Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl. Every week has a different topic. Check it out! This week’s theme is: Books On My Spring TBR. I consider spring from March to May, so I’ll likely not get all of my hopefuls read. These 10 are books I want to read, not […]
Murdock sees the Heroine’s Journey as a process of individuation. This is another concept of Jungian archetypal psychology. Individuation is the process whereby a person integrates the various parts of themselves through successful resolution of inner conflicts. In short…the psychologist’s answer to spiritual alchemy. ***Here is a neat Youtube link about the process of individuation […]
Archetypes Before we go any further, I wish to stress that, while ‘Heroine’ is generally regarded as feminine and ‘Hero’ is generally regarded as masculine, it is quite possible to have a female ‘Hero’ and a male ‘Heroine’. For myself, I find these two particular terms to be rather labelling and would prefer not to […]
I found this tag on Bookmark Your Thoughts and it looked fun so I stole it. Da Rules Choose 5 books! Randomly set up your books in order. Flip to a random page in the book and write the first two names you see. Put the names in the categories listed below in the […]
Grimm’s Phoenix Fire is first in the Phoenix Cycle. Ava Elderson lives with a foster family. She hopes to be adopted, but too many disappointments in life means she doesn’t trust easy, and tends to push people away. One night, after an argument with her foster parents, she storms out of the house and […]
The Book Blogger Hop is hosted by Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer. These are weekly prompts to give bloggers a chance to connect with one another. Weeks run Friday- Thursday. *Who is your favorite children’s books author and why? (submitted by Kitty @ Vicarious Bookworm) Stephen Cosgrove and his Serendipity series!! I grew up with these […]
Life and Things Oh, blessed gods and goddesses, the stitches are out!! I heal really fast. They should have been removed much earlier, and were slightly infected. But now, all healed!! The deeper tissues still healing, and the areas are tender. Still… I am officially a guinea pig. I started my clinical trial on the […]
Phoenix Fire by SD Grimm After spending her life in foster care, Ava has finally found home. But all it takes is a chance encounter with hot nerd Wyatt Wilcox for it to unravel. Now, things are starting to change. First, the flashes of memories slowly creeping in. Memories of other lives, lives that Wyatt is […]
Abraham Lincoln’s Dueling Words is a delightfully illustrated tale about a lesser known incident in Lincoln’s life as a barrister. In response to tax changes that would affect the poorer folk rather harshly, Lincoln wrote a letter to the newspaper under the name ‘Aunt Rebecca’, which also called out rival James Shields. Two other ‘Aunt […]
Second in Horsman’s exciting Wyrms of Pasandir series, Pirates of Brisa continues the adventures of young Eskander and his friends. A chance encounter with a pirate in a darkened alley draws Eskander into a search for missing kids. After learning that the pirates kidnapping the orphans of Seatome are doing so for the lich king, […]
