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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, long overdue and well enjoyed. Finished the last few pages the night before I left for Delhi and minutes before the power blacked out due to the failure of the Northern Grid :-)
I loved the mellow pace of the novel, the detailed descriptions that draw you into such a different world and the gracefulness that seems to come across the pages so effortlessly.
Or rather, Clem wrote it and I helped 😅 It's a story that was inspired by Josie and their little friends. This is what it says officially on the back cover:
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When young Josie Harwood is forced to stay at Miss Gordy’s gloomy old house down the road, she’s prepared for the worst – a dreary waste of the holidays with a creepy old lady. But she soon finds out that Bramstone Hall harbours things far more unpleasant than Miss Gordy.
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An encounter with a creature emerging from the walls is a clear sign that something is terribly wrong at the Hall and the unsolved mystery of the children who went missing over a century ago is far from dead. As Josie finds herself increasingly drawn into their lost world, she must find the courage and determination to lift the children’s curse or doom them all to a fate worse than death.
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Haunting and surreal, The Lost Children of Gloam's End weaves together evocative original art and antique photographs in a magical tale of loss, love and redemption.
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So yes, there's actual words and pictures in there -- 280-some pages' worth. It's available in two versions -- black-and-white and full colour -- and you can find them on my website (www.umamibabydolls.com/shop) and on Amazon.
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If you do order from my website you'll get a signed copy (if you want) and some bookmark-postcard goodies 😄 Thank you so much for having a look and helping an artist out 💗
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an extremely interesting and entertaining book about the literary life in paris in the 1920s.
robert mcalmon is unjustly forgotten these days, but played an important and generous part in encouraging, publishing and financing various writers, from hemingway to joyce, for which he got little recognition or thanks.
there are some very funny anecdotes recorded here – especially by mcalmon. stories of james joyce fancying himself “various kinds of dancers: tap, russian and belly,” after imbibing and “trying to climb the lampposts.” glimpses of nora and james at home – nora: “jim, what is it all ye find to jabber about the nights you’re brought back drunk for me to look after…?”
and mcalmon typing out the end of “Ulysses,” trying to make sense of joyce’s placement of pencilled corrections, before giving up and adding the amendments when he thought convenient, thus leaving his stamp forever on that great book.
mcalmon has a sharp sardonic wit and shines an unromantic light on the times - harshly when it comes to hemingway and gertrude stein, while deeply appreciative of joyce’s hard work and dedication - although r.m. remains sceptical about j.j.’s intoxication with words and the dead end of "work in progress"...
other players on the paris stage are remembered and described…including william carlos williams, ford madox ford, ezra pound, sylvia beach and company.
this book makes excellent reading for enthusiasts (like me) of the period.
Seeing the description under her photo lit a fuse.
I'm scared...
I'm absolutely terrified of the end.
Not because I'm scared of what's to come. But because I really cannot imagine life outside of this earth. I can't imagine it whatsoever. I'm saying this now even though a few days ago I was staring at the cars going by on the freeway thinking about how pointless all of this is. The things that man created and strived on this earth for feel so meaningless compared to the pile of nothing is will be in the end. It feels like we're sitting here doing nothing and waiting for the time to run out so that we can "go to meet God" as most would say or "Go to hell" as others would say. I'm sorry to say that I do not know what I would say. In all honesty I'm sitting here crying because of that fact. You start to realize that the foundations you lay with your hands crumble easily. I've been trying for years. For years to be the person I thought He wanted me to be. And some months I'd feel like I was actually getting somewhere and others I just felt like this little heap in the middle of the floor that was an idiot and a child who knew absolutely nothing. Looking back over the past three years I feel like I've done more crawling than running. I don't know who He is. I know that I read and that I see and that I hear and that I write but I don't KNOW. And that is MY downfall. That is MY fault. I haven't been able to grasp the concept of who He is and I've been faking it for years. Fake it til you make it doesn't work. It doesn't show you His love,His grace, His kindness, His mercy. It just shows you how small you are. It shows you how imperfect you truly are. And so when Jesus' second coming finally comes I don't know who I'll see in the mirror. Him or me.
This paragraph is bigger that just the end of the world. It's whether or not we choose life or death.
Blood or Tar. The world or Jesus. It's whether or not I get up and walk towards Him rather than away from Him . It's whether or not if in the back of our heads we're wondering if the girl who wrote that description meant 2 years or 2000. Are we preparing to die or preparing to live? Am I?
Eckelman MJ, Sherman J (2016) Environmental Impacts of the U.S. Health Care System and Effects on Public Health. PLoS ONE 11(6): e0157014. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0157014
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just finished. Lovely book, with coloured plates, black and white illustrations, headpieces and tailpieces, as well as initials. It includes songs and the music. Everything by the author, who calls himself B.B. The last gnomes in England.
Tailpiece: Baldwort and Sneezemoney milk the cow
Headpiece: Stoat and gnomes
Nanotechnology, fairy tales, anarchism-capitalism, victorian values, confucian laws, hive minds and the fight to control oneself's destiny: The diamond age.
Fig 1. Time series of life cycle GHG emissions from US health care activities.
Shown for 2003–2013, in absolute terms (orange bars) and as a share of U.S. national emissions (blue line). Mt = million metric tons.
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Eckelman MJ, Sherman J (2016) Environmental Impacts of the U.S. Health Care System and Effects on Public Health. PLoS ONE 11(6): e0157014. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0157014