Credit Repair by Robin Leonard J.D., John Lamb Attorney NOLO Press

Credit Repair by Robin Leonard J.D., John Lamb Attorney NOLO Press

I had just reviewed "Your Credit Score, Your Money & What's at Stake"
by: Liz Pulliam Weston and this book is superior. "Credit Repair" offers more details, includes forms, gives more specific and accurate information, and, in the section on collections, provides lots of legal answers that protect the consumer that aren’t even in the other book.

Excellent that this book has lots of forms on CD.

An outstanding 5 star plus.

Book review: You Are How You Move: Experiental Chi Kung by Ged Sumner

Book review: You Are How You Move: Experiental Chi Kung by Ged Sumner

I’m usually weary of books on Eastern motion arts, such as Tai Chi, Chi Gong, and to some degree even yoga because these are nearly impossible to learn by a book. The movements are too difficult to capture, and generally the author additionally advocates unusual spiritual ideas.

This book, instead, is written by a capable writer and master practitioner who simply explains the applicability of Chi Gong principles into daily movement. No hype or spiritual mumbo jumbo.

The problem remains that the movements still remain very difficult to describe by text. And as each individual’s starting posture is different, even if one reads the text carefully, one can be doing the explained Chi Gong movements by the book, and be doing these incorrectly.

So, for learning Chi Gong, I believe the better methods are DVDs or classes—this book would be better served by an accompanying DVD. Additionally, the book’s B&W photos are grainy, insufficient in numbers, and needs overlay arrows and numbers to better tie into the book’s text.

So, why am I giving this book a 5 star? It has some of the best explanations on body movement and awareness I’ve ever read. For examples, the explanations on how to stand straight, how to move—these are instantly valuable--for nearly everyone. This is one of the few books that explain the whys of simple body movements—extremely valuable information for everybody.

Bottom line—if you want to learn Chi Gong by this book, this is very difficult. If you want to understand why Chi Gong and why body movements work the way they do—best book I’ve ever read. One of the few books I review and want to reread.

Your Credit Score by Liz Pulliam Weston

This is an excellent overview, as it describes legitimate guess-estimate information about how to improve one’s credit score. Very well, clearly written.

I feel though that the author should have provided more interviews with FICO score designers, insurance underwriters, creditors, collections agencies, lawyers, and more of those on the creditor and ratings side. It is these people who really know how to affect the credit score and reduce payments. How, for example, do some debtors get away and some don’t. The author gives a “by-the-book” answer, and actuality is done by those involved; and the author did not interview those on the credit side. Thus, this book lacks real insiders’ techniques. This is not an insightful and easily-out-dated book, but I give it a 5 star for its ease of reading. Needs interviews and current website information.

Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Can the World Afford Autistic Spectrum Disorder?: Nonverbal Communication, Asperger Syndrome and the Interbrain
By: Digby Tantam

Book review


This is a difficult to read book, and evaluate, I believe even for those in the business. I’m in no position to determine how good quality of a book it is or not. The book would probably sell more if it was written toward a broader audience.

The technical words it uses show this: some such as “neurotypical” are unexplained for several pages, and later defined as normal. Others come from philosophy “ontological”, “phenomenology”, “intersubjectivity”. Literary words, such as “sotto voce”. Plato explained everything in western philosophy by using common-day words. Buddha, wrote in easy to understand terms. Remove the obfuscated terms, and this will be a better book.

Even when it comes to what should be very simple-to-explain portions of the book, such as nonverbal communications, the topics and what it says are interesting, but writing is unnecessarily complex. These are very simple matters.

After wading through a couple of chapters, I decided it’s easier to learn non-verbal communications issues through other books. If a reader has an excellent vocabulary, and don’t mind dealing complicated writing, this book might be fairly good.


Chen Sun
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