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- not getting fully dark behind the curtains...
“Burn worldly love,
rub the ashes and make ink of it,
make the heart the pen,
the intellect the writer,
write that which has no end or limit.”
- Guru Nanak -
I have been reviewing children's literature published in 2016 on GoodReads. Here's the most important words I have said thus far! I am not done!!! See more - www.goodreads.com/list/user_vote/5260727
“It's not that I believe everything happens for a reason. It's just that... I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.”
- Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever -
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“I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.”
- Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower -
Hosted by Goodreads Indonesia at Pasar Festival, Kuningan. Great event, me, Nulisbuku.com and other writers + book lovers are having a great time!
Bookmark I made for Emmy with a quote from our favorite sister book of all time, Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
I love this one, but I had a false start on it before I got it right. It's the longest quote I've ever embroidered, so space and text size were an issue and needed careful planning. I also thought I could get away with doing it on felt rather than paper (I was just really hankering to embroider on some felt) but it looked horrible and I quit by "winged."
I bought the neat teal paper at Paper Source, and I hope you also like it because I had to buy a gigantic sheaf of it and will have to use it forty more times. I printed the text in Avenir (thanks to Evan) and then I followed the hand-sewing on paper steps.
The same trick works for images as with text! Just print them out and poke the holes. I forget where I got the rose drawing from, unfortunately, but I just Googled for "rose line drawing" and picked one of the simplest ones. (Thank you whoever drew it, sorry I'm a derp.) The teacup and the squiggle came from the internet too. I resized them to my liking before I printed, and it was perfect.
I embroidered the text with two strands of regular sewing thread and the decorations with one strand. It all came out really subtle but I like it that way.
I'm so glad I started doing this bookmark-making stuff, it's like magic.
...and here is another beauty in macro ....not more than 10mm in length ...it maintains such a beautiful symmetry .... there should be some reason behind this ,only Evolution knows ...I remember Richard Dawking ( evolutionary biologist) naming nature as BLIND WATCH MAKER !
Recently I came across a website :
anybody interested in books (fiction ,science , children,any subject ) can check this site ....lot of reviews and information .We can create our own book shelf and they recommend books accordingly ,which is very useful ....
Came across those very well done 'maps of the mind' yesterday in my favorite collaborative art space, the reanimation library of pioneer works. Highly recommend the place. pioneerworks.org/programs/reanimation-library/ . The book is a gem: www.goodreads.com/book/show/695126.Maps_of_the_Mind
This book is a detailed "biography" of the Douglas DC-8, which first flew less than two years before this book was published. It discusses all aspects of this first-generation American jetliner, emphasizing the Douglas Aircraft Company philosophy of producing the best possible airplane for both customers: the airlines and their customers. The Douglas DC-8 was a revolutionary step beyond the world of piston-powered airliners; with the enthusiasm of the early Jet Age, the author speculates on the future of air - and space - travel, at a time when anything seemed possible.
My full review is available on Goodreads, at:
“And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/dreamer
Sent from Bill's iPad taken by the a6000 on aperture priority..
After attending Barry's funeral at St James Uniting Church in Curtin.
See Barry McGowan on Goodreads and various stills and video clips of him singing with the choir, the Lunatic Fringe at Smiths Bookshop, on YouTube and here....
From Goodreads - This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy, but an "it." Dave's bed was an old army cot in the basement, and his clothes were torn and raunchy. When his mother allowed him the luxury of food, it was nothing more than spoiled scraps that even the dogs refused to eat. The outside world knew nothing of his living nightmare. He had nothing or no one to turn to, but his dreams kept him alive--dreams of someone taking care of him, loving him and calling him their son.
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My Review - Never have I read a book, finished it, and had so many unanswered questions. I know in the back of the book the author states that many answers will be revealed in the following books, but I wonder if my questions will be answered. It's not that I think he's lying, but many statements in the book don't sit right with me. For a memoir, I don't see much emotion throughout the book. It's very flat language that reads like stereo instructions. The word usage also seems flat like he is talking about someone from another country. Mother, Father, Grandmother...who talks like that? I've read some of the controversy about this book and I'm not ready to dismiss what happened to this man as a falsehood like so many have done. I was not going to read the other books in the series, but with so many unanswered questions I think I will.
From Goodreads - Last Days by Adam Nevill is a Blair Witch style novel in which a documentary film-maker undertakes the investigation of a dangerous cult—with creepy consequencesWhen guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is asked to shoot a film on the notorious cult known as the Temple of the Last Days, it appears his prayers have been answered. The cult became a worldwide phenomenon in 1975 when there was a massacre including the death of its infamous leader, Sister Katherine. Kyle’s brief is to explore the paranormal myths surrounding an organization that became a testament to paranoia, murderous rage, and occult rituals. The shoot’s locations take him to the cult’s first temple in London, an abandoned farm in France, and a derelict copper mine in the Arizonan desert where The Temple of the Last Days met its bloody end. But when he interviews those involved in the case, those who haven’t broken silence in decades, a series of uncanny events plague the shoots. Troubling out-of-body experiences, nocturnal visitations, the sudden demise of their interviewees and the discovery of ghastly artifacts in their room make Kyle question what exactly it is the cult managed to awaken – and what is its interest in him?
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My review - I want the last three days of my life back? Can I do that? On a scale of 1-5 with 5 being the most likely would feed to the goats I give this a 10. 531 pages of mostly rubbish (keeping with British theme here in the book). Last Days had the potential for a kick ass scary story, but that sadly did not happen. I've had paper plates getting caught in the wind scare me more than this story did. The Guardian claimed that the author was Brittan's equivalent of Stephen King. I want to know by whose standards was this claim made...Please.
