![]() And fiction is always a good way to explore how other humans have processed the difficult times in life. If you’re feeling alone, reading memoirs of others who have been through similar tough times can help. Want to work on building motivation and positive feelings in your day-to-day life? There are books which give you a toolkit to achieve this. If you’re looking for help with a specific health problem, then there are clinical guides that can support professional therapy and medical help. Self-healing and self-care is an ongoing and highly personal process, but there are a huge number of healing books that can guide you along your path to feeling better. It’s easy to feel hopeless sometimes - but fortunately, many other people have felt the same way, and lots of those people have written books. ![]() We’re all harmed by capitalism, bigotry, and other social factors, as well as having to live with medical issues, mental health problems, or general low mood. ![]() Living in the modern world involves grappling with pressures from all sides, and if you are a marginalised person, you have added structural barriers and pressures to deal with. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In some ways, this beautiful book comes pre-approved. The result is the immersive “ Ant Colony,” a new collection of the Ontario cartoonist’s acclaimed Web comic. Under his precise gaze, even the ant casualties - he delights in acts of insecticide - yield wonderfully warped and funny results.Īs psychological shorthand, just imagine Woody Allen setting his animated “ Antz” character, the ever-questioning Z, in a cartoon version of one of his ’70s sex-and-death comedies - only with more gore and war and fewer chastity belts on the voluptuous, must-be-serviced queens. Ants, like humor, suffer a grim fate if put too long under the magnifying glass of clumsy observation: Not only do they wither from all that empirical heat, but there’s not much left to be learned from the ashy mess.įortunately, as a man of both witty art and sly social science, Michael DeForge is more of a microscope guy. ![]() ![]() The eight-part TV adaptation will blend the first two novels from French – In the Woods and The Likeness. What at first appears to be two separate murders quickly become linked. ![]() Set in Dublin in the early years of the millennium, police detectives Rob Reilly and Cassie Maddox are sent to investigate when a young girl is found murdered in the woods. but basically it's a murder series that'll have you hooked. The BBC says the crime thriller will “deliver a dark psychological mystery with a tap root that drops deep down into Ireland’s past, foreshadows the future and brings insight to its present,” which is pretty vague. Inspired by writer Tana French's series of books, the TV adaptation has been written by Sarah Phelps - the woman behind the TV version of JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy. Here's everything we know so far, from release date to cast and storylines. ![]() Based on the Dublin Murder Squad series by crime novelist Tana French, the show is set to be a huge hit - and we can't wait to get stuck into it. 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Langdon, beware. Apparently, the ancients marked their bodies with ink "as a way of offering up their bodies in partial sacrifice, enduring the physical pain of embellishment and emerging changed beings." (Apparently, Insane Clown Posse fans also adhere to this philosophy.) Sinister Inner-Monologue Man gets a name: Mal'akh (Hebrew for angel). Turtleneck and khakis? Tom Hanks might be able to pull that off, but he wouldn't really want to. Langdon's wardrobe could use some serious updating. "What a delicious scandal that one caused! You do enjoy putting the fox in the henhouse!" A.T. He's recognized by the woman passenger services as the famed writer responsible for controversial books about the church. Robert Langdon is back and on his way to D.C. Secret underground temple rooms just blocks from the White House. Help us read: Send your comments to us on Twitter, and we'll post the best mini-reviews, criticisms, and defenses of our nation's capital below. ![]() Brown's work is just too damn action-packed for us to catch them all. ![]() We will attempt to mark them in bold, but please don't blame us if Mr. There will be spoilers in the chronological live blog herein. ![]() ![]() ![]() This strange, bold, gripping, and wonderful novel is the story of a power struggle, a double love story, a quest story, and a story of trickery and disguise. A twentieth-century, post-colonial Dickens novel. And as their various schemes converge, the captivating figure at the center is Jack Maggs himself, at once frightening, mystifying, and utterly compelling. Returning "home" under threat of execution, he inveigles his way into a household in Great Queen Street, where he's quickly embroiled in various emotional entanglements-and where he falls under the hypnotic scrutiny of Tobias Oates, a celebrated young writer fascinated by the process of mesmerism and obsessed with the criminal mind.įrom this volatile milieu emerges a handful of vividly drawn characters in the dangerous pursuit of love, whether romantic or familial-each of them with secrets, and secret longings, that could spell certain ruin. ![]() ![]() Jack Maggs, a foundling trained in the fine arts of thievery, cruelly betrayed and deported to Australia, has now reversed his fortunes-and seeks to fulfill his well-concealed, innermost desire. "Jack Maggs is a dazzling tale of obsession, and Jack Maggs stands as a remarkable character, a resurrected antipodean lag returned to England for vengeance and reconciliation."