Books

Book Reviews

For my book reviews I like to employ Daven's Rating System:

Stars	Meaning
✬✩✩✩✩	Pitiful. This book should never have been published. A waste of trees.
✭✩✩✩✩	Poor. To be bought only if you have a lot of money to waste.
✭✬✩✩✩	Bad. There may be some useful info here, but I wouldn't voluntarily buy it.
✭✭✩✩✩	Below Average. Get it if there is nothing else you can buy or borrow.
✭✭✬✩✩	Average. Good and bad elements cancel each other out.
✭✭✭✩✩	Above Average, there is some good things here.
✭✭✭✬✩	Good. There should be more books like this.
✭✭✭✭✩	Very good. Most libraries should consider getting this one.
✭✭✭✭✬	Excellent. If you see this book get it.
✭✭✭✭✭	Superior. Run run run to purchase this book, you will thank me.

Reviews

• Northern Tradition for the Solitary Practitioner by Galina Krasskova and Raven Kaldera (✭✭✭✬✩, 3.5/5, 2 May 2009)
• Emotional Alchemy: How the Mind Can Heal the Heart by Tara Bennett-Goleman (✭✭✭✭✭, 5/5, 23 May 2009)
• Journeying: Where Shamanism and Psychology Meet by Jeannette M. Gagan (✭✭✭✬✩, 3.5/5, 16 June 2009)
• Soul Retrieval, Mending the Fragmented Self by Sandra Ingerman (✭✭✭✭✬, 4.5/5, 4 September 2009)