The Sacred Art of Fasting by Thomas Ryan5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Instead, this fresh and unapologetic guide to writing as a spiritual practice approaches writing as a way to turn the spiral of body, heart, mind, soul and spirit that leads to spiritual awakening. It doesn’t cover the ins and outs of publishing and building a brand. This isn’t about how to write spiritual books. Where spiritual writing seeks to bind you all the more tightly to the self you imagine yourself to be, writing as spiritual practice intends to free you from it.” It conspires to strip away everything you use to maintain the illusion of certainty, security and self-identity. ![]() Writing as spiritual practice is conspiratorial rather than inspirational. You aren’t writing to be read you are writing to be freed. “Writing as spiritual practice has nothing to do with readers per se. Push your writing through the trite and the boring to something fresh, something transformative. ![]()
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Jesus son denis5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Johnson can’t shorten the bleakest winter in Little Village memory, but as he writes in his early poem “The White Fires of Venus,” he may help you understand that “The remedy for loneliness is in learning to admit solitude as one admits the bayonet: gracefully, now that already it pierces the heart. These events are free and open to the public, but seating at the Dey House is limited. at the Frank Conroy Reading Room, Dey House. ![]() There will also be a reading of his plays and monologues on Friday, March 7, at 7 p.m. The author will be reading selections from his fiction on Thursday, March 6, at 7 p.m. ![]() at the Workshop’s Frank Conroy Reading Room, Dey House. There is a Q&A with Johnson Wednesday, March 5, at 11 a.m. But we suspect the Workshop grad (1974), best known for his short-story collection Jesus’ Son (1992) and his apocalypse-then Vietnam War era novel Tree of Smoke (2007), as well as over four decades of precise and other-worldly verse revered by poets from Manila to Marshalltown, is here to lift the veil, if only for a moment, for those of us too worn down by winter to care what’s beyond it. Jesus Son by Denis Johnson Paperback, 192 pages List Price: 12.00 Car Crash While Hitchhiking A salesman who shared his liquor and steered while sleeping.A Cherokee filled with. According to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the acclaimed poet, playwright, essayist, short-story guru and award-winning novelist Denis Johnson has returned this year as a writer-in-residence to interact with undergraduate writers and the wider community. ![]() Redwall by Brian Jacques5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() The mousemaid Mariel is washed up on the shores of Mossflower country, half-drowned, battered and bruised but still alive! She has no idea of her identity but her incredible story of badger lords, fighting hares and Gabool the Wild Warlord of the Waters gradually unfolds and helps Redwall.Īs Redwall slumbers in the summer sun, it is unaware that the mountain stronghold of Salamandastron lies besieged by the weasel army of Ferahgo the Assassin, and that the deadly Dryditch fever is creeping towards the Abbey.īadrang the Tyrant stoat, the evil Lord of the Eastern Coast, has forced captive slaves to build his fortress, Marshank. Gathering his evil band around him, Slagar plots to strike at the heart of the Abbey. Slagar the Fox is bent on revenge - and determined to bring death and destruction to Redwall Abbey. When Verduaga Greeneyes, king of the wildcats, becomes tyrant truler over the creatures of Mossflower, the woodlanders begin a life of serfdom and cruelty. This is the story of Martin the Warrior, the legendary founder of Redwall Abbey. Cluny is certain that Redwall will fall easily to his fearsome army. ![]() ![]() Redwall Abbey, tranquil home to a community of peace-loving mice is threatened by Cluny the Scourge - the evil-one-eyed rat warlord - and his battle-hardened horde of predators. ![]() Alligators All Around by Maurice Sendak5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() One was Johnny, Alligators All Around (which comprise 1962s The Nutshell. ![]() Sendak, beloved author-illustrator of such classics as Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, and Chicken Soup with Rice, much like his green gator gang, is always getting giggles. Really Rosie is a musical with a book and lyrics by Maurice Sendak and music by Carole King. I would recommend this book to children ages four and up since the image of the alligator pushing a child might entice smaller children. Yet beneath their very vain and sometimes shockingly spoiled surface, the friendly fanged creatures have a charm that no one can resist. Alligators All Around is a brilliant book about learning the letters of the alphabet in a creative way that will have many children enjoying this book for a long time. ![]() ![]() Somehow, these likable lizards manage to capture the foibles and peculiarities of human nature better than many bipeds ever could. Alligators all around by Maurice Sendak, Gloria Fuertes García, 1974, Collins edition, in English. Mom, Dad, and Junior are brimming with personality the collective images create a complete picture of the nutty-yet remarkably familiar-household. The three-color illustrations endear these quite quarrelsome critters to readers' hearts. Those alligators really do get around! Whether they're entertaining elephants, making macaroni, having headaches, or throwing tantrums, the rascally reptiles are never napping! Maurice Sendak's alphabet book will have young "readers" reciting their ABC's in no time. ![]() Under one roof ali hazelwood review5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() The women in Hazelwood’s stories are independent and beyond brilliant. While I don’t always agree with the content in her books (I’ve written previously about toxic traits to steer clear of in the romance genres), I can’t deny that Hazelwood has a gift with words. What I LovedĪli Hazelwood’s storytelling ability is one of the best in the romance genre, and for this reason, her stories are addictive to read. Can forced proximity bring these two to a civil understanding? And finally, in the third story, “Below Zero,” when a NASA aerospace engineer, Hannah, is left stranded conducting research at a remote Arctic station, OUTSIDE IN A BLIZZARD, the only person able (or willing) to