I hated the way the characters were written. I felt nothing for any of them because they were written so poorly. The whole bunch of them were so cliché or written so off the mark. Subtract 300 pages from this book and it would have possibly been something that may have gotten more than 1 star
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"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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I may have paid the same price in 2014 for this Don DeLillo book; and tucked inside was the receipt from the last sale, almost exactly 9 years ago from Value Village here in Kamloops.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/11767.The_Body_Artist
I am still not quite sure to make of the novel, but the 106 price is right
...every star has a friend, and for every person carrying a star there is someone else who reflects it, and everyone carries this reflection like a secret confidante in the heart.”
- Orhan Pamuk, Snow -
From Goodreads - Some places are too good to be true.
Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map.
In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things.
After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home in Wink, New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different ...
From one of our most talented and original new literary voices comes the next great American supernatural novel: a work that explores the dark dimensions of the hometowns and the neighbors we thought we knew
My Review
I got to chapter 8 which was somewhere around page 80. I DNF, well I couldn't finish. Do you remember when you were little and you had a Band-Aid. When it was time to take it off it would hurt like hell. Well times that by 20. That is how painful this book was. They tell writers to write what you know. This one obviously does not know how to write from the POV of female characters. It seemed that both Mona and Mallory were written the same as all the men in the book. I could make no distinction between any of the characters. Maybe the book gets better, but with 600 more pages looming ahead of me, I was not taking the chance on finishing and then being pissed because I hated it.
From Goodreads - A net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. Mortmain plans to use his Infernal Devices, an army of pitiless automatons, to destroy the Shadowhunters. He needs only one last item to complete his plan: he needs Tessa Gray.
Charlotte Branwell, head of the London Institute, is desperate to find Mortmain before he strikes. But when Mortmain abducts Tessa, the boys who lay equal claim to her heart, Jem and Will, will do anything to save her. For though Tessa and Jem are now engaged, Will is as much in love with her as ever.
As those who love Tessa rally to rescue her from Mortmain’s clutches, Tessa realizes that the only person who can save her is herself. But can a single girl, even one who can command the power of angels, face down an entire army?
Danger and betrayal, secrets and enchantment, and the tangled threads of love and loss intertwine as the Shadowhunters are pushed to the very brink of destruction in the breathtaking conclusion to the Infernal Devices trilogy.
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My Review - I hate when I finish a series that is so good you hate for it to end. When I read the last page of this today I had tears in my eyes and my heart was beating really fast. Yes, I'm a huge dork. I get attached to the characters and the stories like I've known them for years. I know quite a few people who have complained that Ms. Clare seems to be riding the cash cow around with the Shadow hunter series, but personally I don't mind. If she wanted to write about it forever I would read them. I love a good series and I hate to say goodbye to something so enjoyable.
The Infernal Devices is defiantly in my top 5 of favorite series. I highly recommend it. Every single character I absolutely loved. Yes even Mortmain. He was evil and a bastard, but to me I found his evil side appealing and was written perfectly.
aló !
i'm considering getting more serious with photography. i really need to feel i could find my way no matter where i am (geographically speaking). i've already spent well enough in equipment and i know i can travel with it.
i miss technique (in both, while shooting and in post-production) so i'm doing what i do best... turn into books! (you also find me at www.goodreads.com/ozso ^.^)
that said, i'm experimenting with duotone this week. :D
let's see how it goes!
Main Topic: Inspirational Quotes
Related Topics: Compassion, Weakness
Give your weakness to one who helps.
Author:Rumi
Quotation Reference:
www.goodreads.com/quotes/66548-give-your-weakness-to-one-...
www.braintrainingtools.org/skills/give-your-weakness-to-o...
"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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...the healing
hands of God
touch my heart
and kiss my soul.”
- Harley King -
www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2876863.Harley_King
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“Cactus, flower, fuck-off, love, roses”, explores and celebrates female identity. The piece is a follow-up to "Flower Girl". The title of the project comes from “tags” listed on the website Goodreads, for the quote “Roses may say “I love you,” but the cactus says “Fuck-off”, by J. Kintz.
The project presents in 2 parts: a multi-channel video installation, and a live performance where the videos become both backdrop and dance partner. Mark your calendar, the performance takes place, in collaboration with MaZi Dance Chicago, this October.
As with “Flower Girl”, a key component of “cactus, flowers, fuck-off, love, roses” resides with the symbolic connection between flowers and women. The piece includes multiple videos of women (of various ages, body types and ethnicity) who respond to the symbolic meaning of a flower of their choosing. In the videos each participant performs 2 distinct movements: one surrendering to her flower’s motif, and a second passage rejecting its claim. Each woman owns her flower, becomes her, moving with or against her flower’s nature, while at least 1 foot remains immobile, like a stem imbedded in soil. In the live performance the women break free, but they continue to struggle with long imbedded ideologies, their movements raw and personal.
Flowers in the piece were chosen for their floriographic name, based on the Victorian Era practice of communicating through flowers. Flowers have been a symbol for femininity and womanhood since ancient times, but the Victorians created an elaborate code and system for non-verbal communication. The nuances of the language are mostly forgotten, but the implications for women still linger – the perfect woman must still be pure (Lotus) of body, innocent (Daisy) in spirit, and a wildcat (Dahlia) in bed.