Sunday Book Reviews

Today’s Sunday book review, I’m invading this space usually reserved for books of other authors, but I wanted to share a few new reviews I was elated to find on Amazon for 3 of my books. Just to re-iterate: Reviews are like receiving gold for authors. Thank you for taking the time to review books after reading.

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In this personal accounting, D.G. Kaye shares the insights and wisdom she has accrued through twenty years of keeping her marriage strong and thriving despite the everyday changes and challenges of aging. Kaye reveals how a little creative planning, acceptance, and unconditional love can create a bond no obstacle will break. Kaye’s stories are informative, inspiring, and a testament to love eclipsing all when two people understand, respect, and honor their vows. She adds that a daily sprinkling of laughter is a staple in nourishing a healthy marriage.

Twenty years began with a promise. As Kaye recounts what transpired within that time, she shows that true love has no limits, even when one spouse ages ahead of the other.

Marian Beaman

January 1, 2018

As I closed the last chapter in D. G. Kaye’s latest book, I felt as though I had just had a conversation with a friend about aging and marriage. In Twenty Years After I Do, Debby reflects on love and changes through the aging process, as her subtitle suggests.

My own husband is slightly younger than I, but I could relate to the author’s personal experience in dealing with her mate’s hearing loss, illness and the challenges of retirement. The author does not sugar coat problems, but readers can expect down-to-earth solutions in this combination memoir/self-help book. Indeed, she affirms, marriage is a like a plant that needs feeding, nurturing, and caring so it will “thrive and continue to bloom.”

Writer Debby advises from a place of deep affection. It is obvious she has married her best friend, one who dubs her variously as Cubby, Cub, and Deb, depending on the circumstances. And yes, couples will fight, she admits, but the partners must learn to fight fair. Her magnanimous nature comes through in this startling statement: “Just because I’m not talking to him doesn’t mean I won’t cook him dinner.” (81)

The author’s early years with a narcissistic mother have left an imprint on all her relationships, including the supreme one with her beloved husband Gordon, twenty years her senior. Yet, in this 108-page book she has translated life lessons from her potentially crippling childhood into the wisdom of happily married life.

Her secret? This author/marriage partner has made a study of her husband, not as a scientific specimen, but as the man she loves body, soul, and spirit.

 

P. Wight

4.0 out of 5 starsCourageous Author Shares Marital Challenges and “Shows the Love” in Wonderful Ways

January 3, 2018

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Debby Kaye, author, has gotten a well-deserved reputation as a courageous, tell-it-like-it is author who opens her own veins for others to learn and grow through her experiences. Twenty Years After I Do follows her authentic writing path to write the truth about a marriage long after the newness of love and lust and joy have faded. In the author’s experience, marriage can mature into a much deeper experience of love, laughter, longing, and intense devotion if a couple don’t expect or want a ‘young love,’ but instead, work on a marriage that expects longevity and a deep contentment despite what comes with a long marriage: aging, illness, loss (of hearing, agility, libido, etc.). Debby shows how love with a spouse who is much older is worth the challenges. After all, love is ageless.

 

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A Lifetime of guilt — What does it take to finally break free?

“Somehow I believed it was my obligation to try to do the right thing by her because she had given birth to me.”

Burdened with constant worry for her father and the guilt caused by her mother’s narcissism, D.G. Kaye had a short childhood. When she moved away from home at age eighteen, she began to grow into herself, overcoming her lack of guidance and her insecurities. Her life experiences became her teachers, and she learned from the mistakes and choices she made along the way, plagued by the guilt she carried for her mother.

Conflicted Hearts is a heartfelt journey of self-discovery and acceptance, an exploration of the quest for solace from emotional guilt.

5.0 out of 5 starsI really enjoyed reading this “raw” from the heart memoir

ByBonnie McKeeganon October 21, 2017

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I really enjoyed reading this “raw” from the heart memoir. The author’s style is easy to read, like having a conversation. She does not hold back when describing how difficult life was being raised by a narcissistic mother and a father who was unable to protect her. Looking forward to reading the next book in the story of her life. So refreshing to read a memoir written with such courage and passion!

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What do our shopping habits, high-heeled shoes, and big hair have to do with how we perceive ourselves? Do the slights we endured when we were young affect how we choose our relationships now?
D.G. takes us on a journey, unlocking the hurts of the past by identifying situations that hindered her own self-esteem. Her anecdotes and confessions demonstrate how the hurtful events in our lives linger and set the tone for how we value our own self-worth.
Words We Carry is a raw, personal accounting of how the author overcame the demons of low self-esteem with the determination to learn to love herself.

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