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Multiple Blessings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jon Gosselin, Kate Gosselin, Beth Carson
Publisher: Zondervan
Category: Book
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Rating:  76 reviews
Sales Rank: 9
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0310289025
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.8743092
EAN: 9780310289029
ASIN: 0310289025
Publication Date: October 1, 2008
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Product Description
Three years after giving birth to twin daughters, Kate and Jon Gosselin became pregnant again—with sextuplets. Kate’s candid and emotionally-charged book chronicles the exhausting challenges she and Jon faced from the time the babies were conceived through the first two years of their lives, and the faith it took to get through each day.
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 Loved it! December 4, 2008
I love the show, I love the book. Like the show, it's honest and humble.
Jon and Kate are doing a great job with their children and glorifying the one they serve. I wish all the people who review this book would keep their negative comments and personal attacks to themselves. If you don't like them ...ugh.. don't watch/read about them. That simple.
 Just another Gosslin con game December 3, 2008
4 out of 16 found this review helpful
I've become quite disenchanted with the TV show and the book was no better. Kate is self serving, self absorbed, and selfish. Traits I see developing in some of their children: particularly the ill behaved, tantrum prone, poorly socialized Mady. Having cameras trained on these small children for multiple days a week isn't healthy. Jon and Kate should be ashamed. They give lip service to their Christian values along with their supposed deep commitment to their family. Those seem to be just words: their actions are to be parasites on the backs of their children. Children they couldn't have without benefit of medical science. If they were as they claim to be (ie: caring parents), why not live their lives truly putting the children's interests first? Instead rather than actually working and providing for the family they created, they use the children to support the group. (It sure isn't Kate people are tuning in for...she is nasty mean and treats Jon with amazing disrespect and disdain.) Probably bottom line: they're starting to suffer from over exposure. The small children are adorable, but the cameras and attention are beginning to show up in unhealthy behaviors in the twins. It's just a matter of time until the smaller children start to act out as well. Or worse, develop a sense of themselves that is not in line with reality. In ten years or so we'll see them on Intervention.
While I read the book, all I could hear was Kate's grating voice and I had to stop reading. I hope as co-author Beth gets something out of this. After being used for two years by the Gosslins, she has disappeared and I can't help but wonder: did she threaten Kate and have to be removed from the show so Kate wouldn't look so bad?
Bottom line: save your money for a good read...or donate the amount to charity.
Fun read December 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well-written and a fun book about Kate and Jon Gosselin. If you liked the show, you'll love the book. Easy reading. I also loved Michele Cozzen's It's Not Your Mother's Bridge Club
A Must Read! November 29, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I absolutely love Jon & Kate plus the kiddos. This book is beautifully written and takes the reader on an in-depth journey through infertility, bedrest and beyond!
This book show what faith and love can provide!
 Surprisingly nice read November 27, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Like many other reviewers I was surprised at the quality of writing in this book, as it is coming from a "normal" stay at home mom and not a professional writer. I do agree that the similes are a little too prevalent, but they help the reader to understand the Gosselins' experience that much better.
Those reviewers who complained or were surprised that the book was so religious in theme obviously didn't read the dust jacket or the description provided by Amazon. For starters, the genre listed on the back of the book itself (ie. where it belongs in a bookstore) is Religion/Christian Literature! The descriptions and summaries are very clear that this book is, at its heart, a chronicle of how Jon and Kate's faith brought them through a very difficult situation. However, the book does also provide more details that fans of the TV show will be thrilled to read.
At least one other reader commented on what they saw as Kate's "sense of entitlement" expressed in the book. I would not call it entitlement, but there is a portion of the narrative in which she explains how the generosity of everyone around them was God's way of taking care of her family. She does thank them profusely, but she also goes as far as to say that God was "using" the people to make sure her family survived. While I do not always agree with her, I do respect and like Kate, so that for me was a bit difficult to read. I didn't really know what to think about those couple of pages. I think she could certainly give more credit to those people's big hearts and their free will.
Overall, if you are a fan of the Gosselin family and their show on TLC, you will find something to enjoy in this book. If you yourself are not particularly religious, respect that they see their faith as their saving grace, and skip the reprinted scripture. You will appreciate hearing the details of Jon and Kate's journey and getting a glimpse into their feelings about their family that is rarely adequately expressed on tv.
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