![]() Nidhi is a sweet lady of thirty-two, who left a very promising and lucrative corporate job to follow her heart and passion. Trish has a list of things which she wants Aniket to work on and he has no choice but to agree. ![]() They had sure hit it off well at the start but things have not been going well for the last couple of months. Super sexy and part-time model Trisha (a.k.a Trish) is dating Aniket but isn’t too happy about his boring hobbies and a protruding beer belly. ![]() He is an ordinary guy with an extraordinary girlfriend. ![]() It is a very fresh and unique love story which transcends age and geographical boundaries and makes you go all “gooey” in the heart.Īniket is a young techie living in Bangalore. “It’s All in the Planets” is no different. Her characters are varied and so are her plots and she has a knack for repeatedly delivering to her readers, love stories which melt our hearts. Preeti Shenoy is one of the few Indian writers who has moved away from the classic and time-tested recipe of college love and has ventured to explore this feeling called love in its deeper depths. ![]() I am sure almost all of us have been through this phenomenon once in our lives and hence we all know what a joy or pain love can be. It has the power to make you or break you. Preeti Shenoy’s It’s All in the Planets is a fresh and unique love story ![]()
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![]() ![]() Can you tell me about coming up with where you took the story. You continue that story in this new book. ![]() Paste: Warm Bodies has this great elevator pitch, the zombie story from the perspective of the zombie. We chatted with Marion about the sequel, the Warm Bodies film adaptation and the next installment in his zombie series. In The Burning World, the sequel released this week, R and his heroic girlfriend Julia find themselves still under attack in a much bigger world than we saw in book one. But defeating the skeletal demons and overthrowing the fascist leaders of of humanity’s last stand was just step one. Marion’s clever and surprisingly affecting 2011 debut, made into a teenage rom-com two years later (changing the tone, but keeping much of the plot), told the story of zombie who wanted to regain his humanity. But with R, Isaac Marion’s undead protagonist, we learned just how misunderstood our rotting brethren could be. Warm Bodies gave us a glimpse into the oft-overlooked internal life of the zombie, a creature heretofore dismissed as a shuffling meat-suit of hunger, a destructive nightmarish metaphor for disconnection and loss of individuality. ![]() ![]() Their full discussion reveals the split between the postmodernist worldview and traditional epistemology, represented by Chomsky, who stands up for “old-fashioned concepts,” such as justice and truth. The spirit of Foucault continues to permeate discussions of human nature and social justice.Ĭhomsky and Foucault agreed on much-until the subject turned to politics. This collision between Chomsky and Foucault has remained relevant-clips of Chomsky referring to postmodern critiques of science as “ pretty embarrassing” continue to float around YouTube, as the Intellectual Dark Web and Jordan Peterson have re-energized anti-postmodernist polemic. In November, the postmodern philosopher Michel Foucault met with MIT linguist Noam Chomsky to debate whether or not an innate human nature exists, and was paid a brick of hash for his trouble. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thomas Pynchon had published his first two novels, the Pentagon Papers were published and Richard Nixon was withdrawing troops from the massively unpopular Vietnam War. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Life is better when you’re surrounded by water and sand dunes. These days, she lives in northern Michigan with her excavator husband and her endlessly happy baby boy. ![]() Writing has always been her first love and she has returned to it at every stage of her life. ![]() in Psychology and has worked in a variety of fields from weight loss counseling to social work. She graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A. In addition to nature, reading and writing were her major passions and she passed many a summer scribbling horror stories on tattered sheets of notebook paper that her cousins Matt and Jen illustrated. Pseudo because there was no planting, to speak of, just a hodge podge of creatures from pigmy goats to raccoons. She was born in Lansing, Michigan and grew up in Mason where she lived with her parents and sister on a 40 acre pseudo-farm. In today’s episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Paranormal Crime Fiction Author J R Erickson. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book was well paced with a lot of fighting and suspense in between. ![]() ![]() Yes, it was that entertaining! I can’t remember ever being entertained by an audiobook AND story ever!įrost really wrote a compelling read and a memorable cast of characters in Halfway to the Grave. The quirkiness and pop-culture references were spot-on and I could not keep from laughing out loud that my hubby had to look at me weirdly. The sexy times were a little on the spicy side, which was perfect. Cat and Bones fairly sizzled every time they met. Now, don’t get me started on Bones (if I was still a teen, I probably would call him my book BFF)! He is the perfect hero for Cat! I love how he was on the dominating side but not dominating-scary. The accent – OH EM GEE the accent! Tavia Gilbert really captured Bones’ essence which really made me get into the story. You’re the grim reaper with red hair.” – Bones, Halfway to the Graveīones. This was one of the audiobooks that I just could not STOP listening to! I was hooked! What I got when I listened to the audiobook version was 100% awesomeness and badassery from our heroine Cat Crawfield, a human-vampire half-breed. Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with. ![]() I did not read any reviews for this book nor did someone recommend it to me. I probably saw this somewhere on my Facebook wall and decided to read it over my birthday week. Buy Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress 1) by Jeaniene Frost for 19.