![]() If you’re driving over, we are just off the A404 or accessible from the M40. ![]() If you are visiting for the day, we are less than a 10 minute walk to Marlow train station, which is great for a lovely day out of the hustle and bustle of London. The George & Dragon is next to Higginson Park and the River Thames, making it the perfect location for wonder and exploration. ![]() Get the whole family together for an evening out to remember. When the sun is shining, why not enjoy a local cask ale in our outside beer garden? There’s plenty on offer here from breakfast to Sunday Roast, and don’t forget meals for the little ones too. Rooted in Marlow, we’re a restaurant that’s experienced at serving good pub food and refreshing drinks. Our George & Dragon is a traditional-style pub with a friendly heritage feel. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Alpert headed to India where his guru renamed him Baba Ram Dass – “servant of God.” He was introduced to mindful breathing exercises, hatha yoga, and Eastern philosophy. Fear turned into exaltation upon the realization that at his truest, he was just his inner-self: a luminous being that he could trust indefinitely and love infinitely.Īnd thus, a spiritual journey commenced. During a period of experimentation, Alpert peeled away each layer of his identity, disassociating from himself as a professor, a social cosmopolite, and lastly, as a physical being. And yet he couldn’t escape the feeling that something was missing. By most societal standards, he had achieved great success. He published books, drove a Mercedes and regularly vacationed in the Caribbean. In March 1961, Professor Richard Alpert – later renamed Ram Dass – held appointments in four departments at Harvard University. We’re talking about how to become a butterfly.” We’re talking about going from a caterpillar to a butterfly ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What I like about Goodreads is if you go to the link, you can choose where to buy the book, be it via Kindle, Barnes and Nobles, Apple books, an audio book, or even your local library. Finally, I link to each book through Goodreads rather than Amazon, because I don’t want to steer you to Amazon if you don’t want to use it. I have read every single book on this list from cover to cover.ģ. I don’t earn a dime if you either click on any of these links or buy any of these books.Ģ. They Ask You Answer, by Marcus Sheridanġ.Win Without Pitching Manifesto, by Blair Enns.In no particular order, I learned the most from the following: ![]() These books literally blew my mind away, so I wanted to share my reaction to each book within this roundup. This post is about the best business books I’ve read, or at least those that have helped me by changing my personal mindset for the better. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Well for starters, I honestly don’t think I can give this book the justice it deserves. Until it inhabits your soul.Īfter much contemplation and deliberation on what would be the most eloquent and convincing words to put in this review, still I came up short. It would consume you bit by bit until it becomes part of you. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome-but that will define his life forever.Ī Little Life is a slow burn. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Synopsis from G oodreads: When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they’re broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. ![]() ![]() A man returns to a childhood family home and while he’s there a skull is found in a wych elm. But when I read about her newest novel, “The Witch Elm”, I was immediately interested in the premise. I like French’s style, and I like her characters, but the mysteries themselves never really intrigued me as much as I wanted them to. ![]() ![]() I liked it enough, but didn’t really move on until I read “Faithful Place” a few years later. I first read Tana French with her first “Dublin Murder Squad” novel “In The Woods” around the time it came out. ![]() Review: Thank you so much to NetGalley for providing me with an eARC of this novel! Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the garden – and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face the possibility that his past may not be what he has always believed.Ī spellbinding standalone from one of the best suspense writers working today, The Witch Elm asks what we become, and what we’re capable of, when we no longer know who we are. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family’s ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Where Did I Get This Book: I received an ARC from NetGalley.īook Description: Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who’s dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life – he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. ![]() ![]() Monica Coleman, a postmodern process womanist theologian puts a contemporary spin on the work of Katie G. The literature of Black women articulates both the values and dreams of Black folk. I argue for Gwendolyn Brooks' 1953 novella, Maud Martha, as one such text because it unfolds as a study in one woman’s process of awareness and as a reflection of the Black community’s spiritual and ethical development. Thus, Black women’s fiction represents a canon of moral and spiritual thought and thereby constitutes sacred texts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cannon emphasizes that such wisdom does not rescue Black women from the hardships of their realities “rather, it exposes those ethical assumptions that are inimical to the ongoing survival of Black womanhood” and thereby exposes the values, or fundamental ethical concerns, of Black women (60). ![]() Black female writers, then, labor to chronicle the moral wisdom derived from their enslaved ancestors’ experiences of persistent, violent repression and invisibility as well as their triumphs, courage, and resilience. BLACK WOMEN’S EXPRESSIVITY & THE CASE OF MAUD MARTHAįrom customs of storytelling within the slave quarters of enslaved Blacks to the prolific literary output of writers during the 1970s and 1980s, Black women have long been deploying narratives to embody their values because the narratives give voice to their shared experiences of, not only “hard physical labor,” but social and emotional labor as well. