6/5/2023 0 Comments Be here now book in hindiDass says things that might alienate or scare off a person who didn’t live through the Sixties, or who is anti-drug, or if your upbringing was far from ‘hippie.’ Take this for example: Written in the early 70’s, it begins with some background about Dass himself: how he was a professor at Harvard, and his work at the forefront of the 60’s LSD research and experimentation movement. In case you haven’t read it, Be Here Now is a pretty ‘far out’ book. So it sat on a shelf alongside all my other books, and every once in a while I’d catch the title out of the corner of my eye and feel guilty for never reading it. I loved the artistic presentation and illustrations, but every time I tried to read it, I had no idea what it was talking about. I watched the movie many, many times, but when it came to reading Be Here Now, it was so over my head. When I was in my early 20’s I received a copy of Ram Dass’ Be Here Now from a friend, along with a copy of the movie Harold & Maude.
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6/5/2023 0 Comments Ring shout by p djèlí clarkDjèlí Clark is an unforgettable voice.” -Fonda Lee, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Jade City “A riveting reimagining of history filled with dark and twisted magic, scathing humor, and moments both heartbreaking and hopeful. “ Ring Shout is a sublime work of revolutionary body horror.”-Sarah Gailey, Hugo Award winner and author of Magic for Liars Utterly fearless.” -Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Riot Baby One of the most powerful and propulsive pieces of speculative fiction I’ve read in years. “Set in a magical and magic-ridden Georgia of the 1920s, Ring Shout is a thrilling and provocative inferno of a story. How some of us push ourselves to be more than those emotions, how others glut themselves on the darkness.”-Cassandra Khaw, finalist for the British Fantasy and Locus Awards And I’m still processing its meditations on hatred and rage and fear. I didn’t expect to squirm from the body horror, but I absolutely did. It is brilliant and coldly angry, cosmic horror and historical fiction without a shred of sentimentality. “There are plenty of books that make metaphors of monsters, but RING SHOUT names its horrors without flinching. 6/4/2023 0 Comments My antonia audioIn 2022, the southern European country registered just 393,000 babies, according to the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), the lowest since records began in 1861.īabies born in Italy to unregistered migrants and to some same-sex and heterosexual Italian couples who used surrogacy abroad are not automatically part of the official record, according to Italy’s national birth registrar.Īnd if the trend does not reverse itself, the country could face an economic “dark age,” as there will be a decline in the number of people entering the workforce even as more people retire. Italy is the world’s 8th largest economy and has a population of just under 60 million. This means that the replacement rate is now negative, since the number of deaths currently exceeds the number of births – 12 deaths for every seven births. Italy, a country once known for its big families gathered around the dinner table, is facing a crisis of unparalleled proportions.įor the first time, the number of births in a year fell below 400,000 – representing an average of 1.25 babies per woman, according to official figures for 2022. 6/4/2023 0 Comments Blood Moon by Melanie TemIn addition to her short stories and novels, Tem also performed oral storytelling. Her latest work The Yellow Wood was published in 2015. Some of her solo short work is collected in The Ice Downstream, while her collaborations with her husband, Steve Rasnic Tem, are gathered in In Concert, which was published in 2010.Īll in all, Melanie published numerous short stories, eleven solo novels, two collaborative novels with Nancy Holder and two with her husband. Tem teamed up with horror writer Nancy Holder to create Making Love, a novel about a forty-year-old virgin named Charlotte who dreams of a romantic encounter and is given a "dream lover." They also wrote Witch-Light together. Blood Moon concerns the relationship between a single mother and her adopted pre-adolescent son. Then the next oldest teenage sibling disappears, and a terrible pattern is set.Īlthough Blood Moon was published only in England and appeared after Prodigal, it had been written earlier than Tem's American debut. After the oldest son disappears and his ghost seemingly haunts the house, his body is found. Prodigal is told from the viewpoint of a fifth-grade girl, Lucy, the third of seven children in a middle-class family. Tem's premier novel, Prodigal, about a dysfunctional family preyed on by a menace, was published in 1991. Melanie Tem, an author of horror novels as well as short story collections, focused her work on the psychological state of mind of her characters. 6/4/2023 0 Comments Persuasion by Jaymin EveThey still see her as vulnerable, even though she proves herself to be more and more badass, at least in her head.