![]() In her unique voice, Emma Forrest explores the highs and lows of love and the heartbreak of loss. A modern-day fairy tale, Your Voice in My Head is a stunning memoir, clear-eyed and shot through with wit. This is the story of a biopolar screenwriter/reporter who loses her beloved psychiatrist to lung. And when her all-consuming romantic relationship also fell apart, Emma was forced to cling to the page for survival and regain her footing on her own terms. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Your Voice in My Head. ![]() Reeling from the premature death of a man who had become her anchor after she turned up on his doorstep, she was adrift. He had died, shockingly, at the age of fifty-three, leaving behind a young family. One day, when Emma called to make an appointment with her psychiatrist, she found no one there. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was on the brink of drowning, but she was still working, still exploring, still writing, and she had also fallen deeply in love. In a cycle of loneliness, damaging relationships, and destructive behavior, she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding, and effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist-a man whose wisdom and humanity would wrench her from the dangerous tide after she tried to end her life. Emma Forrest, a British journalist, was just twenty-two and living the fast life in New York City when she realized that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity. In her unique voice, Emma Forrest explores the highs and lows of love and the heartbreak of loss. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() As her advances are continually spurned, Mia splits her time between Eric and her computer. But Eric keeps his desires locked away, unsure of himself and his ability to give his best friend what she deserves in a boyfriend. When the two friends become roommates, Mia finds herself falling harder than she ever thought she could. When she starts receiving supersweet messages from a stranger who thinks she’s someone else, Mia begins to believe that real love is possible outside her virtual world. Along with her email chats and Facebook notifications, Mia also devours romance novels, spending countless hours with fictional characters, dreaming of her own Romeo to sweep her off her feet. Mia Johnson has thousands of friends-who live in her computer. ![]() In this electrifying novel from Cassie Mae, two close friends surprise themselves by shifting from platonic love to sexual attraction.Įric Matua has one friend-his best friend and childhood sweetheart, who needs a place to stay for the summer. ![]() ![]() Knausgård made his publishing debut in 1998 with the novel Out of the World, for which he was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. He eventually moved to Stockholm and published his first novel in 1998. ![]() He then held various jobs, including teaching high school in northern Norway, selling cassettes, working in a psychiatric hospital and on an oil platform, while trying to become a writer. ![]() He has won the 2009 Brage Prize, 2017 Jerusalem Prize, and 2019 Swedish Academy Nordic Prize.īorn in Oslo, Knausgård was raised on Tromøya in Arendal and in Kristiansand, and studied arts and literature at the University of Bergen. Since the completion of the My Struggle series in 2011, he has also published an autobiographical series entitled The Seasons Quartet, as well as critical work on the art of Edvard Munch. ![]() He became known worldwide for six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle ( Min Kamp). Karl Ove Knausgård ( Norwegian: born 6 December 1968) is a Norwegian author. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Further Armenta had received a warning from a contact in Southern California that the pills were causing fatal overdoses. The investigation revealed that Armenta himself became ill after taking the pills. The Naval Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS) were able to identify Armenta as the sailor who provided the pills to the victim. In his pocket were two counterfeit pills that were laced with fentanyl. The investigation began April 18, 2020, when a Navy sailor was found dead in his workspace aboard a Navy ship. Law enforcement is working hard to take such pills off the street.” “These pills are manufactured to look like a legitimate pharmaceutical, but as in this case, result in death to the user. “The overdose statistics are grim and staggering: in King County alone fentanyl overdose deaths are up 82 percent in the first half of 2021,” said Acting U.S. Lasnik noted that Armenta had been warned the pills could be deadly, but still shared them with his friends. Armenta provided pills tainted with fentanyl to another sailor who died of a drug overdose. Ivan Armenta, 21, was separated from the Navy and taken into federal custody August 7, 2020. District Court in Seattle to 4 years in prison and 3 years of supervised release for distribution of fentanyl, announced Acting U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() I blame some of that on the editors and proofers. ![]() Like I’ve mentioned, I’ve read many of his books and normally I would expect an author to get better at their writing over time, but I haven’t seen that. I did read some of the reviews and I think I remember one reader suggesting the author take some more time to hone his craft. But, you may find that YMMV in this story. I like reading his books because they are low angst and there’s a HEA ending. I’m not going to mention what it is because it gives away too much