You Are Your First Name: Gain Insight to the Personalities of Your Family, Friends, Lover, ..

I first found this book in 1984 when I was a senior in High School visiting Boston to look at colleges. This book was in a little bookstore and I had to have it. Fast forward more than 20 years later and that book is so dog-eared, I had to buy it again, to get a more current version and have one where the spine isn't falling apart! This book is fun; I have used it with co-workers for team builders, when considering names for my children, when I was dating and wanted to have a sense of the man I would see that night, etc. It is a neat concept and when taken in the right context, this book offers a different perspective about personality.

I am seeking another copy of this book, which has disappeared from my bookshelves. My kids and I had fun using this book for a parlor-game, where guests could look up the derivation and meaning of their given names. Whether or not the personality characteristics truly applied, people always had fun, and, as with dealing with such subjective things as horoscopes, always took away with them something to think about with respect to personal qualities and characteristics.

I have used this book throughout the years as an incite into the personalities of friends, co-workers, and family. Not only has it been fun, but accurate as well.