Castles: A Fictional Memoir of a Girl with Scissors Review

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Castles: A Fictional Memoir of a Girl with Scissors ReviewCastles is a book that reads like a memoir. When you read it you believe it is true. The book is filled with believable characters that have lots of problems that they are unwilling to face head on. Instead they hurt each other. The exception is the main character's grandmother. She is kind and nurturing. This book is hard to read because you believe it is true even though the author says it is fiction. The writing is excellent! It is set in a desert town. It divided into several distinct stories but with the same characters. The first story involves the main character Maggie and her grandmother, her alcoholic mother and abusive boyfriends. What is so beautiful about this first story is the contrast between the mother and the grandmother. The mother has a foul mouth and abusive manner. Her choice of men reveal her low character. She abuses Maggie, blames her and calls her names. The grandmother is very kind and protective of Maggie. She inspires Maggie and the reader. She has hope. She is a lifeline for Maggie. We as readers realize this, so when she dies we realize how devastating it is for Maggie. It sets her on a downward spiral that leads to the ultimate deadly end.
Castles is a dark story of abuse, rape, victimization and revenge; however it is REAL LIFE.
In our darkest moments we are alone, with a voice, the voice of someone who once loved us. If we listen to that voice are we "mad" or just wise?
I loved this book! I really loved it!
Castles: A Fictional Memoir of a Girl with Scissors OverviewWhen Maggie was six, she hid from desert storms under the sink where the Comet and Windex were kept. Now twenty, she welcomes the storms.Maggie has been abused, torn apart by the sins of others and constantly feels as if she is living on the verge of some grand epiphany. Then again, she may just be insane. Maggie doesn't know if the four bodies she dismembered and placed inside a rusted Volkswagen Bus are the only bricks left to her castle in the sky, but she hopes you'll understand if they're not.Castles is Maggie's story, a literary horror novel about love and redemption, belief and revenge and what brings a person to madness. Set in a nameless desert in a nameless town, it is the view into the life of a young woman who wonders if madness is really mad.

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THE ART OF WIND PLAYING Review

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THE ART OF WIND PLAYING Review"The Art of Wind Playing" is written by one of the great bassoonists and masters of wind playing, Arthur Weisberg. Mr. Weisberg presents the physical principles of sound production on wind instruments and then shows how these principles can be utilized to produced more artistic performances. Though Mr. Weisberg is known as a bassoonist, his examples transfer easily to all wind instruments. The book presents technical concepts in a manner that is approachable to most readers. Highly recommended to any performer or teacher who wants to improve his/her wind playing skills and musical artistry.THE ART OF WIND PLAYING OverviewThis essential book for all performers, teachers and conductors of wind instruments clears away the cobwebs of superstitions and the fixed ideas of what can and can't be done. Written by one of the great wind virtuosos of our time, the book covers: resonance; attacks and releases; double tonguing; vibrato; breathing; interpretation; and more!

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Black Dog Review

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Black Dog ReviewStephen Booth is a new British author and "Black Dog" is his first novel. It is set in England, in the Peak District, an area known for hiking and overrun by tourists in the summer.
Laura Vernon, aged 15, of Moorhay Village disappears and foul play is suspected. The police launch a search, but it is a villager who turns up the first real evidence. Laura Vernon's family had only recently moved to the area and does not blend in well with their neighbors. And there seems to be something else no one is willing to talk about.
DCs Diane Fry and Ben Cooper are part of the investigating police force. Diane had only recently transferred to the district, Ben is the local boy, "Sergeant Cooper's lad", trying to live up to the shining example his father set. Both are competing for a promotion and there is more to both of them than meets the eye. The interaction between these two is what makes up most of this book's charm. Stephen Booth does a very good job here to portray two very different characters and to show how deceiving appearances can be.
This is not your usual police procedural. There is a lot more to the book than just an investigation and a criminal. The solution to the mystery is almost secondary and, to be honest, feels a bit rushed. It is the two main characters that drive the book. You get to know them very well and I would love to read more about them.
I highly recommend this book. Fans of psychological mysteries like Minette Walters' will not be disappointed.Black Dog Overview

