tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26963974488137108642024-03-05T05:17:51.872-05:00Eat, Sleep, & Read!For those of us who swallow books whole!Anglophilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048664626902171076noreply@blogger.comBlogger1906125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696397448813710864.post-61717012504460232102018-09-09T15:49:00.000-05:002018-09-09T15:49:13.677-05:00Aaru: Halls of Hel, Book #2 by David Meredith<div id="AOLMsgPart_1.2_2361b6a6-9cbd-47d7-a339-aef2dbb94666">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span id="aolmail_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533740683165_80549">“… Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment. They are and remain unhappy and low-spirited for the demon waits and waits…”<br id="aolmail_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533740683165_80550" />-Friedrich Nietzsche<br id="aolmail_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533740683165_80551" /><br id="aolmail_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533740683165_80552" />Rose is a Veda.<br id="aolmail_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533740683165_80553" /><br id="aolmail_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533740683165_80554" />In Elysian Industries’ virtual paradise of Aaru, that means she’s practically a goddess. She is immortal. She is powerful. A limitless paradise is hers and her friends’ to command. They are free from sickness and pain, old age and death. She should be ecstatic over her prestige and privilege, but the gilded utopia has lost its luster. <br id="aolmail_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533740683165_80555" /><br id="aolmail_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533740683165_80556" />In a reality where anything can be hers with a thought, and Rose can master any skill instantly with nothing but her imagination, to what can she still aspire? She has all of eternity to fill, but what will her purpose be? Rose adores her sweet, Latin boyfriend, Franco. She loves wiling away endless immaculate days with her friends, but shouldn’t there be more to life than mere play? Also, Rose is dogged by deep concern for her little sister, Koren, the Elysian Industries spokes-model and reality star back in the “Before” world.<br id="aolmail_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533740683165_80557" /><br id="aolmail_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533740683165_80558" />Though Koren is wealthy, famous, and idolized by millions of adoring fans, her life is spinning out of control. Her parents’ marriage is on the rocks, and the boyfriend of her dreams, Jonas Perry, seems suddenly indifferent. Koren finds her celebrity increasingly isolating, her grueling work schedule exhausting, and the constant scrutiny of her personal life unwelcomed and intrusive. To top it all off, she has regular nightmares about the death of her friend, Kiku, and the still-at-large Magic Man who nearly stole away her everything.<br id="aolmail_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533740683165_80559" /><br id="aolmail_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533740683165_80560" />Koren and Rose have more to fear from this quarter than they know. Magic Man’s obsession with the teenage idol has not lessened, and he is far from defeated. With vital aid from an unexpected source, his nefarious schemes to make Koren his own and to hack the Aaru mainframe are on track and moving forward. Unless the sisters can thwart his sinister designs, everyone and everything the girls hold dear could be destroyed.</span> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40963425-aaru#" id="aolmail_yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533740683165_80561" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; background-size: auto; color: blue; cursor: text; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Book #1 and Book #2 are both available for purchase on<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Aaru-Cycle-2-Book/dp/B07G4DBTRB"> Amazon</a>. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>Anglophilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048664626902171076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696397448813710864.post-38518300561894590562018-04-22T08:23:00.000-05:002018-06-27T12:00:45.545-05:00Live Your Life: 14 Days to the Best You<div class="aolmail_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In just 14 days, you can become the best you! Each chapter has a section entitled "Thinking Points" and "Action Items" that gives you practical questions to consider and tips to try in order to kickstart a new and improved you. According to LeFevre, you will find contentment, satisfaction, motivation, desire and passion, and genuine excitement in your life if you follow her advice. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Author Ann LeFevre doesn’t waste a minute of your valuable time getting to the heart of each easy-to-apply lesson in <b><i>Live Your Life: 14 Days to the Best You</i></b>, so you can start feeling better quickly. Using relatable examples and ever-present humor, Dr. LeFevre walks you through step-by-step action items, guiding you to make simple changes that will bring clarity, purpose, and peace to your life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of these practical lessons you likely already know and have forgotten, some may be brand new to you. All are written in a clear, easy-to-implement style that will have you inspired right from the start.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each chapter includes an illustration of how the lesson can be applied, additional details and suggestions to set you up for success, and bulleted lists of thinking points and action items to walk you through applying the lesson to your life, one step at a time. The lessons have been taught by the author to countless clients over the past 16 years, with fast, consistent, positive results. