Three Books to Avoid - Not all book reviews give glowing recommendations. I have read a number of books pertaining to Autism Spectrum Disorders - from the parents, Doctors, Therapist and those who are on the Spectrum. Some titles and descriptions of books gloss over what they state the book is about. I found that true in the three books I am not recommending in this article. By all means make up your own mind based on the reviews and read other reviews online to see if the books are all that they claim to be. By Bonnie Sayers

The outsider / Novelist Rachel Cusk joined a book group to discuss beauty and truth. Instead she found herself defending Chekhov, and perplexed as to why the English resist stories of everyday life - Recently we moved to a new town, and not knowing many people there, I decided to join a book group. I am somewhat infatuated by book groups: the idea of them invokes in me warm and vaguely contradictory feelings of infant-like repose. The book group is the one place where I yearn to be present both physically and artistically, both as a reader and as a writer. My interest in books was a little fanatical, perhaps, to be constrained by decorous monthly meetings, but it was common ground I was looking for. Besides, everyone belonged to a book group: some people even belonged to two. A woman I met had one book group she attended for the purposes of frivolity, and another for the meditated consideration of the literature du jour. It was a sensible arrangement: the first existed to expunge the second of unseriousness. The frivolous book group convened late, and drunkenly. By the Guardian