Review
View from the Floor
As many people here know, due to my previous articles and poems, I have a disorder known as functional neurological disorder (FND). A huge part of functional neurological disorder for myself, and many others, is a type of seizure called psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES). These seizures, while not dangerous, are very disruptive to daily life. They make me feel alone, weak, and not in control of my own anxiety (and other emotions).
By Rene Peters2 years ago in BookClub
On the Outside. Top Story - August 2023.
No, I did not live a life filled with rumbles and small-town crime and golden sunsets. Nonetheless, S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders" is one novel that always manages to draw me back, especially when I'm reminded of my "outsider" ways myself.
By Lizzy Rose2 years ago in BookClub
The Lord of the Rings: Book Summery
The Lord of the Rings: The Epic Battle of Good vs. Evil - A Story of Friendship, Courage, and Sacrifice The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy trilogy written by English philologist and University of Oxford professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger work. Written in stages between 1937 and 1949, with much of it being written during World War II, it was originally published in three volumes in 1954 and 1955. It has since been reprinted numerous times and translated into at least 38 languages, becoming one of the best-selling novels ever written.
By Motivation Motivation2 years ago in BookClub
The Devil's Half Acre
The Devil's Half Acre is a book dedicated to the memory of Black women who blazed a trail and paved the way for the freedom of enslaved women and people everywhere. In particular, it shines the spotlight on Mary Lumpkin, born in Richmond, Virginia in 1832.
By Novel Allen2 years ago in BookClub
Review of 'All the Dead Lie Down'
The Haunting of Bly Manor meets House of Salt and Sorrows in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s contemporary YA gothic romance about a dark family lineage, the ghosts of grief, and the lines we’ll cross for love. The Sleeping House was very much awake . . . Days after a tragedy leaves Marin Blythe alone in the world, she receives a surprising invitation from Alice Lovelace—an acclaimed horror writer and childhood friend of Marin’s mother. Alice offers her a nanny position at Lovelace House, the family’s coastal Maine estate. Marin accepts and soon finds herself minding Alice’s peculiar girls. Thea buries her dolls one by one, hosting a series of funerals, while Wren does everything in her power to drive Marin away. Then Alice’s eldest daughter returns home unexpectedly. Evie Hallowell is every bit as strange as her younger sisters, and yet Marin is quickly drawn in by Evie’s compelling behavior and ethereal grace. But as Marin settles in, she can’t escape the anxiety that follows her like a shadow. Dead birds appear in Marin’s room. The children’s pranks escalate. Something dangerous lurks in the woods, leaving mutilated animals in its wake. All is not well at Lovelace House, and Marin must unravel its secrets before they consume her.
By Cyn's Workshop2 years ago in BookClub
Eternity in a Cigarette End
Artists are people who look beyond the veil of the ordinary in life to grasp spiritual truths hidden behind physical reality. They then reflect those truths back out into the world in some digestible form such as words, paintings or songs. There is a sentence in Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" which speaks of this to me with particular resonance: "And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, with a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotus-lands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven."
By Sarah Frideswide2 years ago in BookClub
Book Review: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra: A Pathway to Transformation
A Journey Towards Inner Fulfillment In a world where the pursuit of success often seems synonymous with relentless hustle and external achievements, Deepak Chopra's timeless masterpiece, "The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success," stands as a beacon of light guiding readers towards a more profound understanding of success.
By InkSight Chronicles2 years ago in BookClub
