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My rating : 4/5
another lovely work by miss Black.
as expected, the mystery and suspense is insane. I highly suggest this one, dear junior readers!
"The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
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yenir.
anadolu alıcı, yemişen olarak da bilinir.
bitkisi ağaç şeklindedir.
meyveleri sarı, turuncu ve kırmızı renktedir. bu albümdeki alıç fotoğraflarında kırmızı olanlar en olgunları ancak sarıyken de yenebilir. ekşimsi tatlı bir lezzeti var. olgunlaştıkça ekşiliği azalır.
latince: crataegus orientalis
ingilizce: haw, thorn apple, hawthorn
www.agaclar.org/agac.asp?id=722
www.wikiwand.com/tr/Adi_al%C4%B1%C3%A7 (adi alıç)
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kaynak kitap: www.goodreads.com/book/show/10662496-t-rkiye-nin-a-a-lar-...
Begun five years after he entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, The Sign of Jonas is an extraordinary view of Merton’s life in a Trappist monastery, and it serves also as a spiritual log recording the deep meaning and increasing sureness he felt in his vocation: the growth of a mind that finds in its contracted physical world new intellectual and spiritual dimensions.
The Sign of Jonas by Thomas Merton
by SISTER RUTH NISTLER
This is a marvelous book, a diary written by Merton during a five-year period of his living as a Trappist Monk at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky. Some of his entries are brief and others are quite lengthy, including philosophical wonderings, poetic descriptions of the beauties of nature he sees all around him, theological treatises and remarks about his daily experiences, with bursts of delightful humor sprinkled in. He gives a detailed description of the life of a Trappist, the perpetual silence, the hand signs they learned for non-verbal communications, the long hours of prayer, beginning in the early morning, the long hours of work in the monastery and outdoors, the frugal diet and the simplicity of life.
Indonesian Reader Festival, held by Indonesian community in GoodReads. Part of the event is the book swapping booth where visitors can get book for free by swapping with their own book, old or new. This event is held to promote reading among Indonesian population especially the younger generations.
Lucania 5240m 17,192', Steele 5073m and Walsh 4507m
for amazing adventure of Bates and Washburn see www.goodreads.com/book/show/1098079.Escape_from_Lucania
publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12200344400/...
closer view of Lucania - www.mountain-forecast.com/peaks/Mount-Logan/photos/4166
my lichen photos by genus - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections/7215762439...
my photos arranged by subject, e.g. mountains - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections
Yesterday's haul. The cushion is actually for my girlfriend and the Dorayaki from Kokoro is long gone. #parkwaydrive #pwd #ire #music #illustration #menswear #goodreads #flask #vintage #nautical #home #cushion #cushioncover #metal #metalcore #homedecor #interior #bands #softfurnishings #bookworm #bookstagram #reading #instagood #instadaily #japan #kokoro #dorayaki
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Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.
- Sharon Salzberg (The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Programme for Real Happiness) -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/mindfulness
"Make a photograph of a beautiful simple shape, such as an egg, today. Utilize lighting and focus to make it sing."
From Goodreads -An arresting portrait of the struggles that women faced for control of their own bodies, The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare—the first daughter in five generations of Rares.
As apprentice to the outspoken Acadian midwife Miss Babineau, Dora learns to assist the women of an isolated Nova Scotian village through infertility, difficult labors, breech births, unwanted pregnancies, and unfulfilling sex lives. During the turbulent World War I era, uncertainty and upheaval accompany the arrival of a brash new medical doctor and his promises of progress and fast, painless childbirth. In a clash between tradition and science, Dora finds herself fighting to protect the rights of women as well as the wisdom that has been put into her care.
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My Review - I found this book really easy to get into. I love historical fiction especially set in the turn of the century when women were fighting for their rights to vote and the ability to make choices regarding their own bodies.
