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The Burnt Orange Heresy
CHARLES WILLEFOR was a highly decorated (Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple heart, Luxembourg Croix de Gurre) tank commander with the Third Army in World War II. He was also a profressional horse trainer, boxer, radio announcer, and painter. Williford, the author of twenty novels, created the Miami detective series featuring Hoke Moseley, which includes Miami blues, sideswipe, The Way We Die Now, and New Hope for the Dead. He died in 1988.
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Took me a bit to realize this was a book containing two stories. At first I thought someone had written a mashup of some sort.
...some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.”
- Lao-Tzu -
One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.”
- Criss Jami -
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A stunningly beautiful story I first read on its release day in September 2015. I thought so much of it I nominated it in the romance category of the Goodreads Choice Awards. The handsome man on the cover is model/photographer Franggy Yanez.
- 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 -
“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 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
Hosted by Goodreads Indonesia at Pasar Festival, Kuningan. Great event, me, Nulisbuku.com and other writers + book lovers are having a great time!
“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 -
From Goodreads
During the summer of 1968, Shenandoah Carmody's mother disappeared. Her twin sister, Woody, stopped speaking, and her once-loving father slipped into a mean drunkenness unbefitting a superior court judge. Since then, Shenny-named for the Shenandoah valley-has struggled to hold her world together, taking care of herself and her sister the best she can. Shenny feels certain that Woody knows something about the night their mother vanished, but her attempts to communicate with her mute twin leave her as confused as their father's efforts to confine the girls to the family's renowned virginia estate.
As the first anniversary of their mother's disappearance nears, her father's threat to send Woody away and his hints at an impending remarriage spur a desperate Shenny to find her mother before it's too late. She is ultimately swept up in a series of heartbreaking events that force her to come to terms with the painful truth about herself and her family.
Told with the wisdom, sensitivity, and humor for which Lesley Kagen has become known, Tomorrow River is a stellar hardcover debut.
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My Review - Lesley Kagen is one of my favorite authors. This was such a wonderful story that was told quite well.
“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
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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.
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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.
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
From Moosewood Restaurant Daily Special , page 271.
Dressing:
quarter cup white, cider, or rice vinegar
1 tablesp soy sauce
2 tablesp sugar
3 tablesp natural peanut butter
Salad
carrots, cut into matchsticks
red or green peppers, cut into strips
tofu, cut into half-inch cubes
mung bean sprouts
Scald the above in boiling water, in the order shown.
cucumber, peeled, seeded, diced
red onions, spring onions, or chives
...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 !
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