![]() ![]() ![]() Krishna once said, “He would hover around a word like a bee buzzing around a chosen flower, admiring it from every possible angle. You would notice that he is very particular about his choice of words, for he cares deeply about verbal communication. If you’re not familiar with the great man or any of his works, then it would be a good idea to listen to some of his talks. However, we are still going to persist with it and find a reasonable pathway. This is why the question - how should one read Jiddu Krishnamurti’s books and in what order? - is not as straightforward as it may seem. ![]() One has to constantly reflect and assess the validity of a statement - which is not something that every reader is comfortable with. One of the major challenges I found when I first started reading Jiddu Krishnamurti was that it is very difficult to contain him, label him or put his ideas into any category. It requires great amount of patience, attention and persistence. If you know anything about Krishnamurti, you’d know that it is not easy to read or follow him. That is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and read… (and especially read Jiddu Krishnamurti’s books.) After all, this is life, all this is life. You must live your life fully, he would tell you, and not only live it in fragments. “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it,” said Jiddu Krishnamurti, the great Indian philosopher. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I had to go back and then read the odd numbered chapters until I got to the point where they were introduced. In fact at one point I was so caught up in the artwork exchange between Mike and Amelia that I read only those chapters in quick succession until I came across three characters who I did not recognize. The connection he finds with Amelia, another one talented in drawing, in their secret illustrated communications makes for one of the more fascinating sequences in the story. Marsh, and the very intriguing relationship that develops between Mike and Marsh's artist daughter Amelia all surpass the action of the various lock picking and safecracking escapades. But the story of Mike committing his first break-in, his punishment at the home of Mr. ![]() The other (to me, the more interesting half of the book) is Mike's coming of age and the slow reveal of how he went from being a kid who knew how to pick locks to an artist with a magic touch under the tutelage of the mysterious master safecracker known only as "The Ghost." While there are action scenes galore in the caper portions of the book it all seemed familiar to me. ![]() One half of the book is mostly made up of capers that take place in 2000, the year Mike became a career criminal. ![]() ![]() Bruce begins to wonder if the shady characters in Nelson's novels were more fact than fiction. Who would want Nelson dead? The local police are overwhelmed with the aftermath of the storm and in no condition to handle the case. But evidence suggests that the storm wasn't the cause of Nelson's death - he had received several mysterious blows to the head. One of the victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce's who wrote timely political thrillers. The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are levelled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people are killed. Amongst them is Bruce Cable, proprietor of Bay Books in downtown Santa Rosa. Most residents flee but a small group of diehards decide to ride it out. Is a Perfect Storm the Perfect Time for a Murder? 'Another gem from John Grisham' Observer When Hurricane Leo threatens Florida's Camino Island, the Governor is quick to issue an evacuation order. ![]() The Sunday Times bestseller from international bestseller John Grisham. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Review The five books that changed my life ?Woman About the Author A former USAF pilot, gypsy barnstormer and airplane mechanic, Richard Bach is the author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, including the multi-million international bestsellerJonathan Livingston Seagull. and that messiahs can be found in the unlikeliest places - like hay fields, one-traffic-light midwestern towns, and most of all, deep within ourselves. that even the darkest clouds have meaning once we lift ourselves above them. until he meets Donald Shimoda - former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination soar.In Illusions, the unforgettable follow-up to his phenomenal New York Times bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that give our souls wings: that people don't need airplanes to soar. ![]() For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders. Product Description In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. ![]() ![]() But her unique spiritual gifts cannot be ignored, and even as she gives birth to their eagerly-awaited child, she is coming to accept that she has a greater role to play in the destiny of the Zelandonii. After the rigours and dangers that have characterised her extraordinary life, Ayla yearns for peace and tranquillity to be Jondalar's mate and to have children. She is delighted when she meets Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of her people, a fellow healer with whom she can share her medicinal skills. Jondalar's family are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back, with her strange accent and her tame wolf and horses. Ayla has much to learn from the Zelandonii as well as much to teach them. This is another paragraph Product Description: Ayla and Jondalar have reached home: the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as south-west France. 776pp including list of characters.Price un-clipped.Heavy book.First edition-first printing. Brown singe look to part of page edges, 3 cm tear in dustjacket at bottom of. The book is in VGC with light shelf wear on the Dj (a couple of small marks inside the edges of the Dj cover). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Illustrated with a map inside the front and back cover.Nice and clean pages but with a couple marks and light shelf wear on the outer edges,two small ink marks on the edges of the pages. First UK edition-first printing(2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1).Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,small nick on the edge of the front cover) with Dj (two small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover), both in VGC. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armor. But Rosie doesn’t know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking-for lack of a better word-on Instagram for the last few months. Luckily she has her best friend Lina’s spare key while she’s out of town. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. She hasn’t told her family and now has terrible writer’s block. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Cosmopolitan, Goodreads, PopSugar, and more!įrom the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I felt in the novel that the plot of Anna transitioning between worlds (be that literally, or in her daydreams) was a little less plausible I think because we have access to her thoughts, it begs why she wouldn't be more questioning of what was happening. I think it's because in the novel we have access to Anna's thoughts, which brings the teenage point of view to bear much more strongly in the film, Anna comes across more quiet and contemplative (except when she's with Marnie of course), and so it has a less frenetic feel, more suited to adult tastes. The novel feels more teen-orientated than the film, which I think is squarely aimed at adults (like most Ghibli films). ![]() It feels on the side of young people in general, even today, which I think is impressive. And the novel definitely reads like it's on Anna's side, like the author was taking issue with how children were treated by adults. Anna is a really great character: she's got the teenage spunk, but she's also quiet and reserved, and not part of the popular clique at school, which I think most readers will relate to. Both deal with mental health, parenting and neglect, and coming of age issues with subtlety, and the plot is inventive, warm and magical. The film and novel are very similar, save for the transposing to England here rather than Japan, and some slight plot differences towards the end. I really enjoyed the Studio Ghibli film, and was interested to learn it was based on a novel. Tender, nuanced and clever novel for young adults ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For without your own land, his grandfather tells him, you are nobody. But unlike Sammy, once Duddy has outgrown his childhood peculations (stealing and then reselling the spare hockey sticks of the Rangers, peddling pornographic comicīooks, street gambling) his urge is for the honorable, the legitimate, the man-to-man enterprise that will provide him money to buy land. Like Sammy, Duddy is bound to escape from the poverty and humiliation of his boyhood. Man is Duddy Kravitz, a Sammy Glick by any other name, but a broken-field runner rather than one with his eye on the long distance crown. Urbain Street to the borscht belt of the Laurentians and on to the stylish residential heights of Montreal's Outrement. "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" is really the revved-up odyssey of a young man from the squalor of St. For the ring of truth is the one clear note to be found in a book that is sometimes hilariously funny, sometimes brutally pathetic and often unnecessarily vulgar. OctoMontreal Meteor By Florence Crowther The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz By Mordecai Richler.į, as Keats put it, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," then there must be beauty in Mordecai Richler's candid novel of juvenile delinquents ![]() ![]() ![]() Marc joins the Lonely Hearts chat room where men support men on their way to finding true love. In four novellas, eight men encounter unique struggles on their way to their well-deserved happily ever after. Stoic men, who believe they’re happy alone, find the world turned upside down when their perfect someone stumbles across their path. Check out what Posy has to say, along with an excerpt from the men’s chat room, and a giveaway! Taking these four fantastic novellas and tying the men together, not by place, or by family, but by a simple chat room that Marc joins. I love what Posy did with this unique idea. ![]() I’m so excited that Posy Roberts, who I just adore, stopped by to give a little guest post, and excerpt from her new novella bundle, Lonely Hearts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe instead of saying ‘I love you’ we should say ‘I imagine you’. So much is how we perceive someone and the memories we have of them, rather than the facts of who they are. This theme speaks to the idea that we are ‘who we are’ in the context of our relationships, and interactions with others. The title plays into a couple of elements of the plot – ‘ghosting’, a phenomenon that I have been too old to experience but is apparently common on the dating scene and the ‘ghosts’ of ourselves, which is explored in the context of relationships and also gently through the character of Nina’s father, who has been diagnosed with dementia. Thirty-something single Nina is looking for love, and the story focuses around her friendships, relationship history, and what happens when people are at life different stages. ![]() ![]() Ghosts is a millennial version of Bridget Jones. This genre has not been my choice in the last 15 odd years, but 2020 seems to have changed all sorts of things. When I was in my twenties, it meant you could walk into a book store, pick up a novel with a hot pink cover and a picture of a stiletto shoe on the front, and be sure that you would have a fun bit of reading ahead. ‘Chick-lit’… ‘Women’s fiction’… I’m not even sure what these labels mean now. Ghosts by Dolly Alderton fitted the bill nicely. I’m limping to the reading finish line this year, and in order to get there, I’m choosing books that demand very little from me. ![]() |