Do Dead People Watch You Shower?: And Other Questions You've Been All but Dying to Ask a Medium (Paperback)

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Whether readers believe what Bertoldi has to say is a matter of choice, but the charm of this "average Jersey girl who talks to the dead" goes a long way toward making this one of the more approachable titles in the recent wave of medium-authored books. It also has a format with wide appeal, more or less cribbed from the bestselling Why Do Men Have Nipples? Instead of personal health questions, Bertoldi answers queries like "Do the dead go to ball games?" (Yes) and "How meaningful are coincidences in our lives?" (Very). The book also has a dishy element, delving into the medium's personal life (her husband's a skeptic) and a number of celebrity encounters. Though generally fun reading throughout, questions of God, heaven and other spiritual matters are met with vague language; she's similarly uninformative regarding practical matters like finding happiness or contacting the seemingly omnipresent dead.
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Review

"Believers will delight in knowing the answers…any way you look at it, it’s interesting reading for anyone curious about the afterlife." -- Chicago Sun Times: The Book Room

"GHOSTS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN: the dead do walk among us, watch us make love and sometimes even try to get in on the action—but they won’t follow us into bars." -- PAGE SIX, New York Post

"I have never read a more straightforward book about ‘The Other Side’…Concetta instills a sense that there is more living after death…heart-warming." -- Abigail Carter, author of The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow's Transformation

"I most definitely believe…Concetta Bertoldi is definitely not your run-of-the-mill medium, definitely not." -- Billy Baldwin

"With her fun loving and sparkling personality, it is no wonder the spirit world wants to speak to her." -- James Van Praagh, #1 New York Times bestselling author of TALKING TO HEAVEN

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (December 26, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061351229
• ISBN-13: 978-0061351228
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #21,173 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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43 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Already a Believer, January 10, 2008

By	Donna G. (NYC) - See all my reviews

I loved this book. I can't say that Concetta Bertoldi convinced me that life of the spirit continues beyond physical death because I was already a believer. But I loved Concetta's warmth and irreverence, and while a lot of her stories just confirmed what I already believed, there were also a LOT that made even a believer say, "Wow." One thing that stood out for me is nothing "paranormal" or "spiritual" at all - that was Concetta's advice for anyone who wants to be happier, just SMILE.

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The answer is yes, dead people watch you shower, July 21, 2008

By	Kerry D (Southern California) - See all my reviews

The title of this book, "Do Dead People Watch you Shower?" has been a question of mine so I bought the book to find out the answer. Unfortuately, according to the author, the answer is yes, dead people do watch us shower and watch us do everything else that we thought was private. This wasn't the answer that I wanted to hear but later in the book she presented information about two readings where she did not see any spirits around the two people she was giving readings to. I'm hoping that I might possibly fall into this category and if so, then my showers have been indeed private. LOL

The book is written in a question/answer format and she includes some questions where she says she really doesn't know the answers. I thought this was alittle strange as I would have expected and preferred her to only include the questions that she could answer and leave out any that she couldn't. Anyway, the book was very interesting.

33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting, March 20, 2008

By	Dani Arteri (WI) - See all my reviews

When I saw this book, I was a little leery to read it because as a Christian, I've been taught that "mystical" things are to be avoided (psychics, ghosts, etc). However, Bertoldi often mentions that she belives in God and that in her "readings," she asks for God's protection. That, plus the interesting title, caused me to read the book, and I am glad that I did!

For people who are unsure about the afterlife or the existence of God, in no way does Bertoldi preach or push her beliefs throughout the book. She even mentions that her husband is a nonbeliever. Rather, Bertoldi shares her experiences and the things that she has learned from the spiritual world.

Personally, I've never really been a believer in ghosts and aliens and things, but Bertoldi's work makes a really good case for a spiritual world that is near our own. It hasn't made me a hard-core believer in mediums and such, but it's at least opened my mind more, helped answer random questions that I've had about death, etc. It made me stop and question if I'm living a good life, and it helped pull my focus away from living an Earth-life to trying to live a life that is more fit for Heaven.

Very interesting book. I highly recommend it!