Dana Becker
Autor von One Nation Under Stress: The Trouble with Stress as an Idea
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Dana Becker is Associate Professor at the Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research.
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Finding Rose (Amish Rose Book 2) von Dana Becker
Finding Rose by Dana Becker is the second novel in the Amish Rose series. Each book can be read as a standalone, but you will get a better picture if you read Searching for Rose first. Finding Rose is not what I expected. It is a combination of dark thriller, horror, and suspense with a weird romance tossed in along with a hint of paranormal. This is not an Amish story. The cover is very misleading. Rose is not Amish, nor does she dress Amish (nor does she plan on becoming Amish). Her sister, April became Amish by marrying. The story is set on their Amish farm. Rose was held captive by a deranged cult leader who believed Rose was the reincarnation of his beloved sister. There was an incident when the nutjob was little that forever changed him and the sister. Rose was lucky she escaped the man’s clutches alive. We see how these events have affected her mind (she really needs psychiatric care in an institution). Finding Rose is a strange book. I struggled to get through it. I do not like the writing style or the characters. It is a dark tale that reminds me of horror movies (that I do not like to watch). There are descriptive details of what Rose suffered at the hands of the madman plus a terrible, bloody event. It seemed that the author did not do her research on the Amish because the proper details are missing. Peter would not have been welcomed back after his disappearance into the English world with an English wife (there would have been a long talk—or several with the bishop along with shunning plus April would have undergone religious instruction to be baptized). It does mention April learning Pennsylvania Dutch. There was no Amish community, bishop, going to church, etc. It seemed that April was not aware of the proper way to pin her dress (with straight pins). I feel that if you are going to have Amish characters, you need to get the details correct especially if you are going to have them live near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Finding Rose is a book that I did not want to read past the first chapter. It is too dark and strange with an odd ending. While Finding Rose was not the right book for me, you should judge it for yourself by downloading a sample. Finding Rose is a dark, twisty tale with a rescued Rose, a charming carpenter, a concerned sister, a peaceful farm, a maniac madman, a missing maedel, and a curious crime.… (mehr)
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Kris_Anderson | May 29, 2022 | This book caught my eye as it sat on the "new" NF bookshelf of my lovely public library. Not sure if it was the starkness of the all-white cover or the empathy I felt when looking at the red, white, and blue pencil all chewed up but obviously ready to continue work as evidenced by the sharpened end. Yep, I got all the that from the cover.
This is definitely a walk away from my usual reading material, but hey, I am a smart cookie, I can handle this serious stuff too. Dana's writing style is very nice, for research geeks like me, who actually enjoy reading what I coined in grad school, "journicles" (journal articles). She has a nice sarcastic voice throughout but it isn't too snarky. She really causes you to think, and hard, about what we have come to know as stress.
Being a NF book, you should know my style, I read what I like first and then browse the rest. I instantly started with Chapter 5: The Other Mommy War: Stress and the Working Mother. Something that is near and dear to my heart. I have always been a working mom. I like my work. I like my independence. I like my dual roles. I know I couldn't be a stay-at-home mom. I would like to think that I am doing well in both roles, but I know that some days I fall short, if not flat out on my face. I helps VERY much that my current job pays as it should and that I have reduced hours and that my supervisor is a working mom herself. That all being said, do I feel like I am where I thought I'd be when I started in this occupation almost, yikes, 20 years ago? No. Have I put things on the back burner due to family life? Yes. Is this the expected norm as a working mom? Seems to be. I was actually surprised at how many educated middle class moms actually felt pressured to ditch the career all together in order to raise their children, according to the chapter.
Dana Becker is a brave and brilliant researcher. I would like to see more stuff from her! She is not afraid to quote not only works in medical publications but also what we see and hear more frequently in the media. I like that because that is what I hear mostly and what seems to form public "knowledge."
The last chapter was an excellent piece on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Dana goes through the history of war trauma, examines current trauma of our post 9/11 country, and then brings up the chronic trauma of poverty. She does a great job of not denying that people suffer from PTSD, but questions our response to so many of our problems and their effectiveness, things that have not always worked yet we keep trying.
I think it is hard, if not impossible, to comb out the differences between our genes, our environment, our life experiences, our perception of trauma, our own mental health; Dana starts wonderful thoughts that hopefully will lead to wonderful solutions that will be healing for many.