The Birth House covers a variety of women's issues from the turn of the century. When you read this book you have to forget everything you know and put yourself into the mindset of a woman from the turn of the century living in a rural tight knit community.
beneziatsoni: medievalpoc: Fiction week! Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Nnedi Okorafor’s work gives you everything you crave stylistically about Fantasy and Sci Fi, but incorporates ideas so unprecedented they could easily outshine the characters and the plot. But my favorite thing about each tale I’ve read from this author is that she doesn’t ever allow that to happen-the characters and the action shine just as brightly, if not more so, than the innovative concepts that turn the wheels of the plot. Binti is relatively short, but it’s a very intense story that reads like the best parts of a novel that another author might have stretched out with filler and awkward descriptions. You won’t find any of that here; there is no respite from the tension that will carry you all the way through to its conclusion without a pause to catch your breath. By which I mean, this is a breathtaking story. Binti is a uniquely talented young person from the Himba people, who are sticklers for tradition and not overly fond of outsiders. Despite this, Binti’s love for mathematics and the magic she can work with numbers and formulas has driven her to apply to Oomza University, the most prestigious academic institution in the known universe. Although she is the first of the Himba people to be accepted, her family and community are less than thrilled and forbid her to go. Binti is of course undeterred by their disapproval, and begins her journey armed only with her talent, a jar of the cleansing clay her people rub into their hair and skin, and a strange artifact from her homeland, whose secrets have yet to reveal themselves. She faces a great deal of judgement from those who consider her people provincial, isolationist, and backwards, but she remains fast in her goal to attend the prestigious university where she will be able to achieve her dreams and maybe even unlock the mystery of her artifact-and then, of course, something unforeseeably terrible happens. Do yourself a favor and read this novella. Coming of age has never been quite this weird. Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes and Noble so i just finished reading this and I just,, you know how you start reading a book and you just get… enraptured in it. this book will do that to you. I’m upset with myself for reading it so fast But then you can read it AGAIN sooner!! It’s no surprise to me it won a Nebula Award for Best Novella!
"The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
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Bold Spirit - Synopsis from Goodreads -
In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America.
Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara’s curling iron, set out on foot from Eastern Washington. Their route would pass through 14 states, but they were not allowed to carry more than five dollars each. As they visited Indian reservations, Western boomtowns, remote ranches and local civic leaders, they confronted snowstorms, hunger, thieves and mountain lions with equal aplomb.
Their treacherous and inspirational journey to New York challenged contemporary notions of femininity and captured the public imagination. But their trip had such devastating consequences that the Estby women's achievement was blanketed in silence until, nearly a century later, Linda Lawrence Hunt encountered their extraordinary story.
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My Review - I won't go over the plot again because you can just read above what the book is about. What I do want to say about this book is that Helga Estby and her daughter Clara are two of the most inspirational women ever. I don't really care what the norm was at that time, I don't think most men would have been able to do what she and Clara did. What better motivation than to do this than to try and save the family farm which she and her husband had worked so hard for.The ending was a bit tough considering how her family treated her when she came back and for years later. If not for her daughter in law this story might never have been remembered because her family was incredibly angry with Helga and did not like to let her talk about the trip. The book also touches on important topics of that day such as women's rights, women's health, politics,destitute families in the big cities, and issues related to workers and their need for better rights. I highly recommend for everyone!(less)
The Daughter's Walk - Synopsis from Goodreads
A mother's tragedy, a daughter's desire and the 7000 mile journey that changed their lives.
In 1896 Norwegian American Helga Estby accepted a wager from the fashion industry to walk from Spokane, Washington to New York City within seven months in an effort to earn $10,000. Bringing along her nineteen year-old daughter Clara, the two made their way on the 3500-mile trek by following the railroad tracks and motivated by the money they needed to save the family farm. After returning home to the Estby farm more than a year later, Clara chose to walk on alone by leaving the family and changing her name. Her decisions initiated a more than 20-year separation from the only life she had known.
Historical fiction writer Jane Kirkpatrick picks up where the fact of the Estbys’ walk leaves off to explore Clara's continued journey. What motivated Clara to take such a risk in an era when many women struggled with the issues of rights and independence? And what personal revelations brought Clara to the end of her lonely road? The Daughter's Walk weaves personal history and fiction together to invite readers to consider their own journeys and family separations, to help determine what exile and forgiveness are truly about.
“Kirkpatrick has done impeccable homework, and what she recreates and what she imagines are wonderfully seamless. Readers see the times, the motives, the relationships that produce a chain of decisions and actions, all rendered with understatement. Kirkpatrick is a master at using fiction to illuminate history’s truths. This beautiful and compelling work of historical fiction deserves the widest possible audience.”