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: De Profundis (Gutenberg text).Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Critic as Artist: A Dialogue (HTML in Ireland).Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Complete Shorter Fiction (searchable HTML and PDF at Bibliomania).Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: Charmides and Other Poems (Gutenberg text). ![]() ![]() by Wallace Goldsmith (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio) Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Canterville Ghost (Boston and London: John W.Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Canterville Ghost (HTML in Ireland).Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Birthday of the Infanta (HTML in Ireland).Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Gutenberg text).Online books about this author are available, as is a Wikipedia article. Online Books by Oscar Wilde (Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900) | The Online Books Page The Online Books Page ![]() ![]() ![]() Why are Reapers only white people? Why is having black hair only associated with Asians? Why does it seem like the main character is the *only* mixed Reaper to ever exist in this book, considering that Reapers live for centuries of years and would have surely reproduced with different races by now? And why is being mixed looked down upon in this society? (There was a throwaway line about how Reapers are more archaic *because* they have lived for so long, but this still feels like a stretch.) The world-building feels incomplete and not fully thought out, especially when it deals with race. I was eager to rate this 4 stars, but as I kept reading, I found too many issues that dropped it down to 3. Seeing the different yokai that the protagonist has to face throughout the book was fun as well! Really enjoyed the descriptive writing, dark atmosphere, and concept of Reapers, especially with how they can "manipulate" time and all the imagery that comes with using those powers. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s spent decades suppressing parts of herself for her job, so what’s a few more years?īut as Rebecca and Sabine work closely together on Army bases in Afghanistan and the States, the undeniable sparks between them begin to ignite. Unable to keep her thoughts about the alluring other woman under control, Rebecca resigns herself to years of censoring her thoughts and feelings until Sabine’s time in the Army is done. ![]() Then Captain Sabine Fleischer’s arrival sets off an attraction that cracks Rebecca’s carefully cultivated armor and brings about fresh complications.Īs Sabine’s direct commanding officer, Rebecca knows she cannot act on her attraction, but that knowledge does nothing to squash her desires. ![]() Even if that life means she’s spent years hiding her sexuality and ignoring her desires under the Army’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. With a successful career as an Army surgeon and a fresh promotion to Lieutenant Colonel, she loves her life leading a surgical team. ![]() When an Army surgeon serving under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell falls for her female subordinate, she knows breaking one of the unbreakable rules of the military means she’ll risk losing more than her heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() And as investigators closed in, Rod committed a final, desperate act to frame his own daughter for her mother’s death. As the two families warred over custody of Shele’s children-and their inheritance-Rod concocted a series of increasingly demented schemes, even plotting to kill his own parents, to secure the treasure. Rod had a clear path to his ex-wife's fortune, but suspicions about her death lingered. Police ruled it an accident, and Shele’s deeply Orthodox Jewish family quickly buried her without an autopsy on religious grounds. Two days later, on New Year’s Eve, Shele was found dead in the bathtub of her Upper West Side apartment. In late December 2009, Shele made an appointment with her lawyer to block him from her millions. ![]() Rod had long depended on Shele's income to fund his tastes for high stakes backgammon and infidelity-and she finally vowed to sever him from her will. But when his hidden vices surfaced, marital harmony gave way to a merciless divorce. Having conquered Wall Street, she was eager to build a family with her much younger husband, promising Ivy League graduate Rod Covlin. ![]() ![]() Wealthy, beautiful, and brilliant, Shele Danishefsky had fulfillment at her fingertips. At Any Cost unravels the twisted story of Rod Covlin, whose unrepentant greed drove him to an unspeakable act of murder and betrayal that rocked New York City. ![]() |