![]() ![]() Kingsley’s work argues that the writings of the presocratic philosophers Parmenides and Empedocles, usually seen as rational or scientific enterprises, were in fact expressions of a wider Greek mystical tradition that helped give rise to western philosophy and civilisation. However, Kingsley himself has stated that he is, and always has been, a mystic, and that his spiritual experience stands in the background of his entire career, not just his most recent work. ![]() ![]() Kingsley has noted in public interviews that he is sometimes misunderstood as a scholar who gradually moved away from academic objectivity to a personal involvement with his subject matter. A former Fellow of the Warburg Institute in London, Kingsley has been made an honorary professor both at Simon Fraser University in Canada and at the University of New Mexico. He graduated with honours from the University of Lancaster in 1975, and went on to receive the degree of Master of Letters from the University of Cambridge after study at King's College subsequently, he was awarded a PhD by the University of London. Peter Kingsley attended Highgate School, in north London, until 1971. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on. We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy. Easy to wish we'd developed other other talents, said yes to different offers. ![]() It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.īut it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 1,360,123 ratings, 4.02 average rating, 147,250 reviews The Midnight Library Quotes Showing 1-30 of 1,249 It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. ![]() It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga. “It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. ![]() ![]() ![]() That dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis of the novel Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain in the ongoing magic act that is the art of Michael Chabon. Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death, Chabon’s grandfather shared recollections and told stories the younger man had never heard before, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. ![]() In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Purchasing Info: Author's Website, Publisher's Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, įollowing on the heels of his New York Times–bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure-and the forces that work to destroy us. Published by HarperCollins Publishers on November 22nd 2016 Moonglow by Michael Chabon, George Newbernįormats available: hardcover, paperback, large print, ebook, audiobook ![]() ![]() ![]() Each time, Goddard broke this feeling with a series of twists and revelations that nearly floored me on occasion, but I still feel this book could have done with a stricter editorial hand at the rudder. Why only three stars then? Well, as much as I enjoyed this book, it wasn't without flaws, the principle flaw being the pacing.Ībout three times during this book I found myself feeling that it was starting to drag. The story actually felt more realistic due to this blending of different genres and tones life doesn't abide by genre conventions after all. I don't want to say too much for fear of spoilers but I was really impressed by this. There are so many different elements of this book that you wouldn't normally find together in one novel. ![]() ![]() The thing I loved the most about this book is that Goddard doesn't let himself be constrained by genre or genre expectations. I've come across this kind of structure before and, when it's done well, it's a really entertaining way of unfolding and interweaving two related tales. The book is structured so that the present-day protagonist, a historian, is researching the story of the 'way back when' protagonist. This book tells two stories one set in the present day and another set about seventy five years earlier. This was my first Robert Goddard novel but it won't be my last. ![]() ![]() ![]() To FBI special agent Harrison "Books" Bookman, everyone in the FBI is a suspect - particularly Emmy Dockery (the fact that she's his ex-fiancee doesn't make it easier).īut someone else is watching Dockery. And the killer is somehow one step ahead of every move Dockery makes. But this many deaths can't be coincidence. The victims all appear to have died by accident, and have seemingly nothing in common. ![]() ![]() She's young and driven, and her unique skill at seeing connections others miss has brought her an impressive string of arrests.īut a shocking new case - unfolding across the country - has left her utterly baffled. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Invisible book description Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. This book had a publication date of June 23, 2014. In this follow-up to the #1 bestselling thriller Invisible, every perfect murder looks like an accident, but as bodies start to pile up across the country, two FBI agents realize that something horrible is happening.įBI agent Emmy Dockery is absolutely relentless. To FBI special agent Harrison Books Bookman, everyone in the FBI is a suspect - particularly Emmy Dockery (the fact that shes his ex-fiancee doesnt. James Patterson’s Invisible is a novel that he wrote with David Ellis and which has a sequel called Unsolved. Patterson, James,Ellis, David Unsolved (Invisible, 2) ![]() ![]() ![]() Good thing I have a different king in my corner.