![]() After years of working with WriteGirl, a Los Angeles based non-profit that assists young teen girls to discover the power of their voice through writing, 17-year-old Gorman published her first book, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015. This inspiring young woman became a youth delegate for the United Nations in 2013 and was chosen as the first youth poet laureate of Los Angeles in 2014. Growing up, she was given limited access to television, only being allowed to watch 1940s sitcoms, and was required to give a social justice argument if she desired to watch something else. Gorman began writing songs when she was five years old but moved to poetry once recognizing that she had few musical talents. Amanda was born prematurely and was diagnosed with a speech and auditory impediment in her youth. All three were raised by single mother Joan Wicks, a sixth grade English Teacher. ![]() She has an older brother, Spencer, and a twin sister, Gabrielle. Gorman was born on March 7, 1998, in Los Angeles, California. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Now, to the review (this is almost certainly going to be long) The good ![]() I opened up a bottle of delicious older-than-me scotch when Terry Pratchett died, and I’ve been enjoying it for much of this afternoon, so this will probably be a mess and cleaned up later. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality full review Since there was some controversy over su3su2u1's identity, I'll note that I am not su3su2u1 and that hosting this material is neither an endorsement nor a sign of agreement. These are archived from the now defunct su3su2u1 tumblr. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality review by su3su2u1 Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality review by su3su2u1 | I'm trying some experimental tiers on Patreon to see if I can get to substack-like levels of financial support for this blog without moving to substack! ![]() ![]() The rational approach works quite well in certain situations, such as mass production of goods, or in certain kinds of scientific measurements-but all in all the rational method, as it is understood and used, does not work as an overall approach to life, or in the solving of problems that involve subjective rather than objective measurements or calculations. "We are indeed dealing with two entirely different approaches to reality and to solving problems-methods we will here call the rational method and the magical one. By applying the principles in this book, readers will learn to trust their impulses and discover the highest expression of their creativity. It helps us to discover and tune into our natural, instinctive behavior. The Magical Approach teaches us how to live our lives spontaneously, creatively, and according to our own natural rhythms. Seth reveals the true, magical nature of our deepest levels of being, and explains how we have allowed it to become inhibited by our own beliefs and conventional thinking. In this brand new volume of original material, Seth invites us to look at the world through another lens-a magical one. ![]() ![]() The Seth books are world-renowned for comprising one of the most profound bodies of work ever written on the true nature of reality. ![]() ![]() There’s zero stunting in director Peter Askin’s translation of King’s screenplay-no slick camera tricks, dread-drenched cinematography, or jump scares. ![]() The wife, Darcy ( Joan Allen), discovers the horrifying secret her husband, Bob ( Anthony LaPaglia), has been hiding from her all of those years. In A Good Marriage (in theaters and on VOD today), adapted from his own novella (included in the 2010 collection Full Dark, No Stars), King takes the creepy underpinnings of the very real BTK Killer story and applies it to a thriller about a couple celebrating over 25 years of marriage. King steps out from beyond his comfort zone to extract the essence of his story and commit it to an entirely different format: the screenplay. ![]() Stephen King knows a thing or two about “a good marriage.” He’s been married to Tabitha King for over 40 years, and if it wasn’t for her dipping into the trash can to rescue a young King’s discarded draft of his debut novel, Carrie, we may have never been blessed with the most perceptive and prolific horror writer of any generation’s classic-filled output.ĭespite his staggering bibliography, it's rare that Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Names is about Americans abroad, mostly in Greece and the Middle East. These books are still about things, yes, but they also are the things themselves: highly self-aware literary works, recreations of modern society so intense that they make us see it afresh – intensely DeLillo-esque books about an intensely DeLillo-esque world. ![]() ![]() It is on the five-book run of the 1980s and 90s – The Names (1982), White Noise (1985), Libra (1988), Mao II (1991) and Underworld (1997) – that DeLillo's colossal reputation stands. And they started to win him a reputation: " There's Norman Mailer, there's Thomas Pynchon, now there's Don DeLillo," gasped the Los Angeles Times on the paperback cover of Running Dog.