įrom the Booker Prize-winning author, a vivid and robust novel of Dickensian London-a place and a story teeming with mystery, science, and passion. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a town where secrets lurk just below the surface, and where a murderer is on the loose, nobody can be presumed innocent-and La Cachette's dark and shallow lies may just rip the town apart. Suddenly, she doesn't know who she can trust. When a mysterious stranger emerges from the bayou-a stormy-eyed boy with links to Elora and the town's bloody history-Grey realizes that La Cachette's past is far more present and dangerous than she'd ever understood. But as she digs into the night that Elora went missing, she begins to realize that everybody in town is hiding something-her grandmother Honey her childhood crush Hart and even her late mother, whose secrets continue to call to Grey from beyond the grave. Grey can't believe that Elora vanished into thin air any more than she can believe that nobody in a town full of psychics knows what happened. ![]() This tiny town, where seventeen-year-old Grey spends her summers, is the self-proclaimed Psychic Capital of the World-and the place where Elora Pellerin, Grey's best friend, disappeared six months earlier. La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide. When a mysterious stranger emerges from the bayoua stormy-eyed boy with links to Elora and the towns bloody historyGrey realizes that La Cachettes past is far more present and dangerous than. A teen girl disappears from her small town deep in the bayou, where magic festers beneath the surface of the swamp like water rot, in this chilling debut supernatural thriller for fans of Natasha Preston, Karen McManus, and Rory Power. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Apple TV+ series appears to follow a similar path. Later installments focus on other characters that populate the dystopian world. The first book focuses on Holston’s story, revealing that his wife died after leaving the Silo and following his journey as he seeks answers about what happened to her. ![]() They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside.” These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. But there are always those who hope, who dream. “The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. “This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge,” Howey wrote of Wool on his author site. No one who chooses to leave ever returns. Residents of the Silo are told to stay put and those who express curiosity about the outside world get to go there-to clean the Silo’s external sensors. ![]() The secrets of the Silo and the characters who seek to know more about its mysteries drive the books and the TV series. ![]() ![]() ![]() During his incarceration, he composed ten short stories, including A Blackjack Bargainer, The Enchanted Kiss, and The Duplicity of Hargraves. Apprehended, Porter served a few months more than three years in a penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio. Two years later, he returned on account of illness of his wife. In Houston, he worked for a few years until, ordered to stand trial for embezzlement, he fled to New Orleans and thence Honduras. When its accounts balanced not, people blamed and fired him. He failed to establish a small humorous weekly and afterward worked in poorly-run bank. ![]() ![]() ![]() His wife and firstborn died, but daughter Margaret survived him. In 1884, he went to Austin, where he worked in a real estate office and a church choir and spent four years as a draftsman in the general land office. He left school at fifteen years of age and worked for five years in drugstore of his uncle and then for two years at a Texas sheep ranch. Mother of three-year-old Porter died from tuberculosis. His era produced their voices and his language. His biography shows where he found inspiration for his characters. Such volumes as Cabbages and Kings (1904) and The Four Million (1906) collect short stories, noted for their often surprising endings, of American writer William Sydney Porter, who used the pen name O. ![]() ![]() As an act of revenge against her for speaking out, Tyler and his friends vandalize Zara's house with racist graffiti, leading to a violent crime that puts Zara's entire future at risk. ![]() ![]() While dealing with the Islamophobia that she faces at school, Zara has to lay low, trying not to stir up any trouble and jeopardize their family's dependent visa status while they await their green card approval, which has been in process for almost nine years.īut one day her tormentor, star football player Tyler Benson, takes things too far, leaving a threatening note in her locker, and gets suspended. Seventeen-year-old Pakistani immigrant, Zara Hossain, has been leading a fairly typical life in Corpus Christi, Texas, since her family moved there for her father to work as a pediatrician. But it only takes one moment for that dream to come crashing down around them. Zara's family has waited years for their visa process to be finalized so that they can officially become US citizens. ![]() |