“I have suffered enough from incomprehension and from the isolation one falls into when one says things that people do not understand.” The chapters about his childhood represent the first time he had ever really thought about those years, and the only reason he revisited them is because he felt compelled to do so for his personal development, in his eighties. Jung was at first resistant to the idea of an autobiography. In Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl Jung *, founder of analytical psychology and creator of the concepts of archetypes, synchronicity, and the collective unconscious, analyzes his life as he recounts it. ☀ You can borrow and read Memories, Dreams, Reflections free below.
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I cannot possibly be the only one who read Gone Girl a few years back and then quickly flew through Sharp Objects and Dark Places only to learn that the well that is Gillian Flynn had run dry. As we speak, I’ve got an ongoing list in my phone titled “Things to Watch/Read” so I’m always looking for suggestions!īut this post is also about… My Quest for Books like Gone Girl I’d like to write something like this frequently and maybe add podcasts and Netflix shows. Hopefully, I’ll keep up the blogging momentum, but for now, we’re just going to ride the wave. Por qué no los dos?! I don’t know, bear with me. Is it a book review? A list of things I’ve bought and loved recently? Remember when I tried to make this series a thing? Well, I’m doing it again. Someone?s been waiting patiently, silently. When a copy of Jennifer?s death certificate arrives in the mail, emblazoned with a red question mark, Bentz follows the postmark trail to Los Angeles, returning to the painful memories he?s tried so hard to forget, and straight into a killer?s web. He can?t tell his new wife, Olivia, about the sightings or his secret fear that he?s losing his mind. Could she still be alive? But it was Bentz who identified Jennifer?s body after her horrible car wreck, and there had been no question in his mind that it was her crumpled form behind the wheel, her clothes, her wedding ring. Once out of the hospital, Bentz begins to see Jennifer everywhere. Then Jennifer blows him a kiss and disappears. Opening his eyes in the hospital room where he?s recovering from an accident, New Orleans detective Rick Bentz sees her standing in the doorway. The scent is unmistakable - gardenias, sweet and delicate, the same perfume that his beautiful first wife, Jennifer, always wore. Simple, short-range telepathy was fairly common, once inhibitions were discarded. Henry Darrow recovered from his concussion to found the first Center for Parapsychics in Jerhattan and to formulate the ethical and moral premises that would grant those with valid, and demonstrable, psionic talents certain privileges and responsibilities in a society basically skeptical, hostile, or overtly paranoid about such abilities.Įxtrasensory perception-or Talent, as it came to be called-came in varying strengths and forms. For the first time there was scientific proof of extrasensory perception. The patient, Henry Darrow, was a self-styled clairvoyant with an astonishing percentage of accurate “guesses.” In his case, as the device monitored his brain patterns, it also registered the discharge of unusual electrical energy as he experienced a clairvoyant episode. An alternate application of the Goosegg, an extremely sensitive encephalograph developed to scan brain patterns of the astronauts who suffered from sporadic “bright spots,” temporarily diagnosed as cerebral or retinal malfunction, was inadvertently discovered when the device was used to monitor a head injury in an intensive-care unit of Jerhattan. During the late twentieth century’s exploration of space, a major breakthrough occurred in the validation and recording of extrasensory perceptions, the so-called paranormal, psionic abilities long held to be spurious. Unfortunately, the plot doesn't make much of the magical elements (for example, the characters' encounters with a dragon and a nymph seem inconsequential), resulting in a disappointingly flat fantasy. The tale occasionally offers peppy dialogue and some comical scenes-particularly as the newly transformed Emeralda adjusts to catching flies with her tongue ("My eye-tongue coordination wasn't very good," she admits). Armed with this knowledge, Emma returns to her own time full of hope. Unfortunately she isn't successful in her efforts, but she does learn how to break it. Describing the duo's futile quest in laborious detail, the author pads her tale with some curiously drab characters, including another witch (who hopes to use Emeralda and Eadric in a spell she's concocting) and a bat and snake who reside in her cottage. Emma travels back in time to the day the curse was placed on her ancestor in the hope of preventing the curse from being cast. Too, is transformed into a frog, and the two leap off in search of the spell-casting witch to ask her to reverse her handiwork. The frog begs her to give him a kiss so that he will turn back into Prince Eadric, his identity before an evil witch turned him into an amphibian. This debut novel follows the adventures of 14-year-old Princess Emeralda and the talking frog she meets one day in a swamp. "A wildly evocative and enchanting story of old forests, forgotten gods, and new love. Praise for Emily Tesh's Silver in the Wood Old secrets better left buried are dug up, and Tobias is forced to reckon with his troubled past-both the green magic of the woods, and the dark things that rest in its heart. When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry Silver, everything changes. