![]() ![]() I mean, I love me the romantic ones too, but it’s refreshing to have platonic friendships as well. I love a story that has close friendships between guys and girls that are not romantic. All through high school and college some of my closest friends were guys. My Thoughts: As soon as I heard the title of this book I knew I wanted to know more. ![]() When a new boy enters the scene and makes Char feel like, well, a total girl…and two of her other friends have a falling out that may or may not be related to one of them deciding he possibly wants to be more than friends with Char…being friends with all these boys suddenly becomes a lot more complicated. Char has a house full of stepsisters and a past full of backstabbing (female) ex-best friends, so for her, being friends with boys is refreshingly drama-free…until it isn’t any more. Likes being the behind-the-scenes wordsmith who writes all the lyrics for the boys’ band. Likes offering a girl’s perspective on their love lives. She likes being the friend who keeps them all together. She knows that he, Abe, and Trip consider her to be one of the guys, and she likes it that way. ![]() Source: Finished copy received for blog tourĪbout the Book: Charlotte and Oliver have been friends forever. ![]()
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Greg Dubuque (fine artist) - his novel and his screenplay.Terri Lenee Peake, Penthouse Pet of October 1987.Richard Campbell (author of Writing Your Legacy: The Step-by-Step Guide to Crafting Your Life Story) - worked on two of his fiction works.Christopher Heard, Canadian author and TV personality. ![]() Jill Sanders, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author.I am a professional editor with over ten years of experience. ![]() ![]() In addition to cleaning one’s house, the broom was used to cast circles and create sacred spaces, move stagnant energy, and acted as a convincing disguise when witches had to hide their wand for fear of persecution. Traditionally, brooms were made of three sacred woods: Ash for the handle, Birch for the bristles, and Willow for the binding cord. Brooms hold cleansing properties both literally and symbolically, having long been implemented in folk magic practices for purification, wholeness, fertility, and protection. ![]() It is one of the few tools symbolic of divine balance as seen in the phallic handle and the feminine bristles. The besom, better know as a broom, is one of the most common objects associated with the witch today. ![]() Aided by a psychoactive ointment of poisonous plants and animal fats, the witches would mingle with the astral realm, hooting and hollering with liberation, transcendence, and magical merriment. It was said that, during this mysterious happening, witches gathered by moonlight to fly through the night sky alongside Diana and her band of otherworldly beings. Apart from the Sabbat, the ride itself was a noteworthy event on its own that finds its non-devilish roots in the Italian cult of Diana and her lunar mythology. ![]() Night Ride is original artwork illustrating the use of flying ointments during the witches’ night ride to the Sabbat. ![]() ![]() ![]() This key aspect of progressive Christianity, the process of rejecting or questioning Christian doctrines, is known as deconstruction, “where all beliefs someone was raised with and had never questioned are systematically pulled apart” (7). While progressive Christianity has no set dogma, its hallmarks are the rejection, or at least questioning, of core classical Christian doctrines, such as the deity of Christ, Jesus’s physical resurrection, and the divine nature of the Bible. ![]() In the first two chapters, Alisa sets the stage of her spiritual journey and traces the history of progressive Christianity from its roots in the emerging church to its current form. While those books dealt with the culture at large, my next two reads focused on cultural and theological issues impacting the church: Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth by Thaddeus Williams, and the book I am reviewing here, Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity by Alisa Childers.Īnother Gospel? follows the story of former ZOEgirl, Alisa Childers, as her orthodox Christian faith was challenged in a study group led by a progressive Christian pastor. ![]() ![]() In my last blog post, I shared some of the most important books regarding cultural issues that I read in the year since the COVID lockdowns began in March 2020. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After being initiated into eternal life as one who shares the blood by two women there, Gilda spends the next two hundred years searching for a place to call home. ![]() This is a book to give to those you want most to find their own strength.Dorothy AllisonThis remarkable novel begins in 1850s Louisiana, where Gilda escapes slavery and learns about freedom while working in a brothel. Before Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butlers Fledgling, there was The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomezs sexy vampire novel.The Gilda Stories is groundbreaking not just for the wild lives it portrays, but for how it portrays them-communally, unapologetically, roaming fiercely over space and time.