![]() more about the situation then they're letting on. ![]() It isn't be long before Jack realizes that there are others onboard just like him - and some of them know more about the situation then they're letting on. Jack quickly finds himself trapped in a repeating hell. Jack is forced to witness the viral outbreak again and again as it ravages the ship and its passengers over and over, day after day. But, just when Jack thinks his number is up and that his life is over, he wakes up. The whole ship is overrun with blood and death, and there is nowhere to escape. There's a virus onboard, making people insane and bleeding from the eyes. ![]() Pretty soon, however, Jack realizes that a little R and R is the last thing he's ever going to get aboard the cursed ship. That's why Jack is about to board the Spirit of Kirkpatrick, a cruise liner built for relaxation and fun. ![]() His recent record of police brutality and a reputation for not following the rules has prompted his seniors to give him an ultimatum: take a few weeks off, relax, and find some way to let go of all the anger - or else find another job. ![]() Now, years later, Jack is a changed man, with a head full of secrets driving him insane. Police Officer Jack Wardsley's life ended the moment his partner died, stabbed to death by a deranged druggie. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Artie) and touring the world singing the show's hits to stadium crowds. Included are her vivid anecdotes of everything before and after Glee her being adopted from South Korea her early appearances in commercials and on Sesame Street her first Broadway role in The King and I landing the part of Tina on Glee her long-time friendships with Lea Michele (a.k.a. ![]() In Choosing Glee, Jenna shares her life in thrall to performance, navigating the pendulum swing of rejection and success, and the lessons she learned along the way. "Tina," inspires fans to invoke positive thinking into everything they do in this inspirational scrapbook.įans of the breakout musical series will flock to Ushkowitz's heartfelt and practical guide on how to be your true self, gain self-esteem, and find your inner confidence. ![]() ![]() Keywords: Self, psychic structure, complementarity, St Augustine, C.G. The article diverts from Jung's view of alchemy regarding the method of approach to the unconscious. In medieval alchemy it corresponds to the hermaphrodite, and the philosopher's stone. The complementarian Self obtains as the goal of the spiritual path. The transformation of Self is an ongoing process in the unconscious. The article argues that the trinitarian spiritual ideal must continue to play a role, together with a this-worldly (quaternarian) ideal of spirit, following the principle of complementarity as defined by physicists. Psychologist Carl Jung, renounced the ideal of perfection and proposed an ideal of completeness. ![]() In the Christian era, the ideal of the spiritual individual who is morally perfect (Jesus Christ), through its very one-sidedness, created a reversal of its spirit into materialism. ![]() The Self, representing the wholeness of the psyche, has in different guises functioned as a role model for the individual, throughout history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Very graphic biography, needed more editing but okĪs you can see from this blog I am a little fascinated by porn. She has something important, controversial, and astonishingly interesting to say about sex and its central role in our lives and culture. In a world where porn is increasingly becoming part of the mainstream, Akira is one of very few articulate voices writing from the inside. Insatiable is filled with Akira’s unusual and often highly amusing anecdotes, including her visit to a New Hampshire sex shop run by a mother and son. In a wry, conversational tone, she talks about her experiences shoplifting and doing drugs while in school, her relationships with other porn stars (she is married to one) and with the industry at large, and her beliefs about women and sexuality. In Insatiable, Akira recounts her extraordinary life in chapters that are hilarious, shocking, and touching. Akira has now built up a reputation for being of the most popular, hardworking, and extreme actors in the business, winning dozens of awards for her 330+ movies, including her number-one best-selling adult film series Asa Akira Is Insatiable. Educated at the United Nations International School in Manhattan, she soon was earning a good living by stripping and working as a dominatrix at a sex dungeon. Asa Akira (28) has already had an extremely unusual life. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has pinned all her hopes on him and waits patiently for him to finally admit that she’s the one for him. Now, fourteen years later, Emmie is hiding the fact that she’s desperately in love with Lucas. Weeks later, on a beach in France, Lucas Moreau discovered the balloon and immediately emailed the attached addressed, sparking an intense friendship between the two teens. ![]() Attached was her name, her email address.and a secret she desperately wanted to be free of. ![]() In this charming and poignant novel, teenager Emmie Blue releases a balloon with her email address and a big secret into the sky, only to fall head-over-heels for the boy who finds it now, fourteen years later, the one thing Emmie has been counting on is gone for good, and everything she planned is up in the air.Īt sixteen, Emmie Blue stood in the fields of her school and released a red balloon into the sky. