![]() It is unclear how soon he will be able to devote time to a musical solo project.Ĭan't work out what possessed me to read this book.must have been one of those spirit sapping Vampires that make up the last chapter. Some of his research has inspired TV, film, and novels, fleshing out scenes in the film “Black Roses” and the novel “Dead Souls.” He has also appeared in the bestselling videogame "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City." He was lead vocalist of the now defunct band, Bell, Book & Candle, which appeared on three Cleopatra Records compilations: Goth Box, 100 Tears: Tribute to the Cure, and Vampire Themes. ![]() ![]() ![]() A former Physics major, Konstantinos been working on explaining the paranormal using modern scientific discoveries, especially in the realm of Quantum Mechanics. A recognized expert, he has consulted for and been a guest on various shows and documentaries on MTV, the SciFi Channel, NBC, History, Discovery Channel, and other networks. Konstantinos Rowley, born in 1972, has been a paranormal researcher for over fifteen years, is the author of six books published by Llewellyn and has a bachelors degree in English and technical writing. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I have always carried around much guilt for spending money on organic, high-quality foods. A wonderful guide when navigating the grocery store aisles! I also appreciated his research on how Americans spend so much less on food than in other countries. Perhaps what I most enjoyed about this book was Pollan’s simple tip to not eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize. It’s a dizzying dance of corruption and capitalism that has taken something so simple – our food – and made it into something that might resemble food, but has a very long list of ingredients that really make it a “food-like substance.” It is not simply “fuel.” Michael Pollan exposes how the “nutritionism” of food has led the food industry into a pendulum of different diets and fads based on any given studies of the moment – many of which are later proven wrong (such as the marketing of margarine as good for heart health). In Defense of Food is a wonderful book that argues a very simple case – that food is more than the sum of its nutritional components. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps you are ripe for this book like I was. It takes courage to jump into the unknown and discover the freedom and joy in living life moment to moment. At some point, however, if they are lucky they may tire of that and take the opportunity to practice living in the now. They will have to remain content with a mind dominated life, always looking for something outside themselves to give validation and meaning. It is obvious when reading certain reviews that some people are looking to add mind stuff to their inventory and then to demonstrate what a fine mind they have with an erudite and academic rebuff. ![]() Read it in order to learn to free yourself from pain and delusion. Then Tolle popped into my life like a much needed life preserver, showed me who I really am, and put an end to my thrashing about in self-created whirlpools of despair - when you discover you are the ocean itself the whirlpools peter out in embarrassment.ĭon't read this book in order to feed your mind, stroke your ego or validate your beliefs. After nearly three decades of practicing meditation to become enlightened (some day) I found it disheartening to conclude that I wasn't really getting anywhere, yet I was reluctant to give up the effort. I have refrained from writing a review of this book for nearly a year and a half, being content to simply practice what Tolle has expressed so simply - remain in the present moment for that is all we have. ![]() ![]() ![]() And as they investigate, it becomes clear that there are numerous mysteries surrounding the Romilly estate, and every person present has a motive to kill Rosamund. Read reviews and buy A Dangerous Collaboration - (Veronica Speedwell Mystery) by Deanna Raybourn (Paperback) at Target. As spectral figures, ghostly music, and mysterious threats begin to plague the partygoers, Veronica enlists Stoker's help to discover the host's true motivations. Every invited guest has a connection to Romilly's wife, Rosamund, who disappeared on her wedding day three years ago, and a dramatic dinner proves she is very much on her husband's mind. But upon arriving, it becomes clear that the party is not as innocent as it had seemed. On the pretext of wanting a companion to accompany him to Lord Malcolm Romilly's house party, Tiberius persuades Veronica to pose as his fiancee-much to Stoker's chagrin. ![]() ![]() Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell is whisked off to a remote island off the tip of Cornwall when her natural historian colleague Stoker's brother calls in a favor. ![]() Silent in the Grave ‘Let the wicked be ashamed. Veronica Speedwell returns in another adventure filled with secrets and betrayal from Deanna Raybourn, the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey Mysteries. A Dangerous Collaboration (2019) A Murderous Relation (2020) An Unexpected Peril (2021) An Impossible Impostor (2022) City Of Jasmine Books In Publication Order. ![]() ![]()