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. When I borrowed Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost from the library a few weeks ago, I did not have any expectations whatsoever. ![]() ![]() ![]() The readers get a glimpse into an author’s professional life and struggles: facing and overcoming “writer’s block”, PR messes, event surprises, meeting fans, having supportive writer friends, and responding to and handling critics. I feel like it was cathartic for Meg Cabot to write this. No Words is the perfect summer read for any bibliophile! Moving messages about loss, life and love. Intriguing insight into an author’s life. Entertaining rom-com moments that have you turning the pages. I love this book! It’s got snark, sass, love, heart and soul along with a great cast of fun personalities. ![]() For children’s author Jo Wright and young adult romance author Will Price, this weekend will be one for the books (literally). ![]() You shouldn’t make rash judgments about a person.Ĭlassic rivals-to-lovers romance during a weekend festival at beautiful Little Bridge Island in the Florida Keys. ![]() ![]() But I did manage to publish one of my books at an academic publishing house: Ken Wilber: Thought as Passion (SUNY Press, 2003). ![]() I graduated as a psychologist of culture and religion in 1987, never to return again to the university. 0-0-0-0-0- “Because there is more light here”įirst a disclaimer. A good example can be found in the Bill Gates-sponsored educational website " Big History Project".ĭue to time constraints, only half of this paper could be presented. This love was palpable in many of the discussions I had. Big History is about knowledge, but also about the love for knowledge and for teaching this knowledge to students and in high school. It was a marvelous experience to meet with several people in the field of Big History (David Christian, Fred Spier and others) in an informal setting. ![]() Together they form my attempt at comparing and contrasting these two comprehensivebut hardly overlappingapproaches to human knowledge. Earlier essays on these two fields of integrative knowledge can be found here: Integral Theory and the Big History Approach (May 2013) and Integral Theory and Cosmic Evolution (December 2014). ![]() I recently (July 2016) presented the paper " Big History and Integral Theory: Bill Bryson Meets Ken Wilber" at the third International Big History Conference at the University of Amsterdam. ![]() ![]() But as Libertie grows up, Greenidge masterfully details the way the girl begins to separate herself from her mother and find her own path. As a child, Libertie marvels at her mother’s diligence, stoicism and mystifying ability to heal. ![]() The novel begins just before the war in a free Black community in Brooklyn, a borough that’s still mostly farmland. Kathy Sampson and the titular narrator Libertie, whose incredible story is shaped by her own choices as well as other people’s designs. ![]() In Libertie, they’re transformed into Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first woman in New York to earn a medical degree, and by one of her children, a daughter who moved to Haiti upon her marriage. Greenidge’s second novel (after 2016’s We Love You, Charlie Freeman) was inspired by the life of Dr. With its revelatory history and fresh perspectives, Kaitlyn Greenidge’s splendid Libertie is a welcome addition to the canon. ![]() But with the exception of books like Toni Morrison’s Beloved, only recently have novels about enslaved or freeborn Black people during the war and Reconstruction become prominent. ![]() There’s plenty of Civil War fiction out there it’s a seemingly bottomless category of novels exploring people both prominent and obscure whose lives are touched in some way by the war. ![]() ![]() The lead protagonist is Henk van der Pol, a cop nearing retirement, who is very much his own man and is reluctant to retire quietly. The Harbour Master is a police procedural thriller set in Amsterdam. Not quite sure who to trust and fearing for his family’s safety Henk tries to navigate a treacherous terrain. He turns to a highly connected politician for help only to be enrolled in another scandal, this one involving diplomatic favours for political gain. Tangling with her pimp, Henk soon finds himself threatened by both the pimp and his police colleagues. ![]() From a tattoo on her ankle he determines that the woman was a gang-run prostitute from Hungary. Not satisfied with the way it is being handled, Henk runs his own parallel investigation. Very quickly his colleague and boss have excluded him from the case. Up early one morning he’s present when a young woman is discovered floating in Amsterdam harbour. ![]() A career cop, Henk van der Pol is six months from retirement. ![]() ![]() ![]() But there are unsettling complications to the case-including a family connection. Wrexford is tasked with retrieving it before it falls into the wrong hands. The late Jeremiah Willis was the engineering genius behind a new design for a top-secret weapon, and the prototype is missing from the Royal Armory’s laboratory. ![]() Still, some social obligations must be honored, especially with the grand Peace Celebrations unfolding throughout London to honor victory over Napoleon.īut when Wrexford and their two young wards, Raven and Hawk, discover a body floating in Hyde Park’s famous lake, that newfound peace looks to be at risk. The publisher’s description lays out the mystery’s stakes for Charlotte, Wrexford (what the heck is his first name?), the Weasels, their friends, and a lovely new addition to their found family:Ĭharlotte, now the Countess of Wrexford, would like nothing more than a summer of peace and quiet with her new husband and their unconventional family and friends. ![]() ![]() Though married contentment permeates Penrose’s latest, the honeymoon is definitely over when Wrexford and the Weasels pull a body from the Serpentine. Wrexford and Sloane #6 sees Lord Wrexford and his now Lady Charlotte once again chasing villainy. ![]() |