Book Review: The Help
Well I’ve plowed through another book. It’s like a whole new world has opened up for me. The fact that I haven’t read a book cover to cover (not counting the last book I read) since before 2005, I think, speaks for itself how awesome the iBooks app is. In any case, I thought that now that I’m actually reading (YAY!) I’d include some book reviews on the site. The Help is my most recent read. Written by Kathryn Stockett, the story takes place in the early 1960′s in Jackson, Mississippi, during the Civil Rights movement. The book presents an interesting (fictional) perspective of black maids that worked for white families in that area. The core characters are a young white woman, and two black maids who tell their stories, and...
Book Review: The Napkin, the Melon & the Monkey: How to Be Happy and Successful at Work and in Life by Simply Changing Your Mind
I was given the opportunity to review a new book that will be coming out, and I thought I’d break from the standard here and ask a friend of mine to help me out and write the review for me: The Napkin, the Melon & the Monkey: How to Be Happy and Successful at Work and in Life by Simply Changing Your Mind. By Barbara Burke. Northfield, MN: Front Wheel Learning, 2006; pp. 1+138. $16.99 softcover. Reviewed by Katherine Weinstein, Ph.D. It’s no secret that customer service work poses its own special challenges on a very personal level. Assisting disgruntled customers on a nearly daily basis can test and even dishearten the most positive and stalwart employee. Barbara Burke’s The Napkin, the Melon and the Monkey provides both helpful advice to...
My name is Jennifer and The Working Mom is my online journal. I'm very bad about updating it regularly. I like writing, but not as much as I 
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