This is a review of Jerry and Esther Hicks new book, "The Astonishing Power of Emotions:Let your Feeling Be Your Guide. This is a very interesting book with a lot of very practical suggestions to get you to start to look and situations from a different perspective. You do not need to make a huge adjustment to your thinking to find a way forw

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Two recent books - Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time and Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children - eloquently describe how determined volunteers are working to make the right to read and learn a global reality, despite the staggering number

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Bill Keaggy is a collector, maker, and breaker of things. He is the author of Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found. Recently, I spoke to Bill about grocery lists, his new book, and ephemera. Bill shares his secrets of finding and examining other people's discarded grocery lists. The salvage of small, forgotten things is certain dear

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She explained the trouble with Valentine's Day (as if you didn't know!) Now Rachel Gibson tells all about . . .

Sex . . .

What is it about men anyway? Bad cars, bad jobs, even bad teeth—nothing convinces them that they can't snare a Size Two Babe with a D-cup chest. And after way too many internet dates with men named "luvstick" an

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I have tried to find tips to a healthy lifestyle from English poetry. We have had nature poets like Wordsworth telling us to be close to nature. We get some real good advice from the famous English poem, what is required it to read between the lines. I have tried to view the poem from that point of view. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is the

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The post describes the materialistic attitude of the present human being. It throws light on the approach we should adopt towards life. Normally when we frame resolutions for ourselves we think of ourselves, 'my family, my wishes, my dreams, my...and so on'. Did you notice something? Yes, the word 'my'. So what have we forgotten to be? Wh

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Kaza Kingsley is doing a blog tour to promote the second book in her Erec Rex Series. Erec Rex: The Monsters of Otherness. I will be participating on January 10, with book reviews and book giveaways to follow.

Kaza Kingsley will be checking in to read comments and ask questions during the tour. So stop by and ask her about her books, being

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Author of the Erec Rex books, Kaza Kingsley talks about her books, her fans and living in Harry Potter's shadow. Here's a sample question...

"2x: Who would win in a fight, Harry (Potter) or Erec? Oh, and none of that “They’d be on the same side” stuff either, just assumed they were both tricked into thinking the other one was evil…"

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Wordsworth is one of the most celebrated Nature poets. In his 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood' he like his usual self talkes about Nature and how the influence seems to loosen its grip upon us as we are involved in materialistic world. In this post I have talked about the autobiographical elements in t

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This is an original review of the Swedish crime novel "Before the Frost," by Henning Mankell. The story describes the fight by inspector Kurt Wallander and his daughter Linda, soon to be a police officer, to solve a set of simultaneous murders and disappearances. The book probes trust and religious fanaticism, and is both suspenseful and

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Bruce Sterling’s 1992 classic journalistic history of the founding of the online civil liberties movement, The Hacker Crackdown, which chronicles the events that led to the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.rnrnIt is a series of podcasts made by Boing Boing's Corry Doctorow, edited so that you can listen only to the book (an

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Best-selling author(ess), Laurell K. Hamilton, has taken the comic book world by storm with her many Anita Blake series. Based on her series of novels, all have become best-sellers and have been collected in hardcover anthologies on sale now. This new outing brings veteran artist, Ron Lim, into the fray and I have preview pages and cover ar

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This is a review of the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. Blink is about the first two seconds of an encounter and the immense power the unconscious has over those 2 seconds. Snap judgments, first impressions and thin slicing are concepts that are explained in the book.

Blink is about what happens in those 2 seconds, how benefial it is and

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While on Christmas vacation I read The Stone Raft, my first encounter with the unusual style of Jose Saramago, the Portuguese novelist who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998. The stone raft of the title refers to the Iberian peninsula, which is set adrift in the Atlantic Ocean after the Pyrenees mountains split down the

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The term ‘poetic drama’ became popular during the middle of the twentieth century. It was T.S. Eliot who revived this drama/term as a reaction to the drama of ideas popularized by Galsworthy and G. B. Shaw under the influence of Ibsen.  Poetic Drama, according to T. S. Eliot, has far reaching effects as it

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