![]() ![]() Masters has helped thousands of men address these issues. I've got it all-so why am I so dissatisfied with my life? Why am I never happy in my romantic relationships? How do I become more courageous and powerful without becoming that jerk everyone hates? ![]() For psychotherapist Robert Augustus Masters, this lack of guidance led to an ever-more-familiar refrain: ![]() Beyond the dog-eared men's movement classics or simplistic fitness magazine advice, men have been wanting for solid, core life guidance for years. ![]()
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![]() One suffering couple is the Langs, a previously happy pair of 40-year-old English teachers ("young but not too young old but not too old"). Nobody can quite say what's happening, but everyone feels it. But since sex within a committed relationship is the other love that dare not speak its name, the town's collective pain can only be expressed behind clenched teeth. One by one, they turn away from their partners for reasons they cannot explain, leaving the men confused and angry (strangely, the spell does not affect gay couples). Like hunger strikers, Aristophanes's women hurt themselves as much as their victims after all, they need sex too.īut soon after rehearsals start, "ElRo's" female teachers and students mysteriously decide en masse that they can happily do without. It's a racy choice for a school play, depicting as it does a group of women who hold a sex strike in response to prolonged warfare on the part of their menfolk. The Uncoupling is a smart, tender and utterly hilarious look at the fragility of desire, and the pain that so often attends its disappearance.Ī new drama teacher arrives at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in suburban New Jersey and immediately undertakes to stage Aristophanes's ![]() Meg Wolitzer's new novel takes that old saw, sharpens it and polishes it until it gleams: ![]() It's said that sex is 10 per cent of a good relationship and 90 per cent of a bad one. ![]() ![]() ![]() They mentioned his friendly demeanor and no instances of violence.įurthermore, as the experiment progressed, the testers interrupted half of the participants with distractions. For example, they said the robber had to provide for his family. On the other hand, other texts attempted to “soften” the crime. For example, they said that the robber was armed or had aggressive behavior. Some of these claims made the robbery seem more violent. The false statements, in red, contained information on the details of the crime. They needed to take this into account as they understood the details of the robbery and decided on a fair sentence. ![]() The green lines represented true statements, while the red statements were false. Based on the text, they had to choose a fair punishment for the robber.įurthermore, the text was composed of both green and red lines. Each person read a text detailing a robbery. They began with a group of 71 volunteers. The central question of the experiment was whether understanding and belief were two separate processes or processes that occurred simultaneously. Thus, in 1993, Daniel Gilbert and his colleagues conducted the Gilbert experiment to test the validity of each theory. Descartes and Spinoza never came to an agreement on the debate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for Muse of Nightmares A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2018 A 2018 Booklist Editors' Choice Love and hate, revenge and redemption, destruction and salvation all clash in this gorgeous sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer. But is she? Sometimes, only the direst need can teach us our own depths, and Sarai, the muse of nightmares, has not yet discovered what she's capable of.Īs humans and godspawn reel in the aftermath of the citadel's near fall, a new foe shatters their fragile hopes, and the mysteries of the Mesarthim are resurrected: Where did the gods come from, and why? What was done with thousands of children born in the citadel nursery? And most important of all, as forgotten doors are opened and new worlds revealed: Must heroes always slay monsters, or is it possible to save them instead? Lazlo faces an unthinkable choice-save the woman he loves, or everyone else?-while Sarai feels more helpless than ever. ![]() One a god, the other a ghost, they struggle to grasp the new boundaries of their selves as dark-minded Minya holds them hostage, intent on vengeance against Weep. In the wake of tragedy, neither Lazlo nor Sarai are who they were before. She believed she knew every horror, and was beyond surprise. Sarai has lived and breathed nightmares since she was six years old. The highly anticipated, thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Strange the Dreamer, from National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() That knot can then be placed so that you’re reminded of your commitment. ![]() You can take ancient druidic practices and perform a knot-tying ceremony. Writing a poem for the occasion is common. It can be as simple as lighting a candle and stating your commitment. Initiation, or self-dedication, as a solitary practitioner can take many forms. For guidance, you can check out Scott Cunningham’s Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner. This is known as being a solitary practitioner, and many of the most famous Wiccans from history practiced this way. If you’re considering Wicca, it’s likely you do not yet have a coven or even anyone else you know who is practicing. ![]() It is something many feel compelled to do in order to formally declare and mark where in their life they committed themselves to the craft. An initiation is absolutely NOT required. They usually mean: What is a Wiccan supposed to do?