5/12/2023 0 Comments Pomegranates and promises![]() ![]() Recent clinical studies have caused many skincare experts to believe that your skin should also be drinking in the benefits of pomegranate. Today, pomegranate juice is filling the supermarket shelves in step with growing appreciation of the fruit’s high level of antioxidants greater than that of red wine, green tea, and blueberries. This promise of immortality is also found in ancient Egyptian texts and Chinese folklore, where pomegranate juice was believed to be ‘soul concentrate’. The Bible is also rife with references to pomegranate some believe it to have been the fruit that tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden. In Greek mythology, Persephone ate a pomegranate and was reborn each spring. It’s native to Persia, where ancient cultures used the ruby fruit to treat internal disorders such as diabetes, hypertension, and gastric inflammation, as well as external skin diseases. ![]() Pomegranate’s purported powers are plentiful. Split open, it reveals a treasure trove of ruby-like seeds, one of the reasons this fruit has long been a symbol of fertility, used for centuries to treat infertility and extend female sexual function. Picture the pomegranate with its shiny red skin, durable texture, and round shape it’s like a ready-made Christmas tree ornament. ![]()
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5/12/2023 0 Comments Tupac the rose![]() Crimes, scarcity, diseases, violence and other bad things are quite common in such an area. In the poem, concrete symbolizes “ Ghetto” or probably the slum area which is occupied by the poor section of people. ![]() It cannot be broken down easily and one can easily hurt himself if he tries to break it. In the first line, the poet raises a rhetorical question, “ Did you hear about the rose” drawing the reader’s attention towards a rose plant that grew from a crack in the concrete. Concrete is used in buildings and is quite hard. The poet uses a number of literary devices in the poem. The poem is quite short consisting of the single stanza that has eight lines. ![]() hard enough to become a hindrance in the way to success. ![]() In the poem, the poet urges the readers and audience to rise above the ghettos which are like concrete i.e. However, the poem also represents his own journey from a poor ghetto to a successful life. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Sigrid nunez the friend![]() ![]() Part of the dying woman's plan is to end her life with a euthanasia drug when she feels the time is right. She asked the narrator to be that person. On a more personal level, the narrator's old friend, a famous writer and intellectual, is dying of cancer and wants her final days to be spent in solitude but wants a friend to be with her. ![]() He angers audiences by suggesting maybe it's time to stop having children. The narrator of the new novel is a woman whose ex is a well-known professor and author who's been writing and giving talks about how climate change, bioterrorism, cyberterrorism, the threat of a pandemic, far-right regimes and corporate power are a threat to life, liberty and civilization. ![]() She wrote it before the pandemic, but one of her previous novels was set during a flu pandemic that results in anarchy. My guest Sigrid Nunez has written a new novel that's about facing the possible death of our planet from climate change while also dealing with our mortality as individuals. ![]() ![]() ![]() Based on hundreds of new interviews with friends and family of the Bouviers, among them their own half-brother, as well as letters and journals, J. If the Bouvier women personified beauty, style and fashion, it was their lust for money and status that drove them to seek out powerful men, no matter what the cost to themselves or to those they stepped on in their ruthless climb to the top. Her sister, Lee, had liaisons with one and possibly both of Jackie's husbands, in addition to her own three marriages-to an illegitimate royal, a Polish prince and a Hollywood director. Less well known is the story of her love affair with a world renowned architect and a British peer. Kennedy and the story of their marriage is legendary, as is the story of her second marriage to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. They followed in their mother's footsteps after her marriages to the philandering socialite "Black Jack" Bouvier and the fabulously rich Standard Oil heir Hugh D. It was a lesson neither would ever forget. "Do you know what the secret to happily-ever-after is?" Janet Bouvier Auchincloss would ask her daughters Jackie and Lee during their tea time. ![]() A dazzling biography of three of the most glamorous women of the 20th Century: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, her mother Janet Lee Auchincloss, and her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The Lion by Joseph Kessel![]() ![]() ![]() Label: Stockfisch Records | Germany | Cat#: SFR 357.4043.2 | Genre: Folk, WorldĬonnoisseurs will remember: While English is often the native tongue of Stockfisch artists, it was Duo Balance who first published their songs in French and German on this label. ![]() Louis Capart & Duo Balance – Voyage – D’Une Ile A L’Autre (2008) Continue reading “The Smashing Pumpkins – ATUM: A Rock Opera in Three Acts (2022) ” Author DynaMo Posted on Categories Alternative Rock Tags The Smashing Pumpkins Leave a comment on The Smashing Pumpkins – ATUM: A Rock Opera in Three Acts (2022) Debbie Harry – KooKoo (1981) The album will be released in three separate installments of 11 songs-Atum: Act One was released on November 15, 2022, Atum: Act Two was released on January 31, 2023, and Atum: Act Three was released on May 5, 2023. Label: Martha’s Music | Genre: Alternative RockĪtum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts is the twelfth studio album by American rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 44.1kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz The Smashing Pumpkins – ATUM: A Rock Opera in Three Acts (2022) ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Blood red road![]() ![]() And she has the power to take down a corrupt society from the inside. So perhaps the most surprising thing of all is what Saba learns about herself: she's a fierce fighter, an unbeatable survivor, and a cunning opponent. ![]() Suddenly thrown into the lawless, ugly reality of the world outside of desolate Silverlake, Saba is lost without Lugh to guide her. Lugh is captured, and Saba embarks on a quest to get him back. But when a monster sandstorm arrives bearing four cloaked horsemen, Saba's world is shattered. That's fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother Lugh is around. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. "Better than The Hunger Games.This book will blow you away." - MTV's Hollywood CrushĮnjoy an excerpt from DUST LANDS: BLOOD RED ROAD, the first book in a post-apocalyptic trilogy by debut author Moira Young! ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Siken richard![]() ![]() ![]() It changed me, and I'm not even kidding or exaggerating. This book taught me something monumental about myself. I've read many books, some of them have taught me about the world, about people, about feelings or ideas. My copy is worn out from being opened, read in, then thrown onto the table or put carelessly down as I try to gather myself up from my messy emotional pile on the floor and try to deal with, well. Every poem has meaning, and soul and something deeply terrifying about it. Every line is powerful, it's got secrets. Siken is beyond talented with words, that much is clear, this entire collection is a work of pure art, something you rarely find these days. With a start like this, and with expectations as high as mine, you'd think the book would come up short. I have never in my life anticipated the arrival of a book more than I did with this. ![]() Dozens of times, until I realised it would never be enough, so I ordered his book. So I read it and re-read it again and again. That my mind kept circling back to his words. The next day I was painfully aware I couldn't leave it behind. I read Richard Siken's poem "Wishbone" on the internet. Not from the absence of violence, but despite ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “This fairy tale noir adventure blends romance and mystery with plenty of action.a must-read for fans of portal fantasies, mysteries, and readers who prefer their magic with bloody sharp edges.” - School Library Journal, starred review “What Albert renders on the page is audacious: with resounding success, she keeps a firm grip on her characters and their stories, and her prose weaves a magic of its own, animating the ever-expanding fantastical premise through lyrical language, striking metaphor, and a mastery of tone that forces readers to feel the magic along with the underlying emotional stakes.” - Booklist, starred review “A charming, mysterious fable that unpacks what it means to be a story and whether we are all simply the stories we hear and tell.” -Cassandra Clare, author of the Mortal Instruments series ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Grave secret charlaine harris![]() ![]() So this is not a murder/suicide and the killer is out there it will take all of Harper's ingenuity to bring him to justice. Harper finds the girl's body right away and can tell she died a violent death, but, it turns out, the same is true of her boyfriend, who was also murdered. In this book, they are taken to Sarne, Arkansas to figure out whether a crime that just occurred was, in fact, a murder/suicide, as the police seem to think. At times, their work leads them into solving mysteries while, at other times, they just help bring closure to the living. ![]() ![]() She and her stepbrother, Tolliver, travel around helping people figure out what happened to their loved ones and in what manner they died. Harper can sense the dead, which enables her to find dead bodies and figure out how the person died. Only the protagonist, Harper Connelly, has supernatural powers, which she gained from being struck by lightning when she was a teenager. Whereas the Sookie Stackhouse books feature a protagonist who can read people's minds, along with a host of other supernatural creatures, the Harper Connelly mysteries are a little more grounded in reality. Grave Sight is the first of the Harper Connelly mysteries by Charlaine Harris, the author of the Sookie Stackhouse series, which has been made into the TV series, True Blood. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments A little cloud james joyce![]() ![]() Originally he had 10 stories in mind: “The Sisters,” “An Encounter,” “The Boarding House,” “After the Race,” “Eveline,” “Clay,” “Counterparts,” “A Painful Case,” “Ivy Day in the Committee Room,” and “A Mother.” Toward the end of 1905, before he sent the collection to the London publisher Grant Richards, Joyce added two more stories-“Araby” and, what was then the final story, “Grace.” During 1906, he wrote “Two Gallants” and “A Little Cloud,” which he submitted to Richards along with a revision of “The Sisters,” thus expanding the number of stories to 14.Īlmost immediately after agreeing to bring out the stories, however, Richards began to voice objections to portions of Joyce’s writing. It was a searing analysis of Irish middle- and lower-middle-class life, with Dublin not simply as its geographical setting but as the emotional and psychological locus as well. Though he finished the final story, “The Dead,” in spring of 1907, difficulties in finding a publisher and Joyce’s initial refusal to alter any passage thought to be objectionable kept it from being published by Grant Richards until 1914.įrom their inception, Joyce intended the stories to be part of a thematically unified and chronologically ordered series. ![]() ![]() This is the title that Joyce gave to his collection of 15 short stories written over a three-year period (1904–07). ![]() |