![]() ![]() Stabile is a well-known Enneagram teacher. ![]() When I heard they were writing a book about the Enneagram, I paid attention. The names Suzanne Stabile and Ian Morgan Cron may or may not mean something to you. Beginning with changes you can start making today, the wisdom of the Enneagram can help take you further along into who you really are―leading you into places of spiritual discovery you would never have found on your own, and paving the way to the wiser, more compassionate person you want to become. Not only will you learn more about yourself, but you will also start to see the world through other people's eyes, understanding how and why people think, feel, and act the way they do. Witty and filled with stories, this book allows you to peek inside each of the nine Enneagram types, keeping you turning the pages long after you have read the chapter about your own number. In The Road Back to You Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile forge a unique approach―a practical, comprehensive way of accessing Enneagram wisdom and exploring its connections with Christian spirituality for a deeper knowledge of ourselves, compassion for others, and love for God. Do you want help figuring out who you are and why you're stuck in the same ruts? The Enneagram is an ancient personality typing system with an uncanny accuracy in describing how human beings are wired, both positively and negatively. ![]() What you don't know about yourself can hurt you and your relationships―and even keep you in the shallows with God. Ignorance is bliss except in self-awareness. ![]()
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![]() Normally, after this much upheaval I’d be stressing over missed deadlines and unable to get past the giant list of Things-I-did-NOT-get-done. I fail more often than I succeed, but that’s another blog post. I cherish schedules, routines, and all manner of plans I use as a safety net to walk the tenuous tightrope strung between my personal and writing responsibilities. ![]() Like most stereotypical writers I’m a hermit an introvert. From May all the way to the end of August we had relatives coming and going to the extent we received a discount from the airport shuttle guy. This summer Chez Munder experienced more than our share of family visits and interactions. Robert Frost’s “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Even a popular television show gave us the powerful statement “Family don’t end in blood,”. Everything from Harper Lee’s famous “You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family,”. Then a big high-five to all of you for reading this post and hopefully, sharing your thoughts. Let’s start today’s party by thanking Love Bytes Reviews for helping us celebrate the release of the One Pulse Anthology. ![]() A warm welcome to author Chrissy Munder joining us today to talk about the Charity Anthology by Dreamspinner Press: “One Pulse” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was awarded the Retro-Hugo Award for Best Novel for 1939. Walt Disney made an animated movie adaptation of The Sword in the Stone, first released on December 25, 1963. Although White substantially revised the book for its 1958 inclusion in The Once and Future King, this original version remains “one of the finest children’s fantasies of the 20th century” (Clute & Grant). “Few would deny its romance and humanity” (An English Library, 56). “The characterizations are exceptionally fine and the story has a perfect blend of humor and sentimentality” (Anatomy of Wonder 5-318). White drew inspiration from both Malory’s Morte d’Arthur and his own experiences as a schoolmaster when creating the story of the young, future king and Merlyn, his magical tutor. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and small chips to the extremities. Item Number: 50086įirst edition of the first volume in the White’s tetralogy, The Once And Future King. ![]() ![]() While subtle, it’s a slick move by Sager, keeping a similar enough formula but with a vastly different story. The only survivor from her cabin, Emma shares a similarity with Quincy Carpenter and the other “final girls” in Sager’s last novel, which featured a group of women who were each the lone survivor of various murderous acts. The story picks up fifteen years after the girls vanished, following Emma, who suffered serious PTSD when her bunkmates never returned. That was the last time anyone ever saw Vivian, Natalie, or Allison. A short while later, all the girls, sans Emma, sneak out of their cabin and into the dark of the night for a little fun. Riley Sager follows up last year’s Final Girls by taking readers inside the small space that is the Dogwood cabin (they’re all named after trees) where four young girls, Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and Emma Davis, the only first-timer out of the bunch, play a harmless game of Two Truths and a Lie one summer night. ![]() ![]() Now forget all that stuff, because Camp Nightingale isn’t some Disney special. ![]() Imagine the friendly Camp Walden summer camp where twin sisters met for the first time in Parent Trap, or the fun, junk-food utopia that was Camp Hope in the movie Heavyweights. ![]() ![]() I was horrified to discover the children had been told their parents were dead, when they were often alive and searching for them. My debut novel (The Oceans Between Us) was inspired when I happened to catch the lunchtime news and heard Gordon Brown apologising to the ex child migrants who’d been sent to Australia decades previously. Tell me what inspired you to write your (debut) novel? Gill lives with her family in West Sussex and teaches English to college students and hosts a creative writing