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5/13/2023 0 Comments Krishna meri drishti mein osho![]() ![]() In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". In advocating a open attitude to human sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru". Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humor-qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialization. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and mystic. Rajneesh emphasized the Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990) and latter rebranded as Osho was leader of the Rajneesh movement. In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy. Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990) and latter rebranded as Osho was leader of the Rajneesh movement. He has (12) books in the library, Total download and read (4,507) ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Faking under the mistletoe book![]() ![]() Ultimately, her place in this fairly diverse cast worked for me. If I had to critique anything, which is difficult to do, I would say the child character Chloe is more precocious than I tend to prefer, but she is a refreshing delight (and sometimes convenient plot device). Shepherd makes it drive the second half of the plot, rather than tacking it on formulaically. ![]() ![]() I won’t repeat my entire review (if your interested, my Goodreads review is here), but I do have to say that I absolutely admire the way Shepherd incorporated a challenging subplot that tackles sexual assault, something that is so relevant today. I literally LOL’d several times while reading it. I put all my other books on hold so I could dive into this seasonal romance, Faking Under the Mistletoe by Ashley Shepherd over Christmas. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The innocence museum![]() ![]() The hospital was to be the first building erected specifically for the care of abandoned children the first orphanage. It was quickly decided that a new building would be established to house these children. It was one of the richest, most powerful guilds in Florence. The responsibility for all these foundlings, as they were known, was given to the “Arte della Seta,” or Silk Guild. Many were the illegitimate children of servants and enslaved people. ![]() People abandoned children because of many factors: illegitimacy, war, famine, plague, and extreme poverty. In Medieval and Renaissance Europe, it was common for unwanted children, especially girls, to be abandoned. ![]() Art, science, wealth, architecture, all were in bloom, ruled from behind the scenes by the wealthy Medici family. In many ways, Florence was considered the center of the civilized world in the 1400s. ![]() Florence was crawling with abandoned babies. Babies in the fields, babies in the alleyways, babies left on the pews of the Church. Florence in the 1400s had a baby problem. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments My train patti smith![]() ![]() I mean, I could have written M Train for the next 10 years. I just thought, ‘Well, I could go on forever, but I think I’ll end here.’ I can always pick up the thread if I want. I kept writing every day until I decided it was the end of this particular book or this particular journey. “It’s like the cowpoke said: ‘It’s not so easy writing about nothing.’ So I challenged myself just to see what it would be like to write about nothing. But this book really had no outline, no agenda and I didn’t even know I was writing a book at first I was just writing. It took me a long time to perform it, but it was a specific task and it had its parameters. “With Just Kids, I mean, Robert asked me to write our story the day before he died,” says Smith, 68, from the apartment she shares with three cats in Greenwich Village. And so Smith, borrowing those words as M Train’s opening line, decided to investigate for herself, resulting in a far hazier, more poetic and circuitous piece of autobiography than Just Kids, the proto-punk rocker’s celebrated 2010 book about her youthful friendship in New York with the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. “It’s not so easy writing about nothing,” he informed her. ![]() A mysterious cowpoke chanced upon in a dream determined the course of Patti Smith’s new memoir, M Train. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The small hand by susan hill![]() ![]() The tension is built up gradually until it is taut and physical * Independent * Part of the fear she conjures up, then, is a sense that this could happen to anyone. ![]() As seductive as it is disquieting, atmospheric and brilliantly suspenseful * The Lady * Short and crisply told. this is a wonderful piece of storytelling that does what a good story ought to do: it keeps you guessing, pulls you in - Jeremy Dyson * Guardian * Every bit the treat one would expect. ![]() what's most impressive is what hangs between the spare lines of Hill's precise prose. If the proof of a good ghost story is a bad dream, this one worked for me * Intelligent Life * On top form * Good Housekeeping * Beautifully evoked. And, as a bonus, the book has an exceptionally attractive cover * Spectator * On chilling form * Vogue * She builds suspense through easy, elegant prose. highly recommended for a chilly autumn evening by the fire. The sinister child, the rotting mansion, the monastery and the old books are of course familiar gothic props but Susan Hill uses them to lend depth, as an expert cook uses familiar ingredients to enrich a new recipe, and draws out new flavours from them in the process. This beautifully written novel may be short, but not one word is wasted. The entire narrative unrolls like a carpet. Superior chills from the author of The Woman in Black * Woman & Home * A distinguished modern exponent of the genre. ![]() ![]() Hitler blamed Germany's misery on the victorious allies, the Marxists, the Jews, and big business - and the political parties that represented them. Between 19, Hitler and his party languished in obscurity on the radical fringes of German politics, but the onset of the Great Depression gave them the opportunity to move into the mainstream. ![]() Fueled by outrage at the punitive terms imposed on Germany by the Versailles Treaty, he found his voice and drew a loyal following.Īs his views developed, Hitler attracted like-minded colleagues who formed the nucleus of the nascent Nazi party. ![]() In The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, Thomas Childers shows how the young Hitler became passionately political and anti-Semitic as he lived on the margins of society. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Deep water based on a book![]() In order to understand the tormented relationship at the heart of Highsmith’s Deep Water, it’s necessary to consider its cultural context: an era when divorce was much rarer than it is today, and still considered deeply shameful. ![]() But Highsmith also wrote about the misery of marriage and the suburbs in novels like Deep Water and Edith’s Diary. The film is based on a 1957 novel by iconic suspense writer Patricia Highsmith, best known for her Tom Ripley novels and for the lesbian romance The Price of Salt, which was adapted into the film Carol. Vic seems to simply endure Melinda’s dalliances, but as the film progresses, his darker side begins to emerge. ![]() Their relationship should be perfect - they have a beautiful home and an adorable young daughter - but Melinda’s series of overt affairs with younger men has poisoned their marriage. ![]() The film stars Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas as Vic and Melinda Van Allen, a wealthy couple living in New Orleans, Louisiana. The threat of danger lurks beneath the surface of Deep Water, the new erotic thriller from director Adrian Lyne. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The graduate book naomi![]() Our beloved school does its best to devour all its students-but now that I’ve reached my senior year and have actually won myself a handful of allies, it’s suddenly developed a very particular craving for me. I suppose you could even argue that it’s true-only the wisdom is hard to come by, so the shelter’s rather scant. ![]() That’s the official motto of the Scholomance. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Polygon, Thrillist, She Reads.“The climactic graduation-day battle will bring cheers, tears, and gasps as the second of the Scholomance trilogy closes with a breathtaking cliff-hanger.”- Booklist (starred review) ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Space odyssey by michael benson![]() ![]() Hubbard was manipulative and physically abusive toward his partners, beating and punching them on more than one occasion. At one point, he recounts that when Asimov visited a particular publisher, the women found reason to leave. Nevala-Lee recounts Asimov’s predilection for sexual harassment and predatory behavior. Collectively, Campbell, Asimov, Heinlein, and Hubble were incredibly flawed, toxic, and abusive individuals. Like Space Odyssey, Astounding takes a critical look at its subjects. Crew worried that someone would die due to Kubrick’s demand for absolute authenticity. When the actor descended, meters above the ground, one of the strands in the wire snapped, prompting the actor to drop the prop he was holding, which hit a camera assistant on the head. During another spacewalk sequence, Kubrick insisted that a stunt actor wear only a single safety wire, worried that multiple lines would compromise the illusion of floating in space. ![]() When he awoke, he went after the director, only to discover that Kubrick left the set, and he didn’t return until two or three days later. The actor - a former mercenary - blacked out and was pulled in. The actor signaled that he was running out of air, but Kubrick grew agitated and demanded that they continue the scene. At one point, a stunt actor was hanging dozens of feet above the floor for the film’s EVA scenes, sealed into a space suit, with only a couple of minutes of air. ![]() Kubrick’s attention to detail also came at the expense of his actors and crew. ![]() |