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads. There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Deep and green and wonderful."- New York Times bestselling author Naomi Novik "A true story of the woods, of the fae, and of the heart. From Astounding Award winner and Crawford Award finalist Emily Tesh Aidan has a slight possibility of rescuing his beloved sister, and of helping Kai thwart his enemies, but the only chance of achieving these near-impossible goals requires that Aidan go undercover-a slave once more. Pharaoh takes Kai's sister hostage to manipulate Kai, even as Aidan discovers his twin sister, lost since childhood, is the property of a powerful foe of New Djibouti. Meanwhile, Kai is entangled in intrigues among not only his fellow senators, but the lords of Egypt and Abyssinia, who have sinister plans for the New World colonies. But ex-slaves are always at risk, and an angry mob threatens Aidan, his family, and his entire village with slaughter or re-enslavement. His ex-slave and friend, the Irishman Aidan O'Dere, is on the Ouachita frontier, helping other ex-slaves build a settlement for themselves. Zulu Heart returns to the 19th Century of Steven Barnes's justly acclaimed novel Lion's Blood, a brilliant alternate history in which black Africans have colonized the New World with white Europeans as their slaves.Īs Zulu Heart opens, New World nobleman Kai ibn Jallaleddin is a senator of New Djibouti, an envied plantation owner, and a loving family man. While struggling with the tension that now dominates their once innocent friendship and the trauma stirred up from Erin's painful past, Erin and Adam visit the places on her mother's list. Hours after they arrive in Tokyo, in a jet-lagged fog, Erin and Adam end up in bed together. But Erin's trip won't be going according to plan. Erin has decided to carry out this itinerary, believing that it might help her find her mother. Erin's only clue to her mother's possible whereabouts is a hand-written itinerary for a dream trip to Japan, a trip that Erin doesn't know if her mother ever had the chance to take. When Erin was just four years old, her mother mysteriously vanished. I would absolutely recommend this book." - Amy, Goodreads ★★★★★ Nineteen-year-old Erin is hoping that her visit to Japan with her best friend, Adam, will be life-changing. "Full of heartbreak, loss and finding yourself while falling in love with your best friend. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, he discovers that running his father's plantation, Saint Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. Tété surivves a childhood of brutality and fear, finding solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in her exhilarating initiation into the mysteries of voodoo. Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité-known as Tété-is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. "Allende is a master storyteller at the peak of her powers." - Los Angeles Times From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende (Inés of My Soul, The House of the Spirits, Portrait in Sepia) tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny. Amongst the books of peoples memories in Seredith’s vault is a book with his own name on, just what has he had wiped? He is not sure why he has been chosen, but book binding is a vocation, something you are born to do Binding peoples memories and fears, wiping their memories, and giving them a second chance. After a long period of ill health, Emmett Farmer is sent to be apprenticed to book binder, Seredith, out in the marshes. Not set in any particular period, but obviously historical in setting, it is a time where books are seen as suspicious and those who make them witches or magicians. Recently released in paperback, and Waterstones Book of the Month, The Binding is a magical and spellbinding read. Then one day Emmett makes an astonishing discovery: one of them has his name on it. In a vault under his mentor’s workshop, row upon row of books – and memories – are meticulously stored and recorded. Your past will be stored safely in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible. If there’s something you need to erase, he can assist. If there’s something you want to forget, he can help. He will learn to hand-craft beautiful volumes, and within each he will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice – but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse. 2019)Įmmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. Publisher: The Borough Press 01 edition (26 Dec. |