![]() ![]() Use these last 10 minutes for self-reflection and, if you believe in a higher power, for communicating with God, the Universe, your spirituality, or whatever you prefer. This part of the practice allows you to harness your calm during stressful situations and mindfully choose to stay out of negativity.Then, use the remaining 10 minutes to write down a summary of what you just read by hand to strengthen your ability to process the information, and learn something new. Spend the first 10 minutes of this step reading a chapter of your book.Spend the next 20 minutes reading a book, something that teaches you new things or enriches your mind with practical knowledge.Use the final 10 minutes to take note of any unmet goals and assess the reasons why you have not achieved them. This will motivate you to focus on moving forward.Then, dedicate the next 10-minute set to assessing your progress on the goals you set the previous day. Spend the first 10 minutes writing your short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals. The first half hour is broken down in three 10-minute segments.There is one ground rule: Follow the below steps in complete silence. ![]() This practice, called the Sphere of Silence, is a 60-minute routine that can help you stay grounded, focused, and most importantly, remain hopeful when your mind wants to spiral. A world wherein our daily routines are inundated with distractions and responsibilities. We live in a world full of noise and chatter. ![]() Many of us have forgotten (or even fear) quiet. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In October 2018, it was revealed that Marie Lu had included Park Jimin as a character in her book, Wildcard, and ARMY wanted to know if she was Jimin biased, which she confirmed to be as well as being an ARMY herself. This is not the first time that the author has shown her personal preference for Jimin as she has always been vocal and proudly Jimin biased. ![]() Marie Lu responded by saying that it was Jimin, and added "Yall know my feelings on rainbow hair. Soon after, an exchange ensued in which another fan of BTS asked who her bias was. ![]() The acclaimed writer quoted BTS' First Group Photo Teaser for their upcoming single ' BUTTER' after its release on Twitter with four fire emojis. She is well known for her Young Adult and Dystopian fiction series, such as The Legend series, Young Elites Series, the Warcross series, and Batman Nightwalker in the DC icons series. On May 10th, New York Times best-selling author Marie Lu cemented her Jimin biased status yet again. ![]() ![]() ![]() She puts it away and they walk out, with Franny making most of the small talk. ![]() After she clarifies which letter, he answers yes, and asks her about the pea-green clothbound book she is carrying. She hugs and kisses him, and asks if he received her letter. Lane spots Franny, noticing especially her coat. With cigarettes in hand, the boys watch the arriving train. She concludes by admitting she feels "unintelligent" when she writes to him, and asks if they can have a nice weekend without his analyzing everything and her.Ī classmate, Roy Sorenson, interrupts Lane and asks if he understood their reading assignment of the German poet Rilke. In a postscript, she says her father's "growth" is benign, and that Lane need not worry about what happened over a recent Friday night - she doesn't think her parents even heard them come in. She writes that she is reading and loving the Greek poet Sappho, and makes several more declarations of love to him. In it, she describes loving his letter and her anticipation of the weekend. ![]() He rereads a letter from his girlfriend, Franny. The big football game against Yale is this weekend. ![]() Lane Coutell waits with several other upper-crust college boys for their dates to arrive by train on a cold Saturday morning. ![]() ![]() Why is Kate so intimate with Jake, and why so familiar with the house? Until Kate arrives as a lodger, and Marisa’s sense of self begins to erode. Apart from Jake’s frosty and controlling mother, Annabelle, who calls unexpectedly one day when Jake is out, all seems ideal. Jake wants a family, and so does Marisa – acutely so, as her own mother left with Marisa’s baby sister when she was seven. A children’s illustrator, she even has room there to have her own studio. Within three months, Marisa has left her small rented north London flat and moved into Jake’s spacious place in Battersea. This romantic cliche has a double-edged meaning, and warning signs flash as the twists and turns of Day’s plot unfold. At their first physical meeting, “she felt a crackle of energy, a fusion of some sort, as if two molecules had collided and meshed and sparked a new thing”. Marisa has found the man of her dreams online: Jake. ![]() ![]() I nfertility, surrogacy, sexual assault, mental illness and a lot of desirable housing stock might seem too much for one book, but with her new novel, Magpie, Elizabeth Day pulls off a polished and creepy thriller which probes at the heart of what it means to be able to conceive a child – or not. ![]() ![]() The story moves between continents, the court of Akbar to Renaissance Florence mixing history, fantasy and fable. ![]() The central theme of The Enchantress of Florence is the visit of a European to the Mughal emperor Akbar's court and his claim that he is a long lost relative of Akbar, born of an exiled Indian princess and an Italian from Florence. The novel was published on 11 April 2008 by Jonathan Cape London, and in the United States by Random House. According to Rushdie this is his "most researched book" which required "years and years of reading". The Enchantress of Florence is the ninth novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 2008. ![]() Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights ![]() ![]() ![]() World Building: interesting world or Ethin – there is a caste system, there is a wall that separates the wealthy and poor, but there is a mystery also…why is there no history about Ethin, Nirrim and Sid tries to find out. ![]() She must place her trust in this sly stranger who asks, above all, not to be trusted. But to do that, Nirrim must surrender her old life. Sid tempts Nirrim to seek that magic for herself. Nirrim keeps her head down and a dangerous secret close to her chest.