![]() ![]() Tolle only fully understood his transformation years later, and this book acts as a spiritual self-help guide to capture what he has discovered through his experience and years of spiritual study. Then, when he was 29 years old, he had a personal epiphany which changed the course of his life. ![]() Like many others, he had suffered from anxiety and even suicidal depression for many years. Tolle started the book by sharing the circumstances and experience leading to his “enlightenment”. ![]() If you find this article useful, do read the book or download our full book summary bundle for more details and insights! In this summary, we’ll outline various insights and tips about mindfulness, spiritual enlightenment and how to unlock the power of now. ![]() In so doing, we can better fulfill our outer purpose (to achieve goals and seek to create a better world), while fulfilling our inner purpose and truly changing the world at cause. When we are intensely present in the Now, we respond from deep consciousness and flow with ease and joy in life. “The Power of Now” is a spiritual self-help guide to help us discover our true Being, release our pain and find deep inner peace. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book pulls no punches, and the author makes abundantly clear her rage at what has occurred, her absolute abhorrence of the treatment of her ancestors (she is of Bundjalung and European heritage). ![]() For while this story is ostensibly about Kerry Salter and her family, on a deeper level it is about so much more. Yes, I’m talking about colonisation (or invasion) and massacres, about slavery and stolen land and stolen children, about one group of people attempting to systematically crush the spirit of another. It is a book that doesn’t waste time asking questions such as why and how, but instead jumps straight in and provides the answers by depicting the effects of history. But it is also a book that offers important cultural and historical insights into intergenerational trauma and abuse. It is an unflinching, raw and honest exploration of one modern-day (fictional) Aboriginal family, with all its flaws and problems. This is a hard review to write, or rather, it is difficult to express myself in the right way. I finished reading Too Much Lip (UQP 2018) by Goorie author Melissa Lucashenko, and have spent yesterday and today fiddling around with this review, adding bits here and there, trying to get it right and not feeling very successful. ![]() ![]() ![]() Under that scenario, Donovan is faced with a wrenching choice: to stay behind on a threatened planet in order to defend his own species, or to accept the zhree's offer to take a tiny percentage of the human population, himself included, with them. ![]() ![]() By the same token, if the zhree seem generally willing to share their technology and their resources with humanity, there's no doubt that humans are second-class citizens in zhree society, and that becomes all the more apparent in CROSS FIRE, where the zhree decide that Earth is too costly to maintain and make plans to evacuate, knowing full well that their departure will leave the planet vulnerable to other alien races bent on the annihilation of humankind. With this kind of premise, it's hard to draw clean lines between the "good guys" and "bad guys." Sapience is viewed by many in Donovan's world as a terrorist organization, and there's validity to that viewpoint-but at the same time, their admirable desire for human independence complicates the reader's response to them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meg immediately claims Apollo's service, which means that he is bound to her until she releases him or considers his service complete.Īpollo suggests that they seek out Percy Jackson, a demigod whom he knows well and has helped train, so Percy can take them to Camp Half-Blood, a training school for demigods, which features prominently in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson books. ![]() Recognizing Meg as a demigod, Apollo reveals his true identity to her and tells her he can turn back into a god once he has been in the service of a mortal. ![]() Twelve-year-old Meg McCaffrey rescues Apollo by raising a volley of rotten fruit against the muggers. Apollo is mugged and beaten up in the alley by two mysterious youth who appear to have been sent by someone to specifically target him. As punishment, Zeus has turned Apollo into a mortal teenager named Lester Papadopoulos, complete with acne and flab. Apollo has been cast out of heaven by his father, Zeus, who blames Apollo for helping facilitate a war between Greek and Roman demigods, the powerful offspring of Gods and mortals. ![]() The story opens with the book’s first-person narrator and protagonist Apollo, the Olympian God of the sun, prophecies, archery, music, and healing, falling into a garbage dump in an alley in Manhattan, New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() This was mistaken for self-confidence and he was hired. To be absolutely sure, he behaved arrogantly during the interview. The fact that he was one of a hundred applicants, and almost certainly the least qualified, virtually guaranteed he wouldn’t be picked. He wasn’t keen and went just to please her. ![]() His mother, despairing at this waste of potential and recognising an embryonic talent in her son he wasn’t aware of himself, arranged for him to be interviewed for a vacancy with a local newspaper. These included labourer, lorry driver’s mate and nightclub bouncer a profession well suited to his robust six foot, four inch frame. Although he employed all three at various times, the latter became the most finely honed weapon in his armoury and in later years his talent as a raconteur and teller of anecdotes characterised his many personal appearances at signings and literary events.