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The God I Never Knew: How Real Friendship with the Holy Spirit Can Change Your Life Review

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The God I Never Knew: How Real Friendship with the Holy Spirit Can Change Your Life ReviewPastor Robert Morris adds to growing library of works about the often misunderstood and sometimes forgotten third member of the Holy Trinity. This book is his attempt to clear away some of the mystery and confusion that surrounds God in this person. This volume succeeds wildly on one level, but struggles to find its footing on another.
The first half of the book having to do with the reality of the Holy Spirit and His work is a good addition to the growing attention the Spirit is receiving. It is scriptural and doctrinal, and does a superior job of presenting the reality of the Spirit to a church that is desperately in need of an outpouring of the Spirit's power. In addition to the fine explication, Morris applies the truths to our daily lives in way that makes us desire more and more of the Spirit.
Sadly, the second part of the book doesn't hold up the expectations set out in the first. After adhering close to the Evangelical median in his discussion of the reality and work of the Spirit, Morris tips into a scattered series of chapters about separate Baptisms in the Spirit and the miraculous gifts. An extensive presentation of these topics is beneficial to have, but the way in which the author strikes, fires off an anecdote and then moves on is less than satisfying.
Inconsistency aside, The God I Never Knew can serve as a fine introduction to the Spirit or a reminder of the power that He brings to the believer. Some will find the theological diversions unnerving, but understanding the doctrines contributes to the growth of all Christians.
The God I Never Knew: How Real Friendship with the Holy Spirit Can Change Your Life OverviewWho is the Holy Spirit, and exactly what does He do?Many people find the Holy Spirit mysterious, confounding—even controversial. Why is the third person in the Godhead—the one Jesus said would be the believer's ultimate source of truth and comfort—the source of such confusion? "The God I Never Knew gives life-changing insight into the mystery of the Holy Spirit."—Craig Groeschel, senior pastor of LifeChurch.tv and author of WEIRD "You will fi nd no better person [than Robert Morris] to introduce you to friendship withthe Holy Spirit of the living God."—Jack W. Hayford, founder and president of The King's UniversityIn The God I Never Knew, Robert Morris clearly explains that the Holy Spirit's chief desire is for relationship--to offer us the encouragement and guidance of a trusted friend. This insightful and biblically-based book moves beyond theological jargon, religious tradition, and cultural misconceptions to clarify what the Holy Spirit promises to do in your life: · Dwell within you · Be your helper · Guide you into all truth· Comfort you· Pray for you· Show you things to come· Never leave youIt's time to experience the Holy Spirit in a fresh, new way—to meet the God you may have never known. I N C L U D E S A S M A L L - G R O U P S T U D Y G U I D E

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"JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE?" -Growing Up A Baptist Fundamentalist- Review

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"JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE" -Growing Up A Baptist Fundamentalist- ReviewThe author has an interesting story, and I applaud him for telling it. That said, what he had to say could have been said in half the length. I was disappointed that there is only one sentence to say it took him 20 years after his first epiphany to rid himself of all the church indoctrination. I would much rather have heard the details of that transformation than pages about his football days. But my main reason for the one star is that the book was VERY frustrating to read because it is FULL of spelling (and grammatical) errors, like "caring" for "carrying", "dammed" multiple times for "damned", "grove" for "groove", and "sheppard" for "shepherd", among many others. I would not recommend paying any money for this book, sorry!"JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE" -Growing Up A Baptist Fundamentalist- OverviewThis is a satirical polemic about my bizarre yet comical life growing up a Baptist Christian Fundamentalist. As an adult I became an Evangelist and a Pastor, and eventually a Secular Atheist Freethinker. To my surprise, and all my relatives, the actual transition was quite rapid and with resounding finality.I lived my childhood, teenage, and young adult years in South Bend, Indiana during the 1940's and 50's, just a few miles from Notre Dame's golden dome. We were the Christian bible thumpers and they were the infamous Pope's Catholic "pawns". I found myself treading water in an ocean of immense emotional conflict and psychological turmoil; my teenage hormones only supercharged my dilemma.Later, as an adult, an epiphany shattered my Fundamentalist indoctrination, forever erasing my Christian Baptist beliefs. In our post 911 world, “Justifiable Homicide?" can be a Rosetta stone to unlock the core code of religious extremism. The book is biographical, with humor throughout. I allow biblical ethos to speak for itself.