Ī lot of clumsy later, more tripping and falling, she begins to form a bit of power. Their connection is building, but at a slower pace. Persuasion Willa Knight: Dweller Bad-ass Notorious pet to five magical beings In Blesswood, there are rules, and someone is trying to teach her how to. The Abcurses have taken Will under their wings and the Gods have noticed. If you’re starting this now, be thankful because you can binge read it. Seduction (Curse of the Gods, 3) by Jaymin Eve and Jane Washington. Trickery (Curse of the Gods, 1) by Jaymin Eve and Jane Washington. This is my 2nd time reading the series and I can say I appreciate it more now. (Amazon, Persuasion Kindle Edition) This book is: just as good as the first one. The pace of the story is just enough to give you something and then crave for more and more answers. Willa Knight has proven to be more than just a dweller, but we need to go through the series to find out more. 6/4/2023 0 Comments Book this here fleshIn these deeply transporting pages, Arthur Riley reflects on the stories of her grandmother and father, and how they revealed to her an embodied, dignity-affirming spirituality, not only in what they believed but in the act of living itself. So writes Cole Arthur Riley in her unforgettable book of stories and reflections on discovering the sacred in her skin. I believe that is what my father wanted for me and knew I would so desperately need: a tool for survival, the truth of my dignity named like a mercy new each morning.” “From the womb, we must repeat with regularity that to love ourselves is to survive. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Root, Library Journal “Reaches deep beneath the surface of words unspoken, wounds unhealed, and secrets untempered to break them open in order for fresh light to break through.”-Morgan Jerkins, New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing and Caul Baby Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Somebody’s Daughter “This is the kind of book that makes you different when you’re done.”-Ashley C. In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her family alongside contemplative reflections to discover the “necessary rituals” that connect us with our belonging, dignity, and liberation. 6/4/2023 0 Comments Normal by Amy BloomTri-Ess leaders Jane Ellen and Mary Francis Fairfax.The Fall Harvest 2000 gender convention in St.The book is expanded from her April 2002 Atlantic Monthly article “Conservative Men in Conservative Dresses.” Bloom has several points of contact with the community. She has authored several fiction books and was creator of the 2007 television drama State of Mind. Her father Murray was an author of books and magazine articles.īloom earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater/Political Science from Wesleyan University in 1975 and her Masters Degree in Social Work from Smith College in 1978. Backgroundīloom’s mother Sydelle was a psychotherapist and writer. She is author of the 2002 nonfiction book Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Cross-dressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude. Amy Beth Bloom (born June 18, 1953) is an American author, producer, and therapist. I was so enamoured by how Macau was told through the eyes of the lead character, Five Cuevas, that I went to the author’s blog to browse through her old entries about Macau.Īll’s Fair in Blog and War was written by Chrissie Peria, one of my all-time favorite bloggers. From walking down the streets full of food stalls to hey, who knows, maybe even bungee jumping, it made me see Macau from a different lens. I had a better appreciation of Macau after reading All’s Fair in Blog and War, and man, now I want to go back. I’ve only been to Macau once, and I wish this book had existed before my trip (which was more than 5 years ago). What I loved best about this book was how Macau came to life for me. But how it’s going to happen, I’ll let you discover that! Since it’s a love story, you probably know what’s going to happen. It had all the elements needed for an enjoyable quick read: romance, travel, food and best of all, good writing. I couldn’t put the book down! It’s a contemporary romance novella set in Macau, about a pair of feuding travel bloggers. All’s Fair in Blog and War is a fun, lighthearted read that I truly enjoyed in just 2 days. 6/3/2023 0 Comments White rabbit k websterUnsurprisingly, Slick took open inspiration from Lewis Carroll’s dreamscape masterpiece Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland. The fluid surrealism and perceptive alterations imbued Carroll’s work with a notoriety for being acid-laced. The myth, the idea, the acid.” Lewis’s LSD As Airplane founder Marty Balin put it: “It was timely for the ear. Long names and even longer shadows.Ī nestled gem, the two and half minute trance sparkled amidst the golden plated Surrealistic Pillow, and broadcast the hippie ideals of its time. Rising amidst the boiling pot of artists that orbited around Haight-Ashbury in the sixties, Jefferson Airplane came to inhabit the dais of honoured talent shared by their Bay Area contemporaries The Grateful Dead, Sly & The Family Stone, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Creedence Clearwater Revival. The soundtrack of the Summer of Love 1967 perfectly captures the free-wheeling counterculture essence of the band’s leading lady, Grace Slick. Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit was famously the first pop song focused on the experience of hallucinogens that scored major air time on mainstream radio. Saoirse breaks her own rules when she meets a gorgeous girl with a blue freckle, who adores rom-coms and mischievous pranks in equal measure. She doesn’t see the point in having a successful career and finding her soulmate if she’s bound to forget everything and everyone in the end.Ī chance encounter at an end-of-term house party will change Saoirse’s life in more ways than she could have ever imagined. So Saoirse isn’t going to waste her time with making long term plans or having relationships. It’s a condition that seems to be hereditary on her mother’s side of the family. If they existed, her mother wouldn’t have forgotten her name and her mom would still be living at home with Saoirse and her dad instead of living in a care home because of early onset dementia. The path to love didn’t run smoothly at all for Saoirse and she doesn’t believe in love at first sight or happily-ever-afters. The Falling In Love Montage by Ciara Smyth is a heart-tugging and highly entertaining young adult romantic comedy that highlights how important it is to truly enjoy every moment of your life and love freely without regrets. |