of the story. There’s a subplot dealing with the twin brothers of Billy that I found sad and stressful. At least the books I’ve read from him before have been low angst. I’ve read many of this author’s books and can count on a HEA and a pretty angst free read. I enjoyed those two so I went back to the beginning. I first started reading this series with books three and four. This is told in third person from both Darryl’s and Billy’s pov. In this story, we meet Darryl Hansen who runs Café Belgie, and Billy Weaver who was hired by Darryl. This series focuses on men who run businesses dealing with food. A Taste of Love is the first book in the series, ‘Of Love’. ![]() ![]() It is clearly an overdose, and there is nothing anyone can do to help him. Jack Hotel takes too much of something and dies suddenly. The narrator adds this man to the long list of addicts he met in the street who die without anyone to care. Jack HotelĪnother minor character-this man's story is told very shortly. He is dropped of at a house full of people that the narrator despises, sensing that they are dangerous people who might have ulterior motives. The muteĪ mute man enters the story for a short while, for long enough that the narrator learns he was one a famous football player whose injury led him to an opioid addiction that bottomed out into full-blown heroin dependency. He lives the life that no one wants for their loved ones as a true pariah. ![]() He often daydreams and hallucinates, and he lives in the shadowy recesses of society. The narrator's struggle pushes him to drugs, because the life he leads makes him long for escape. The unnamed narrator is a drug addict whose life is absolutely confounded by insufferable problems, like legal issues, friendships with sketchy people, and addiction itself. ![]() ![]() Written by people who wish to remain anonymous ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Ten Boom has received numerous awards for her writing and speaking. These acts of heroism and sacrifice became the foundation for Corrie ten Boom's global writing and speaking career which began after she was released. Corrie's father (Casper), her sister (Betsy) and one grandchild (Kik) perished. ![]() Corrie was allowed to stay with her precious sister, Betsy. ![]() The ten Boom family members were separated and transferred to concentration camps. The four Jews and two underground workers in the house at the time of the arrest were not located by the Nazis and were extricated by the underground 47 hours after they fled to the tiny hiding place (located in Corrie's room). 28, 1944, they were betrayed and Corrie and several relatives were arrested. It is estimated they were able to save the lives of 800 Jews, in addition to protecting underground workers. They were hiding, feeding and transporting Jews and underground members hunted by the Gestapo out of the country. During the Nazi occupation, they chose to act out their faith through peaceful resistance to the Nazis by active participation in the Dutch underground. Corrie ten Boom and her family were Christians who were active in social work in their home town of Haarlem, the Netherlands. ![]() ![]() ![]() Paul the Hermit by Ribera (image above), which has elucidated not only the tender skin folds of the old man’s belly flesh, but the droplets of blood dripping down his arms? What better illustration than the Wallraf’s recently restored St. ![]() To get “under the skin” - or “unter die haut” in German - means to touch someone in a deep emotional way, and paintings by Jusepe de Ribera, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Francisco de Zurbarán, explore this viscerally. ![]() Under the Skin, the Wallraf’s current exhibition of a dozen exquisite works from the masters of the Spanish baroque, lingers on the multiple meanings of its title. I love the titillating nature of this misconception - the art was so realistic that it conjured images of unnatural acts. In 17th-century Europe, rumors circulated that Spanish baroque artists “used actual flesh ground into the pigments” to depict human skin in their portraiture, so realistic were their renderings, according to Anja Ševčík, head of the baroque department of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud in Cologne. ![]() ![]() ![]() Making a case for upholding established rights and customs, and advocating incremental reform rather than radical revolutionary change, Burke’s writings have profoundly influenced modern democracies up to the present day. ![]() ![]() He wrote at a time of great change, against the backdrop of the revolt of the American colonies, the expansion of the British Empire, the collapse of Ireland, and the French Revolution. Burke argued passionately in support of the American revolutionaries and in equally impassioned opposition to the horrors of the unfolding French Revolution. Writing this poem in the 1790s, Blake also surely imagined the possible effect of the French Revolution on England. Philosopher, statesman, and founder of conservatism, Burke was a dazzling orator and a visionary theorist who spent his long political career fighting abuses of power. Reflections on The Revolution in France And Other Writings Publisher. Accompanying his influential masterpiece, Reflections on the Revolution in France, is a selection of pamphlets, speeches, public letters, private correspondence and, for the first time, two important and previously uncollected early essays. ![]() The most important works of Edmund Burke, the greatest political thinker of the past three centuries, are gathered here in one comprehensive volume. ![]() |