6/10/2023 0 Comments Amor towles the rules of civility![]() The story is about the maturing and evolution of her character as her close friends come and go, as she gets into and out of relationships, finds her way into the moneyed social classes, getting increasing responsibilities at work, and trying to sort out what it all means. They are out one evening and meet an intriguing and charming man which sets off a series of events that go in many unanticipated directions. Summary in 3 Sentences: Written from the perspective of a young woman from the midwest living and working in New York in 1938, trying to find her way, living in a women’s boarding house, sharing a room with a rather flamboyant roommate. ![]() And we had liked Towles’ other books Gentleman in Moscow, and The Lincoln Highway. Several of them had read the book and wanted to read it again. Why this Book: Selected by my literature reading group. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The old Yankee families watch with dismay the gradual loss of their property and the town's identity to these strange interlopers. There are other Jewish summer residents, more secular and of higher social status, whose families came to Kaaterskill before the advent of their more observant brethren. ![]() Beginning her narrative in July 1976 and ending it two years later, Goodman chronicles the small oscillations in the lives of some two-dozen characters. The world that Goodman conjures here-a small Orthodox Jewish sect who migrate every summer with their leader, Rav Kirschner, from New York's Washington Heights to the upstate old Dutch community of Kaaterskill-may initially seem exotic and remote to most readers, but the scrupulously rendered background of religious observance is the stage on which Goodman dramatizes the universality of human behavior. What is perhaps most impressive here is that its author (who wrote the praised The Family Markowitz) is only in her early 30s and has already acquired the psychological perceptiveness and philosophic composure of someone of more mature years. The quiet wisdom expressed in this novel and the clear lucidity of its prose would make it a remarkable achievement for any writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, modern culture has seemingly little to do with its wild origins, but in seeing our ancestors as the ecstatically-inspired people who composed the Vedas, rather than as the savages we often pretend prehistoric people to have been, we can reconnect with our roots and discover what they may still have to reveal us. The red, white-spotted mushroom, and other psychedelics such as Psilocybe Cubensis and Cannabis, may have catalysed the development of language and gnosis which permitted and shaped the development of agriculture, the rst civilizations, and eventually our modern day culture. The identity of Soma helps in understanding what may have happened to the ancestors of the Aryans, the Proto-Indo-Europeans, from whom present day Indo-Europeans inherit their languages and some of the founding myths of their cultures. There has been a lot of debate as to the botanical identity of Soma, but if we make the assumption that Amanita Muscaria was the original Soma plant of the Aryans, the composers of the Vedas, who brought it from their original home to India during their migrations southwards then following the track of the mushroom leads us back into the time when the Vedas began to be composed: the Upper Paleolithic. ![]() ![]() The Rigveda, probably the oldest sacred text still in use today, praises in many of its hymns Soma as both an elixir, a plant and a god. ![]() ![]() Infamously deadly and ruthless, the Luxurian knows that he won’t have any trouble claiming a Breeder at the Pit. The Prime Leader of Luxuria, Vaxa’an, has got a duty to his warrior species: continue their race. ![]() ![]() Worse still? She realizes that she is one of them. What’s worse? Aliens battle to the death in order to be able to claim their prize: human pleasure mates. That is, until she wakes up, naked and cuffed, on some alien planet/fight club that’s known as the Pit. ![]() Kate Harper had everything going back on Earth finally: a kickass best friend, her dream job, and an apartment that’s totally void of her cheating ex. Welcome to Luxuria, where the twin suns are hot and the alien warriors are even hotter. “The Alien’s Prize” is the first novel in the “Warriors of Luxiria” series and was released in 2017. When Zoey’s not busy writing about alpha alien warriors and the strong human women that bring them to their knees, she is probably hiking in the redwoods, drinking one too many cups of coffee, or spending some time with her family. As a Top 100 Amazon bestselling author, now she gets to write the happily-ever-afters, with a cosmic, otherworldly twist. Her love affair with the romance genre began with her grandma’s old Harlequin paperbacks and has continued on ever since. Author Zoey Draven has been writing stories for as long as she can remember. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Spider man spider's shadow 1![]() ![]() ![]() In terms of writing, the world is the creator’s oyster. If you’re interested in this comic or any of the others mentioned, simply click on the title/link to snag a copy through Amazon. Let’s swing into SPIDER-MAN: SPIDER’S SHADOWS #1 by Chip Zdarsky to see if it’s truly Peter who is in charge as this creative team brings SPIDER-MAN to the edge! SPIDER-MAN finds himself at the edge of a cliff and susceptible to these new dark impulses. However, what if he’d never taken it off? What if Peter ignored every warning and welcomed the symbiotic relationship? Plagued by horrible nightmares and fatigued by a vast flurry of villains, Peter can’t seem to gain his footing. Peter Parker put on an alien suit that practically engulfed his very being. What feels like ages ago, resurfaces in this week’s series opener. Writer: Chip Zdarsky Art: Pasquel Ferry, Phil Noto Publisher: Marvel Comics Price: $4.99 Release Date: April 14th, 2021 ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Shavertron by Richard Toronto![]() ![]() Science fiction fans objected to this material, mainly because it was being presented as fact, not fiction, and Shaver began his own publication, The Shaver Mystery Magazine, to cover these topics. ![]() "The Shaver Mystery", as Palmer promoted it, dealt