Tara hudson books6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() The Gods of Clown Alley twists and turns through carousel realizations of what we carry and how we carry it, which shapes our path, our questions and our spirit, as it leads us inexplicably towards liberation. Tara takes a meditative journey of the heart in The Gods of Clown Alley.Ĭolin Broderick, author and filmmaker – Emerald City Murder, madness, mayhem, and because it’s an Irish tale, the mother too. The author tells her story with humor and whimsy… the memoir delivers a captivating and candid look at how humans can learn to “become artisans, transforming pain into love.” An engaging, honest, and eccentric account of a spiritual journey. O'Grady is impishly irreverent with a spot-on BS detector, making the revelations she experiences ring fresh and genuine. She side-treks into her dream life, an ongoing dialectic with the essence of Ernest Hemingway, and other trips with her Irish immigrant mom to take us with her on an often hilarious journey inward, back to bliss and conscious co-creation told with rock 'n' roll candor. Mother-daughter travel is a birthday tradition for singer-songwriter O'Grady, a Beacon resident, who frames this tale within one such trip to an Arizona spa in the wake of a deep depression. ![]()
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Martin lings life of muhammad6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Before he became Muslim, “Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources” by Martin Lings was one of the books he read that inspired him to convert from Christianity to Islam. I didn’t bother looking into their reasons for their thinking as I knew I would just end up wasting my time.īut today I came across an article by a great Islamic scholar of our time, Sheikh Gibril Haddad. Apparently Salafis have a negative view of his seera (But then again what do they have a positive view about) and recommend that it should be avoided. I was taken in by his eloquent use of language and immense writing style that really brought out the true beauty of the life of the beloved of God.īut as I read it, there were a couple of minor things that stood out as being quite strange. A few years ago I read the biography of the Prophet Muhammad (SAWS) by Martin Lings. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() La conducts and the orchestra swells and soars, but there is no actual music in the writing about music. This is, so far, all standard McCall Smith stuff - perhaps a little more grounded in history than the Ladies Detective series.įrustrating in the novel is its tendency to gloss over both relationship details and, sadly and ironically, details of the music that purportedly saves the world. Again thanks to her deceased philanderer, La has the capacity of material generosity, and she gives to her adopted community in very real ways. She takes up farm work in a rural community to help with England's WWII efforts, and soon meets a quirky and diverse cast of characters, whom she brings together in a community orchestra that gathers in a time outside of war-time, rehearses, and performs a victory concert when Germany surrenders. ![]() The La of the title (short for Lavender) is plucky, respectful and brave - also independently wealthy after the death of her philandering husband, and as it happens displaced from London. McCall Smith (of the Ladies Detective Agency fame) here offers a stand-alone volume about the cultural act of healing from war, the redemptive power of music, and the trials of patient love. This is a sweet novel, and a frustrating one. ![]() Becoming supernatural reddit6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() We have to take some bad with the good, even when it comes to a show as long-running and beloved as Supernatural. ![]() The rare actors who no longer wanted to work on Supernatural are understandably no longer with the show, but their perspectives are worth examining, too. However, when looking back at the experiences of the vast majority of actors who've worked on Supernatural, you realize that probably one of the biggest reasons for the show's longevity is the fact that everyone on it loves doing it. ![]() ![]() When a show has been going as long as Supernatural has, it's bound to have some actors who were disenchanted by their time on the show. The production of the Supernatural prequel's pilot episode is underway. Updated on November 6th, 2022 by Gabby Etzel: The Winchesters is bringing all the mystical action that Supernatural fans love back to the screen. In their long wake, the Winchester brothers have left countless regular, recurring, and guest-starring characters who no longer grace Supernatural. 10 Supernatural Spin-Offs Fans Still Hope To See, According To Reddit By Sakcham Tiwari Published The CW may have green-lit The Winchesters pilot, but not many fans are excited about it and they have other ideas for a spin-off. Still, some fans have taken to Reddit to express just how unimpressed they are with Sam Winchester, the boy with the demon blood. Supernatural has become infamous for writing off characters in the most violent of ways- even series protagonists Sam and Dean Winchester aren't safe, though they're pretty much guaranteed to return from the grave each time they bite the bullet. ![]() Room on the broom activity book6/7/2023 ![]() The first activity on our list was story stones! I have made story stones in the past by drawing pictures on stones but it took me way to long, so this time around I decided to find cute graphics instead. This post contains Affiliate links for your convenience. When presented in a hands-on way, children are more engaged in their learning and retain more information! Below you will find two ways to retell the story along with convenient Room on the Broom printables to make these activities low-prep and easy to make.