![]() ![]() This numbness helps you deal with your pain, but can also block your connection with the Spirit World. ![]() You can too – but when you grieve, it’s normal for your feelings and intuition can become numb. ![]() Un-blocking yourself to receive messages from beyond.ĭoreen Virtue and I are both mediums, and can communicate across the veil. It’s like having your own open phone line to Heaven! We designed these cards so you could start your own dialogue with deceased friends, family members, even pets – anytime, anywhere. I’ve done the next best thing! Last year, I teamed up with my friend Doreen Virtue (the angel lady) and we created our Talking to Heaven Mediumship Cards. It’s immensely comforting to have concrete evidence that your loved one is still with you, but I can’t share messages with everyone who is grieving. Through my live events and workshops, and on radio and television, I bring forth detailed messages from beyond. The dead send us signs every day in the form of dreams, butterflies and birds, flowers, special scents – the list goes on! If you want to receive a more concrete message, there is an easy way to do it, no medium required.Īs a spiritual medium, I am blessed with the gift of receiving clear messages from the Spirit world. The good news is that the person who you are missing is never far away. No matter what you believe, even if you KNOW in your heart that their spirit is free and they’re no longer tied down with earthly pain and problems – the fact is that you miss them. ![]()
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![]() The story centres on a young engaged couple whose car breaks down in the rain near a castle, where they seek a telephone to call for help. Along with O'Brien, the film stars Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Barry Bostwick and is narrated by Charles Gray, with cast members from the original Royal Court Theatre, Roxy Theatre, and Belasco Theatre productions, including Nell Campbell and Patricia Quinn. The production is a tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the 1930s through to the early 1960s. ![]() The film is based on the 1973 musical stage production The Rocky Horror Show, with music, book, and lyrics by O'Brien. The screenplay was written by Sharman and actor Richard O'Brien, who is also a member of the cast. ![]() ![]() The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 independent musical comedy horror film by 20th Century Fox, produced by Lou Adler and Michael White and directed by Jim Sharman. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Flipping between the two story lines, Pham elucidates his main dilemma: he's an outsider in both America and Vietnam-in the former for being Vietnamese, and the latter for being Viet-kieu. Uncertain if his trip is a ""pilgrimage or a farce,"" Pham pedals his bike the length of his native country, all the while confronting the guilt he feels as a successful Viet-kieu (Vietnamese expatriate) and as a survivor of his older sister Chai, whose isolation in America and eventual suicide he did little to prevent. The second recounts his return to Vietnam almost two decades later as an Americanized but culturally confused young man. as an adolescent in 1977 and his family's subsequent and somewhat troubled life in California. The first, which begins in war-torn Vietnam, chronicles the author's hair-raising escape to the U.S. In narrating his search for his roots, Vietnamese-American and first-time author Pham alternates between two story lines. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Murderbot's human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action. I'm usually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are. Originally titled The Murderbot Diaries, this name seems to now refer specifically to the first four as of Fugitive Telemetrys back-of-the-book index. You know that feeling when you're at work, and you've had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot.Ĭome for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable A.I. I caught myself rereading my favorite parts. WINNER of the 2021 Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards The first full-length novel in Martha Wells New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. ![]() The first full-length novel in Martha Wells' New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. Martha Wells has been an SF/F writer since her first fantasy novel was published in 1993, and her work includes The Books of the Raksura series, The Death of the Necromancer, the Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy, The Murderbot Diaries series, media tie-in fiction for Star Wars, Stargate: Atlantis, and Magic: the Gathering, as well as short fiction, YA novels, and non-fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() When does coincidence become conspiracy? Where do people go when gentrification pushes them out? Can Sydney and Theo trust each other-or themselves-long enough to find out before they too disappear?įeatured in Parade, Essence, Bustle, Popsugar, Elle, Shondaland, Marie Claire, Buzzfeed, Entertainment Weekly, Good Housekeeping, Brit + Co, Real Simple, Lit Hub, Crime Reads, Blavity, Ms. To hold onto her community’s past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block-her neighbor Theo.īut Sydney and Theo’s deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear. Their neighbors may not have moved to the suburbs after all, and the push to revitalize the community may be more deadly than advertised. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she’s known all her life are disappearing. ![]() Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Rear Window meets Get Out in this gripping thriller from a critically acclaimed and New York Times Notable author, in which the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood takes on a sinister new meaning… This is a terrific read." – Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author ![]() "I was knocked over by the momentum of an intense psychological thriller that doesn’t let go until the final page. An instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLER! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The bulk of this very short book, which in some ways resembles Albert Camus’ scorching novella The Fall, describes Finley’s stay with the taciturn Elster, who is only too aware he was exploited to give credence to questionable military strategic decisions. The man who watches it, enthralled, is documentary filmmaker Jim Finley, who has traveled west to interview his potential film subject: former academic Richard Elster, now retired from his employment as an advisor during the Iraq War, living in a half-finished house in the California desert. His crisp, precisely understated, hauntingly elliptical narrative frames a haltingly revealed story of moral compromise between two viewings of a piece of conceptual art, fashioned from the classic Hitchcock film Psycho, displayed at a small museum in the southwestern United States. ![]() Moving a step beyond the disturbing symbolism of Falling Man (2007, etc.), DeLillo ruminates teasingly on a tendency toward obliteration perhaps locked into the DNA of all living things. ![]() ![]() ![]() We’ll be doing more apple activities in the upcoming weeks. It was the first day of “school” after all. If I would have planned, she really was ready to do more. We did all these activities over a span of 1 hour. ![]() Later in the day I found her “reading” the book while eating an apple! She just couldn’t resist! Apple Ideas to Extend the Theme Next I took out our (free download ->) apple pattern cards. Right now she thinks anything in the table-top pocket chart is cool, so that’s where I put the cards. □ After all items were cut, we glued yarn in between the pieces for our mobile. ![]() That way she only had to trace and cut each pattern once and the pieces were more likely to match. In order to make it simpler for my daughter, I folded the paper in half before she traced. What I like about it is that it gives the young student a chance to practice tracing and cutting. I had this pattern back from my old teaching days. She was pretty good at balancing it!Īfter the balancing act, we did an apple core mobile craft. You can’t read this book without trying to balance an apply on your head! My preschooler enjoyed the challenge of seeing how far she could walk before the apply fell off her head. We had a new stack of read-alouds and 1 0 Apples Up on Top by Leo LeSeig was one of the books we read this week. The first book we read was 10 Apples Up on Top by Leo LeSeig. I gathered up our apple-themed materials and books for our first week back. This week we started back to homeschool! For our first theme of the year, we picked apples. ![]() ![]() ![]() The round shape and even cooking temperature of a wok make it perfect for creating golden brown dumplings. It is easiest to fry a dumpling in a wok. Of course, if you use commercial dumpling wrappers, this time is significantly reduced. Frying the dumplings takes about 5 minutes, but boiling or steaming them takes about another 10 minutes. ![]() Rolling out the dough takes another 15 minutes. ![]() ![]() While mixing the flour and water to make the dumplings doesn’t take long, you have to wait 15 minutes for the dough to set up. The cooking time for all of these recipes is about 45-60 minutes depending on how you cook your dumplings. Even in China, every time we go to restaurants that are famous for their dumplings, what usually sets their dumplings apart is homemade dumpling wrappers. While these can significantly cut down your cooking time, I prefer making my own because they are thicker and I think they taste better. In America and China, dumplings have become so popular that the wrappers can easily be bought already prepared. You can also make smaller dumplings (only ½ inch in diameter dough balls) as hors d'oeuvres for parties. You can easily double or triple the ingredients to make large quantities of dumplings for families or get-togethers. All of the following recipes are for 12 dumplings, which is just about perfect for a dinner for two. ![]() ![]() From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan FICTION.See her twitter campaign #PicturesMeanBusiness and visit her website for more details And Harry the Dirty Dog is a brilliant and funny classic children's book. But Sarah McIntyre, herself a children's illustrator, has recently and rightly been making something of a fuss about this problem. What is an ilustrator to do? There is no simple answer (ask a Translator!). Invariably only the author is named in Top 10/50/100 lists for book prizes or as buying guides for libraries and bookshops, and similarly the search engines embedded in the software which bookshops and other book providers rely upon to identify titles only index the author. ![]() I say probably because she is a perfect demonstration of the absence of the illustrator's presence in so much of the book industry's data. ![]() ![]() The children's illustrator Margaret Bloy Graham, who died this week at the grand age of 94, is best know for her pictures in Harry the Dirty Dog, probably. Harry the Dirty Dog written by Gene Zion and illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham, published by Random House £7.99 ![]() ![]() ![]() Even the undead citizens revile golems as “unalive” creatures. They say that the golems have no real life and treat them as subhuman. People are both terrified of them and hateful towards them. In Ankh-Morpork, they are generally viewed as machines made for working nonstop. Golems are creatures fashioned from clay who are given life and purpose by written words that are placed in their heads. Every time the golems appeared on the page, my heart was pained. While Feet of Clay was hilarious in the usual Pratchett fashion, there was an undercurrent of sadness that was new to this series. These plot threads weave together masterfully to create a compelling tale of action and contemplation. Meanwhile, the upper-crust civic leaders of Ankh-Morpork are trying to replace the ailing Patrician with a puppet king of royal lineage, and they seem to find the perfect candidate in the common Watchman, Nobby Nobbs. The Watch must figure out what’s happening before everything is thrown into chaos. At the center of everything seem to be golems, the manmade clay workers of the city. ![]() It opens with the mysterious murders of two elderly citizens of Ankh-Morpork, as well as the poison-induced illness of the Patrician. The plot of Feet of Clay is fast-paced and intriguing. ![]() |