![]() ![]() Just know in the end everything has its place and time,” she said. I don’t have kids of my own, yet I have dedicated my life to helping others what a cliché right? Here I am admitting that I am a work in progress too. “Just know we all look perfect but we are human first and this is my current journey. I will commit to medical help and trust God for the healing. I have dedicated this year to overcome this hole in my heart. “I look at my schedule this year and I am still overwhelmed, but I look at where I come from and there are so many milestones that I’m proud of, but this one thing still kills me. I hate speaking about it because it’s one of many miscarriages and a painful ectopic pregnancy that decreased my chances of having kids. Business woman and MoFaya brand strategist turned author, Jackie Phamotse, released a book about this late last year, titled ‘Bare,’ and though it got off to a relatively quiet start. “ I have obsessed with work that I keep putting this issue off. The author of the controversial book, Bare, said she has “obsessed with work”, hoping to distract herself from having suffered many miscarriages. Years later, my fertility issues keep staggering.” “ Today has been a brutal reminder of how I lost my son, a day I’ll never forget. On Instagram this week, she laid bare her emotions when she brought up the painful memory. One of the most painful things a woman can go through is a miscarriage and author Jackie Phamotse will never forget the day she lost her son. ![]()
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![]() ![]() All About Love is a powerful affirmation of just how profoundly she can. ![]() The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the 100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for the individuals and for a nation. In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness.Īs bell hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explode th question What is love? her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Here, at her most provacative and intensely personel, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. ![]() The word love is most often defined as a noun, yet…we would all love to better if we used it as a verb, writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. 'The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet.we would all love to better if we used it as a verb,' writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers. Guy Burgess was the most important, complex and fascinating of ‘The Cambridge Spies’ – Maclean, Philby, Blunt – all brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. ![]() ‘In the sad and funny Stalin’s Englishman, manages to convey the charm as well as the turpitude.’ Craig Brown ‘Andrew Lownie’s biography of Guy Burgess, Stalin’s Englishman … shrewd, thorough, revelatory.’ William Boyd ‘A remarkable and definitive portrait ‘ Frederick Forsyth ‘One of the great biographies of 2015.’ The Timesįully updated edition including recently released information.Ī Guardian Book of the Year. Winner of the St Ermin’s Intelligence Book of the Year Award. ![]() ![]() It is through this flashback that Rory’s past is slowly unfolded from her friendship with Cam to her love affair with the star quarterback. The narrative flashes back to Rory’s old life in Florida. They both catch each other attention and eventually form a strong friendship bond. The story focuses on the need to “blend in” and also the “need not to be seen.” but that is easier said than done because she soon experiences a panic attack after class that’s witnessed by the famous and charming Sam. The story kicks off as Rory relocates to New York with her mother and her parents’ divorce. Normal, the first book in Something More Series is narrated from Aurora commonly known as Rory POV. The author attended Boston University before publishing her debut novel, Normal, the first book in Something More series. She lives in New Jersey with her loving husband and three children and a lifelong book aficionado who has been writing stories from childhood. She is also iBooks and Amazon bestselling author of the novel series, Something More. ![]() Danielle Pearl is American author of romance, fiction, and romance novels. ![]() ![]() Here, he learns that a seagull is “an unlimited idea of freedom, an idea of the Great Gull.” He also learns the value of being true to yourself. In the second part, Jonathan Livingston Seagull reaches a society where all of the gulls enjoy flying. ![]() There, he meets two radiant seagulls, one of which is named Chiang, who tell him that there is more they can teach him. After they do, he flies higher and higher until he can go no further. He is punished for his nonconformity when the flock banishes him. He is much more interested in learning everything he can about flight. ![]() ![]() The book was first published with three sections in which the narrator, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, is bored living the seagull life, so focused on fitting in and the daily squabbles over food. ![]() ![]() ![]() A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy." - Entertainment Weekly "An unforgettable-and Hollywood-bound-new thriller. **THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. 