Book Summary:Before The Sandman, there was Violent Cases, the first teaming of multi award-winning writer Neil Gaiman and innovative artist Dave McKean. Now, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of this seminal work, Violent Cases is being re-issued in a hardcover edition of one of the most inf...
but what they don’t warn you about is the shock of going back to the messy chaos of the current work in progress after reading an already edited story, and the heaps of self-doubt and imposter syndrome that brings on… Hoo
In the fine tradition ofFor Whom the Bell TollsandOf Mice and Men,Crossing to Safetyborrows its title from poetry – in this case, Robert Frost. I find this an interesting tradition; it does not always necessarily yield greater meaning, at least not for me (perhaps if I were better with...
The only criticism I have of this story is that the last chapter reads as Upton Sinclair’s personal Socialist manifesto, which really didn’t fit the tone of the book, regardless of my political opinions. Speaking of which, I am a Capitalist. I consider our system flawed, of course, ...
At first I thought they just referred to the overall story arc in a macro sense, but my real eureka came when I saw that the beats could be repeated in miniature within a chapter, or paragraph, or even a sentence! You have to show how things were. This is the Prologue, How it Was...
08/17/23-Champion Joe says, "The Last Voyage of the Demeteris a film based on the chapter inDraculathat is inspired by the Captain's log concerning having Dracula on board his ship as it travels from Romania to England. This is not a spoiler. We know this from the start. It's been...
Each Chapter Includes An Affirmation That Distills Its Core Concepts Into A Sentence Or Two For The Reader To Easily Practice Throughout The Day. Beckwith's Personal And Touching Accounts Guide The Practitioner To Integrate And Activate The Intrinsic Gifts Of Divinity Into Everyday Life. the Core...
I’ve been going for a one mile walk every day, to get fresh air and push it through my lungs. But then need to lie down afterwards, with an audiobook because of fatigue.How Not to be a Boyby Robert Webb is turning out to be agreatlisten. ...
There are 18 chapters in this book with most of them covering the 2 years and 2 months that Henry David Thoreau lived in a small cabin from July 4, 1845 – September 6, 1847, that he built near the shores of Walden Pond close to Concord Massachusetts. In the first chapter Thoreau outl...
Remembering Michael Ward’s book reminded me of how much hidden meaning lies in stories. Stories are visions of the world; every word and sound, character portrait, image and plot point has a spiritual dimension. Many of the classics I read in school like John Steinbeck’sOf Mice and Men,...