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...the darkness awakens! When the shepherd disappears, the wolf appears on the horizon!”
- Mehmet Murat ildan -
www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3164882.Mehmet_Murat_ildan
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...is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”
- Thích Nhất Hạnh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life -
“You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.”
- Viggo Mortensen -
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One word Tuesday: Cool www.todaysposting.com/TPAssignment.php?TP=581
Something for cold winter days: A. N. Wilson's THE VICTORIANS.
From goodreads.com:
The nineteenth century saw greater changes than any previous era: in the ways nations and societies were organized, in scientific knowledge, and in nonreligious intellectual development. The crucial players in this drama were the British, who invented both capitalism and imperialism and were incomparably the richest, most important investors in the developing world. In this sense, England's position has strong resemblances to America's in the late twentieth century.
As one of our most accomplished biographers and novelists, A. N. Wilson has a keen eye for a good story, and in this spectacular work he singles out those writers, statesmen, scientists, philosophers, and soldiers whose lives illuminate so grand and revolutionary a history: Darwin, Marx, Gladstone, Christina Rossetti, Gordon, Cardinal Newman, George Eliot, Kipling. Wilson's accomplishment in this book is to explain through these signature lives how Victorian England started a revolution that still hasn't ended.
HNY
[bourbon/ batman]
wild turkey 101
&
Batman: The Definitive History of the Dark Knight in Comics, Film, and Beyond by Andrew Farago.. www.goodreads.com/book/show/43822794-batman
..treat yo'self 😋
...that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?”
- David Martin Lloyd-Jones -
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”
- Martha Graham -
www.goodreads.com/author/show/47790.Martha_Graham
Hearts, Clubs, Spades or Diamonds show us your deck. Snap show us your pair. Playing cards or Tarot cards. www.todaysposting.com/TPAssignment.php?TP=528 - this is the way I play cards :)
Book # 1 - Matched
From Goodreads - Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate... until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.
The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow.
MY REVIEW - Do you want to know what I find scary? It's not blood, gore, guts, veins in the teeth kinda stories. It's also not things that go bump in the night or jump out at you in a dark alley. What I find scary are stories about dystopian societies that have gone a bit cray-cray! Societies that have dissolved into something far more scarier than a ghost or a random dead body in an alleyway. The Society in this book is a bit frightening. Your ability to make any kind of choice for yourself has been taken away for you. You are told what to eat, wear, whom to marry, what job you can have, and where you can live. You are not allowed to have any of your neighbors in your house and you are monitored 24/7 by "The Officials." The Society only lets you live till your 80th birthday and you can only have children up to the age of 31. At 17 you are matched to your spouse and at 21 you are married to them. Scared yet? You screw up and you get what are called infractions. The more infractions you receive the worse off your life can be.
All of the above is what happens to the main character Cassia. Cassia is 17 and is matched with her best friend Xander. She is soon to get her job placement and if she followed all the rules like she was supposed to she would have had the "perfect" life according to The Society. Well let's throw in another guy named Ky who is considered an aberration, some smuggled poetry from the old days, and feelings that she is not supposed to have. Matched is a pretty good story so far even though it is quite predictable. I'm not a huge fan of stories where the romance is the main focus, but I knew that going into the book. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens to Cassia in the next two books of the series.
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Book # 2 - Crossed
From Goodreads - In search of a future that may not exist and faced with the decision of who to share it with, Cassia journeys to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky - taken by the Society to his certain death - only to find that he has escaped, leaving a series of clues in his wake. Cassia's quest leads her to question much of what she holds dear, even as she finds glimmers of a different life across the border. But as Cassia nears resolve and certainty about her future with Ky, an invitation for rebellion, an unexpected betrayal, and a surprise visit from Xander - who may hold the key to the uprising and, still, to Cassia's heart - change the game once again. Nothing is as expected on the edge of Society, where crosses and double crosses make the path more twisted than ever.
MY REVIEW - Not bad, but there seems to be a theme here of redundancy. The same thing seems to be said over and over again. It was enough to make me want to fall asleep
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Book # 3 - Reached
From Goodreads - After leaving Society to desperately seek The Rising, and each other, Cassia and Ky have found what they were looking for, but at the cost of losing each other yet again. Cassia is assigned undercover in Central city, Ky outside the borders, an airship pilot with Indie. Xander is a medic, with a secret. All too soon, everything shifts again.
MY REVIEW - Predictable and redundant. I suggest you pick up the series at the library. It was enjoyable, but really did not have that WOW factor.