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The characters are true to life in conditions where human beings are asked to exhibit personal emotional strength and bravery, a readiness to face everything thrown at them in the most terrifying and heart-stopping conditions with a unity that overcomes all that face them every day and every night too. His dramatic descriptions are very powerful. The dreadful daily conditions are appalling for the men who suffer aboard her and they are physically and emotionally stretched far beyond their human limits. These convoy runs were fraught with constant danger from the atrocious weather conditions at sea but also from the risk of destruction by Germany’s U-Boats. HMS Ulysses is a frigate which is part of the arctic convoy runs during World War II to Murmansk. This is the author's first book and he has written many more excellent sea stories too, but this one stands out for me much in the way of the novel "The Cruel Sea" ![]() I first read this brilliant heart-stopping book years ago many times over and recently bought it again. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It has also been shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize for experimental writing. In 2016, Grief won the Sunday Times PFD Young Writer of the Year Award, the Books Are My Bag Readers' Award for fiction, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Europese Literatuurprijs. It draws heavily upon Hughes's Crow: From the Life and Songs of Crow and its title is derived from Emily Dickinson's "Hope is the thing with feathers". Grief is the Thing with Feathers is a hybrid of prose and poetic styles about a crow who visits a grieving family of a Ted Hughes scholar and his two young boys. In 2019, Porter was named as a guest curator for the Cheltenham Literary Festival. He was Editorial Director at Granta and Portobello Books until 2019. Prior to his writing career, Porter managed the Chelsea branch of Daunt Books and won the Bookseller of the Year Award in 2009. Porter was born in High Wycombe in 1981 and received a degree in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, followed by an MA in radical performance art, psychoanalysis, and feminism. Max Porter (born 1981) is an English writer, formerly a bookseller and editor, best known for his debut novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers. ![]() ![]() ![]() 15 Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. 14 Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man's eyes was a Sabbath. 13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. So I went and washed, and then I could see." 12 "Where is this man?" they asked him. 11 He replied, "The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. Others said, "No, he only looks like him." But he himself insisted, "I am the man." 10 "How then were your eyes opened?" they demanded. 8 His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, "Isn't this the same man who used to sit and beg?" 9 Some claimed that he was. So the man went and washed, and came home seeing. ![]() 7 "Go," he told him, "wash in the Pool of Siloam" (this word means Sent). 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world." 6 Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes. 4 As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. 2 His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" 3 "Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. Bible Gateway John 9 :: NIV John 9 1 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a kind of magic too, you know? The Bard told me this. I jestem ciekawa, czy ktoś pokusi się na polskie tłumaczenie. Wiem jednak, że sięgnę po więcej Cassandry Khaw, spróbuję w pełnym formacie powieści. Jestem usatysfakcjonowana, chociaż nie tego szukałam. Potrzebny jest oddech, kropka, noc na trawienie. Nie dałabym rady na jeden chaps, padłabym z przeżarcia formą. Każda z historii jest sycąca i trudno iść dalej. ![]() Łatwo można się zmęczyć - dobrze, że to krótka forma, że Khaw wie, kiedy skończyć. ![]() ![]() I nie wiesz, czy sama narratorka nie jest przypadkiem ukrytą bestią.Īle. Operuje piękną, poetycką, baśniową frazą, jej zdania mają gawędziarski rytm, jakby snuła opowieść przy ognisku w sercu lasu. Ma dar wciągania nas w historię od pierwszego zdania. Khaw sięga do korzeni opowieści i robi to naprawdę dobrze. Tutaj ludzie mają zwierzęcą naturę krwiożerczych bestii - to drapieżniki o błękitnych oczach, ukryte w cieniu, przyczajone. Ten zbiór to jak wejście do świata makabrycznych baśni, współczesnych, dzikich i nieujarzmionych. Z opisów spodziewałam się ekstremy, czegoś cielesnego, brutalnego (na to liczyłam), a w zamian? Zbiór opowiadań i książka, która już dawno tak bardzo nie odbiegła od moich oczekiwań. ![]() |