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sarah Pearse’s atmospheric, detail-oriented writing brings this sinister story to life, immersing readers in the beautiful-yet-unsettling world of sanatorium-turned-hotel Le Sommet-and all the deadly secrets hidden within its walls. ![]() What begins as a slow-burning suspense story gradually builds to a thriller that will have you up all night turning its pages. When a snowstorm cuts off access to and from the hotel, it’s up to protagonist Elin to investigate a series of disturbing occurrences within the hotel, and get to the bottom of the case before anyone else gets hurt. ![]() Following a woman who has recently taken a leave of absence from her work as a detective, THE SANATORIUM pits an unwitting group of individuals against a shadowy killer who appears to be at work in a high-end, minimalist hotel nestled in the Swiss Alps. ![]() Selected as Reese Witherspoon’s February book club pick, Pearse’s debut novel delivers all the atmosphere, chilling intrigue, and hair-raising suspense that I hoped for and more. This debut novel blends elements of Gothic suspense with a locked room mystery set in the Swiss Alps, and the result is an irresistible, just-one-more-page thriller perfect for your next wintry read. The Verdict: a gripping locked room mystery with Gothic touchesĪs I write this review, I’m in a bit of a reading slump, and I blame it entirely on how much I loved Sarah Pearse’s atmospheric, sinister mystery THE SANATORIUM. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mead must be sent away to be ‘cured’ of his unorthodox thinking so he can fall in line with the rest of the population. When he reveals himself to be a writer (again, aligning himself with the creative, imaginative, and independently minded), we also learn that he hasn’t sold anything for years because nobody buys books or magazines any more. Of course, even before he is arrested, it is clear that everyone else in the city has willingly embraced their chains. ![]() ![]() His only ‘crime’ is in refusing to plug himself into the electronic brain-drainer that has done for his fellow citizens. Leonard Mead is a danger not because he might commit a crime while he is out on one of his evening walks, but because he is a reminder of the free-thinking (and free-moving) spirit which others have lost: a spirit he might reawaken in them if others see him outside. ![]() ![]() ![]() Welsch does not solve mysteries, like that goody-two-shoes gumshoe Nancy Drew. She snoops on her neighbors - sneaking into dumbwaiters and scaling the roofs of apartment buildings - while jotting down shockingly frank observations, like “DOES HIS MOTHER HATE HIM? IF I HAD HIM I’D HATE HIM.” The 11-year-old heroine of the 1964 classic “ Harriet the Spy” is a street-smart tomboy who galumphs around her Upper East Side neighborhood in ratty jeans and a hoodie. ![]() I gave in to my husband’s threesome dream - as his 40th birthday gift How much does it cost to see Tom Hanks on his 2023 book tour?īody language expert reveals shocking findings about mom accused of killing hubby before writing book about grief Hank Green reveals cancer diagnosis, author says it ‘sucks so bad’ ![]() ![]() ![]() They were each accompanied by a sponsor who had already undergone initiation rites initiates were known as the epoptai or "those who see." In the procession, participants danced and shouted rhythmically while swinging bundles of branches. Following this, those seeking initiation - referred to as the mystai or "those who close their eyes" - took part in a procession along the Sacred Way from Athens to Eleusis. Each participant bathed in the sea together with a piglet, which he or she later sacrificed at Eleusis. It began with a period of fasting and purification. ![]() The ceremony of the mysteries took place before the fall harvest. It was also very democratic in that anyone could become an initiate, including those without power in that society: women, the lower classes, and slaves. The Eleusinian mysteries was the most important of the Greek mystery cults: at one period, it seems that a majority of Athenians were initiates. The exact relationship between the poem and the celebration of the Eleusinian mysteries remains a matter of speculation. ![]() The cult was named after the town of Eleusis, 14 miles west of Athens. BCE) and certainly by the 8th century BCE. ![]() The Hymn to Demeter is considered our earliest testament to the existence of a "mystery cult" known as the Eleusinian Mysteries which existed in Greece possibly as early as the Mycenean Age (c. Demeter, enthroned and extending her hand in a benediction toward the kneeling Metaneira, who offers wheat, c. 340 BCE. ![]() ![]() But even when my reads seem varied, there are often these subtle (or not so subtle) connections to theme.Ĭhange is hard. ![]() ![]() Between my wonderful women’s fiction book club (shout-out to the Novel Bites!), my library, my kid’s various projects and my ever-expanding home library, I end up visiting all kinds of stories, both real and imaginary. I read widely, and I am fortunate in that regard. I find that I’m drawn to the same familiar paths in my reading life as well. We may return to familiar territory time and again, but seen through different eyes, it’s a whole new world. In the end, is there anything left? Fortunately the answer always seems to be yes, though time is required to unlock the reserves and discover new treasures. Writing a book can feel like exhausting your soul. Discovering that you still have something left to say after feeling like you said it all the previous time is a small miracle indeed. There’s something rewarding about returning to the same themes, though. ![]() Over time, they become smooth and polished, but the process is long and hard. Certain ideas are pebbles that catch in your mind. The longer you write, the more you see yourself returning to the same themes, over and over again, like a river slowly carving its way through rock. ![]() |