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Mom Still Likes You Best: The Unfinished Business Between Siblings (2010)

by Jane Isay(Favorite Author)

3.08 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0385524552 (ISBN13: 9780385524551)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Doubleday

review 1: I don't know what I was expecting when I picked this book off the shelf at the library but it just didn't grab me like most books do. I guess I thought it might be one of two things - a comical look at sibling relationships or advice on how to handle the tricky and sometimes slippery ties between siblings. I guess I was hoping to find information on dealing with my own challenging brother or helping my children love each other. The book fell short on MY expectations. It was just a bunch of interviews of various adult siblings but no real advice and the tone was very serious. Slow read.
review 2: I was really looking forward to this book and was quite disappointed. While this short book acts as a study on sibling relationships it reads more like a longer a... morerticle rather then published advice book. Based on the description I was expecting an advice book not a general study.Isay has great insight into the sibling relationship but did not take her work to the level I would have liked to have seen. Instead she summarizes all of her interviewee's stories. I felt it would have been more interesting had she set up each story with a quick intro by including its relevancy to her points and then inserting the sibling story in their own words. Instead Isay summarized each interview saying say "Rebbecca told me that...then she stated..." This format lacked in its overall appeal and did not engage me as a reader.While I feel there is some great insight into siblings relationships it does not allow the reader to connect and be a part of the book. Isay keeps the reader at arms length and does not fully engage her audience in her findings. Instead of making the book into an advice book on how to better interact with your sibling the reader is left with a long report on different types/forms of sibling relationships. less

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