also with a variety of other concerns related to the occult, the Forteans, and the Lemurians, and produced the first articles in print devoted to UFOs. The beings, which Shaver called "dero", "de" standing for negative energy, and "ro" meaning slave, as translated from "Mantong", a forgotten language discovered by Shaver, were in contact with extraterrestrials, trading machinery and abductees, and controlling humans by the use of telepathy and secret rays. Richard Shaver first came to attention in 1945 in the pages of Amazing Stories, a pulp science fiction magazine edited in the 1940s by Raymond Palmer ( The Comet), where Shaver expounded on his theories that beings from another world inhabited underground caverns beneath the surface of our world. The Shaver Mystery Magazine was a fanzine published by the Shaver Mystery Club in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Dark angel vc andrews movie![]() ![]() ![]() The man it turns out is Troy Tatterton, Tony’s younger brother. “Excuse me, sir,” Heaven says, “I got lost in your hedge maze!” Inside the house, a handsome man (played by Jason Cermak) carefully crafts a doll’s face.’ She gets lost but eventually, she comes across a small house sitting in the middle of the maze. (Rich people always have a hedge maze.) So, of course, Heaven does just that. Tony tells Heaven that, in order to thank him for his generosity, she’ll basically have to do everything that he says.įor instance, Tony tells Heaven that she is, under no circumstances, to enter the estate’s hedge maze. Jillian doesn’t want Heaven to stay at the house for too long but Tony manages to change her mind. Jillian always has a drink in her hand and worries that Heaven will leave “hill grime” around the house. She also meets her grandmother, Jillian (Kelly Rutherford). She’s greeted by her stepgrandfather, Tony Tatterton (Jason Priestly), who tries to come across as being friendly but quickly reveals himself to be cold and manipulative. When we last saw Heaven Casteel (Annalise Basso), she was boarding a bus so that she could leave the backwoods of West Virginia and hopefully live with her mother’s wealthy family in Boston, Massachusetts.ĭark Angel picks up where Heaven left off, with Heaven arriving at stately and creepy Farthinggale Manor and discovering that the rich are just as fucked up as the poor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His latest book is WHAT HAPPENED: Poems 1997-2017. ![]() His most recent volumes of poetry, OTHER THINGS AND OTHER POEMS (Brutal:Croatia), Teorija strun (JKSD:Slovenia) and WHEN THE BARBARIANS ARRIVE (Arc Publications,UK), were published in 2012. The anthologies he has curated include No Other City: The Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry (2000) Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia (co-edited with John Kinsella, 2008), and Tumasik: Contemporary Writing from Singapore (Autumn Hill: USA, 2009). Writing primarily in English, his poetry has been translated into more than 20 languages, and he has appeared in major festivals and anthologies worldwide.Ī Fellow of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (2002), his publications include Testing the Silence (1997), City of Rain (2003), What Gives Us Our Names (2011). Alvin PANG is a poet, writer, editor, anthologist, and translator. ![]() ![]() ![]() Peter David continues his run with Hulk in this second volume, getting deeper into Banner's troubled past while letting the Green hulk show himself once more. ![]() There's so much going on in this second Leader storyline that it's impossible to comment on it all, except that it's David at his best. We get a great two-issue return to Vegas, and a great four-issue return of the Leader, allowing one of the Hulk's greatest foes to also bring this second volume to an end, as if he were ticking off each of the arcs in David's time. In the last half year (issues #395-400), the Hulk even returns to greatness. It's a good new direction for the Hulk, and as unique of a direction as when he was a legbreaker in Vegas. The whole idea of Banner being psychologically damaged was entirely new in the early '90s, and issue #377 was the strong culmination of that plotline, something that might not be as obvious from a generation later.Īs for the new status quo: it's great, not just because we get a smart Hulk, but also because we get the introduction of the Pantheon, a fun group of mythically themed characters operating in semi-secret doing semi-black-ops stuff. Peter David's second Omnibus starts off as a bit of a meander, but with issue #377, we get to the second big arc of David's time on the Hulk, as Bruce gets psychoanalyzed into reintegrating his personalities, resulting in the smart green Hulk. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments The heart shaped box book![]() ![]() It was beginning to settle in that Florida was dead. ![]() I never met a dyin’ person yet didn’t want some custard on their way out the door.” “I’m surprised. “Last few months I been spoonin’ him food. They might have high-speed Internet connections in Baton Rouge, but in the little towns in the swamps north of Lake Pontchartrain, if you wanted a high-speed connection with the rest of the world, you souped up a car and got the fuck out. I told her that her grandfather wouldn’t ever hurt her, but she said she was scared of his eyes. After she saw him, my girl didn’t like to be alone in her room anymore, or even to go upstairs. He went on, “ ‘Two days after his funeral, my little girl saw him sitting in the guest room, which is directly across from her own bedroom. ![]() Everyone was shocked by his passing, especially my daughter, who was very close to him. He had no home of his own and traveled from relative to relative, visiting for a month or two before moving on. Heart-Shaped Box PDF Book by Joe Hill Name of Book “ ‘Six weeks ago my elderly stepfather died, very suddenly. “ ‘Buy my stepfather’s ghost,’” Danny read. He had a streak of subservience that Jude found, frankly, revolting in a man. Danny would’ve cut his food for him if Jude gave him the chance. Jude moved his gaze over the item description while Danny read aloud. Click here to Download Heart-Shaped Box PDF Book by Joe Hill having PDF Size 1.6 MB and No of Pages 383.ĭanny had discovered the ghost at an online auction site, not eBay but one of the wannabes. ![]() |