įor now, we’ll cover some common forms of initiation. When someone asks: How do I become Wiccan? If you decide to become Wiccan, that decision alone is enough to start calling yourself Wiccan. One of the great things about Wicca is that it’s not a unified club you must get admitted to. ![]() ![]() Almost immediately, it infects and kills most of the town’s inhabitants, while others are driven insane and commit suicide. When one of these satellites crash lands in a small Arizona town, it unleashes a germ that makes The Stand’s Captain Trips look like a head cold. ![]() government deployed satellites to find alien microorganisms to weaponize them. The book’s premise is that in the 1960s, the U.S. I first read The Andromeda Strain in 1993, and it has stuck with me ever since. It will be hard to talk about this aspect of the book without some *SPOILERS*, but this novel has been around since 1969, so folks have had plenty of time to read it. In fact, I’ve often used the story as an analogy for where the virus may be heading as it slowly becomes endemic. Here are my thoughts after tearing through both books.Īll the news about virus variants has had me thinking about The Andromeda Strain for some time. In doing so, I quickly discovered there’s a sequel to the novel, though it’s not written by Crichton, who passed away in 2008. I read very little science fiction these days, but at the end of last year, while getting over COVID, I decided to re-read Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain. ![]() ![]() ![]() And when Tracy’s mother told her that the women in their family were Black Bene Gesserits, she believed her. Tracy is a champion for diversity and representation in science-fiction and fantasy literature and media. Her nonfiction essay about growing up Black and geeky, Black Girl, Becoming, was published in the 2018 anthology, Our Stories, Our Voices. ![]() ![]() In addition to being a featured expert in the 2019 Star Wars fandom SyFy Channel docu-series Looking for Leia, Tracy was also a co-writer and consulting producer. Tracy is a contributor in the 40th Anniversary The Empire Strikes Back anthology, From a Certain Point of View from Del Rey/ Star Wars books. A second-generation fangirl, she grew up in central North Carolina, where she devoured fantasy books and Southern food in equal measure. Tracy Deonn is the #1 New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe award-winning author of Legendborn and its sequel Bloodmarked. ![]() ![]() Complete and compiled episodes, you get to vote on books are read next, and get 2 episodes every week. There are also rainy day versions of complete readings, with rain sounds and gentle storms in the background with the book reading. To hear more modern readings like Twilight, Jurassic Park, Coraline and more, join the Patreon. Classic books like Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Wuthering Heights, Dracula, Pride and Prejudice and more. Support the podcast on Patreon to get 2 episodes every week, access to every episode so far, complete audiobooks and vote on what book is next.īooks read softly, calm and relaxing readings, an almost ASMR like softly spoken fashion to listen to and fall asleep with. Join our sleepy book club on Patreon to get access to every episode right now, vote on the next book, hear complete audiobooks, get two new readings every week and more. ![]() ![]() From Alice in Wonderland to Twilight, Pride & Prejudice to Coraline. ![]() Down To Sleep is a weekly podcast of softly spoken book readings to help you fall asleep, audiobooks and bedtime stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s clear that creatures exist in this new world, with shape-shifters and a vampire in residence, but they lurk in the periphery. We were only sad not to see more supernatural elements at play. This genre is what Harris excels at, and the ending was an unexpected surprise. Everyone’s a suspect, particularly Bobo, because the body turns out to be his ex-girlfriend. It’s a gentle read that ticks along with the steady pace of America’s deep south, but when a corpse is discovered at a picnic, a mystery is set in motion. In fact, it’s hinted that most of the inhabitants are, and while a few are exposed in this novel, there are still plenty more to uncover. ![]() Some of our favourite new characters include a witch named Fiji and her unusual cat, and the mysterious Reverend who’s definitely harbouring a secret. ![]() You needn’t be acquainted with them beforehand, since the third-person omniscient narration introduces us to the entire cast. But when genuine psychic Manfred Bernardo moves in, the tightknit community accept him right away.įans of Charlaine Harris’ work will recognise the character from the Harper Connellyseries, and his new landlord happens to be Bobo Winthrop from the Lily Bard Mysteries. It’s set in the remote and rural town of Midnight, Texas – a quirky Royston Vasey-type of place where newcomers are greeted with twitching curtains and furtive whispers. The Sookie Stackhouse novels have been laid to rest and Midnight Crossroad marks the beginning of a new trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When he sat down to write the scene, Adjei-Brenyah thought it would be a short story, but it just kept evolving. “She was dispassionately telling everyone, ‘I am not your savior or celebrity or whatever you want me to be,’” he says. When Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah was writing his first book, a well-received short story collection called Friday Black, he saw the image of a woman “in the eye of the Colosseum” who was rejecting the fame she’d earned through killing. ![]() |
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