|
|

|
Welcome
to the bookworms page
Here you can find Bearsac and Debra's recommendations of books
and those of other people.
Please feel free to email you own recommendations
if
sending in recommendations, please keep description of book
reasonably short. Descriptions may need editing by web aurthor
email
- bearsac@bearsac.com
(The philosophy and theme of some recommendations may not reflect
that of Bearsac and Debra's)
|
Out Now
Debra's very own book
Travels With My Teddy Bear
(Travelogues of a woman with Asperger's
syndrome
with her teddy bear)
|
Travels
With
My
Teddy Bear
by
my
owner
Debra
of
Borehamwood
|
|
Travels
With My
Teddy
Bear
Travelogues
of a woman with Asperger's Syndrome
with her teddy bear
Travels With My Teddy Bear is the fascinating record of
the author's journeys undertaken with her beloved teddy
Bearsac, through familiar cites of Europe and regions
as remote as China and Mongolia. It is both a travelogue
that expounds the joys and problems of travelling through
different countries and cultures, and an illustration
of the highs and lows of Asperger's Syndrome, a condition
characterized by issues with social and communication
skills, but also by such strengths as logic, focus and
loyalty.
|
|
|
Not Stupid
by
Anna
Kennedy
|
|
Not Stupid emotionally
tells the story of the Kennedy family's struggle to give
their children what all children deserve - a decent education!
Anna's story and that of her ever improving sons, is a
beacon of inspiration for parents of children labelled
with special needs all over the country.
|
|
|
Tales
From The Time Loop
by
David
Icke
|
|
Tales from the Time Loop
is the most comprehensive book yet written about the global
conspiracy that emerges more clearly every day. David
Icke has been warning for many years of the plan for a
world fascist state, a global version of Nazi Germany,
in which the people will be prisoners of a Big Brother
dictatorship founded on the suppression of the most fundamental
freedoms and total control and surveillance. Today there
is a gathering awareness that he was right. People are
realising that Big Brother is no longer 'coming'. He's
here.
Icke pulls together his
fantastic wealth of accumulated knowledge to reveal the
multi-levels of the conspiracy. He begins in the 'five-sense'
world with a highly detailed exposure of the forces, methods
and agenda behind 9/11, the 'war on terrorism', the invasion
of Iraq and the planned conquest of North Africa, the
Middle East and elsewhere. Icke goes on to explore the
other-dimensional connection to the 'human' manipulators
and their inter-breeding bloodlines that originate in
the ancient world . He then reveals that our sense of
reality - what we think it's real - is being implated
into our minds while we believe we are thinking for ourselves.
In early 2003, Icke had
some amazing experiences in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil
that revealed to him as never before that the world we
think is 'real' is only an illusion - a lucid and manipulated
dream that he calls the Matrix. In Tales form the Time
Loop, he shares those experiences and details the scientific
support for what he learned about the illusion we call
daily life. Icke believes that this book is the most important
work he has yet published. It is, he says, the knowledge
that will set us free and take us home.
|
|
|
There's
No Room
For Jugglers
In My
Circus
by
Jason
Cook
of
Borehamwood
|
|
"There's
no room for jugglers in my circus" tells the tale of a
young man's drug-addled youth misspent in Borehamwood,
where cheap gossip was rife, "friends" were just ships
passing in the night, and dreams remained just that.
Given the young man's drug habit, his involvement with
gangsters, violence and prison seems inevitable. Cookster
dissects the psyche of personalities fuelled by drink,
drugs and power, and draws colourful sketches of the different
types of gangster from "the Real McCoy", a highly influential
"gentleman" who practises a code of honour among thieves,
to the "plastic gangster", a "wannabe" who has all the
bluster but none of the power.
Despite everything, there is light at the end of the tunnel
for the narrator, as he retains his hopes for the future,
and keeps his aspirations alive amid the chaos.
And
all the time the story is fuelled by cocaine, the devil's
dandruff.
|
|
|
The
Roman Mysteries
(series of
books)
by
Caroline
Lawrence
Recommended
by
Bearsac
& Debra
would
suit children and adults
|
| The
Roman Mysteries are a series of books following the adventures
of Flavia Gemina, daughter of a Roman sea captain. She embarks
on thrilling adventures with her three friends Jonathan,
Nubia and Lupus
The
stories start in the year 79 AD during the time of the
Romans. They are mainly based around villages around Mount
Vesuvius (near Rome), which until it erupted in 79 AD
it was thought to be a harmless mountain.