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For additional support and guidance, readers are invited at the beginning of the book to download a free companion workbook, and to view brief, informative videos throughout the book on Dr. LeFevre’s website.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you are feeling overwhelmed with stress, wondering how you’re going to get through the day, or just struggling to find meaning in your daily routine, this book has the potential to change your life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After working as a psychotherapist for nearly 20 years, Dr. Ann LeFevre has decided to share a series of lessons in her book, <i>Live Your Life: 14 Days to the Best You</i>, that have inspired countless clients to take control of their lives, manage stress naturally and holistically, enjoy lives filled with meaning and value, and to start living the lives they’ve always dreamed of. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Quite a bit. First off, the book was itself about my experiences exploring a remote part of the world. So, in a way, what’s in the book is what I learned from the project as a whole. Every new village that I walked into had its own stories. The cultures of the region were incredibly diverse: One village would be mostly Presbyterian and everyone in it would speak English and listen to Taylor Swift, and then another village only a few kilometers away would be mostly nature worshippers, and would speak almost entirely in a unique, local, dialect of the Khasi language. Really, the entire project was about searching for new learning opportunities!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When it comes to the actual craft of writing, creating the book was a learning process in that I had to figure out how to condense several years’ worth of experiences into 40,000 words (which was the limit given by my publisher). That made writing the book a sort of crash course in editing: I often wrote more than I could afford to on a given subject, and so I had to learn how to cut as much as possible from certain passages without having them lose their impact. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I have to admit, bringing the book to life was challenging across the board. As I mentioned above, simply writing the thing was a process of distillation: I had, if anything, too much material to fit into just one short book, so writing the book was just as much about what to leave out as what to include. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But then there were other, small, unforeseen issues. For example, the book is being released by an Indian publisher, and is targeted in large part towards an Indian audience. So, my publishers’ editor had to go in and make the text adhere to Indian (usually meaning British) usage standards. This means that in the published book “Color” is “Colour,” the quotation marks are different than they would be in a U.S. book, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Regarding research, the whole book grew out of a project I was doing on Northeast India’s living root bridges. This meant that the travel the book focuses on was basically the same thing as the research. However, walking from village to village across steep canyons, in the rainiest inhabited place in the world, never having a clear idea of what was coming next, was always challenging. Of course, overcoming those challenges is what (I hope!) will make the book an interesting read. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I have several at the moment. I’m hoping to go back to India in 2018 and in 2019, in order to collect information for a follow-up book to<a href="https://thegreenunknownblog.wordpress.com/"> <i>The Green Unknown</i></a>, and also to start work on a new project called <i>Root Bridges Grown by Headhunters. </i>The follow-up is going to be a day-by-day narrative of what I hope to be a six to eight week walk through a large part of Meghalaya that I’ve never been in before. Whereas <i>The Green Unknown </i>is sort of an introduction to the area, this new project is going to give much more details about Meghalaya, and will also be constructed as one, single, long adventure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The other project, <i>Root Bridges Built by Headhunters</i> is going to be about travelling to a different Northeast Indian state called Nagaland, which is on the Indo-Myanmar border. In Nagaland, there is a tribe of people called the Konyak Nagas, some of whom were headhunters up until the 1960s. I’ve received some information that there are living root bridges in that part of India also, so I’m hoping to go and track some of them down, and write about the experience. I hope to use my notes on that expedition as the core of a new book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yes. Don’t take advise from first time authors!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Right now I’m reading David Copperfield. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>Anglophilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048664626902171076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696397448813710864.post-23947140029170451912017-11-18T09:47:00.002-05:002017-11-18T09:47:48.310-05:00Book Review on And Then I Am Gone: A Walk with Thoreau by Mathias B. Freese <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">TESSERAE: A MEMOIR OF TWO SUMMERS was my first memoir written in 2016. Essentially a narrative of my younger years and a search for awareness; I was an unaware adult. At 76 I completed my second musing about my life which really examined not what answers I had attained but what questions I should pose as I near my end. Kazantzakis's observation comes to mind: "I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free." I have moved in that direction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have learned to come up with a title early on and to move my narrative in that direction. It is work of aging and of old age, meditative, reflective, about years lived and years to come, of the passing of time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sam Goldwyn reputedly said, in response to what the message was of his latest film, "If I want a message I'll go to Western Union." Messages, for me, are wearisome. I write to express what I feel and leave it to the reader to assess that. I think it is a writer's burden to carry a message throughout a writing event. Better, to relate an experience and leave it at that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nikos Kazantzakis, writer of ZORBA THE GREEK, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, SAINT FRANCIS, REPORT TO GRECO</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">THIS IS ORSON WELLES, Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And Then I Am Gone: A Walk with Thoreau tells the Story of a New York City
man who becomes an Alabama man. Despite his radical migration to simpler
living and a late-life marriage to a saint of sorts, his persistent pet anxieties and
unanswerable questions follow him. Mathias Freese wants his retreat from the
societal "it" to be a brave safari for the self rather than cowardly avoidance, so
who better to guide him but Henry David Thoreau, the self-aware philosopher
who retreated to Walden Pond "to live deliberately" and cease "the hurry and
waste of life"? In this memoir, Freese wishes to share how and why he came to
Harvest, Alabama (both literally and figuratively), to impart his existential
impressions and concerns, and to leave his mark before he is gone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Title: And Then I Am Gone: A Walk with Thoreau </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Author: Mathias B. Freese </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Formats: Paperback & eBook </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Published by: Wheatmark
ISBN: 978-1627875387 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pub. Date: September 22, 2017 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Number of pages: 117 pages</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Book Awards: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• The i Tetralogy: Allbooks Review Editor’s Choice Award 2007 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Down to a Sunless Sea: National Indie Excellence finalist Book Awards 2007 & </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Allbooks Reviews Editor’s Choice Award 2007. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• This Mobius Strip of Ifs: National Indie (Winner) Book Awards, 2012 & Global
Ebook Award finalist, 2012. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• I Truly Lament: Working Through the Holocaust: Finalist in the 2012 Leapfrog Press
Fiction Contest out of 424 submissions, Beverly Hills Book Awards, Winner; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Readers' Favorites, Five Stars; Indie Excellence Book Awards, Finalist; Readers' </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Favorite, Book Award Winner - Bronze medal </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Tesserae: A Memoir of Two Summers: 2016 Los Angeles Book Festival Honorable
Mention, Great Northwest Book Festival Winner in Biography/Autobiography </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">• Category, Runner-up in General Non-Fiction Category in the San Francisco Book
Festival, Winner for General Non-Fiction in The Beach Book Festival & Runner-Up
in General Non-Fiction in the Paris Book Festival</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>Anglophilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048664626902171076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696397448813710864.post-57474487300117847282017-07-18T19:48:00.001-05:002017-07-18T19:48:22.502-05:00Douglas Coupland<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>-Douglas Coupland</i><img src="https://google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&t=event&ec=email&ea=open&ni=1&tid=UA-12450662-1&cid=0f3beadb-5127-4875-b713-4cb3989e0968&el=Re%3A%20Reaching%20out%20about%20anglophilereads.blogspot.com&cn=7/10%20Douglas%20Coupland%202&cm=email&cs=DM&cc=follow&ck=anglophilereads.blogspot.com&z=1500300554" /></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Written by Fred Cuellar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Review: </b>The Buffer Zone Diet is a fast read about the world of dieting and why we as a society are still not able to figure it all out. Cuellar explains to the novice how his experience with dieting has been an uphill battle, but a winnable battle nonetheless. This book reads more as a memoir, than a self-help book and can be consumed in one sitting. The one major flaw that stuck out for me was his use of Wikipedia as a source for information. I being an educator know the pros and cons of this website and would not use it as my sole source of information. I have never seen it used so extensively and would suggest that he reference the actual sources taken from Wikipedia in the future. However, Cuellar has published other books and is a very reliable source in general, so this did not impact my view of the book. I like the simplicity of his chapters and that he was so brutally honest with his struggle. Overall, this book is highly recommended for anyone who is looking to begin a weight loss program or needs a little bit of motivation in their current endeavors. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><b>Disclosure: </b> I received a copy of </span></span><em style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Buffer Zone Diet</em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;">. Any opinions expressed are my honest opinions and were not impacted by my receipt of the free book. I received no monetary compensation for this post.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The book can be ordered from</span><span style="color: #323333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Buffer-Zone-Diet-Harness-Healthier/dp/0998909114">Amazon.com </a>.</span><br />