-Emma Donoghue, author of RoomJewelle Gomez sees right into the heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Webb’s new view revealed Fomalhaut’s two inner belts for the first time, which didn’t appear in previous images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope or other observatories. But the Webb researchers weren’t expecting to see three nested rings of dust extending out 14 billion miles (23 billion kilometers) from the star - or 150 times the distance of Earth from the sun. The dusty disk around Fomalhaut was initially discovered in 1983 using NASA’s Infrared Astronomical Satellite. The space observatory focused on the warm dust that encircles Fomalhaut, a young, bright star located 25 light-years from Earth in the Piscis Austrinus constellation. ![]() Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the first asteroid belt seen outside of our solar system and unveiled some cosmic surprises along the way. ![]() ![]() ![]() It begins with the very first line: “I don’t believe in safe spaces. ![]() A dark fairy tale told by a “notorious liar.” It effortlessly changes the rules, cracking open a space of freedom, the kind of freedom that can only come from entering a game already in play and breaking each played-out rule with greater and more playful impunity. ![]() It would be hard to put it more concisely or accurately than Trish Salah does on the back cover: “The first lie is that this book is a memoir, the second is that it is not.” Another way to say it might be to use Audre Lorde’s evocative term “biomythography.” Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom is a book that uses its warmhearted critique of the conventional tropes of the trans memoir as a way to reinvent those very tropes in fabulist Technicolor. ![]() ![]() When Livia’s father dies under suspicious circumstances, she sets out to find the killer before her innocent brother is convicted of murder. Sensible women don’t investigate murders, but Livia Aemilia might not have a choice. Today we’re discussing Lisa’s debut novel, Death and a Crocodile. ![]() In addition to writing novels, Lisa blogs about living with authenticity and purpose. She draws inspiration from thirty-five years of leading Bible studies to create entertaining mysteries set in the world of the early church, and then she fills that world with eccentric characters, independent females, and an occasional sausage-snatching cat. She brings her analytical mind, quirky humor, and positive outlook to all she writes. Betz worked as an engineer, substitute teacher, and play director before becoming an award-winning mystery writer. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | Stitcher | Blubrry | Podchaser | Email | RSS | More ![]() Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:29 - 17.5MB) ![]() ![]() ![]() But also, at the same time, the romance wasn’t too insignificant or something that was just thrown in. It wasn’t too overwhelming and it left room for for the main story line to progress. I loved how stubborn she was about what she believed in and the lengths she would go to prove her and her loved one’s freedom and innocence. In fact, I was able to easily relate to her. She wasn’t illogical, annoying, frustrating or just plainly stupid. I was a bit skeptical going into this book probably because of the cover but when I got into it man, did it get interesting. The plot was action-packed, I did not want to kill the main protagonist (which had strangely been happening to me) and the pacing and writing kept me on the edge of my seats. Source: Bloomsbury Australia (BIG THANKS) Can Alina change her future, or is she fated to repeat her past and face the consequences? ![]() And she may not be as innocent as she once believed. When Alina finally breaks out of prison, helped by a group of people with unclear motives, she begins to uncover clues left by her past life that only she can decipher. With the science of soul- printing now a reality, she is ‘protected’ for her own safety – and the safety of others – because her soul has done terrible things …or so she’s told. Alina Chase has spent her entire life in confinement. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These were sometimes by telegram - I remember the typically dramatic announcement, "I fear you have an essay I cannot do justice in the length proposed Have been trying to call you Please call me JAMES BALDWIN STPAULDEVENCE" - or, more commonly, by phone, often twice a week. I telephoned him at his home in St-Paul de Vence and we agreed a date and a very small fee, and he said, "I'd better get to work, baby." It read, in part: "Would love to arrange to do a long piece: but cannot do it within the dead-line." This was a cue for celebration. Baldwin's reply was scrawled at the foot of my own neatly typed letter. It arrived in response to a letter I had sent, three months before, asking if he would consider writing a review of a new history of jazz for the quarterly magazine of which I was then editor, the New Edinburgh Review. ![]() I received only one handwritten note from James Baldwin in the course of our acquaintance, which began in 1979 and came to an end with his death eight years later. ![]() |