![]() The function of our dreams, then, must be related to the way they make us feel. It’s as if, to our brains, the content of our dreams and their relationship to our literal experience is not important. It starts with the more accurate content of our memories and then extrapolates, continuously tweaking the variables until the scenario is many interactions removed from reality. I heard once that dreams are our brains’ way of processing emotionally intense situations without the constant distraction of our waking senses. As I come to, I slowly sort out what is real and what was just an imagined experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many mornings, I wake on the tail end of a dream agitated, having dreamt that I am missing a final exam for a class I never attended or that my teeth had crumbled in my mouth. By Lisa Gullickson - I have always been a vivid dreamer - mostly mundane, always anxiety inducing, with that soupçon of surrealism. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When eleven year-old Guster Johnsonville rejects his mother's casserole for the umpteenth time, she takes him to the city of New Orleans to find him something to eat. Surely almost every parent knows firsthand the kind of lengths to which a choosy-child will go to ensure that their meals are “just so.” But I’ll stop with the commentary and the puns so you can nibble on the novel (last one, I swear) yourself. ![]() The first in the latest children’s adventure series, Evertasterfollows the curious undertakings of a picky eater who is fed up (quite literally) with his mother’s cooking. This is a new book parents and children can read – and truly enjoy – together. Evertaster is set to be released on June 14, 2012, so kids and adults alike have a reason to be excited. Are you looking for something yummy…to read? A new novel by up-and-coming author Adam Glendon Sidwell will give you just that – a tasty treat for your imagination. ![]() ![]() ![]() Interspersed with images of Wyeth's paintings and drawings is a lengthy interview with Met director Thomas Hoving. I knew that no matter what my parents, counselors, etc., might say, I knew I had to keep a connection to my creativity - and thankfully I have. I was in high school and had only been painting for four years, but seeing Christina's World, and the portrait of Karl Keurner was a truly transformative experience for me. ![]() I went to this show in late 1976 and was completely blown away by his work. I'm a long-time Wyeth fan and bought the book for the images.Īnyway, I pulled it off the shelf this spring and started to read the text, and suddenly realized that this book was a companion publication for his 1976-7 exhibit at the Met in New York. It's a funny thing, but I had this book for many years and never read the text. ![]() ![]() ![]() So ultimately they remain(ed) a cult band whose obsessive fans (e.g., me) wonder why more music lovers don't join them in their (my) obsession. They flirted with major record companies (Elektra and Beggars Banquet), but ultimately they got jilted. Like another of my favourites, Bettie Serveert, and perhaps the Go-Betweens, they seemed to have everything needed to generate popular and commercial success. Luna was a cult indie band that played from 1991 to 2005. I don't know the answer to the question, but I'll have a go. ![]() I can't wait to see what Dean has to say. The promo says that "Black Postcards" is also about what it's like to have to pretend to be civil as you answer the same helpful question over and over again, "Why aren't you guys more famous?" I experienced a little sense of excitement yesterday when I learned that Dean Wareham had written a book about his life before, in and since one of my favourite indie bands, Luna (due out March 13, 2008). ![]() Luna and Dean Wareham – "So why aren't you guys more famous?" I have read the book since then and loved it. It's a whole lot of ideas in anticipation of the publication of the book. ![]() My review below isn't really a review of the book after I read it. ![]() ![]() ![]() It should be a summer of relaxation, a last hurrah before graduation and the pressures of postcollege life. The summer before senior year, Megan joins Lauren and her family on their private island off the coast of Maine. When they become roommates at a private women's college, they forge a strong, albeit unlikely, friendship, sharing clothes, advice and their most intimate secrets. Megan is a girl from a modest Midwest background, and Lauren is the daughter of a senator from an esteemed New England family. ![]() Compulsively readable!" -Kate Moretti, New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Year "This story particularly resonates now, in the throes of the #MeToo movement."