īut even with the dark threat of Slade Ravinger, the other monarchs are coming for me. ![]() That’s the thing when you turn against a king-everyone else turns against you. ![]() Because my wings may have been clipped, but I am not in a cage, and I’m finally free to fly from the frozen kingdoms I’ve been kept in. Like a phoenix caught fire, I will need to rise from the ashes and learn to wield my own power. A means to get to where he wanted to go, and I paved that path in gold.” ![]() Of course, we know that’s not true but we get to see how this narrative plays out in Glow. Stating that Auren can steal powers and seduced Slade in an attempt to steal his as well, all so the other kingdoms could appear more powerful. However, in their attempt to flee the palace, the other kingdoms decide to come up with their own narrative of what happened. Slade has escaped the Fifth Kingdom’s palace with her after temporarily rotting her to save her life. Auren has killed King Midas and is no longer under his control. It takes place immediately following the events of Gleam, so spoiler warning for that book. Glow is the fourth installment in the reimaging of the King Midas myth series called The Plated Prisoner. These help support the blog, so I can keep creating content. This post may contain affiliate or referral codes, for which I receive a small compensation and you get a discount in exchange. ![]() ![]() ![]() New readers of Banana Yoshimoto must not expect elaborate plots. ![]() ‘Instead of finely detailing a scene for the reader, I prefer the reader to sketch out something using all five senses’ (Banana Yoshimoto) ‘To me a kitchen represents some distant longing engraved on my soul.’ The feeling of Banana Yoshimoto Similarly in Kitchen, following the passing of both her parents and grandparents, Mikage ‘wished my heart would break and get it over with’ but then finds joy in the methodical process of cooking. For Satsuki in Moonlight Shadow, morning running helps her process the death of her boyfriend (with whom she was with for 4 years). Young women dealing with grief feature not only in the two stories which make up Kitchen (‘Kitchen’ and ‘Moonlight Shadow’) – but in all her translated Japanese novels.Īlthough death, loss and loneliness form Banana’s favourite tropes, her characters yearn for and find meaning in their lives after tragedy. Her debut novel Kitchen (1988) – written while waitressing at a Tokyo golf club – sold six million copies within two years in Japan, sparking ‘Bananamania’ across the country. ![]() ‘To me a kitchen represents some distant longing engraved on my soul’īanana Yoshimoto is one of Japan’s finest contemporary writers. ![]() ![]() Her self-published novel, Beautiful Redemption hit Wal-Mart shelves in September, 2015. ![]() Jamie is the first indie author in history to strike a print deal with retail giant Wal-Mart. Novels also written by Jamie McGuire include: apocalyptic thriller and 2014 UtopYA Best Dystopian Book of the Year, Red Hill the Providence series, a young adult paranormal romance trilogy Apolonia, a dark sci-fi romance and several novellas, including A Beautiful Wedding, Among Monsters, Happenstance: A Novella Series, and Sins of the Innocent. The same year, A Beautiful Funeral also topped the New York Times bestseller list. In 2016, Beautiful Burn made an appearance on the New York Times and USA Today, and was also named iBooks' Romance Book of the Year. In 2015, books two and three of the Maddox Brothers series, Beautiful Redemption and Beautiful Sacrifice, respectively, also topped the New York Times, as well as a Beautiful series novella, Something Beautiful. Beautiful Oblivion, book one of the Maddox Brothers series, also topped the New York Times bestseller list, debuting at #1. Her follow-up novel, Walking Disaster, debuted at #1 on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists in all four categories. ![]() Jamie paved the way for the New Adult genre with the international bestseller Beautiful Disaster. ![]() She attended Northern Oklahoma College, the University of Central Oklahoma, and Autry Technology Center where she graduated with a degree in Radiography. Jamie McGuire was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ![]() ![]() ![]() Work on the film, which is being shot on location at Magheramore, a beach setting south of Wicklow town, and in Ardmore Studios’ Film Factory in Bray, stopped last Tuesday when crew workers told the producers, led by acclaimed film-maker Redmond Morris, they could no longer work without pay.Īs a result, the following morning, filming ceased because there was no money to pay the crew.Īsked to comment, Mr Morris did not respond to requests via his agent and also a message left on his mobile phone voicemail. The producers have told people who have been working on the film, but have so far not been paid, that their priority is to secure cash flow so that they can pay all outstanding bills and resume shooting. The producers of the film, a cinematic depiction of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1956 play A Long Day’s Journey into Night, starring Jessica Lange and Ed Harris, will on Monday meet potential new financers. ![]() The makers of a major film being shot in Ireland are seeking to refinance the project following a collapse in funding which saw production brought to a sudden halt last week. Get ready for an underdog story straight to Oscar #3!Ĭrew on Eugene O’Neill adaptation being shot at Ardmore Studios told producers they could not work without pay What a story! I can see Lange catching wind of this, paying the crew and producing this herself. ![]() ![]() A Dirty ShameĢ004’s A Dirty Shame is John Waters’s last film at the time of making this. Let’s look at those overlooked and hidden shocking gems from the man known as The Pope of Trash. For various reasons, some of his films are so absurd that there are nearly impossible to find. ![]() Though, there are some movies from Waters that even his most devoted fans haven’t seen. He recently signed a deal to return to directing for the first time in eighteen years with the new movie Liarmouth, based on his best-selling novel.Įach one of his projects is just as shocking as the next you won’t forget the finale of the aforementioned Pink Flamingos or the hilarious kills of Serial Mom. ![]() From Pink Flamingos to Hairspray, Waters knows how to craft films that stick with you long after watching. EJ Moreno looks at the most shocking obscure films of cult filmmaker John Waters…Ĭult filmmaker John Waters has quite the stacked resume. ![]() |