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<em style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Buffer Zone Diet</em><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> contains the formula for regulating weight in the human body: </span><em style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's not just what you eat, it's when you eat.</em><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The timing and frequency of your meals are as important as the meals themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em>The discovery of The Buffer Zone Diet is a significant achievement and contribution to the field of weight management, and it will be your last stop </em><em>on your path to weight loss and good health." </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Dr. Nina, Author of FOOD FOR THOUGHT</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">WHAT'S YOUR LIFE WORTH?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When you' re drowning, the last thing you do before you go unconscious is take a breath. The carbon dioxide rises so much in your blood it overpowers the last few molecules of oxygen in your body. You reach your breaking point, then you inhale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Author Fred Cuellar inhaled food his whole life until he reached his breaking point in his battle with weight loss. Right at the moment he was ready to give up, he had a few last thoughts:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cuellar made it his mission to answer these questions his life depended on it. In his quest to break the weight loss code, he discovered the Buffer Zone that space between meals that is as important as the meals themselves. This is where he found his truth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">·<span style="line-height: normal;"> </span>Five distinct blueprints for designing the new and healthiest you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://diamondcuttersintl.com/about/meet-fred-cuellar/">Fred Cuellar </a>has distinguished himself in various fields. He is one of the world’s top diamond experts, a three-time Guinness Book record holder in jewelry design, a consultant to investment and financial firms, and a best-selling author. His clients include the Dallas Cowboys, the Denver Broncos, the Detroit Redwings, plus celebrities associated with Lionsgate and the Rubik’s Brand. His personal commitment to making a difference in people’s lives has taken him on a journey into the world of obesity, and his discoveries not only saved his life but can save yours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Read these page-turners and discover for yourself some of the best fiction of the past three years.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Conflict is what drives drama and these three works suggested contain plenty of narrative-driven suspense. Get ready to immerse yourself into a study of the human condition that is fast-paced and thought-provoking with these works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. <i>The Nest</i> by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This modern day tale of family intrigue, the life of striving, money, and inheritance both familial and monetary is a hilarious take on modern life in upscale, educated Manhattan. Published by <a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 47, 242); color: #042ff2;">HarperCollins Publishers</span></a> in 2016 to stellar reviews, <i>The Nest</i> rose to become a <i>New York Times</i> bestseller and was named a Best Book of 2016 by the <i>Washington Post</i>, the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>, <i>People</i>, <i>Refinery29</i>, and NPR. Told in the alternating voices of the various family members involved in the internecine battle over the inheritance or nest egg, affectionately shortened to "the nest," these individuals battle to come into their own flight of true autonomy while maintaining their connection to one another.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hawkins’ protagonist, 32-year-old Rachel Watson, is an unemployed alcoholic staggering under the pressure of a failed marriage. She crafts fantasies about a golden couple whom she spots from the vantage point of her daily train ride into London under the pretense that she still has a job. When the wife disappears under suspicious circumstances, Rachel thinks she may have knowledge about the disappearance. But is she really sure of her memories? Does the baggage of loneliness, drink, desperation, and desire cloud her images of that night? When the victim's body is uncovered in a field, suspects, all of them collected to Rachel and that dimly remembered night, surface. Published by <a href="http://http//www.penguin.com/meet/publishers/riverhead/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 47, 242); color: #042ff2;">Riverhead Books</span></a>, <i>The Girl on the Train</i> travels the tracks of the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller list and recommendations by the <i>Kirkus Review</i> and Goodreads. The fast-paced plotting and surprise ending will have readers mesmerized. The book made its way to the silver, as the 2016 film starring Emily Blunt <a href="http://rukkus.com/blog/the-girl-on-the-train-clears-172-million-at-the-box-office/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 109, 214); color: #106dd6;">pulled in $172 globally at the box office</span></a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With