![]() Name’s Ryen, loves Gallo’s pizza, and worships her iPhone. ![]() Until I run across a photo of a girl online. No social media, no phone numbers, no pictures. She’s the only one who keeps me on track, talks me down, and accepts everything I am. Sometimes there’s one a week or three in a day, but I need them. Her letters are always on black paper with silver writing. Whether or not Eminem is the greatest rapper ever…Īnd that was the start. And in no time at all, we were arguing about everything. It didn’t take long for us to figure out the mistake. ![]() My teacher, believing Ryen was a boy like me, agreed. Thinking I was a girl, with a name like Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student, Ryen. In fifth grade, my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. ![]() I can’t help but smile at the words in her letter. ![]() ![]() Publisher: We'll call it An Absolutely Remarkable Thing which spells out AART so the readers subconsciously think this book is art. Let's spell 'okay' as 'ok' and put it in all caps so it looks like the character is screaming. Publisher: I'll have the cover department work on that! Hank: One more thing, let's make the cover really pretty so we can trick the reader into thinking it's a good book. Hank: *Whispers* There actually isn't really going to be a plot just a bunch of random scenes that are boring but kind of make sense. Hank: Oh, and one more thing! I'm going to write it so that the reader won't be able to tell when the exposition ended and the actual story starts. Publisher: Well, usually readers hate love triangles but it doesn't really matter because whatever you write will sell because your famous. Hank: Also, our main character will be bisexual so we can call our book diverse without actually going into the subject at all. Hank: So she'll discover the alien and then make a video about it which will go viral but let's make the main character super awkward and cringey. Publisher: What about the main character? He'll just be a big hunk of metal but we'll call him an alien. Hank: The alien won't actually talk or interact with the humans. Hank: Kind of but let's remove all the violent parts. ![]() Hank: I want to write a book about aliens. Publisher: What do you want it to be about. ![]() Hank: Yes, my brother wrote a bunch which means that I can too! ![]() Publisher: So Hank you want to write a book? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Prepared to kill herself, she's saved by the appearance of the muses. A woman is poised to accomplish something important when she is discouraged by men. Pizan's book is written in the classic tradition. They tell her that they are preparing to build a city entirely for women, reminiscent of the Amazon cities of the Greek tradition. Their names are Lady Reason, Lady Rectitude, and Lady Justice. Suddenly three women - muses - appear before her. Desiring to write about women, Pizan reads several books by famous male thinkers, all who end up cursing women and disparaging them without mention of their contributions to society. ![]() Written by people who wish to remain anonymousĬhristine de Pizan's lovely discourse in The Book of the City of Ladies is a refreshing glimpse at classic literature. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Augusten is 12, his mom packs him off to live with her shrink (Brian Cox) and his family of wacky misfits. (Murphy, who's the creator of "Nip/Tuck," both directed and adapted the screenplay.) Augusten's mother, Deirdre (here played by Annette Bening), is a bright but unbalanced would-be poet his father, Norman (Alec Baldwin), is an alcoholic who ends up leaving the family. Now Ryan Murphy's adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' bestselling memoir "Running With Scissors" is here, for better or possibly for worse, to stave off our own introspection just a bit longer, and to give us one more quick fix before the coming memoir drought. The memoir boom that began in the late '90s is finally showing signs of simmering down, which may or may not be a good thing: If we're deprived of reading about other people's messed-up childhoods, will we simply be left to fixate on the basic and uneventful ones we lived through ourselves? ![]() ![]() Barred from combat zones and faced with entrenched prejudice and bureaucratic restrictions, these women were forced to fight for the right to work on equal terms with men. New York Times Book Review On the front lines of the Second World War, a contingent of female journalists were bravely waging their own battle. ![]() Mackrell corrects this omission admirably with stories of six of the best.Mackrell has done us all a great service by assembling their own fascinating stories. ![]() Mary Gabriel, author of Ninth Street Women Just as women are so often written out of war, so it seems are the female correspondents. Thrilling from the first page to the last. The riveting, untold history of a group of heroic women reporters who revolutionized the narrative of World War II -from Martha Gellhorn, who out-scooped her husband, Ernest Hemingway, to Lee Miller, a Vogue cover model turned war correspondent. ![]() |