nor is it ever documented in the bazillion "claims" online) where she claims, "Many people have between ten and twenty-five pounds of toxic fecoid matter just sitting in their colon!" Well, that's where I closed the book. And not just because "fecoid" is not a real word. Simply call a gastroenterologist and ask how much pain a person would be in, rectal bleeding would be occurring, and what would be the symptoms of this impacted fecal matter.
I'm also disturbed by the vagueness on page 32 (where there actually is a reference to one bestselling author) about, "sick soil produces sick crops." I'm amazed that anyone wouldn't remember those films from grade school talking about sick soil produces NO crops. Basic botany dictates that vegetation can only thrive if there's a healthy balance of minerals and proper soil conditions. And it seems like too much of a rumor with the, "you have to eat between fifteen and twenty cups of spinach," to get the same nutrition as a cup of spinach grown in 1950...when they were using paraquat and DDT????? Come ON!!
With that said, I do believe much of what DeLuz WANTS to do is good. It's just sorely lacking in organization, references, and the science behind her claims. If you are completely ignorant about even the most basic nutritional facts, this may help you. (You can get the definition of "germ" and "fat" on page 214 of the glossary, for example.) There's one tiny blurb about diabetes, which she should have expounded on, and the dangers of sugar, and what makes sugar, and what sugar does, as far as being one of the main toxic dangers in our society. She has another tiny blurb about sugar on page 37.
Can you tell I'm ticked about buying this book? Good luck to you.
Fine Transaction.......2007-09-16
Purchased a book. It was as advertised and was delivered in a timely basis. Excellent transaction. Good seller.
21 Pounds in 21 Days: The Martha's Vineyard Diet Detox
It works........2007-09-16
The bottom line...it works. Yes, it is strict. Yes, it requires planning.
I have lost 15 pounds in over 2 weeks. I feel better than ever. I wake up alert, and have a lot more energy. My family is annoyed that I am constantly cleaning, and organizing, our home.
It seems like the ones who say it does not work, have yet to try it.
It has changed my life for the better.
What was she thinking!.......2007-09-13
There's no way anyone with a 9-5 could do this without getting dizzy and passing out. This is completely unreasonable fast or detox plan unless you go to the facility to be monitored 24/7.
If looking into this please pass and do weight watchers or something less drastic.
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