a clever allusion to Melville's great white, this novel is a study of how the past informs and drives the present. Fast-paced and hard-driven, it weaves the stories of Sgt. Billy Graves and Detective Milton Ramos as their lives merge and converge to a startling conclusion. Published in 2015 by <a href="http://http//www.picador.com/info/about-us"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 47, 242); color: #042ff2;">Picador</span></a>, this <i>New York Time's</i> bestseller is a witty and gritty crime novel that depicts the needs for both closure and protection. More than a police procedural, this is a novel that studies what we carry with us and how we keep moving through life with the burdens that we shoulder and the ghosts that goad us forward. It's also an authentic look at the hard job of policing one of the most vibrant cities in the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"The quiescence found in Tesserae: A Memoir of Two Summers has a staying effect upon the mind; this memoir lingers in the reader’s memory for some time."</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">– Steven Berndt, Professor of American Literature, College of Southern Nevada</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I sorely miss the sixties. I miss them because they are still within me; missing them is akin to loss. It was the time that I spent two indelible summers in Woodstock, at ages twenty-eight and twenty-nine. So powerful was the impact that deep into the seventies, with a wife and child, I would take off on an occasional Saturday and go up alone on the New York Thruway to Woodstock to spend the day. It was like visiting a cemetery, all the lost and lonely people. Woodstock was, and forever will be, a Proustian remembrance of things past for me, an addictive nostalgia and sentimentality, indeed, a sciatica of the spirit. When I practiced as a psychotherapist I had a client who was profoundly mourning her beloved husband. Each day she would go to his graveside and leave flowers and undoubtedly speak to his marker with all kinds of feelings. I think of her in that cemeteries are for the living and just depositories for the dead. Woodstock became a cemetery for me in the early to mid-seventies, a place I needed to come to in order to be reminded of the feelings, relationships, and human interactions I had experienced. It was a devotional feeling, like lighting a memorial candle for a dearly departed loved one. What is it to remember? To recall, retrieve, reflect, to go back for a moment, to feel a period of time long since gone. What is it to have memory in this organic memory box that we own? What purpose does the past serve in the present other than societal clichés about it? Why do we have associative feelings when we dredge up an early memory? What is memory’s purpose?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">To say that this is Mathias B. Freese’s best work yet is a complete understatement. This may sound odd, because this work is a memoir in every sense of the word, but something about Freese’s stylistic choice made this book stick with me as a reader more than his previous work. I agree with Steven Berndt that this memoir “lingers in the reader’s memory for some time.” It is stories like that in which we gravitate to as readers and quietly wish would never end. As I cheered for Freese in one chapter, I found myself booing him in others. He is painstakingly honest and unapologetic at times, which makes his story hard to swallow. A highlight for me is the pop cultural references, especially in the chapter entitled “The Shape of Things to Come.” Overall, this is a beautiful, poetic tribute to the life that Freese lived for two summers. I highly recommend this memoir to anyone who has ever wondered if it is all worth it. I can tell that Freese truly has no regrets. </span></div>
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<b style="text-indent: -16.2px;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">most essential elements of a well-written memoir?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">well-written memoir. I am an autodidact. I don’t <span style="text-indent: -16.2px;">follow rules, I</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -16.2px;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">break rules and I am often ignorant of the rules. I just sat down and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="text-indent: -16.2px;">composed </span><span style="text-indent: -16.2px;">reflections about my life in what I think are hand-crafted</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="text-indent: -16.2px;">of </span><span style="text-indent: -16.2px;">mind </span><span style="text-indent: -16.2px;">and that is revealed in the memoir. Having practiced as a</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">opposed to fiction?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This is my first effort at memoir, but in the last few years I have</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">focused on essays (see <i>This Mobius </i><span style="text-indent: -16.2px;"><i>Strip of Ifs</i>, 2012). My writer’s</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">my <span style="text-indent: -16.2px;">life experiences. I looked at these essays and realized I had a</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Of course not. I am only interested in telling the truth of things to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">the best I can. If you lie to yourself <span style="text-indent: -16.2px;">you are finished as a writer. I</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -16.2px;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">try to be fearless in my writing and it has its cost. What that cost is</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The writer is the last to know what the worth