Quote by Austrian author, Stefan Zweig, sourced from www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/57597.
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by Jesse Myner
Drinking, drugs, death, and debauchery at the greatest party in the world. A memoir of running with the bulls at the feast of San Fermín in Pamplona, Spain.
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yenir. tatlıdır. olgunlaştığında fotoğraftaki gibi kırmızı / koyu turuncu renge bürünür.
latince: arbutus unedo
ingilizce: strawberry tree
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First page of a two page layout - but it's late and I gotta get to bed. The images are pdfs of my Goodreads.com list of books read in 2011.
Supplies:
kit: Bookmarked, The Tattered Pear
Font: Impact
all three excellent!
2015 stats: 139 books read, with a total of 38,664 pages - thank you GoodReads for helping me keep up with what I've read, what I'm going to read and access to authors and other readers!
...touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don't know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on them just as they rely on their physical senses, and in fact probably even more.”
- C. JoyBell C. -
"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."
— Henri Matisse
this website is really cool for reading lovers!
Thank you Jess for adding things to the testimonial :) It makes me really happy that I made you smile. what you wrote really made me smile :D
I just reached 4000 views :DDD I'm soo happy
I always wanted to do a print exchange :D so I'll do it now!
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I ♥♡♥ books!
~ Enjoy World Book Day
So far this year, I've devoured these books:
The Oracle of Stamboul, Michael David Lukas...
The Russian Concubine, Kate Furnivall
Summer School,
The Jewel of St Petersburg, Kate Furnivall
The House of Bilqis, Azhar Abidi
A Girl Made of Dust, Nathalie Abi-Ezzi
Haunting Bombay, Shilpa Agarwal
Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights, Sophie Dahl
All in One Basket, Deborah Devonshire
The Sound of No Hands Clapping, Toby Young
The Exiled Collector, Anne Sebba
The Kitchen Diaries, Nigel Slater
Dreams of Joy, Lisa See
Lemon Serbet and Dolly Blue, Lynn Knight
Sweet Mandarin, Helen Tse
Just finishing, Walking through Fire, Nawal El Saadawi
~ and next in line is is, Dreams Speak, Therese E Duckett
~ what are you reading?
“Remember the balance; the give-and-take of energy. The symbol of yin and yang is more than the integration of male and female. It's also the balance of light and dark, soft and hard, active and passive, in and out, giver and receiver.
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Our Daily Challenge (ODC): Opposites Attract
Fighting to survive goodreads description - Picking up where The First Days ends, Fighting to Survive features the further zombie-killing, civilization-saving adventures of a pair of sexy, kick butt heroines and the men who love them. A hundred or so survivors of the zombie plague have found tenuous safety in the walled off center of a small Texas town. Now the hard work of survival begins—finding enough food; creating safe, weather-resistant shelter; establishing laws; and fighting off both the undead who want to eat them and the living bandits who want to rob and kill them.
Siege - Goodreads Review - The zombie illness has shattered civilization. The survivors who have found tenuous safety in Texas defend their fort against the walking dead and living bandits.
Katie has made peace with the death of her wife and is pregnant and married to Travis, who has been elected Mayor. Jenni, her stepson, Jason; and Juan—Travis’s righthand man—are a happy family, though Jenni suffers from PTSD. Both women are deadly zombie killers. In Siege, the people of Ashley Oaks are stunned to discover that the vice president of the United States is alive and commanding the remnants of the US military. What’s left of the US government has plans for this group of determined survivors.
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My Review - If your looking for a zombie series than this is an excellent choice. It has some of everything.
Montreal (est. 1642, pop. 1.7 MM) • rue Ste-Catherine • "Eaton's: The Trans-Canada Store"
• Montreal's largest department store for 75 yrs. • originally a 3-story bldg. that housed Scroggie's department store • alteration added a 4-story section with an additional 3-story wing
• in 1906 building was purchased by Carsley's, a dry goods enterprise that displaced Scroggie's in 1909 • soon after the bldg. was occupied by A.E. Rae & Co. after which it did business as Goodwin's Montreal Ltd.