Last few sentences in book:
"It seems that Americans are taking a harder look at social conditions in our country than we have in a long time. But it's too soon to know whether the era in which we are living, this latest incarnation of the most stressful times ever, will induce us as a society to take greater resonsibility for dealing with the tensions of the twenty-first century, or whether it will yield yet more individual prescriptions for grappling with our all-American stress."
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This is definitely a walk away from my usual reading material, but hey, I am a smart cookie, I can handle this serious stuff too. Dana's writing style is very nice, for research geeks like me, who actually enjoy reading what I coined in grad school, "journicles" (journal articles). She has a nice sarcastic voice throughout but it isn't too snarky. She really causes you to think, and hard, about what we have come to know as stress.
Being a NF book, you should know my style, I read what I like first and then browse the rest. I instantly started with Chapter 5: The Other Mommy War: Stress and the Working Mother. Something that is near and dear to my heart. I have always been a working mom. I like my work. I like my independence. I like my dual roles. I know I couldn't be a stay-at-home mom. I would like to think that I am doing well in both roles, but I know that some days I fall short, if not flat out on my face. I helps VERY much that my current job pays as it should and that I have reduced hours and that my supervisor is a working mom herself. That all being said, do I feel like I am where I thought I'd be when I started in this occupation almost, yikes, 20 years ago? No. Have I put things on the back burner due to family life? Yes. Is this the expected norm as a working mom? Seems to be. I was actually surprised at how many educated middle class moms actually felt pressured to ditch the career all together in order to raise their children, according to the chapter.
Dana Becker is a brave and brilliant researcher. I would like to see more stuff from her! She is not afraid to quote not only works in medical publications but also what we see and hear more frequently in the media. I like that because that is what I hear mostly and what seems to form public "knowledge."
The last chapter was an excellent piece on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Dana goes through the history of war trauma, examines current trauma of our post 9/11 country, and then brings up the chronic trauma of poverty. She does a great job of not denying that people suffer from PTSD, but questions our response to so many of our problems and their effectiveness, things that have not always worked yet we keep trying.
I think it is hard, if not impossible, to comb out the differences between our genes, our environment, our life experiences, our perception of trauma, our own mental health; Dana starts wonderful thoughts that hopefully will lead to wonderful solutions that will be healing for many.
Last few sentences in book:
"It seems that Americans are taking a harder look at social conditions in our country than we have in a long time. But it's too soon to know whether the era in which we are living, this latest incarnation of the most stressful times ever, will induce us as a society to take greater resonsibility for dealing with the tensions of the twenty-first century, or whether it will yield yet more individual prescriptions for grappling with our all-American stress."
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BarbF410 | May 22, 2022 | This is not an Amish story, despite its misleading cover and even though it has some Amish characters in it. This much contrived and convoluted tale centers on April and her sister Rose, who has gone missing. They have led a troubled life, with problems with the law and drug use. The premise is too broad and too encompassing to lend itself to a cohesive story. The plot jumps from one point to another with little connection. The characters are not well developed. The Amish characters are not true to the Amish lifestyle and religious commitment. It seems to me that the author tried to write suspenseful story but used so many unconnected plot ideas that the end result was just a string of cliched plot ideas. This appears to be the author’s first published novel, and with more experience in the craft, she could create novels that would explore her interesting ideas more fully.… (mehr)
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Maydacat | 2 weitere Rezensionen | Sep 21, 2020 | Searching for Rose by Dana Becker is a unique Amish novel. April has had a difficult life and made some poor choices. The one person she has always been close to is her sister, Rose. When Rose disappears without a trace, April becomes determined to find her. She gets help from a bakery owner and an Amish man who works at the Amish diner next to the bakery. I thought the characters lacked development. Last names for our main characters would have been nice. The pacing is slow in the first half of the book. It does increase in the second half as the mystery picks up speed. The mystery was interesting. There are good clues to help readers figure out who is behind the crime. There are also some disturbing details. I would have liked a better wrap up to the mystery. It felt incomplete. Searching for Rose is more of a romantic suspense than an Amish mystery (which is what I was expecting). April and Joseph become close while looking for Rose. Their relationship is a rocky one. April has a hard time trusting people. I did find some inconsistencies in the book that I hope were corrected before publication. I did like seeing April trying to improve her lot in life. It turns out that Searching for Rose will have a sequel. I hope any unfinished issues from Searching for Rose will be resolved in the follow-up. Searching for Rose is an Amish romantic suspense with a missing sister, an Amish Romeo, a kindhearted baker, and a shocking tale.… (mehr)
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