I fell in love with Adelaide and Felicity, two sisters who are opposites living at a 150-year-old family funeral home and farm in Kentucky.
Their personalities are like hens scratching at each other in a fun, witty manner that illuminates psychological and spiritual depth. Good medicine during the pandemic.
Throw in a bit of amnesia, a forgotten trauma, visitations from the departed, and Julian, whose funeral is delayed for reasons that are revealed, and you have an upbeat, thought-provoking, and sometimes delightfully irreverent glimpse into a rollicking multi-verse.
It made me consider more carefully what I do and say. For, when all is said and done, we may never be truly separate from each other, either here or in the hereafter.
Sunnyside Up is a deeply character-driven tale of two lovingly combative Kentucky sisters and a man named Julian, a miner’s son, who was not their social equal. It’s a story of love and survival, but also of quantum entanglement at a Jungian level. Entanglement that requires each character to dive deep into murky shadows with open eyes to consciously execute the unraveling. Such an unraveling requires cooperation from all involved. Cooperation that is buried alive in ego and resentment from a mysterious accident that tethers all parties to a single event in the past. Whether or not they’re successful depends on…
Oh my gosh, Stephen King. He could make a soup label sound entertaining. Imagine this: A manual for writers delivered in the form of hilarious, irreverent, and sometimes scatological memories.
He demonstrates his mastery of storytelling by providing snapshots of the past and glimpses into his life’s highs and lows. Advice about process, craft, publishing, and reviews is offered in a conversational way that makes it sound fresh and exciting.
I don’t know; when I was reading this, I felt like I was sitting with the Buddha of fiction, and being told, “You can do it, too.”
Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King
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Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King’s critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work.
“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King’s On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the…
A lifelong seeker of spiritual truth, I literally got goosebumps when I read this book, which was published in 1963. The author speaks of true Christianity, not in religious terms, but as I’d imagine Jesus did.
The book is about becoming a door for love. It’s about shedding the mortal sense of life and opening that door to allow God to reinterpret appearances of limitation, conflict, disorder, disease – any kind of evil – according to the heavenly version.
Ruby Nelson makes it clear that every individual, not just Jesus, is born to experience the full bloom of a transcendent being. Everyone possesses the qualities of the Grand Cosmic Self.
Of course, the teaching is not new, but this is a unique version of Jesus’ teachings. Truly inspiring and uplifting. I’ll cherish re-reading it time and again.
The headstrong orphan of an elusive supernatural clan wards off a disaster prophecy and attempts to find a family while naysayer human guardians threaten him with assimilation school.