As
Flavia and her friends attempt to solve their first crime,
the clues lead them around Ostia: to the harbor, the forum,
the lighthouse, and the tombs of the dead. Later riddles
and mysteries take them to Pompeii, Sorrento, Rome and
Greece.
We
were inspired to get these books from the library after
watching Junior Mastermind. One of the contestants chose
the books for her specialist subject and made them sound
very interesting and educational, which they most certainly
are. They are based on fact and fiction.
see
the website link for books.
|
|
|
Family
Ties
by
Victoria
Dowling
|
|
We
met this author on the Thameslink she was promoting her
book herself, so I thought I would give her a helping
paw as she was very nice.
Set
in London this tale tells of interwoven family lives and
draws on all human emotions. young love, teenage years,
problems of single parenthood and the unpredictability
of family relationships.
It
follows the story of Nicky, unhappy at home and school
and Niall, the apple of his mothers eye.
The
novel presents the reader with with many twists and turns
in the various relationships.
|
|
|
Life
of Pi
by
Yann
Martel
Recommended
by
Debra and Bearsac
|
|
An
Indian family attempt to transport themselves and their
zoo animals for a new life and better business in Canada.
The cargo ship sinks. A solitary lifeboat remains alone
on the Pacific. The crew of the lifeboat are a hyena,
a zebra (with a broken leg) , a female orangutan, a 450-pound
Bengal tiger and Pi - a 16-year-old Indian boy now without
his family.
This
is a thought provoking book. If you do find part one a
little boring, please do not give up on the book as part
two is great and the dialogue in part three funny.
|
|
|
Songs
of the Gorilla Nation
Dawn
Prince-Hughes
Recommended
by
Debra and Bearsac
would
suit adults
|
|
Down
and out in the NeuroTypical world Dawn Prince-Hughes finds
home when she starts to share the life of Gorillas. From
them she learns not just of their intelligence and emotions,
but also of her own and later how connect to humans. As
a person who has grown to adulthood not knowing she has
Aspergers syndrome - a form of autism - she has had little
understanding why she has faced the barriers a neuro typical
world constructs around intelligent people like her.
This
is an autobiographical glimpse into the world of an Aspie
and a good read for Aspies and
NTs (Neuro Typicals) alike.
|
|
|
Rainbow
Six
by
Tom
Clancy
Recommended
by
No name
would
suit adults
|
|
This
book, like Without Remorse, is centered around John Clark,
an ex-Navy SEAL who is a CIA operative. Clark gets an
idea to form a super secret multi-national anti-terrorism
squad to be code-named "Rainbow". As the commander of
this group, Clark is known as "Rainbow Six". Clark takes
Ding Chavez along with operators from around the World
(primarily NATO countries, however) and forms the group
in Britain at the headquarters of the SAS. Almost as soon
as the group is formed, three terrorist acts occur. From
there, the plot begins to weave between Russia, the United
States, and Australia but ends in a rain forest in Brazil.
|
|
|
The
Kite Runner
by
Khaled
Hosseini
Recommended
by
Emma
would
suit adults
|
|
The
unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship
between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant,
The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in
a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It
is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal,
and the possibility of redemption, and it is also about
the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices,
their lies.
|
|
|
The
Celestine
Prophecy
(An
adventure)
by
James
Redfield
Recommended
by
Bearsac
& Debra
|
|
This
novel contains secrets that are currently changing our
world. Drawing on the ancient wisdom found in a Peruvian
manuscript, it tells you how to make connections between
the events happening in your own life right now....and
direct your steps with new energy and optimism as you
head in tomorrow
This
book has sister books, but it is best to read this book
(An Adventure) first
This
book has a habit of coming by you when you are ready for
it so don't look for it..... it will look for you!
|
|
|
The
Curious Incident Of
The Dog In The
Night Time
by
Mark
Haddon
Recommended
by
Bearsac
& Debra
would
suit children 10+ and adults
|
|
Christopher,
15, is gifted with a logical brain. He knows all the worlds
capitals, every prime number up to 7,057. However, he
has little understanding of human emotions. He hates being
touched. He likes routine and order.
Finding his neighbor’s dog dead, he is initially blamed
for the killing. Christopher decides to track down the
real killer. But the investigation leads him down some
unexpected paths and brings him face to face with the
dissolution of his parents’ relationship.
As
he tries to deal with the family crisis, we are drawn
into the workings of Christopher’s mind, the mind of an
Aspie*
*Aspie (a person with an Asperger's
syndrome type brain. {Aspergers syndrome is said to
be a high functioning form of autisum})
|
|

Back
|