![]() ![]() She has four published titles, all translated into multiple languages. Newsletter Sign up ➜ Nicole Fiorina is the #1 Best Selling Author in Poetry for her debut trilogy, Stay with Me, and Amazon’s #1 Best Selling Author in Gothic Romance for Hollow Heathens. When she's not writing, she's busy being inspired, traveling, or planning her next book-with one hand on her laptop and the other balancing a latte. In this case, she will lose track of time and will have to be dragged away. ![]() ![]() She's a rule breaker who cannot be confined in a box, except when she's in the writing cave. Her writing style and stories are known to evoke imagery and emotion, varying across all sub-genres, settings, and time periods due to her ambition to live a thousand lives. Nicole Fiorina is the #1 Best Selling Author in Poetry for her debut trilogy, Stay with Me, and Amazon’s #1 Best Selling Author in Gothic Romance for Hollow Heathens. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her boss, John Rourke, lodges a complaint with IAD, which still holds a grudge against Bosch for refusing to be part of the "Family."ĭay 2 finds IAD's Lewis and Clarke confident they will get Bosch suspended by the end of the day, so he uses his remaining time to determine the eyewitness's identity. Bosch takes this to the FBI, confident they can help one another but gets nowhere with Special Agent Wish. Detective Harry Bosch responds, recognizes a fellow "tunnel rat" from Vietnam, William Meadows, and finds evidence for Meadows' involvement in a an unsolved bank robbery. ![]() Homicide Detective Harry Bosch nearly dies in the "black echo" of the water tunnels beneath Los Angeles, when he discovers how FBI agents have engineered two diamond-heists and murdered his former Vietnam buddy and an innocent graffiti artist.Ī frightened young graffiti artist sees a body dragged from a Jeep into a pipe and calls 911. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her book aims to “make your loved ones’ memories of you affectionate, rather than upsetting” when you’re gone. Death Cleaning Is Not Just About YouĬonfronted with the deaths of her own parents, and later her husband, Mrs Magnusson set upon städning, or cleaning up after they passed. Swedish death cleaning is about cleaning up before yourself – before you die. And these people leave a mess after them. “Some people can’t wrap their heads around death. Stuff that other people will carry the burden of dealing with when you’re gone. Another truth – and this is the motivation behind the book – is that when you die, you leave a lot of stuff behind if you have not death cleaned. We must all talk about death, as the author says. That’s neither morbid, nor sad our mortality is a fact of life. It’s done incrementally, and thoughtfully, over time, in preparation for what awaits us all: dö, death in Swedish, is our universal, inevitable fate. Marie Kondo’s all-out approach of dumping all your belongings on the floor and making a gargantuan mess will truly disrupt your life and household for days (if not weeks), while death cleaning is gentle and slow. ![]() Swedish death cleaning feels to me like the polar opposite of the Konmari method of decluttering. ![]() “Death cleaning is not about dusting or mopping up it is a permanent form of organisation that makes your everyday life run more smoothly.” ![]() What the Heck Is Swedish Death Cleaning?. ![]() ![]() Stay smart, stay out of debt, and risk being boring the creative you will need to make room to be wild and daring in your imagination. Follow your interests wherever they take you. And filled with new truths about creativity: Nothing is original, so embrace influence, collect ideas, and remix and re-imagine to discover your own path. The result is inspiring, hip, original, practical, and entertaining. The talk went viral, and its author dug deeper into his own ideas to create Steal Like an Artist, the book. Kleon was asked to address college students in upstate New York, he shaped his speech around the ten things he wished someone had told him when he was starting out. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side. That s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. You don t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. ![]() Nothing is original, so embrace influence, school yourself through the work of others, remix and reimagine to discover your own path. Learn how to get the audible audiobook for free: An inspiring guide to creativity in the digital age, Steal Like an Artist presents ten transformative principles that will help readers discover their artistic side and build a more creative life. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon In today's episode of the FlashBooks Podcast, we'll be getting into an audio book summary on Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The trick? Pullman creates a twin brother for Jesus – Christ, the eponymous Scoundrel. Pullman takes the familiar story of Jesus of Nazareth and, with one clever twist, presents us with a new version – an account that offers an explanation of how this particular story has been solidified into two thousand years worth of hierarchy, dogma and ritual – never mind persecution, war and prejudice. Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is as good an attack on organised religion as you can ever hope to come by The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is an alternate Gospel that suggests how the Christian church may have come into being in the first place. ![]() ![]() complex in event, imaginative in detail, ethically and intellectually sophisticated." - Ursula K. a truly superb work of science fiction." - Infinity Plus "Lively, racy, and likable. ![]() it has survived triumphantly as a classic." - Publishers Weekly "The story is carried out with a controlled fierceness that doesn't waver for a minute." - Kirkus Reviews "Brilliantly and beautifully written. Le Guin and a new afterword by Boris Strugatsky explaining the strange history of the novel's publication in Russia. This authoritative new translation corrects many errors and omissions and has been supplemented with a foreword by Ursula K. And the news he gets from his girlfriend upon his return makes it inevitable that he'll keep going back to the Zone, again and again, until he finds the answer to all his problems.First published in 1972, Roadside Picnic is still widely regarded as one of the greatest science fiction novels, despite the fact that it has been out of print in the United States for almost thirty years. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a "full empty," something goes wrong. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black mark. Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Doctor is characterised very well, he loathes violence, feels that if you take skepticism too far you could cut your throat with Occam's razor, he likes a good cup of tea, he hates having to explain what he's up to until he's absolutely certain, he doesn't like Nyssa being sarcastic about the Tardis' accuracy. Anyway, there's all sorts of thrilling stuff going on, some great, great voice acting and sound effects and music and this episode really showcases how adept (hah!) Big Finish are getting at their chosen format. I hate beating up on the Moff - oh, who am I kidding, I love it - but this is how you do it, not with a simpering Amy Pond trying to smooch the Doctor and flinging herself seductively across her bed. The girl Allison's awe-struck reaction to the appearance of the old Police Box and its inhabitant is handled most endearingly. The Doctor shows up shortly, causing a Satanic panic in the devout principal. She stumbles into a snowbound girl's academy where some very strange psychic disturbances are being felt. The Fifth Doctor sends Nyssa off into a snowdrift in Switzerland, which leaves her understandably rather testy for the duration of this adventure. Brilliant! By far my favourite so far, along with The Marian Conspiracy of course. ![]() ![]() ![]() A handful of those are described in the chart below. He believes that it’s important to understand both the potential benefits and risks of mindfulness meditation with respect to trauma. Over the course of his career, he has developed trauma-sensitive mindfulness training. David Treleaven has been studying the intersection of trauma and mindfulness meditation since 2006. Researchers have found that some trauma survivors experience flashbacks, overwhelm, dysregulated emotions, and/or dissociation when practicing mindfulness meditation. One important population to consider is trauma survivors. Depending on a person’s history, some people may experience adverse responses to mindfulness (i.e., increased anxiety, hypervigilance, dissociation). As with any technique, a person-centered approach is necessary. ![]() While mindfulness meditation practice may be supportive for one person, it may not be for another. ![]() Mindfulness meditation is widely recognized as an effective mental training technique for a variety of mental disorders (i.e., depression, anxiety, and addiction). ![]() ![]() Young Rossum is the modern scientist, untroubled by metaphysical ideas scientific experiment is to him the road to industrial production. His desire to create an artificial man - in the chemical and biological, not mechanical sense - is inspired by a foolish and obstinate wish to prove God to be unnecessary and absurd. Brain”), is a typical representative of the scientific materialism of the last century. Rossum (whose name translated into English signifies “Mr. ![]() In that same interview, Čapek reflected on the origin of one of the play’s characters: “The product of the human brain has escaped the control of human hands,” Čapek told the London Saturday Review following the play’s premiere. He was also deeply skeptical of the utopian notions of science and technology. ![]() Like many of his peers, he was appalled by the carnage wrought by the mechanical and chemical weapons that marked World War I as a departure from previous combat. BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently.īy the time his play “R.U.R.” (which stands for “Rossum’s Universal Robots”) premiered in Prague in 1921, Karel Čapek was a well-known Czech intellectual. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the book opens, Sabriel is a young teenager. Terciel brings Sabriel back to life and sends her to a non-magic school, where she should be safe. ![]() His wife gives birth to a girl called Sabriel, but both Sabriel and her mother die during childbirth. They use these resurrected dead things as servants. In the Old Kingdom, people called necromancers raise creatures from the dead. Although there’s a strong border between both territories, magic occasionally creeps into Ancelstierre-even if their government denies it. However, in the neighboring Old Kingdom, dangerous magical creatures and witches roam wild. In Ancelstierre, there’s no such thing as magic. The protagonist, Sabriel, lives in a kingdom called Ancelstierre. He uses his knowledge of combat in his books. He also served in the Australian Army Reserve for four years. Before writing Sabriel, Nix worked as an editor and a book publicist. Nix is an international bestselling author. The book won the 1995 Aurealis Award, and it received various other nominations. First published in 1995, it is the first book in the Old Kingdom series, and it centers around a young girl who must find her necromancer father after he disappears from a magical boarding school. Sabriel is a young adult epic fantasy novel by Garth Nix. ![]() |