Ĭheck out my Teachers Pay Teachers store for this Room on the Broom printable pack! The pack includes the clothespin characters, story stone pictures, a story mat with character cards, cut and paste story sequencing sheets, retell puzzle pieces and a potion sheet! Story sequencing is one of the many skills that contributes to children’s ability to comprehend what they read. I decided to focus on the skill of story retelling through sequencing. Recently I teamed up with four amazing bloggers to share crafts and activities to go along with the book Room on the Broomby Julia Donaldson. ![]() Retell the story Room on the Broom with story stones and clothespin characters! Your child will love these hands-on activities and convenient Room on the Broom printables. ![]() Witcher the tower of the swallow6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() The world in which these adventures take place is heavily influenced by Slavic mythology. At the same time cynical and noble, Geralt has been compared to Raymond Chandler's signature character Philip Marlowe. Geralt exists in an ambiguous moral universe, yet manages to maintain his own coherent code of ethics. The main character of The Witcher (alternative translation: The Hexer) is Geralt, a mutant assassin who has been trained since childhood to hunt down and destroy monsters. This cycle and his many other works have made him one of the best-known fantasy authors in Poland in the 1990s. Sapkowski has created a cycle of tales based on the world of The Witcher, comprising three collections of short stories and five novels. His first short story, The Witcher ( Wiedźmin), was published in Fantastyka, Poland's leading fantasy literary magazine, in 1986 and was enormously successful both with readers and critics. Sapkowski studied economics, and before turning to writing, he had worked as a senior sales representative for a foreign trade company. ![]() Andrzej Sapkowski, born Jin Łódź, is a Polish fantasy writer. ![]() Unorthodox memoir6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() There is an incredible determination in her eyes, and even without reading the synopsis, the viewer realises that the young, diminutive heroine is on the verge of doing something radical. ![]() We see Esty from almost the very first frame of the miniseries. The show is based on the memoir Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman, but could easily be considered a work of fiction, as the screenplay written by Anna Winger re-calibrates and re-arranges various elements in the author’s biography, which makes the protagonist’s itinerary more symbolic and more relevant to probably thousands of women living in extremely rigid communities and wishing to break free. ![]() French braid reviews6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. ![]() “A quietly subversive novel, tackling fundamental assumptions about womanhood, motherhood and female aging.” - The New York Times Book Review ![]() From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread-a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family’s foibles, from a boyfriend with a red Chevy in the 1950s up to a longed-for reunion with a grandchild. ![]() Asylum sanctum6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() While staying in touch with Jordan and Abby, they plan a college visit back at NHCP to get some answers on mysterious vintage carnival photos they have received and from a visit to Felix, Dan’s former roommate now housed in a mental health clinic. The book begins with Dan, now a senior in high school, at home applying to colleges and planning college visits. Sanctum is one notch up from Asylum, but still not a horror or terror book. Roux includes throughout Sanctum vintage images from carnivals and asylums, which heightens the story and imagery for readers. Just as the first book, Sanctum is a chilling book that obscures the line between what is real and what is not, what is genius and what is madness. ![]() ![]() This is the second book in the Asylum series by Madeleine Roux. “Reality denied comes back to haunt.” – Philip K. ![]() ![]() Her brush with the virus came after she submitted her first draft of Return of the Trickster - a conflict-free one, “where the characters all got what they wanted,” she said. ![]() The University of Victoria graduate spent two weeks in quarantine last February, after coming into contact with someone had been exposed to a dental conference in Vancouver that infected 87 people. Robinson admits that her earlier books were dark for dark’s sake, but says the pandemic, more than anything else, is responsible for the grim passages in her finale to the Trickster trilogy. The 53 year-old Kitimat author is a bit of trickster herself, I came to find out despite her good nature, light and fluffy her writing voice isn’t. Her unparelleled guffaw - rich and robust, with a sonorous quality to it - was let loose early and often during our recent conversation, which touched on everything from life in COVID-19 quarantine and getting bad tattoos to her new book, Return of the Trickster. ![]() Eden Robinson has the best laugh in the book business. ![]() |