Miss Talmadge’s Psychology Book Reviews 2006
Posted by canjohslib on April 24, 2006
To read the great book reviews submitted in 2006 and get some great ideas, click on “10 comments” below and enjoy!
Posted by canjohslib on April 24, 2006
To read the great book reviews submitted in 2006 and get some great ideas, click on “10 comments” below and enjoy!
Jordan Hodge said
The book I did for the project in question, was “Give a Boy a gun,” by Todd Strasser. This book covers the lives of two very disturbed individulals. The book is a basic interpretation of the Columbine school shootings. I reccomend this book for those who have difficulty understanding more challenging storys. Its a very easy read. I personally didnt like this book very much due to the poor placement of events. The story skips around a lot which provides an unusual point of view. It becomes annoying in many aspects. For this project I dont recommend this book. If you have difficulty understanding more complex books, then this is the story for you.
Julie said
I read “My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult for this project and I thought it was EXCELLENT. It had a very strong plot and highly devoloped characters that really drew me into the story. It’s an excellent choice for this project because it poses many interesting issues to think about. Issues such as medical ethics, relationships with parents and siblings and adolescent issues that could easily lend themselves to writing a report. One of the only weaknesses of the book was the slightly distracting subplot about the lawyer’s relationship with an old highschool girlfriend and the slight underdevolopment of the mother’s character. Overall I found it to be very enthralling and the surprise twist at the end made the book even better.
Hawitha Porter said
The book that i had read was Hanging on to Max by Margaret Bechard. The only aspects of psychology in this book were acceptance and looking for someone to connect with. This book helped me complete my project because it allowed me to follow all of the guidelines of the project. I would recommend this book because it is short and easy to read, also it is a good book.
Mike Ricci said
The book I read was called ” Inside Out”. It was about a teenager suffering from a Schizophrenia. The kid was going to a gas station to wait for his mom and get a candy bar. But when he’s inside the store two other teens hold it up. Things get hectic when the cops surround the store and the kid with Schizophrenia still needs his meds from his mom. After a phonecall to his doctor from the store he gets the two teens to surrender their guns and give it up. The book mostly covers how people with Schizophrenia react without their medication and the side effects of the disease. This book helped me complete my project because it kind of put me in the mind of someone suffering Schizophrenia, so it was pretty cool. I would in fact recommend this book to future students because its not too difficult to read and your always turning another page to see what happens next.
Carissa said
I have read the book “A Child Called “It” written by David Pelzer. It was about a young child that has a horrbile life. He was treated horrible by his own mother. She made him work for her, do all the chores, eat ammonia, lay in ice cold water, sit on the hot burning stove…um,really bad stuff. His mommie drank alot, which made her a bad mommie and hurt her son, she is nuts. I had to read the book, and write about it…of course that helped me with the project. Yeah, it’s a good book, read it for a project. It reads easy and is a fast book, you wouldn’t want to put it down. You can read the other books that he has written, im not sure what they are called.
Danielle Moschetti said
I read King of the Mild Frontier By Chris Crutcher. This book is an autobiography about the life of Chris Crutcher along with his siblings and his parents. “Crutch” was a child who was very emotional as a child and a competive athlete in hgih school. He had done anything stupid his older brother had told him to do leading into his life experiences he looks back on in this book. This book is about any other child or high school student trying to find who they really are and what their true identity is. Aspects of psychology covered in this book are social and pysical emotions. This book helped me complete my prjoect because it was an easy read yet a very fun and interesting one as well. I would say for the most part I did like the book. It was an autobiography that teens can relate to with the true events and stories taht Chris tells. Although in the end Chris says an autobiography doesn’t always have to be true, making the reader second guess if the events were true, and if you read the book for no reason at all.
Carrie said
I read the book “Dreamland”. It was about a girl named Caitlyn. The story begins with her sister, Cass, who ran away from home to live with her boyfriend in the city. Everyone’s life falls apart. Caitlyn meets a guy named Rogerson, who she falls for.
At first, their relationship is fine, everything is great. But then the relationship turns abusive, he beats her and gets her hooked on drugs. She begins to skip school and cheerleading. Rogerson is caught beating her and he is sent to jail. She is placed in rehab.
This book covered the aspects of pschology of being in an abusive relationship and dependency on drugs. This completed my project because it provided all the information I needed to do this project.
I would recomment this book for next year because it’s not a long book and girls can relate to Caitlyn’s problems easily.
Margaret said
The book I read was “Out of Order” by A.M. Jenkins. It was about a guy anmed Colt who has a girlfriend that have been dating for a while. Colt is always trying to get sex out of her. They broke up for a while and he kept telling himself that he wasnt going to chase her she was going to have to chase him. He gives in and calls her anyway. He finds out that she has been cheating on him with another guy and having sex with him. He breaks it off with her and gets together with a girl that was always calling him and trying to get back with a friend of Colts. He never thought he’d end up with her, but he did. Colt is really into baseball throughout the book. A psychological problem he could’ve had was obsession. Everything evolved around Grace. Everything he did reminded him of Grace. It got to the point where the book became boring because all he talked about was Grace and how things reminded him of her. I had to read the book which helped me finish my book report. I didnt think the book was that great. It was the same thing over and over again, him trying to get into Grace’s pants and gettin mad because she wouldnt do anything. It was a guy obsessed with a girl and just talking about the gilr throughout the entire book. I didnt like it, but someone else might want to read about it. There were some funny comments Colt made throughout the book that made me laugh and they were pretty funny. So that could be a good reason to read this book.
jackson harper said
the book is a good book to use because it comes with a CD that read to you Its about a black kid in the ghetto in trouble with the law for murder and robbery. and where he comes from thats not supprising but they way it WAS WRITTEN WAS LIKE A MOVIE AND I DID NOT ENJOYS THAT. some phycology that is in the book is denial. i would recomend this book because its easy to listen to. at the end of the book the kid was found innocent becuase he had a good laYwer.
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Anna said
I read Wolfman by Sigmund Freud. It was a ridiculously long autobiography/case study about this patient of Freud. It has a lot of psychological issues in it, but most of its just about sex, early childhood memories, or depression. The book fulfilled the requirements for my report, but i would probably never recommend it for reading unless you have to do a paper on Freud. Then it might be useful. Otherwise, it’s just a guy giving a extraordinarily dull rendition of his life story.