of his book is. A</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In terms of fluidity and in expression I think it is my best work so</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">far. I think it is my best effort, <span style="text-indent: -16.2px;">although in 2015 <i>I Truly Lament:</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">reflective, perhaps more aware, while <span style="text-indent: -16.2px;">Lament was incisive and</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">What's next? </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">my friend and mentor. One day I sit <span style="text-indent: -16.2px;">down, one day something else</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The book can be ordered from<span style="color: #323333;"> </span><a href="http://wheatmark.com/" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #021eaa;"><b>Wheatmark.com</b></span></a><span style="color: #323333;"> </span>or the author at <a href="mailto:mthsfreese@hotmail.com" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #021eaa;"></span></a><a href="mailto:mthsfreese@hotmail.com" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;"><b>mthsfreese@hotmail.com</b></a><span style="color: #323333;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the most influential, admired, and innovative women of our time: fashion designer, philanthropist, wife, mother, and grandmother, Diane von Furstenberg offers a book about becoming the woman she wanted to be.<br /><br />Diane von Furstenberg started out with a suitcase full of jersey dresses and an idea of who she wanted to be—in her words, “the kind of woman who is independent and who doesn’t rely on a man to pay her bills.” She has since become that woman, establishing herself as a global brand and a major force in the fashion industry, all the while raising a family and maintaining “my children are my greatest creation.”<br /><br />In <i>The Woman I Wanted to Be</i>, von Furstenberg reflects on her extraordinary life—from childhood in Brussels to her days as a young, jet-set princess, to creating the dress that came to symbolize independence and power for an entire generation of women. With remarkable honesty and wisdom, von Furstenberg mines the rich territory of what it means to be a woman. She opens up about her family and career, overcoming cancer, building a global brand, and devoting herself to empowering other women, writing, “I want every woman to know that she can be the woman she wants to be.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Diane von Furstenberg introduces us to the woman she is (roots, love, beauty) and the business of fashion (the American Dream, the comeback kid, the new era) in her inspiring memoir. In the past, I have questioned my admiration for von Furstenberg, but after reading this book I have realized that she </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">truly is a living icon and deserves my admiration. One does not need to be a member of the fashion community to appreciate her words of wisdom. </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">She shares with the reader her past, present, and future.</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> Overall</span><span style="line-height: 18px;">, I feel that this memoir would be a perfect gift for any young woman, because of its' honesty and boldness. To conclude, I </span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> would like to share with you a few of my favorite passages. Her words have stuck with me for days. Enjoy!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"When I have an obstacle in front of me, especially of someone else's making, I say 'OK. I don't like it, but I can't change it, so let's find a way around it.' Then I find a different path to a solution, which so satisfies me that I forget what the problem was in the first place. Of all the lessons my mother drummed into me, that was perhaps the most important. How could you possibly better yourself if you didn't face your challenges up front or if you laid your problems off on someone or something else and didn't learn from them?"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">"Character. Intelligence. Strength. Style. That makes beauty. All these attributes form beauty, and personality, that elusive state of being that is not necessarily perfect."</span><br style="line-height: 19px;" /><br style="line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Aging: </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Aging is out of your control. How you handle it, though, is in your hands."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">"The best thing about aging, I have come to understand, is that you have a past. No one can take that away, so you'd better like it. That is why it is so important to waste no time. By living fully every day, you create your life and that becomes your past, a rich past."</span><br style="line-height: 19px;" /><br style="line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">Becoming the woman you want to be: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">"You cannot have a good relationship with anyone, unless you first have it with yourself. Once you have that, any other relationship is a plus, and not a must. Become your best friend; it is well worth it. It takes a lot of work and it can be painful because it requires honesty and discipline. It means you have to accept who you are, see all your faults and weaknesses. Having done that, you can correct, improve, and little by little discover the things you do like about yourself and start to design your life. There is no love unless there is truth and there is nothing truer than discovering and accepting who you really are. By being critical, you will find things you dislike as well as things you like, and the whole package is who you are. The whole package is what you must embrace and the whole package is what you have control of. It is you! Everything you think, do, like, becomes the person you are and the whole thing weaves into a life, your life."