From the very beginning as we meet each of the Hatmakers, their 19th-century home is filled with charming touches of magic, from the “ancient grimoires, guides to new sciences, and tomes full of eldritch secrets” to “one of the floorboards was very ticklish and tended to wriggle if you walked over it.” Best known for her acting work in various period pieces like Pride and Prejudice and The Tudors, Merchant brings all the charm she portrays as an actress to this children’s fantasy. The Hatmakers is Tamzin Merchant’s debut novel. Cordelia knows that her father is still alive, and is determined to track him down even as her aunts and uncles scramble to finish the Peace Hat-but there are dark forces at work that would prefer the war to go ahead and are determined to stop the Hatmakers and Cordelia from success. The Hatmakers have been waiting patiently for Prospero Hatmaker to return with the key ingredient for the Peace Hat they’re Making for the king, but as war looms over the country, Prospero is lost at sea.
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6/26/2023 0 Comments The power of now bookTime seems to hold a burden over humans, so in order to stop creating time, to avoid pain, you need to realize the importance of living in the present. The author defines pain as a form of non-acceptance, and the accumulation of time in the mind seems to hold pain from the past. #4 The only way to prevent pain is to stop time While your mind and time function as one, then that is when the resistance persists. The author claims that the mind resists the Now because it functions when it is in control of the past and the future–and as we know, the Now cannot exist when you are focused on the past and future. #3 The mind resists the now because it needs time Enlightenment is essentially being at peace, and in full acceptance, with yourself and is the most natural state of Being. Your mind using you is a disease–and he claims a disease occurs when there is an imbalance between things.Įnlightenment is defined as the end of suffering as well as the end of the “enslavement” of thinking. Believing that you are your mind is a delusion because you are not using it at all. Tolle claims that it is not you that uses your mind but rather your mind uses you. Here are 20 lessons to take from The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment: Most of the setting would be familiar to any reader, but there are also a few fantasy elements built into the city, mainly elderglass, a glass-like material that absorbs light during the day and glows at night and is nearly indestructible. The city was not built by humans, but a long-gone race called the Eldren. The world is not Earth, but there is a Venetian, Renaissance, pirate feel to Camorr. The story takes place in the city of Camorr, which is a network of islands linked together with canals, waterways, and bridges. With that said, the following is a spoiler-free review. However you want to classify the mixture of ingredients, it is damn good, and I highly recommend the book. At its heart, The Lies of Locke Lamora is really a heist/crime novel with some fantasy elements sprinkled in for some extra flavor. While this book is technically classified in the fantasy genre, it is not a book of high fantasy à la The Lord of the Rings or The Wheel of Time. The book was first published in 2006, but I only recently heard about this book while watching a YouTube video recommending fantasy books. The Lies of Locke Lamora is the first novel in the Gentleman Bastards series authored by Scott Lynch. 6/26/2023 0 Comments The resistance steven pressfieldKnowing the laws of resistance will help you snatch it and contain it before it comes to kill you, or your creative endeavors.ġ. And the list could go on, and on and on.It has an objective-to introduce incapacity, so we wouldn’t do the work. Some of them are more obvious than others. Distractions: It tempts us with distractions. The voices in our head: It’s the voices in our head that undermine our ability and pretty much crush the soul that tells us…Ģ. Now that I am realizing what I am doing as I type away. It’s the sitting down to write-and what keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.” -Steven Pressfield.Īs a matter of fact, I am writing this post because I am currently resisting my creative project. And the secret is this: it’s not the writing that’s hard. “There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t know. Steven Pressfield explains how resistance keeps us from doing the things that will elevate our souls. Yes, there is a war, but not with the external world. The reason Steven Pressfield associated art with war is that internal struggle. And if you didn’t, you might want to give it a read.Īrt and war? How would these two come together? If you are a creative person, chances are you have read “The Art of War” by Steven Pressfield. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Letter to my daughter mayaHere in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight. Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with meaning. You can read this before Letter to My Daughter PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.