īut it is widely agreed by his admirers that the next stage of DeLillo's career rang in what we might call his imperial phase. ![]() Later in the 1970s he began to grow and experiment more: novels like Ratner's Star (1976), Players (1977) and Running Dog (1978) were playful, intricate and increasingly uninterested in forcing DeLillo's talents into standard literary forms: they mashed up elements of science fiction, thrillers and satire with big-brain subjects (astronomy, economics, social history). DeLillo's early novels were about things – advertising (Americana, 1971), sport (End Zone, 1972), rock music (Great Jones Street, 1973). ![]() ![]() ![]() “Chance III favors those who have a sufficient background of sound knowledge plus special abilities in observing, remembering, recalling, and quickly forming significant new associations.” - Dr. If you win the lottery, invest the money in functional businesses instead of spending it on sports cars and yachts. Just make sure you don’t squander it if it strikes you. They’re something to celebrate, but definitely not a moment to count on.īlind luck will slip in and out of the other types of luck, so it’s essential to keep an eye out for it. All of these events arrive entirely out of the blue, and with little to no action on your part. Picture a miracle, an “Act of God,” or winning the lottery. This is the kind of luck you’re most familiar with. “Chance I is completely impersonal you can’t influence it.” - Dr. Here are the four different kinds of luck, and how you can capture them: 1. ![]() In his book, the neurologist -and Zen Buddhist- explained the roles of luck, chance, and serendipity in medical research, and outlines what we know today as the four kinds of luck.Īustin reduces each type of “chance” (the word Austin uses for luck) to the kind of work you must do to find it, and your subsequent “sensory reception” of the event. Austin wrote Chase, Chance, and Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty. ![]() ![]() ![]() When she spurned him, he condemned her to Hell, where she has spent the last 10,000 years in torment. After seducing her and revealing his true nature as the Shaper of Dreams, he had asked her to become his queen. Destiny does not know what this means, but, after consulting his book, knows that it all begins with the family meeting.ĭesire begins to argue with Dream about one of Dream's past romances, a young tribal woman named Nada. Destiny tells them what the Fates said, that certain events will be set in motion, and that a king will forsake his kingdom and the oldest battle will begin once more. Having given up his duties for a life of wandering, Destruction does not attend the meeting. Present are Destiny, Dream, Death, the twins Desire and Despair, and Delirium, the youngest of the Endless. After a visit from the Fates, Destiny of the Endless calls the family together for a rare meeting. ![]() ![]() The Undertaker’s Daughter is a standalone mystery departure from Sara Blaedel’s #1 international bestselling Louise Rick series. As the world crumbles around them, they will discover more about each other, about themselves, and draw strength to face the future together. Michele Tracy Berger’s Reenu-You is a fun twist on post-apocalyptic fiction. At the heart of the epidemic are five women each from different walks of life. It is the story of how a strong woman used grit and determination to launch a thriving business, and what a mother will do to help her children.Īn epidemic quickly is spreading among black and latino communities in New York. Troylyn Ball’s Pure Heart is a story of dedication, inspiration, and days spent in a run-down shack in the company of some of the finest and funniest good-old boys you'd ever want to meet. Within its pages, Heather Bell Adams brings to vivid life two strong, Southern women, at odds yet bound by love's saving grace. Maranatha Road is an ode to beauty and suffering, grief and hope in a small mountain town. ![]() The Secret, Book & Scone Society is the first in an intriguing new series by New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams set within a quirky small-town club where the key to happiness, friendship-or solving a murder-can all be found within the pages of the right book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Claire must fight to hold onto her sanity and find out what really happened on the Aurora, before she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. But a quick trip through the Aurora reveals something isn’t right. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. What they find at the other end of the signal is a shock: the Aurora, a famous luxury space-liner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate. ![]() Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended.Ĭlaire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed-made obsolete-when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. ![]() Genres: Fiction / Horror, Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure Published by Tor Nightfire on February 8, 2022 This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the Publisher. ![]() ![]() As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances - a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heart-breaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection. ![]() In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. ![]() This is the framework for meaningful connection." In her latest book, five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr Brene Brown, writes, "If we want to find the way back to ourselves and each other, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories, and to be stewards of the stories that we hear. ![]() |