save her is a longtime rival. Can diametrically opposed foes even cohabitate? In the second story, “Stuck with You,” civil engineer Sadie gets trapped in an elevator with her nemesis. The only catch? Mara has also inherited the roommate of her nightmares - a big-oil lawyer. ![]() In the first story, “Under One Roof,” an environmental engineer, Mara, has inherited a home. ![]() Loathe to Love You by Ali Hazelwood is a collection of three STEM-romance stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() For many of their deadly traps and their bullets have found the flesh of his friends, striking them down far away from home, in a theatre of battle halfway forgotten by a world seemingly exclusively focused on the dramatic collapse of the third Reich. Contesting the British forces in this inhospitable land are the soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army who, in their dogged determination and their suicidal bravery, earn both Fraser's grudging respect and his burning enmity. Stationed in Burma, he vividly details the unromantic side of war: the suffocating conditions, the endless marches, the chaotic battles and the blessings of fortune which distinguish the living from the dead. Fraser, a British author and screenwriter, here, reflects upon his time in the British infantry during the second world war. Unfortunately, in every way, Quartered Safe Out Here is incapable of teaching us anything. ![]() This is why we read war memoirs, to remind us of what has come and gone and of those who suffered in the embrace of that most destructive of human inventions. But even though we all, to some extent, understand these truths, war persists because acuteness of its cruelty fades with time, allowing populations to forget its harsh lessons. ![]() For war is an insidious crime that runs longer and cuts deeper than its instigators ever imagine, scarring the world with its pain and ugliness. War is so costly a weapon, in lives and coin, that it must only be used when all else has failed. ![]() Mary Boleyn by Alison Weir5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() * In this, the first full-scale biography of Mary Boleyn, Alison Weir explodes much of the mythology that surrounds her subject and uncovers the facts about one of the most misunderstood figures of the Tudor age. * It is not hard to see how this tangled web of relationships has given rise to rumours and misconceptions that have been embroidered over the centuries. She may secretly have borne Henry a child and it was because of his adultery with Mary that his marriage to Anne was annulled. * She was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife. * Mary Boleyn is remembered by posterity as a 'great and infamous whore'. ![]() The face on the milk carton book series5/24/2023 ![]() How could it possibly be true? Janie can't believe that her loving parents kidnapped her, but as she begins to piece things together, nothing makes sense. ![]() ![]() She recognized that little girl-it was she. Recognizing herself as the missing child on a school milk carton, Janie is compelled to investigate and has to choose between her love for the people she has. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails, wearing a dress with a narrow white collar-a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve years before from a. Paw Prints, Juvenile Fiction - 184 pages. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails, wearing a dress with a narrow white collar-a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve years before from a shopping mall in New Jersey-she felt overcome with shock. No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. ![]() No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing. No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. Cooney Book 1 of the Janie Johnson Series. In the vein of psychological thrillers like We Were Liars and One of Us Is Lying, bestselling and Edgar Award nominated author Caroline Cooney's JANIE series seamlessly blends mystery and suspense with issues of family, friendship and love to offer an emotionally evocative thrill ride of a read. ![]() Batman by frank miller5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Our Sentence is Up: Seeing Grant Morrison's The Invisibles.Curing the Postmodern Blues: Reading Grant Morrison and Chris Weston's The Filth in the 21st Century.The Anatomy of Zur-en-Arrh: Understanding Grant Morrison's Batman.The Weirdest Sci-Fi Comic Ever Made: Understanding Jack Kirby's 2001: A Space Odyssey.New Life and New Civilizations: Exploring Star Trek Comics.The Sacred Scrolls: Comics on the Planet of the Apes.A Long Time Ago: Exploring the Star Wars Cinematic Universe.A Galaxy Far, Far Away: Exploring Star Wars Comics.Bright Eyes, Ape City: Examining the Planet of the Apes Mythos.A More Civilized Age: Exploring the Star Wars Expanded Universe.The Cyberpunk Nexus: Exploring the Blade Runner Universe.Somewhere Beyond the Heavens: Exploring Battlestar Galactica. ![]() Unauthorized Offworld Activation: Exploring the Stargate Franchise.Teenagers from the Future: Essays on the Legion of Super-Heroes.The Devil is in the Details: Examining Matt Murdock and Daredevil.Moving Target: The History and Evolution of Green Arrow.From Bayou to Abyss: Examining John Constantine, Hellblazer.Judging Dredd: Examining the World of Judge Dredd. ![]() ![]() ![]() This description comes from the 2009 Voice hardcover edition. Written with astonishing conviction and grace, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane travels seamlessly between the witch trials of the 1690s and a modern woman's story of mystery, intrigue, and revelation. ![]() This discovery launches Connie on a quest-to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge.Īs the pieces of Deliverance's harrowing story begin to fall into place, Connie is haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials, and she begins to fear that she is more tied to Salem's dark past then she could have ever imagined. ![]() The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she can't refuse. Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe 3.72 55,704 Ratings 6,344 Reviews published 2009 84 editions A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that mov Want to Read Rate it: Book 2 The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs by Katherine Howe 3. * A spellbinding, beautifully* written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history-the Salem witch trials. ![]() |