</span><br style="line-height: 19px;" /><br style="line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">"I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reading Group Choices selects discussible books and suggests discussion topics for reading groups. The company produces a printed guide annually that is distributed nationally to libraries, reading groups, book stores, community book festivals, and individuals. Its popular website offers interesting, informative, fun, and interactive material of interest to book clubs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reading Group Choices: Selecting discussible books for reading groups since 1994.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The core audience is everyone who uses a public library, whether in person or online, whether they borrow books, attend programming, rely on library staff for reading recommendations, subscribe to newsletters, browse the shelves and stacks for reading ideas, or participate in any type of library activity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The monthly LibraryReads list has potential that extends beyond the library community, and we are eager to hear ideas about how to effectively reach the larger reading community, via booksellers, book bloggers, book media, and beyond.</span></div>
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By bringing readers foreign literature and literary non-fiction, we offer captivating, thought-provoking works with beautifully-designed covers and high production values. We scour the globe looking for the best stories, knowing that only about three percent of the books published in the United States each year are translations. That leaves a lot of great literature still to be discovered.</div>
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At New Vessel Press, we believe that knowledge of foreign cultures and literatures enriches our lives by offering passageways to understand and embrace the world. We also regard literary translation as both craft and art, enabling us to traverse borders and open minds. We are committed to books that offer erudition and enjoyment, that stimulate and scintillate, that transform and transport.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Welcome to <a href="http://www.thelitcafe.com/">The Literary Cafe</a>, a website for those who find that books are often the starting point for a conversation. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.600000381469727px;">The Literary Cafe was started by two friends, Janine Pollack and Lori Theisen. They met while pursuing their master's degrees at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Ardent book fans and members of book clubs, they wanted to share the contents of their book shelves, the discussions brewing around them, and mostly how to gather and foster great discussion through knowledge, good food and drink, and experiences. </span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>Anglophilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048664626902171076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696397448813710864.post-11239619188532522422015-01-01T11:51:00.000-05:002015-01-01T11:51:06.506-05:00 I TRULY LAMENT: WORKING THROUGH THE HOLOCAUST<a href="http://www.mathiasbfreese.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/lament-hi-682x1024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Adobe Photoshop PDF" border="0" class="wp-image-4772 aligncenter" height="200" src="http://www.mathiasbfreese.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/lament-hi-682x1024.jpg" width="133" /></a><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">According to the author, <span style="line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"><a href="http://www.mathiasbfreese.com/">Mathias B. Freese </a>... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">I Truly Lament—Working Through the Holocaust</span></i><span style="line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"> is a varied collection of stories: inmates in death camps; survivors of these camps; disenchanted Golems complaining about their designated rounds; Holocaust deniers and their ravings; collectors of Hitler curiosa (only recently a few linens from Hitler’s bedroom suite went up for sale!); an imagined interview with Eva Braun during her last days in the Berlin bunker; a Nazi camp doctor subtly denying his complicity; and the love story of a Hungarian cantor, among others.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A description meant to entice booksellers, librarians, reviewers and readers might be this: A weirdly wonderful short story collection exploring the Holocaust from diverse perspectives in literary styles ranging from gothic and romantic to phantasmagoric.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My most recent work is <i>This Mobius Strip of Ifs,</i> a collection of essays, and the winner of the 2012 National Indie Excellence Book Award for autobiography/memoirs, nonfiction as well as one of five finalists for the same category, Global Ebooks Awards.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><em><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Author of </span></em><em><span style="color: black; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">The i Tetralogy </span></em><span style="color: black; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">(Wheatmark, 2006), a Holocaust novel, winner of the Allbooks Review Editor’s Choice Award 2007, and <em>Down to a Sunless Sea </em>(Wheatmark, 2007), a collection of short fiction, Indie Excellence Finalist Book Awards, I am a retired psychotherapist and teacher.</span></span></div>
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