blog. The first three chapters of THE OCEANS BETWEEN US were longlisted for the Mslexia novel award and the first page of her second work in progress has been selected to feature in Mslexia magazine. Her first novel, THE OCEANS BETWEEN US, tells the heart-breaking story of a mother and son separated by war and by continents, fighting their way back to each other. ![]() ![]() Gill Thompson Gill Thompson is an English lecturer who completed an MA in Creative Writing at Chichester University. ![]() ![]() And each house takes a turn in ruling the empire. These people broke into houses named after the animals. Yet we find out that these people were altered by the Jenoine mixing their genetic material with those of the animals native to the planet: seventeen animals to be specific. Then there were the Dragaera Empire, with people much taller and much longer-lived. ![]() They split the population in two the Easterners were much like us, lived to 50 or 60 years and used witchcraft. But long long ago the Jenoine, powerful aliens, came to this planet. The world in this series started much like ours. ![]() The chilly breeze is invariably going to be the more pleasant memory.” ![]() I can call up memories of both, if I work at it. The book begins with: “There is a similarity, if I may be permitted an excursion into the tenuous metaphor, between the feel of a chilly breeze and the feel of a knife’s blade, as either is laid across the back of your neck. This is book One in the adventures of Vlad Taltos, an unlikely of heroes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How did a reportedly thin, otherworldly peasant girl become a leader of professionally violent men and then a national icon? Katherine J Chen explores this question in her second novel, Joan. Since then, she has been wielded as a symbol by wildly opposed ideologues: fascist and communist, Vichy government and French Resistance, nationalist and feminist. Wearing armour, with hair cut short as a man’s, she led the French to several victories over the English and their allies, until she was captured and imprisoned, condemned as a heretic, and burned at the stake at the age of 19. At 17 she presented herself to the Dauphin’s court at Chinon, and, based on her God-sent visions, persuaded him she could save France. She had visions of saints from about age 13. She was born circa 1412 in the village of Domrémy, north-east France, during the hundred years war. T he life of the woman we know today as Joan of Arc is astoundingly well documented. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps there are other traditions of historical writing that ought to take precedence when we consider the formation of the historical imagination over time the Biblical history of the Jews comes immediately to mind in this case. Perhaps he had Greek predecessors who deserve the name historian, such as Hecataeus of Miletus. Like many claims of origins and intellectual paternity, the venerable cliché that Herodotus was the “father of history” may be a bit suspect. To the historian, these opening lines of Herodotus’ Histories represent something akin to a sacred text, the beginning, it is sometimes argued, of the practice of history, or at least of history as a critical mode of inquiry into the past. ![]() “Herodotus of Halicarnassus here displays his inquiry, so that human achievements may not be forgotten in time, and great and marvelous deeds-some displayed by Greeks, some by barbarians-may not be without their glory and especially to show why the two peoples fought with each other.” ![]() ![]() The DREAM OF GOD AND MONSTER is the conclusive book in the series DAUGHTERS OF SMOKE AND BONE. Her real self is revealed by her lover who wants to kill him but he realizes he something that makes him waver. She has no idea who she really is and is determined to find out. It follows a seventeen year old girl who is an art student and who was raised by the chimaera creatures made by both human and animal parts, to perform tasks such as collecting teeth for her father. ![]() The trilogy of this series comprises of several sequels The first being ‘The Daughter Of Smoke And Bone’ published in september2009 in the states, followed by ‘DAYS OF BLOOD AND STARLIGHT’ published in the year2012 in the states and finally the ‘Dreams Of God And Monsters’ which was published in the year2014 in a variety of different languages. The novel is breathtaking with aspects of legends and other worldly mysteries. The imaginative tale is based on monsters, magic, war and heartbreak. ![]() Daughter of Smoke and Bone is an amazing fantasy book series written by Laini Taylor and published by Hachette book group. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is great with figures and a genius at managing businesses. ![]() The devastation of the war soon brings those traits to the fore as she struggles against poverty and starvation. She is selfish, greedy, ruthless, and insensitive but tries to hide those traits in herself and extol the ladylike virtues of her mother’s and her Mammy’s teachings. She is the protagonist of the novel and the author describes her as not being exactly beautiful but with a charm and an alluring figure that keep men wrapped around her fingers. Scarlett Katie O’Hara is the belle of the Clayton County. The lineup of characters in Gone with the Wind project human nature with varying degrees of virtues and vices. ![]() Margaret Mitchell created many vivid characters in Gone with The Wind that may infuriate readers, inspire admiration, mirth, or even hatred, but the interesting thing is that readers would hardly be indifferent to the characters in the novel and they make Gone with the Wind a captivating read. ![]() |