• purchased by Eaton's in 1925 • expansion designed by Montreal's Ross & McDonald began immediately:
"In regard to property extension, our first step in this respect will be the adding of two stories on that part of the new section of the store now only three stories, bringing it up to the five stories of the major part of the new building… the next step… will be an extension to the north of the store…. We expect to have this addition completed by the fall… [photos]
"If we decide make any further extensions, the logical place will be with the old building at the front of the store. The foundations of the new building, while now holding three and five stories respectively, have been made for a ten story building. The foundations of the old building, however were made only for the three stories now built. Before erecting a bigger building there we would have to build a new foundation." —R. Y. Eaton, The Gazette (Montreal), 15 Apr 1925
• in 1930-31, following passage of a new city by-law allowing taller buildings, Eaton's expanded to 9 stories, adding ~5 acres of floor space • its celebrated Le 9e restaurant [photos] opened on the top floor • it was designed by Lady Eaton (1880-1970), wife of the store's president, Sir John Craig Eaton (1876-1922) • the store was further enlarged in 1958-59 to occupy the entire block —"Reclaiming Le 9e: Public Heritage at the Eaton’s Ninth Floor Restaurant, Montréal"
• evolution of the Eaton's Building, 1903-1931 [photos]
• in 1967 the Eaton building was linked to Montreal's new metro with direct access to the McGill station • following the store's closure on 17 Oct 1999, Ivanhoe Cambridge acquired the property • transformed into Complexe Les Ailes & 1500 University, a retail & business destination • in 2015, 1500 University became Le 1500 • the complex is now called the Eaton Centre
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“We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.
We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.
We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.”
- Lao Tzu -
www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2622245.Lao_Tzu
Where would civilization be without the wheel? They're all around. Make a photograph of a wheel near you., post it then Tag it with #TP466
Clarksdale, est. 1848, pop. 17,962
• African-American blues comploser & classically-trained musician W.C. Handy (1873-1958) lived in house at this now vacant site, 1903-1905 • self-styled "Father of the Blues" (the title of his autobiography) was son of former slaves • led 9-piece Colored Knights of Pythias Band • gave non-blues concerts for segregated black or white Clarksdale audiences
• during Cleveland, MS performance for a white audience, received request to "play some of our native music." • Handy's band resumed its normal set, received 2nd request: would it be OK if local colored group played a few dances? • the band took a break, 3 local musicians stepped in, played "primitive music" (blues), were showered with applause and silver dollars, causing Handy to reconsider band's repertoir
• months later, in waiting room at nearby Tutwiler (MS) Station, "A lean loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me… His face had on it the sadness of the ages." • musician was playing guitar with a knife & sang about going Where the Southern Crosses The Dog • "[It was] the weirdest music I'd ever heard." - Trail of the Hellhound • 100th Anniversary of the Blues
• moved to Memphis, 1909 • published The Memphis Blues, 1912, establishing Handy in white-dominated music publishing industry • original sheet music • performance with vocal by W.C. Handy (1:33) • 1914 performance by Victor Military Band (3:02) • guitar performance by Claes Neeb • Black History Now
• Colored Knights of Pythias a masonic secret society founded 1880, Vicksburg, MS, by light-skinned Ohioan Dr. Thomas W. Stringer (1815-1893) • Dr. Stringer had gained membership in all-white Knights of Pythias & borrowed their secret rituals for the new African American organization • many of its local lodges formed bands - Organizing Black America
• Clarksdale Historic District, National Register 09000763, 2009 • Coahoma County designated part of Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area, 2009
First prize for Sunday school attendance!!
Attendance at Turramurra Methodist Sunday School.
Mr A.J. Williams' Class. Alan....
The Author is on Goodreads, the story of a young man sailing to Australia, then travelling the outback in search of treasure and adventure.
I remember enjoying the adventure...
The three strands of this braided bread (white, whole wheat, cornmeal) represent the three aspects of Brigid, and so a perfect meal for Candlemas. I don't know how to braid but it still came out well. I got the recipe from Candlemas: Feast of Flames.
বইয়ের নাম : ‘ইয়োগা: সুস্থতায় যোগচর্চা’ (স্বাস্থ্য)
লেখক : রণদীপম বসু
প্রকাশক : ‘শুদ্ধস্বর’ প্রকাশনা, ঢাকা
প্রকাশকাল : একুশে বইমেলা ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০১০
প্রচ্ছদ: সব্যসাচী হাজরা
ISBN 978-984-8837-38-2
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Book name: 'Yoga: Yoga practice in health' (health)
Author : Ranadipam Basu
Publisher: 'Shuddhashar' publication, Dhaka
Publication: Ekushey Book Fair February 2010
COVER: Sabyasachi Hazra
ISBN 978-984-8837-38-2
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(বই সম্পর্কিত আরো তথ্য : www.goodreads.com/book/show/24807400 )