īut then she encounters Sid, a rakish traveler from far away who whispers rumors that the High Caste possesses magic. You either follow the rules, or pay a tithe and suffer the consequences. People of her low status are forbidden from sampling sweets or wearing colors. Where Nirrim lives, crime abounds, a harsh tribunal rules, and society’s pleasures are reserved for the High Kith. Categories: Young Adult, Fantasy, Gods, F/F Romance ![]() ![]() ![]() They shouldn't feel like they have to hide the fact that they like the same gender. It's just how that person feels and they can't control whether they like boys or girls and they shouldn't feel like they have to. I think it's becoming more and more common to find gay relationships in books and I think it's good because although some people think that everyone should like the opposite gender and that there's a "cure" for those who don't, there isn't. And I think characters with good personalities and characters you can relate to are what make a good book a brilliant book. I didn't feel like the characters had strong enough personalities, I don't think there were enough characters and I didn't feel attached to any of them. But it was interesting to read a book that had a slightly different idea to me but was still following the main idea that I have. But although I'm still pondering over whether this is the real world, I didn't like Patrick Ness's idea of two different worlds. Despite this, it was mainly handling a philosophical issue that I have tried to get my head around a lot recently which is 'is the world we live in the real world or is it our imagination?'. This was good because I'm really into philosophy and the philosophy that More Than This was discussing was the kind of philosophy that I'm interested in and that I think about a lot. ![]() It was very philosophical, which I knew from the reviews on the cover. ![]() More Than This wasn't quite what I was expecting. ![]() ![]() ![]() The seas could not insapphirine the perfect azure of his eyes.Įvery second word was my favourite. If you look at popular music today, some people do not even manage to rhyme two lines with each other, despite the chorus consisting of literally just those two lines. ![]() The middle of one line always rhymed with the end of the other line and vice versa. ![]() I simply adored it, it was so cleverly done, and I cannot fathom how on earth he managed to keep it up for seven pages and still produce such exquisite poetry. You stood behind him on his throne: you called him by his secret name. You kissed his mouth with mouths of flame: you made the hornèd god your own But I had never read any poetry by Wilde and just this one poem almost had me convinced that his poetry might be even more beautiful than his prose. I knew his one-liners in comedies are hilarious. I knew Wilde’s prose is the most exquisite thing ever. I kinda never got around to update and rate this one despite having read it in January, so here I go. And with your curved archaic smile you watched his passion come and go. ![]() ![]() ![]() Roy is, of course, best known for her 1997 Man Booker Prize-winning novel The God Of Small Things. Since three of the essays were aimed toward a politically aware and educated Indian audience, they frequently leave the American reader without enough background information to understand some details of her message.ĭespite this criticism, Roy's overall message is clear: corporate globalization is imperialism, the United States is an empire, and there is nothing free about free markets, free speech, or free press. As a result, for this reader, the book does not hold together well as a whole. The fifth is her introduction to the reprint of Noam Chomsky's book, For Reasons of State. ![]() The fourth and sixth are transcripts of speeches she gave in the United States and Brazil. ![]() The first three were published in magazines in India and were written for the Indian audience. War Talk by Arundhati Roy is a collection of six essays concerning the state of the world at the beginning of the 21st century. ![]() ![]() When the mission goes wrong, it will take all of Garrett’s skill and courage to save him. Despite their vow to resist each other after that sublime night, she is soon drawn into his most dangerous assignment yet. For one exhilarating night, they give in to their potent attraction before becoming strangers again.Īs a Ravenel by-blow spurned by his father, Ethan has little interest in polite society, yet he is captivated by the bold and beautiful Garrett. Ethan Ransom, a former detective for Scotland Yard, is as gallant as he is secretive, a rumored assassin whose true loyalties are a mystery. Garrett Gibson, the only female physician in England, is as daring and independent as any man-why not take her pleasures like one? Yet she has never been tempted to embark on an affair, until now. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas delivers a scintillating tale of an unconventional beauty who finds passion with the spy who can’t resist herĭr. ![]() |