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An Essential Guide to Baptism in the Holy Spirit: Foundations on the Holy Spirit Review

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An Essential Guide to Baptism in the Holy Spirit: Foundations on the Holy Spirit ReviewThis book is amazing. The author took time to explain Who the Holy Spirit is and the author discusses his own experiences concerning his spiritual growth. Highly recommend!An Essential Guide to Baptism in the Holy Spirit: Foundations on the Holy Spirit Overview
This book is part of the Foundation Series by Pastor Ron Phillips. The series will contain books describing the basic foundational truths for the Spirit-filled believer. An Essential Guide to Baptism in the Holy Spirit describes the author's own experience of being baptized by the Holy Spirit. It will demonstrate how the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives today can help us to preach the good news, drive out devils, heal the sick, and see God's kingdom on the earth grow.




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A Thanksgiving Tale Review

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A Thanksgiving Tale ReviewI picked up this story for my kids, but was glad I read it first. It does have dark humor, but is best left for adults.A Thanksgiving Tale OverviewAs Muriel Barber prepares her holiday feast, something sinister grows in the hot stove before her. Enjoy a black comedy about turkey with an edge.

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The Bizarre Tongue Review

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The Bizarre Tongue ReviewIrene Watts' "The Bizarre Tongue" takes the reader on a journey through the birth, cycles of life and discovery and realization (or ideation) of a consciousness to a form of enlightenment...but it seems to me that is not the crux of the story. Instead, it is how the world responds to different forms of beauty, missing the core of experience living inside that transformation as they try to make it manageable, marketable, attainable, material...classifiable. Written as a bird-filled poem, rich with imagery and quirks of humor covering over a deeper sadness at the blind groping of most "seekers" and marketers of seeking, this story stays with you, poignant and haunting.The Bizarre Tongue OverviewThe hallowed birth, life and transcendence of a divine entity. The Bizarre Tongue is resplendent, omniscient and birds like Her too. She exists only a moment in linear time, often. It sells.

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Tongues of the Moon Review

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Tongues of the Moon ReviewThis Kindle Edition of "Tongues of the Moon" is the short story that first appeared in Amazing Stories, September 1961; and is not the longer novel version, first published in 1964, that I was expecting. The short story is only the first 20% of the novel. I was shocked that this was not pointed out on the purchase page.Tongues of the Moon OverviewEarth was dying. Possibly the only human beings left in the Universe were those on the Moon. On this last outpost of humanity, the age-old controversy between ideologies continued to tear the human race apart, as each group prepared to unleash the deadly ...Tongues of the Moon

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Knotted Tongues: Stuttering in History and the Quest for a Cure (Kodansha Globe) Review

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Knotted Tongues: Stuttering in History and the Quest for a Cure (Kodansha Globe) ReviewBobrick, a stutterer himself, writes a fascinating historical overview of both the famous stutterers in history (Greek orator Demosthenes, Winston Churchill, Nai Bevan) and reviews the "cures" on offer through the ages. I am similarly afflicted and found the book fascinating. My good friend Jon bought it for me after a low point in my life when I did jury service. My oath took the best part of 25 minutes and my fellow jurors elected me foreman. The verdict was real edge-of-your-seat stuff.Knotted Tongues: Stuttering in History and the Quest for a Cure (Kodansha Globe) Overview

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Tongues Review

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Tongues ReviewThis story was very interesting! I couldn't stop reading and didn't want it to end. Sci-fi is not really my genre, but after reading this, I will definitely check out other works by Brian Rappatta! Thanks!Tongues OverviewDr. Seamus Martinez is one of the galaxy's foremost experts in xenolinguistics--the study of extraterrestrial languages. He knows very well that in contact situations with aliens, the words you choose are of vital importance, and can have disastrous consequences. In fact, he's been sentenced to jail because of it.He gets a shot at redemption when he is called upon to codecrack an alien religious language. He soon discovers, however, that deciphering languages is easy . . . it's navigating an alien species' entire belief system that's hard.

