![]() ![]() ![]() Since my twenties, I’ve used a modified version of Julia Cameron’s “morning pages.” I often begin a writing session by generating several pages of stream of consciousness junk to clear out my brain. Published, per his instructions, after his death, Working Days became, for the next year, my constant companion.Īs may be obvious from my eight-year first draft, I’ve always dealt with a fair amount of resistance to writing despite also having a simultaneous huge desire to write. Right after I finally finished the first draft, I read a Brain Pickings article by Maria Popova about the journal John Steinbeck kept while writing The Grapes of Wrath. The first draft alone took me eight years, and during those eight years, I spent more time avoiding writing than actually writing. When my novel Olympus, Texas finally hits shelves, it will have been fifteen years in the making. ![]()
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5/21/2023 0 Comments Immortal longings by chloe gong![]() ![]() ![]() Which means his last chance at saving her is entering the games and winning. He's deep in debt trying to keep her alive. ![]() If she wins, she will finally get the chance to kill him.Įnter Anton Makusa, whose childhood love has lain in a coma since they were both ousted from the palace. However, she knows he always greets the victor of the games. Only one person stands in her way of finishing the job: her reclusive uncle King Kasa. Princess Calla Tuoleimi has been in hiding for five years, ever since she murdered her parents to free the people of Talin from her tyrannical family. Those confident in their ability to jump between bodies can enter a fight to the death - for the chance to win unimaginable riches. #1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong's adult epic fantasy debut, inspired by Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, is a fiery collision of power plays, spilled blood, and romance amidst a set of deadly games.Įvery year, thousands flock to San-Er, the dangerously dense capital twin cities of the kingdom of Talin, where the palace hosts a set of deadly games. ![]() ![]() ![]() This could be hard to connect with the past events which showed not only other layers of the clone's personality but also other supporting characters'. As a whole, I thought it might be confusing and lacking in information (also plot) for people who did not watch the series for there were only bits of parts which showed the present events. Additionally, there were variant covers one could drool over after issue #5. These issues feature each of the main clone Sarah, Helena, Alison, Cosima and Rachel. But the lack of focus and target audience made me find it something I can't really recommend. The art was well done, with all the characters being distinct and easy to follow, although the lack of interaction between the clones makes this a bit easier - for the most part, each issue focuses on one clone, with little if any interaction with any of the others. so I went from being bored to being slightly in the dark. But still, it really doesn't seem to be intended for people that already know the basics, while it also alludes to, or leaves unexplained, a number of things that only people who have watched the series would understand. The other stories at least add a little bit of new material. Two of the five stories feel like almost complete retreads of episodes or story arcs from the first season. It can't decide if it's intended for people who are already fans of Orphan Black, or if it's supposed to be bringing new fans into the fold. This book kind of has an identity disorder (which seems appropriate on some level). ![]() ![]() Emmanuel Cooper has his own pottery studio in London, is a ceramics teacher and the co-editor of "Ceramic Review" magazine. The book also contains a listing of basic glazing materials, metric conversion tables and a list of suppliers in the UK and the USA. A brief note follows each glaze, describing its appearance and suggesting variations on the basic formula by adjustments in thickness of application, firing method or metal oxide levels. ![]() The recipes are then listed according to temperature tolerance and the ingredients are given as parts by weight, with the additional colouring oxides expressed as percentages. The introductory chapters give general instructions and discuss ways around common faults. Over 500 glaze recipes and variations are contained in this textbook as a basis for experimentation, including those which are for domestic ware and series work as well as those which produce stunning visual results. The potters book of glaze recipes by Emmanuel Cooper, October 2004, A & C Black edition, Hardcover in English - 2Rev Ed edition. ![]() Just as the good cook starts with a recipe and, when familiar with it, makes it individual, so the good potter learns how to control and develop a glaze to achieve a particular result. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Books by jordan peterson![]() ![]() This interview ended up going an hour longer than we planned - almost two and a half hours in total! The entire conversation with Jordan was too captivating to cut it short. He’s now back with a new book titled Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life. His previous book, 12 Rules for Life : An Antidote to Chaos, was a New York Times bestseller and mega-hit around the world. Jordan has published over 100 scientific papers that have transformed our modern understanding of personality. His lectures have been viewed by hundreds of millions of people online. He is a Canadian Professor of Psychology, known for teaching mythology to lawyers, doctors, and business people, and for helping his clinical clients manage depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, and schizophrenia. Abraham Lincoln said, “I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.” And Viktor Frankl said, “Everything can be taken from a man but the last of the human freedoms: to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.” ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve been intrigued by this man since he kept mysteriously popping up in earlier books, especially the last one. ![]() He decided to return and claim her only after her brother decided to force her into a disastrous marriage. When the cruel machinations of her brother separated them for almost twenty years, he abandoned the name and became known as The Rook, a brutal pirate cloaked in ambiguity and secretiveness. As he recovered, she gave him the name Ash, which he embraced at the time. ![]() He was found badly beaten and damaged near a roadside Ash tree and Lorelai willed him to live through her loving care and sweetness. The man known only as The Rook has a past that he can’t remember beyond the moment he was rescued by Lorelai Weatherstroke and her family. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alchemists were not just proto-chemists and early metallurgists they were magicians, mystics, and sorcerers.Īlchemy sought to transform more than metal. Other influences within alchemy are astrology, numerology, Kabbalah, and Rosicrucianism. Alchemy is often associated with Hermeticism, a pagan religion that purports to have the most ancient, most desirable wisdom. ![]() Modern-day alchemy has seen a revival within the New Age movement.Īlchemy has always been about more than just finding the right combination of chemicals from the beginning, alchemy involved a philosophical and religious pursuit of hidden wisdom. Alchemy traces its roots to ancient Egypt, where alchemists produced alloys, jewelry, perfumes, and substances to embalm the dead. Alchemy was also involved in attempts to mix potions that would cure any illness or that would prolong life indefinitely. In ancient times, before we had a modern understanding of science, alchemists tried to create a process by which they could transform lead into gold. In a way, alchemy is a precursor to modern chemistry. ![]() ![]() “All of Joan’s work still feels fresh,” says Just. Heilbroner’s agent, Just, believes that her lasting popularity can be attributed to the fact that her books sprout from something real and therefore remain just as kid-friendly now as 20, 30, even 50 years ago. And instead of a fair, Sneaker is found in a pet store, where the funny tricks he does just might attract a boy enough to give him a home. In Heilbroner’s book, Plato becomes Sneaker, because “the name Plato doesn’t mean anything to small children,” the author says. ![]() Quentin replied, ‘Certainly! He can make figure eights and handcuffs.’ ” One day, Quentin and Katrina took it to a fair on Martha’s Vineyard and the fair director asked if the snake could do tricks. ![]() “They were just crazy about that snake,” says Heilbroner, “and they would play with it endlessly, twisting and turning it. This time around the spark came from two of her grandchildren, Quentin and Katrina, who regaled their grandmother with an anecdote about their pet snake, Plato. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli![]() ![]() ![]() The square remembers the murdered psychiatry (ANSA) Indeed, among the interventions "spoken" on the stage of the concert, there was that of the physicist Carlo Rovelli, who went on the attack on military spending and on the "marketers of instruments of war" who build instruments of death "to kill us 'one another". ![]() Thus, in a tweet, the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto replies to the criticisms of the physicist Carlo Rovelli expressed in his speech at the concert on May 1st. "I will invite Professor Rovelli to lunch so the next time he talks about me he will do so having known me, my ideas, knowing what I have done and do every day to seek peace and stop the war and also to hear how a nation is served with seriousness and respect". ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Changes dresden![]() ![]() ![]() It is the darkest and the most solemn of the series so far, and it is exceptional. If you’re reading this expecting the book would be one of happiness, joy, and fun, you couldn’t be farther from the truth. Changes, in a way, retain the similar storytelling structure that the series has, but the events that occurred signified several pivotal and turning points in the series. Harry’s life has always been filled with cruelties that piles on endlessly, and the only saving grace to his sanity is probably his happy-go-lucky attitude, and even that part of him is about to be put to the limit and beyond here. It takes a lot of guts for Harry to think that way. “Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.” I still have Ghost Story, Cold Days, Skin Game, and Peace Talks (yay!) to go through, but for now, I’m inclined to agree with their assessments. Changes, the twelfth installment in The Dresden Files has often been praised as the best book in the series. There’s, however, an exception for one title, it’s this book. If you’ve been paying attention to the title of each volume in The Dresden Files series, you’ll notice that every one of them is made up of two words. ![]() Changes was insane, a true Game-Changer for the series. ![]() |