Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc. BOOK: Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: Finding Love Without Losing Your Self. JACKET DESIGN BY: T. M. Craan. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: TO THE CASTLE--PLAYING "TRUE ROMANCE" IN THE NAME OF LOVE 1. Once Upon a Time 2. The Prince 3. The Myth of Romantic Love 4. The Princess 5. The Dragon 6. Life in the Castle; PART TWO: EXIT THE CASTLE--TO AUTHENTIC PASSION 7. Love: Theory 8. Love: Groundwork 9. Love: Practice; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index. SYNOPSIS: Finally! A book about love that isn't going to tell you there's something wrong with you, your clothes, or the pressures of your job and/or family because your love life is something less than you would want. This book isn't interested in blaming women--or men, for that matter--for failures in love. Bonnie Kreps, who has been in and out of love as many times as the rest of us, but who has emerged with her wit intact and her wisdom burnished, brings us good news from the frontlines: It's not us who fail in love, it's love that's failing us. From the time when, as toddlers, we first hear "Cinderella" or "Snow White" we are told that love is romance and romance is everything, and, moreover, it will last forever. Only, in fairy tales and romance novels and Hollywood movies, we never see the "forever," all we hear is that the hero and heroine "live happily ever after." We are being set up, argues the author, by a big lie: the myth of romantic love. Using the metaphors of dragons and castles, princes and princesses, Bonnie Kreps exposes all the destructive notions of romance that mould our expectations and, too often, leave us heartbroken--again. She writes of the Reverse Sleeping Beauty syndrome, where one kiss from Prince Charming, far from making a woman wake up to the reality of her new man, instead blinds her. She writes of the pain women and men both suffer on discovering their heroes and heroines are ordinary people, after all. Provocative and fun to read, yet also wise and very serious, Subversive Thoughts, Authentic Passions reveals the alternatives to romance for women and men who are too grown-up for fairy tales. Born and raised in Denmark, Bonnie Kreps moved to Canada in 1967 and immediately became involved with the burgeoning women's movement. Her commitment to a form of feminism that is relevant to both women and men led to her becoming a favourite features' writer at Homemaker's for twelve years. During this time, Bonnie Kreps was a producer and director at CTV and made a variety of films both independently and with the National Film Board, including the 1978 production This Film is About Rape, which won a Red Ribbon at the American Film Festival that year. She currently writes for a number of North American journals and magazines and, in 1989, was nominated for the prestigious Lowell Thomas Award for an article in National Geographic Traveler. Bonnie Kreps currently divides her time between Vancouver and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and is at work on her second book.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bookseller: Fully Booked (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 004364
Title: Subversive Thoughts, Authentic Passions
Author: Kreps, Bonnie
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition 1st Printing
ISBN 10: 0771045522
ISBN 13: 9780771045523
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
Place of Publication: Toronto
This edition first published: March 1, 1990
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords: Self-Help,Relationships,Romantic
Bookseller catalogs: Self-Help - Relationships - Romantic;

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For a good portion of the 1990's, our family was interested in the idea of entering the used book business. We are all avid readers, book lovers, and book collectors who cannot pass a bookstore without popping in. Family trips to the library and our local used bookstore were a regularity while growing up. With each of us having interests in different genres (with a little overlapping here and there), we cover a lot of bases. The thought of having a store of our own was appealing, and the hunt was on - both for stock and a location.
We thought to combine under one roof many different things that would appeal to readers and book lovers. Not only used books, but some new items as well. Bookmarks (to ward off dog-eared pages), bookends (to keep those out-of-control collections under control), bookplates (to label books on the "Can I borrow that?" circuit to ensure that they always found their way home), book repair tape (to lend a helping hand to collectors with tattered favourites in their collections), and so on. With an interest in book-themed knick knacks as well, we had two sides to our would-be business: books and knick-knacks. Hence the business was born.
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