Other songs stemmed from blissful happiness, or fear, or frustration, or anger. Songs tell stories, and some of the best songs of all time surely came from writers who had wounded hearts, who were suffering, or who felt broken beyond belief. I particularly listen to the words of songs, (which makes sense) because really, what’s so different about song writing versus novel writing? (or any other kind of creative writing?) Music has always had a big impact on my writing, and lots of times when I’m working on a novel, I can picture what song would go with a certain scene if I was writing it as a movie. So, there are a lot of references to great songs that have meaning to the girls, (and to me) like Natalie Umbrulia’s Torn, Diana Ross’s, Touch Me In The Morning, Dean Martin’s You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You, Frank Sinatra’s Fly Me To The Moon, and more. In my new novel, Free Gift With Purchase, the two sisters, Emma and Laura keep secretly changing each other’s ring tones on their phones to reflect how the other is feeling at the time.
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( A spacious garden-room, with one door to the left, and two doors to the right. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Ghosts is both modern and readable. The play destroys the façade of the traditional family, speaking freely about infidelity, incest and venereal disease. At the time of its production in 1882, it was immediately criticized for its subject matter. In Ghosts, Ibsen covers multiple controversial topics. He asks his mother to inject him with a fatal dose of medication to end his suffering once and for all. As the pain progresses, Oswald decides to take matters into his own hands. Yet Oswald’s health is failing, having inherited a disease from his father. Instead, she plans to bequeath only her money, free from her husband’s influence. She uses the project to drain his estate, so their son Oswald won’t retain any of his fortune. 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In 1943 she escaped to London, via a precipitous passage over the snowbound Pyrenees. Her distinctive appearance (she was known as “la dame qui boite”, or the limping lady) her success in planning spectacular operations such as the escape from prison of 12 arrested agents and the infiltration of her network by double agent Robert Alesch - a priest later tried and executed for collaboration - placed Virginia in mortal danger. Soon after her arrival, a dozen SOE agents were arrested in Lyon, leaving her almost the sole agent in Vichy France. Purnell observes: “Dispatching a one-legged thirty-five-year-old desk clerk on a blind mission into France was, on paper, an almost insane gamble” but Virginia duly travelled there in 1941, claiming to be a journalist for the New York Post. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTĪ chance meeting with an undercover British agent furnished her with the phone number of Nicolas Bodington, a senior officer in the fledgling SOE. 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The film, The Navidson Record, is a documentary made by Will Navidson, a photojournalist who has forsaken war zones in order to repair his marriage. It came to me at just the right second (by which I mean, I took it from the house where I was house-sitting at just the right second), and I have taken it straight to heart. Visionary and original, hooks shows how love heals the wounds we bear as individuals and as a nation, for it is the cornerstone of compassion and forgiveness and holds the power to overcome shame.įor readers who have found ongoing delight and wisdom in bell hooks's life and work, and for those who are just now discovering her, All About Love is essential reading and a brilliant book that will change how we think about love, our culture-and one another. Moving from the cultural to the intimate, hooks notes the ties between love and loss and challenges the prevailing notion that romantic love is the most important love of all. She offers a rethinking of self-love (without narcissism) that will bring peace and compassion to our personal and professional lives, and asserts the place of love to end struggles between individuals, in communities, and among societies. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood. All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. What was a little annoying was that the book was labeled as a novel of the Titanic, when really the Titanic doesn’t play a role until about two thirds of the way through the book. Stead, Harry Houdini, the Fox sisters, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as many people associated with the Titanic, like the Unsinkable Molly Brown. The reader is introduced to so many historical figures including Nikola Tesla, John Jacob Astor, W.T. I also loved the element of history that was weaved throughout. The spiritualism element was interesting, and ended up playing a large role throughout the entire book. I loved the majority of the characters, especially the sisters, which is quite unusual. When they all find themselves on the Titanic, one of Tesla's inventions dooms them.and one could save them. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor. Five sisters and their mother make their way from a spiritualist town in New York to London, becoming acquainted with journalist W. Science, spiritualism, history, and romance intertwine in Suzanne Weyn's newest novel. As women in India continue to be deified, they are not treated as human beings with dignity, therefore, growing into one’s feminism, in India, is a painful process.Īfter the Delhi Gang Rape of 2012, Nivedita Menon, professor of Political Thought at Jawaharlal Nehru University, would go on to publish Seeing Like A Feminist – a book I wish I had read when I began my journey into feminism. Discrimination against women in India is staggering: one-third of adult women remain illiterate, marital rape is not illegal and is believed to destroy the sanctity of marriages, and sex-selective abortion and female infanticide, though illegal, are still widely practised. India is a cacophony of identities and a diversity of socio-cultural systems, and invariably, in this cacophony, the Indian woman’s voice is lost. They’re not harmful, but they don’t make for pretty (or good smelling) soap. What’s more, all of the store-bought oils except one exhibited terrible DOS after only a month! DOS is a common soapmaking acronym and it stands for “Dreaded Orange Spots.” Old or unpure oils can go rancid in soap, producing the tiny orange spots that give DOS its name. As you can see, some of the tests did some interesting things. Here are the results of the tests after unmolding. All bottles listed “Olive Oil” as the only ingredient on their labels. We tested store brands as well as private labels, and every kind of olive oil from ‘virgin’ to ‘extra virgin’ to ‘light’. We soaped at the same temperature for all 10 batches and soaped all 10 batches over a 2 day period to ensure as close as the same temperature and humidity conditions as possible for gel phase and cure time. batches, had no water discounting and used a 5% superfat. Each recipe was comprised of 100% olive oil, made in 1 lb. These Olive Oil were small sizes, purchased off of retail store shelves at a local grocery store and a chain grocery store (generally, 8 to 16 ounce sizes the smallest each brand had to offer). We tested 10 olive oils total, including our own Pure Olive Oil and Pomace Olive Oil. Many sopamaking oils can be found in grocery store aisles, and after awhile it begins to beg the question - can you really use store bought oils in your soaps? While this may seem like an easy, convenient and inexpensive option, we did a little research to find out. All opinions are my own.įinlay Donovan Jumps the Gun is the third installment in Elle Cosimano’s popular Finlay Donovan series and I’m happy to report that it does not disappoint! For those unfamiliar with the series or those who might need a refresher, Finlay is an author and single mom, who along with her nanny/accountant/sidekick, Vero, have found themselves unexpectedly tied to the Russian mob. by Atria.įinlay Donovan Jumps the Gun (Finlay Donovan, #3) GoodreadsįTC Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book from Netgalley. One is the newest book in the Finlay Donovan series, which is a favorite of mine, and the other is a book that I believe was actually released in the UK last year through Viper Books and is now being released in the U.S. Yay! Anyway, today I’m back to share my thoughts on two new mystery/thriller reads that are January releases. I know I did and actually feel refreshed for a change as we start the new week. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and got lots of quality reading time in. |