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Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling Review

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Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling ReviewHowever you spell it, this is good fun if you like linguistics, etymology and orthography. Starting with the basics of Wessex (West Saxon) Old English (there never was an 'e' on old until Victorian times) the language grew from the influx of Norman-French (from William the Conqueror), and all the languages of the Empire (pundit, serendipity, kiosk). But how did the spelling of the actual words come to be?
Prior to the printed book, almost all books were hand scribed by monks in Scriptorium. (The building at Oxford where the OED was created was named so by sir James Murray.) Each monk spelled a word as close as he could to the way it sounded (phonetically). Since there were so few readers, it didn't really matter.
Once Guttenberg had devised his type-set printing, word spellings became much more important. The English (King James of 1611) translated Bible had different spellings for the same word, sometimes on the same page. As an aside, one of the reason we have odd spellings like 'ghost' instead of 'gost' was that the first English books were typeset in Bruges where the major language was Flemish. Typesetters made the decisions on the spot of how to spell a word (phonetically of course), and so used spellings they were comfortable with.
The first major shift to "standardize" English spellings, was by Dr. Samuel Johnson. Dr.Johnson's "Dictionary" was first published in 1755 and immediately became the "base line" (or war line) by which the budding science of 'philology' and 'lexicographers' (makers of dictionaries) fought the battle of the silent 'h' (in Ghost and Rhubarb) and silent 'gh' (in though and fought).
Noah Webster started the transatlantic lexicography war when he published his 'American Dictionary of the English Language' in 1828. Webster sought to 'americanize' English by changing gaol to jail, publick to public, centre to center and dropping the 'u' in honor, valor, color,etc.
This set off the longest running battle between the two major centers or centres of the English (?) speaking world.
In the late 1880's a group of men at Oxford, decided that the language needed to be standardized, because of the coming of government sanctioning of 'public' education. How to teach spelling and word meanings when there was no 'body' (such as the 'Academie Francais) to arbitrate the language. So the idea of the 'Oxford English Dictionary' was born. It took almost thirty years before it was completed in 1928 and it immediately became the standard for all publication in the UK and the British Empire. Americans are still making their own decisions.
With the advent of the internet and email, and especially cell phone 'texting', the language is once again developing a 'personalized' orthography. While there are accepted shorthand words such as Gr8 and BFF (best friends forever), there are a myriad of variations between friends and age groups. (No teenager wants to use the same shorthand as their parents, duh! how groudy!)
For those who enjoy a good story is how things came about (the eschatology) of any genre, this is a fun read (or reed or rede or ...
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When did ghost acquire its silent h? Will cyberspace kill the one in rhubarb? And was it really rocket scientists who invented spell-check?

In Righting the Mother Tongue, author David Wolman tells the cockamamie story of English spelling, by way of a wordly adventure from English battlefields to Google headquarters. Along the way, he joins spelling reformers picketing the national spelling bee, visits the town in Belgium-not England-where the first English books were printed, and takes a road trip with the boss at Merriam-Webster Inc. Wolman punctuates the journey with spelling wars waged by the likes of Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster, Theodore Roosevelt, and Andrew Carnegie.

Rich with history, pop culture, curiosity, and humor, Righting the Mother Tongue explores how English spelling came to be, traces efforts to mend the code, and imagines the shape of tomorrow's words.