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My Review
Do yourself a favor and read, "Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America" by Linda Lawrence Hunt before even thinking about reading this book. I hate to admit that I only got 10 pages into this book before I became so disgusted with the author that I have no intentions of ever reading anything else by her again. Extreme much? Why yes..yes I am. First of all the book reads like it took place in 1996, not 1896. The wording sounds like the same dialog that takes place between my daughters and I now. Secondly, and this is what I had a hard time getting past, was that the story immediatley went into making Helga look like she was some sort of tyrant who brushed away anything her family said to her as if they were annoying her. Maybe it became a little different deeper into the book, but this really rubbed me the wrong way since this story was almost lost because Helga's family was angry with her. There were a few other inaccuracies that I caught, but I find it pointless to even speak about. (less)
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The truth is an offense but not a sin.
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Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
- Sharon Salzberg (Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation) -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/mindfulness
"What's it like outside where you are today? Make a photograph that shows the world." ...and I'm not in a forest. After the extensive rains it looks like this by sidewalks in the center of the town.
...quietly and listen to the secrets the rain wants to tell us.”
― John Mark Green www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/rainy-day
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Things just got real for Detective Tom Stone in A Nitty Gritty Christmas. Cocaine, candy, & guns. www.amazon.com/dp/B01K0VQ6SI/
...of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore -
Fiction week! Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Nnedi Okorafor’s work gives you everything you crave stylistically about Fantasy and Sci Fi, but incorporates ideas so unprecedented they could easily outshine the characters and the plot. But my favorite thing about each tale I’ve read from this author is that she doesn’t ever allow that to happen-the characters and the action shine just as brightly, if not more so, than the innovative concepts that turn the wheels of the plot. Binti is relatively short, but it’s a very intense story that reads like the best parts of a novel that another author might have stretched out with filler and awkward descriptions. You won’t find any of that here; there is no respite from the tension that will carry you all the way through to its conclusion without a pause to catch your breath. By which I mean, this is a breathtaking story. Binti is a uniquely talented young person from the Himba people, who are sticklers for tradition and not overly fond of outsiders. Despite this, Binti’s love for mathematics and the magic she can work with numbers and formulas has driven her to apply to Oomza University, the most prestigious academic institution in the known universe. Although she is the first of the Himba people to be accepted, her family and community are less than thrilled and forbid her to go. Binti is of course undeterred by their disapproval, and begins her journey armed only with her talent, a jar of the cleansing clay her people rub into their hair and skin, and a strange artifact from her homeland, whose secrets have yet to reveal themselves. She faces a great deal of judgement from those who consider her people provincial, isolationist, and backwards, but she remains fast in her goal to attend the prestigious university where she will be able to achieve her dreams and maybe even unlock the mystery of her artifact-and then, of course, something unforeseeably terrible happens. Do yourself a favor and read this novella. Coming of age has never been quite this weird. Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes and Noble
My neighbours gave me this book as a present for our anniversary.
It is a play about the story of Bigastro written by another of our neighbours, Aurelio Murcia.
In the early days of the town, the people were so poor that they had to steal from the fields just to put food on the table.
El Hombre del Saco (the man of the sack) is therefore representative of the early bigastrense - hard working poor people who would have meat just once or twice a year as a special treat.
Although I can follow the gist of the text, there are a lot of words I have yet to come across and I dare say some which are not in our dictionary. Like with most dialects there are slang words that only locals would understand.
It could take some time to get through this book but I sure it will be worth it.
PS Since I know the author well (he built our house), I dare say I can get the book autographed.
“And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
...visualized on Sep. 14, 2013
- Perceiving the difference between #PLE as environment and ecosystem (for ecosystem see the pic in the comment field)
“...We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.”
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception -
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The study Robert B. Edgerton conducted in the 1960s was nothing short of revolutionary. He set out to not only examine people with cognitive disabilities, but to give them their own voice, to allow them the opportunity to express their own perceptions on the challenges they faced in adapting to society and city life—especially life beyond the institutions to which they were formerly confined. To find out more, please read my Goodreads review: bit.ly/1o7MRyu
From Goodreads - Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.
In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.
And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.
Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out.
When one of the strangers—beautiful, haunted Akiva—fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?
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My Review - What in the hell did I just finish reading???
I haven't been slapped by a book like this in quite a while.
Magical..Alluring..Fantasy Filled..Beautiful..Awe Inspiring..
Those are just a few words that I would use to describe this wonderful book. Where has Laini Taylor been all my life? She is such a wonderful author. I've never read another author who could have spun a tale as brilliant as this one. I can't wait to get my hands on the 2nd one.