- Booklist Megan Mazeros and Lauren Mabrey are complete opposites on paper. ![]() "A complex look at the long-standing consequences of privilege and toxic masculinity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wells, especially his War of the Worlds (1897). Lewis’s Space Trilogy was partially inspired by, and written in critique of, the science fiction of H. She died just a few years later, in 1960, and Lewis passed away in 1963. ![]() Later in life, Lewis married Joy Davidman Gresham, an American woman with whom he had corresponded. In 1954, Lewis became chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University’s Magdalene College. During World War II, he delivered a series of radio addresses that became the basis for his famous work of apologetics, Mere Christianity. Though Lewis had been a staunch atheist since his teen years, he became a Christian in 1931 and remained a committed member of the Church of England for the rest of his life. From 1925–1954, he taught English literature in Oxford’s Magdalen College. He was injured in 1918 and thereafter returned to Oxford, where he studied classics, philosophy, and English literature. Lewis entered Oxford University in 1916, but he was soon sent to France to fight in World War I. As a child, Lewis loved spending time in his father’s massive library, and he lost his mother to cancer around the age of 10. Growing up, Lewis-who adopted the nickname “Jack” as a young boy-lived in a house in East Belfast that his parents and brother Warren called Little Lea. S.) Lewis was born in Northern Ireland to Albert James Lewis, a solicitor, and Flora Lewis, the daughter of a Church of Ireland clergyman. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Paul often avoids her and spends more time with Edgar. Paul tutors her in algebra, though her slow learning frustrates him. Miriam expresses to Paul her dissatisfaction with being a woman and her desire to learn. Paul hates it when Miriam lavishes love on her unaffectionate five-year-old brother. Paul and Miriam spend more time together. Leivers and her children, including Edgar, the eldest. As he convalesces, Paul develops his relationship with Mrs. Leivers spend a day exploring the countryside. The family puts down Miriam while they eat. Miriam is distracted by Paul's watching her, and she burns the potatoes. Paul visits one day and chats with Miriam as she prepares dinner. She is deeply religious, and wants to be educated and rise above her status as swine-girl. Miriam, though a romantic, is distant with Paul, afraid he will scorn her as her brothers do. Paul visits the Leivers' farm several times in the fall. ![]() ![]() ![]() Noah, who narrates the story, is apparently supposed to be sardonically witty, but he merely comes off as dull and dry. As secrets unfold, Noah’s trust in Mara, who can wish people dead, begins to unravel. After Noah witnesses several Carrier suicides, he and Mara, along with her brother Daniel and their two bisexual friends-Jewish, black Jamie and blond, white Goose-join resources with others like them who might be able to help uncover the reason for the suicides. ![]() After the death of his estranged father, Noah uses his sizable inheritance to relocate with Indian-American Mara and their friends to New York. The white English 17-year-old possesses a gene that, when triggered, manifests as an extrasensory “gift” in the gene’s carrier: Noah can heal injuries and experience the pain of others like him as they die. “Gifted.” “Afflicted.” “Carrier.” Depending on one’s point of view, Noah Shaw could be any one of these. This first in a sequel series to the Mara Dyer trilogy brings Mara’s beloved Noah to the fore. ![]() ![]() He also attended American River College, The Theatre School at DePaul University, and Columbia College Chicago.īarnes is the author of the novels Mesmerized (Bold Strokes Books, 2010), Accidents Never Happen (Bold Strokes Books, 2011), Swimming to Chicago (Bold Strokes Books, 2011), The Jetsetters (Bold Strokes Books, 2012), Ambrosia (Blue Dasher Press, 2012), Wonderland (Bold Strokes Books, 2013), Stronger Than This (Bold Strokes Books, 2014), Fifty Yards and Holding (Bold Strokes Books, 2015), The Marijuana Mermaids (2018), and the novelettes Backfire, Bruised, Delinquent, I Think We're Alone Now, Patience is Waiting, and Riding with James Dean. ![]() He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina. Barnes graduated magna cum laude from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta with a degree in Communications and English. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With practical suggestions, guided meditations and warm encouragement, he offers an inspiring vision of who weĬan be - and an effective path for embodying this wonderful possibility. A groundbreaking yet practical book, Neurodharma shares seven practices for. ![]() Neurodharma is not an introduction to meditation. Booktopia has Neurodharma, New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices. Written by a psychologist who practices, teaches, and researches meditation, the book provides an insight into how meditation works and how it relates to our neural processes. Combining new science and ancient wisdom, he shows how to develop unshakeable presence of mind, deep contentment, liberating insight and a courageous heart. Rick Hanson is a psychologist, a senior fellow at UC Berkeleys Greater Good Science Center, and a New York Times bestselling author. Neurodharma is a fascinating book for all absorbed in meditation. In Neurodharma, leading psychologist Rick Hanson explores the heights of human potential - and how to become as wise and strong, happy and loving, as any person can ever be. 'Accessible and gentle, there is deep wisdom here from which all may benefit' Professor Mark Williams, bestselling author of MindfulnessĮxplore the new neuroscience of awakening and develop lasting inner peace in a changing world A practical seven-step plan that reveals the path to transcendence, wisdom and true happiness from bestselling author and psychologist Rick Hanson. ![]() |