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Witch Got Your Tongue Review

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Witch Got Your Tongue ReviewI've always enjoyed Livia Washburn's books. This time she's starting a new series about a young witch who stutters and can't cast spells. As it turns out, however, the stuttering problem isn't what she always thought it was. In fact, she learns that a lot of things weren't what she thought they were, and her world is upended in surprising ways. And imagine the shock of her roommates when they discover she's a witch. This is a fast, entertaining book, and there's bound to be a sequel along soon. I'm looking forward to it.Witch Got Your Tongue OverviewAren McAllister is a beautiful but shy and withdrawn young woman who has battled a stuttering problem her entire life. But then, seemingly by accident, she discovers that she wields an incredible power: she is actually a witch and can cast potent spells . . . but only by singing them.This discovery throws Aren into a dangerous power struggle between different factions in the society of witches who live among humans unknown by them. And for the first time she encounters a romance that may change her life as much or more than the powers she never knew she had.WITCH GOT YOUR TONGUE is the first novel in the Tongue Tied Witch series, a brand-new urban fantasy thrill ride from award-winning, best-selling novelist Livia J. Washburn, author of the best selling Fresh Baked Mystery series and the Literary Tour Mysteries. Trade Paperback: 152 pages

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A Stolen Tongue Review

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A Stolen Tongue ReviewIf you think "A Stolen Tongue" is going to dish up some musty old history of the Middle Ages, with chanting monks, swooning princesses and gallant young men on prancing steeds, you've got it all wrong. The main character, Felix Fabri, starts out by overseeing a group of galley slaves who fish a bloated, drowned German guy out of a harbor and parade him through the streets of town to his burial site. Later on, he helps a cohort slice open another dead guy and pull out his intestines. And all through this book there is plenty of vomit, rotten things, people burned alive, human waste, worm-infested water, decaying bodies, hacked-off limbs, pus-filled wounds -- and there's Fabri's beloved Saint Katherine, whose decapitated body shoots out milk instead of blood. Oh, and Fabri carries a dried human tongue around in a pouch that he wears around his neck. Not that I choose books by their gore-index mind you. I simply say all this to drive home the point that the events Holman describes are vividly corporeal. The reader is drawn close to the action and really sees, hears, smells (usually gross smells, by the way), tastes (also often nasty) and touches the things the characters encounter. I love to read about life in other eras, and this book, along with being a great read, put me right into the center of the action. And lo and behold if I didn't learn more than a few interesting facts about medieval life, too!A Stolen Tongue Overview

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Tongue: A Novel Review

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Tongue: A Novel ReviewThe protagonist of Tongue is Ji-won, a cook who's opened up her own cooking school in the home she shares with her boyfriend, architect Seok-ju. Together they have designed her dream kitchen, where she teaches small groups to make breads and Italian food. When Seok-ju falls for a former model taking cooking lessons, he leaves Won alone with his dog Paulie to close up her kitchen and go back to work at the Italian restaurant where she was trained.
The chapters follow Won month after month through a traumatic, isolating breakup. She thinks constantly of food and Seok-ju, works long days in the restaurant taking on extra duties, and falls with Paulie into an abyss of loneliness in the home they once shared with "him." At first her devastation seems normal, then a bit scary, then a bit sad. And after she finds out that Seok-ju has now built their dream home for Se-yeon, who's opening a new cooking school, we see how unmoored Won really has become.
Food, taste, and sense in general are the centerpiece of the novel, and Jo gives Won a very convincing gourmandism. Ji-won spends plenty of time musing on meals she's served to Seok-ju, meals she could serve to get him back. But the sexual angle on food isn't by any means the only one. There are some highly erotic scenes and fantasies, but Won is interested in sensation more generally. Some of the best food discussions are those of her childhood, of her grandmother using a pear reduction to sweeten everything, or cooking plain, earthy meals. The importance of salt, the taste of loneliness, the close association of love and hunger, "physical symptoms that propel your life."
The novel is set in Seoul, but Won mostly cooks Western food and makes a surprising number of Western cultural references. This is the first Korean novel I've read, but it felt quite homey, and to a large extent the comparisons to Haruki Murakami are apt. There is a certain way reality is tilted for Won that makes everything a bit strange, but she's going through a dark, intimate process that could tilt anyone. I found the food writing very evocative, and the emotional ups and downs as well. Tongue was a bit dark, but I'm hoping to see more of Jo's work translated in the future.Tongue: A Novel Overview

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