The Joy of Mindful Writing by Joy Kenward was a most delightful read. Through several meditations, and writing exercises, Joy teaches baby writers, and seasoned ones alike, how to apply mindfulness to improve their writing. There are six chapters, detailing different writing aspects, such as fostering imagination, finding your voice, overcoming blocks, and playing […]
In Teenage Suicide Notes Williams elucidates a subject many prefer to ignore, to pretend it doesn’t exist. But exist it does, and it’s growing worse. And what is that subject? Teenage suicide. Williams makes an ethnographic study of several teens in New York who either committed suicide, or went through parasuicide rituals. Many of these teens […]
In a bleak future where the city of New Orleans has been wiped out by superstorm, the city of Floattown and New Lyons have been built over and adjacent to the sunken city. It is a future where ‘synthetics’, humans created in labs, are used for many different purposes, including as sex toys. We open […]
When Beatrice goes for a all one morning, the last thing she expects to find is a body in a field. And not just any body, but that of a young girl she knows. Amber Inglin is the star in Beatrice’s play The Duchess of Malfi. What follows is a complex, lyrical tale that is […]
In Songs with Our Eyes Closed Tyler Kent White has woven a powerful compilation of poetry and short prose to inspire and uplift the spirit. To me, these poems especially spoke of being oneself, not being afraid of your full potential, and knowing your true worth. These were lessons I needed at the moment. Lessons […]
Lama Lhakpa Yeshe’s Ten Tales from Tibet is a beautiful collection of traditional tales about the value and necessity of compassion and how to cultivate it. These stories make up part of the rich oral storytelling of Tibet, as a way of passing knowledge along generation after generation. Each of these wisdom stories may be […]
The Infernal Battalion is the fifth, and final, book in Django Wexler’s Shadow Campaigns series. Peace came briefly to Vordan, but it is not long before the Beast of Judgement turns an eye to the country in an attempt to claim the Thousands Names, the massive steel tablets bearing the names of legions of demons. […]
Life in the Sloth Lane by Lucy Cooke Learn the secrets to contentment from the best in the world! Life in the Sloth Lane is a little gift book stuffed full of inspirational quotes about contentment, mindfulness, and taking life as it comes. Interspersed are dozens of pictures of that most meditative of critters- the sloth, […]
The Manga Classics version of Huckleberry Finn has remained true to the original novel by Mark Twain, doing its best to keep language and themes intact. The forward states that, rather than burying the past, the Manga Classics version seeks to help students “think critically about current racial slurs and stereotypes by tracing them back to […]
Become the Force by Daniel M Jones is a guidepost to the spiritual movement of Jediism. In a world where it is becoming increasingly difficult to find spiritual succour, many are beginning to turn to new ways of finding what they need to nourish their souls. For some, like Jones, this is Jediism, a spirituality […]