įor a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Letter to My Daughter written by Maya Angelou which was published in 2008–. Brief Summary of Book: Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou 6/25/2023 0 Comments The white people machenIn 1884 he published his second work, the pastiche The Anatomy of Tobacco, and secured work with the publisher and bookseller George Redway as a cataloguer and magazine editor. Returning to London, he lived in relative poverty, attempting to work as a journalist, as a publisher's clerk, and as a children's tutor while writing in the evening and going on long rambling walks across London. Machen, however, showed literary promise, publishing in 1881 a long poem "Eleusinia" on the subject of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Family poverty ruled out attendance at university, and Machen was sent to London, where he sat exams to attend medical school but failed to get in. He also is well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons.Īt the age of eleven, Machen boarded at Hereford Cathedral School, where he received an excellent classical education. His long story The Great God Pan made him famous and controversial in his lifetime, but The Hill of Dreams is generally considered his masterpiece. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. Arthur Machen was a leading Welsh author of the 1890s. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Back to our future david sirotaOther topics he covers include politics, advertising, and social movements. Each chapter deals with much broader topics, not tossing quite as many pop culture references into each sentence. Fox's importance to the decade of the '80s. He tackles one topic at a time, starting with Michael J. Sirota explores that "why" throughout the rest of the book. The '80s have suddenly become relevant again today. Our interest in things from that decade has resurged and we're sharing them with our kids. Sirota does make a good point, though, that many things from the '80s are coming back. It is playful, but in the introduction it seems forced and not terribly informative. The introduction especially seems to be a long list of various '80s things with a few other words in between to stitch them together. Full of pop culture references and examples, the book explains how the '80s have informed policies, politics, new pop culture, and society today, and how history and pop culture of times long past affected the '80s as well.įlip to any page in the book and some reference to pop culture in the 1980s will jump out at you. What lingering effect did the 1980s have on our society and culture today? David Sirota tries to answer that question in his new book, Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now – Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Homecoming king by penny reidThe guy who has a proposition she should definitely refuse. The guy who is drunk and needs a ride home. Privy to all the sad stories of her customers, "contentment over commitment" is her motto, and Abby is convinced no one on earth could ever entice her into a romantic relationship.except that one guy she’s loved since preschool. Rex is sick of being the guy before the husband, and he’s most definitely sick of being the best man at all their weddings.īartender Abigail McNerny is the gal-pal, the wing-woman, the she-BFF. He may be a pro-football defensive end for the Chicago Squalls, but the press only wants to talk about how he’s always a groomsman and never a groom. The story unfolds in dual POV between the two main characters, Abby McNerny and pro-football player for the Chicago Squalls, Rex TW McMurty. Rex “TW” McMurtry’s perpetual singlehood wouldn’t bother him so much if all his ex-girlfriends didn’t keep marrying the very next person they dated, especially when so many of those grooms are his closest friends. Homecoming King is a written in a bit of a different style than the typical trademark small town romance romantic comedy with steam we have all come to love from the wonder that is Penny Reid. 6/25/2023 0 Comments The Erotic Poems by OvidTry me-read my book and results are guaranteed! Should anyone here in Rome lack finesse at love-making, "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. This volume also includes the "Cures for Love," with instructions on how to terminate a love affair, and "On Facial Treatment for Ladies," an incomplete poem on the art of cosmetics.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. The intimate and vulnerable nature of the poet revealed in these early poems vanishes in the notorious Art of Love, in which he provides a knowing and witty guide to sexual conquest - a work whose alleged obscenity led to Ovid's banishment from Rome in AD 8. In the Amores, Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna, his beautiful, elusive mistress. This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. 6/24/2023 0 Comments Books by jodi lynn andersonSome are creepy looking, some have horrific back stories, some are evil, while others are kind, helpful, and on Rosie's side. Most of the characters along the way are ghosts who, for one reason or another, remain in the seaside Maine town where the story takes place. Because, as it turns out, underlying the world we know, and about to destroy it, is a cosmic conflict pitting the benign Moon Goddess against 13 witches determined to destroy everything good, loving, and positive in the world. As it turns out, her mom is that way because her memory has been wiped by a witch in revenge for her success as the latest in a long line of witch hunters. Its 11-year-old narrator, Rosie, is strong-willed, determined, a gifted storyteller, and a survivor - her mom goes through life in a fog, leaving Rosie to write herself encouraging notes and be her own emotional support. Parents need to know that The Memory Thief is the first book in a planned Thirteen Witches trilogy by Jodi Lynne Anderson. |