![]() ![]() I’m sure there are plenty of you Esteemed Readers who are not also writers, but comments and traffic patterns tell me the majority of you are. Also, don’t slouch so much, comb your hair, and for Pete’s sake, stop fidgeting:) So, am I going to take this opportunity to label myself impartial and decline to review this book? Nope! Instead, I’m going to lecture you on the importance of joining a critique group and making sure some of its members are bloggers who will promote you and your book online for free. Rest assured, I am never as nice to Mike’s writing in the group as I’m about to be in this blog post:) ![]() I love this book and I've greatly enjoyed selections from its sequels.īut Ninja, I hear you saying, how can you have read the sequels if Ashfall was only published in the later half of 2011? Mike Mullin lives here in Indianapolis and he and I are members of the same critique group. It is absolutely not appropriate for younger readers and adults should view it as the equivalent of an ‘R’ rated movie.Īshfall is a great story filled with great characters, and it’s that special brand of taught suspense tale to keep you up late until you've finished it. WARNING: This week’s book is actually edgy YA and it is filled with adult content. ![]()
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Now, in The Plains of Passage, Ayla’s story continues.Īyla and Jondalar set out on horseback across the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe. ![]() ![]() Ayla, the heroine first introduced in The Clan of the Cave Bear, is known and loved by millions of readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() What if your whole world was a lie? What if a single revelation-like a single choice-changed everything? What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected? The explosive conclusion to Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent series of books reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that captivated millions of readers and film fans in Divergent and Insurgent. ![]() About the Book What if the whole world was a lie? What if a single revelationNlike a single choiceNchanged everything? The explosive conclusion to Roth's #1 "New York Times"-bestselling Divergent trilogy reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() The bulk of the book is spent on Sadie and Sam’s transformative partnership and how they both adjust to financial, critical and commercial success throughout their twenties and thirties. ![]() Once a recreation, video games soon become their profession as they decide to team up and develop their first game an Odyssey tale, a hero’s journey of a lost child, Ichigo, trying to make their way home. ![]() The ease of their gaming connection gives way to an adolescent complication and their paths diverge, only to meet again some years later in a crowded train station. Their friendship is forged, as so many late 1980s bonds were, through hours spent playing Super Mario Bros. 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When the children are older they sing a song about where their father has hidden their mother's robe, or one asks why the mother always weeps, and finds the cloak for her, or they otherwise betray the secret. A young, unmarried man steals a magic robe made of swan feathers from a swan maiden who comes to bathe in a body of water, so that she will not fly away, and marries her. The folktales usually adhere to the following basic plot. Illustration from Jacobs's Europa's Fairy Book by John D. ![]() ![]() The hunter recognizes his bride amongst the parade of identical maidens. ![]() ![]() ![]() Joan Borysenko as a research technologist at Harvard’s Department of Mind/Body Medicine, conducting scientific experiments to investigate subtle healing energies. ![]() For five years, Alex worked in the Anatomy Department at Harvard Medical School preparing cadavers for dissection while he studied the body on his own. The Grey couple continued to take “sacramental journeys” on LSD. ![]() He has also courageously and unhesitatingly acknowledged his deep debt to vision-inducing substances in helping shape his artistic vision.Īlex bonded with his life-long partner, the artist, Allyson Rymland Grey in Boston in 1976 when they had a life-changing, joint, simultaneous entheogenically induced mystical experience, which transformed Alex’s agnostic existentialism to a radical transcendentalism. An edited excerpt of a talk given by Alex Grey at the 2003 Bioneers ConferenceĪlex Grey is a NY-based artist who has achieved worldwide renown, especially for his extraordinary x-ray-like portraits of the human body’s physiological and energetic systems and for his search for a common mystical experience underlying all the world’s spiritual traditions. ![]() ![]() Afraid that there was something seriously wrong with her child's health, she took him to a doctor who diagnosed Brown with a severe and incurable disorder known as cerebral palsy. At four months old, however, Brown's mother noticed that her son could not hold his head upright and lacked motor control of the rest of his body. When Brown was first born, neither his doctors nor his parents noticed symptoms or behaviors to lead them to think he was anything but a normal, healthy child. In 1989, the book was adapted into an Academy Award winning film starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Born with severe cerebral palsy, Brown went on to become a successful author, painter, and poet, even though he lacked control and dexterity of his limbs, with the exception of his left foot. ![]() ![]() My Left Foot (1954) is Irish author Christy Brown’s autobiography. ![]() ![]() ![]() A writer of both contemporary and historical romance fiction, Carter is an exciting new voice in the romance genre. Her books are packed with passion, intriguing and dynamic characters, and plenty of steamy scenes. Rebel Carter is a romance novelist from Colorado, USA. Leather and Lace (Southern Gothic Series 1) by Magen Cubed (LGBTQ+ Paranormal Urban Fantasy Romance). Her love stories exist in a world of their own and it's one I never want to leave." -Talia Hibbert, author of Get A Life, Chloe Brown Heart and Hand by Rebel Carter (Historical Romance). "Rebel Carter writes with wit, elegance, and longing. ![]() Is love, like gravity, a wave? And will it pull them under? 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Ian Fleming wrote the 12 spy novels featuring James Bond, the British secret agent which formed the basis for the successful film franchise. ![]() Bond’s creator was a known racist and antisemite. ![]() |