Įxpelled from school at sixteen for gambling, Gemmell entered the world of work with little in the way of vocational skills and drifted through a number of casual jobs. He grew up in a tough West London neighbourhood where survival depended on being handy with your fists, the ability to run fast, or possessing a tongue glib enough to talk your way out of trouble. Obituary by Stan Nicholls from The Times, 1 st August 2006ĭavid Gemmell, who has died following heart bypass surgery, produced thirty bestselling novels, and is widely regarded as this country’s most accomplished author in the heroic fantasy genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() That the Wise Might Have It for a Record, That My Compatriots Reflect, Laypersons Gain Some Understanding, and Melancholy Souls Obtain Some Slight Enjoyment. ![]() Told by the Dead, Supplemented by the Author, Drawing From a Range of Books, and Aided by Imagination, the Which Being the Greatest Natural Gift of Any Person. Tokarczuk’s 18th-century epic The Books of Jacob is a favorite to win the award, whose 50,000-pound (65,000) prize money is split between a book’s author and its translator. Deep breath: “A Fantastic Journey Across Seven Borders, Five Languages, and Three Major Religions, Not Counting the Minor Sects. Even its voluminous subtitle is a witty expression of Tokarczuk’s irrepressible, omnivorous reach. “The Books of Jacob” is finally available here in a wondrous English translation by Jennifer Croft, and it’s just as awe-inspiring as the Nobel judges claimed when they praised Tokarczuk for showing “the supreme capacity of the novel to represent a case almost beyond human understanding.” In terms of its scope and ambition, “The Books of Jacob” is beyond anything else I’ve ever read. 90 likes, 4 comments - Text Publishing (textpublishing) on Instagram: 'THE BOOKS OF JACOB is on the 2022 International Booker Prize shortlist Olga Tokarczuk. ![]() ![]() But nothing should overshadow Tokarczuk’s literary presence in the United States now. ![]() ![]() Originally published over 50 years ago, this beloved classic is a Level 1 I Can Read that is perfect for the beginning reader learning to sound out words and sentences. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the short sentences, familiar words, and simple concepts of Level One books support success for children eager to start reading on their own. It's the most fun this dinosaur has had in a hundred million years! ![]() But Danny can teach an old dinosaur new tricks. For Danny and his prehistoric playmate, even the most everyday activities become extraordinary, like finding a big-enough place to hide a dinosaur in a game of hide-and-seek. Syd Hoff's comical, charming illustrations will delight readers young and old alike in this beloved classic I Can Read about a boy and his best friend, a dinosaur.ĭanny loves dinosaurs! When he sees one at the museum and says, "It would be nice to play with a dinosaur," a voice answers, "And I think it would be nice to play with you." So begins Danny and the Dinosaur's wonderful adventures together. ![]() ![]() ![]() Exiled from court in disgrace, Jacquetta and Richard soon have their first child, Elizabeth. Returning to England, they marry in secret before the king can remarry her to someone else. She and the Duke's handsome squire Richard Woodville realize that they have fallen in love and become lovers. He later dies and leaves Jacquetta a wealthy widow at 20. On their wedding night, however, the Duke explains that he wishes to keep her a virgin so that she may use the powers of her family in their purest form in his alchemical experiments seeking the ability to turn iron into gold. Three years later at age 17, Jacquetta is given in marriage to John, Duke of Bedford, the uncle to King Henry VI and the English regent in France. Jacquetta befriends Joan of Arc, who is a prisoner at her uncle's castle, but later watches in horror as Joan is burned at the stake by the English-backed church. Plot įourteen-year-old Jacquetta, whose noble family claims descendance from the water goddess Melusine, learns the secrets of her inherited powers from her great-aunt Jehanne, the Demoiselle of Luxembourg. The novel serves as a prequel to Gregory's The White Queen (2009), the story of Elizabeth's reign as Queen consort of England. The story is narrated by Jacquetta of Luxembourg, mother of Elizabeth Woodville, and covers the reign of the Lancastrian King Henry VI. The Lady of the Rivers is a 2011 historical novel by Philippa Gregory, part of her series The Cousins' War. ![]() ![]() ![]() The reading order follows the publication order. It clearly came from Busiek’s love of comics.ĭue to its anthological format, you can easily jump into Kurt Busiek’s Astro City at any point. It was seen as a modern reinvention of the genre, an exploration of the possibilities coming with a shared superhero universe. It’s an exploration of the relationship between society and heroes, and how they shape each other. Still ongoing (?), it all started in 1995 at Image Comics, but it changed publishers multiple times-Homage Comics (1996–2004), Wildstorm (2004–2010), Vertigo Comics (2013–2018), then back to Image Comics.Ĭomposed of three volumes, some miniseries, and special issues, Astro City is about the superheroes of the city, a mid-sized American metropolis, and the citizens who are affected by the many super-beings who live there since the end of World War I. ![]() ![]() Created and written by Kurt Busiek, Astro City is an American superhero anthology series (mostly) illustrated by Brent Anderson (from X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills’ fame), with character designs and painted covers by Alex Ross. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But to Leo, Cat is intriguing and infernally tempting, even to a man resolved never to love again. Catherine's respectable demeanor hides a secret that would utterly destroy her. Leo must marry and produce an heir within a year to save his family home. But when one quarrel ends in a sudden kiss, Cat is shocked at her powerful response―and even more so when Leo proposes a dangerous liaison. Cat can hardly believe that their constant arguing could mask a mutual attraction. Her charges' older brother, Leo Hathaway, is thoroughly exasperating. It's the dazzling new novel from New York Times bestselling authorįor two years, Catherine Marks has been a paid companion to the Hathaway sisters―a pleasant position, with one caveat. Passion and persuasion, seduction and scandal. ![]() |