![]() ![]() This is a book that will help writers understand how the choices they make affect readers in different ways. Murdock takes writers through the creation of three example stories, stopping to discuss each writing decision as it occurs and explaining how each approach works to keep readers vicariously involved in the progression of the story. ![]() In this book, Professor Murdock, an award-winning California State University teacher, has developed an innovative method to teach writers how to use the fictional tools and techniques available to them to create powerful stories that will engage readers from beginning to end. How to Write Fiction: Tools and Techniques ![]()
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![]() In a conclusion, the book is knowledge-giving and interesting at the same time. Here the author tells us that our nutritional advice is outdated and what was suitable fifty years back is not suitable today and the reason that we are crowded with chronic diseases is that we are following outdated information for our nutritional problems. ![]() In this book, the author tells us that according to the advice of medical professionals, and other health committees we are cutting down the number of saturated fats but they are not much dangerous in fact they are beneficial, and excessive marathon running is also not as beneficial as it is considered. ![]() He is of opinion that it is the need of the hour that we should educate people about why to do and then how to do. Mike Sheridan has been advising people on nutrition for decades and has written many other books in this regard. ![]() Her books are sprinkled with a touch of darkness, a pinch of angst, and an unhealthy dose of intensity. She's known to write unapologetic anti-heroes and villains because she often fell in love with men no one roots for. ![]() Mike Sheridan is the author of this marvelous book. Rina Kent is a USA Today, international, and 1 Amazon bestselling author of everything enemies to lovers romance. “Eat Meat and Stop Jogging: Common Advice On How to Get Fit is Keeping You Fat and Making You Sick” is a wonderful book in which the author reveals the wrong beliefs about nutrition, diet, fitness, and health goals. ![]() ![]() He was a major advocate of a single parliament for England and Scotland. After the Union of the Crowns, he based himself in England (the largest of the three realms) from 1603, returning to Scotland only once, in 1617, and styled himself " King of Great Britain and Ireland". He continued to reign in all three kingdoms for 22 years, a period known as the Jacobean era, until his death in 1625. In 1603, he succeeded Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch of England and Ireland, who died childless. Four different regents governed during his minority, which ended officially in 1578, though he did not gain full control of his government until 1583. He succeeded to the Scottish throne at the age of thirteen months, after his mother was compelled to abdicate in his favour. James was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and a great-great-grandson of Henry VII, King of England and Lord of Ireland, and thus a potential successor to all three thrones. Although he wanted to bring about a closer union, the kingdoms of Scotland and England remained individual sovereign states, with their own parliaments, judiciaries, and laws, both ruled by James in personal union. James VI and I (James Charles Stuart 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625. ![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Stuart, Duke of Kintyre and Lorne. ![]() ![]() ![]() It wasn’t that the story was badly written. “ It Grows On You“, narrated by Stephen King himself, was a rare experience for me: a Stephen King short story that I walked away from halfway through. You almost don’t notice what she’s doing because she does it so well, using just the right amount of emphasis, keeping a beat-perfect rhythm and producing voices for characters that are distinct but not melodramatically different. Kathy Bates’s performance is simply flawless. But… you hear him pausing for breath and you get, or at least I thought I got, a sense of “I know the ending to this one and it’s a doozie” complicity in his tone that I found distracting. The skill of the narrator counts for a lot.I prefer King’s stories to be up close and personal rather than being heavily dependent on the authorial voice.In listening to these two stories back to back I understood two things: ![]() This review covers the stories six and seven in the audiobook edition of “Nightmares & Dreamscapes” by Stephen King. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is not patriotic to share an adviser with Russian oligarchs. It is not patriotic to cite Russian propaganda at rallies. It is not patriotic to call upon Russia to intervene in an American presidential election. It is not patriotic to cultivate a relationship with Muammar Gaddafi or to say that Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin are superior leaders. It is not patriotic to admire foreign dictators. It is not patriotic to ask those working, taxpaying American families to finance one’s own presidential campaign, and then to spend their contributions in one’s own companies. It is not patriotic to avoid paying taxes, especially when American working families do pay. ![]() It is not patriotic to compare one’s search for sexual partners in New York with the military service in Vietnam that one has dodged. It is not patriotic to discriminate against active-duty members of the armed forces in one’s companies, or to campaign to keep disabled veterans away from one’s property. It is not patriotic to dodge the draft and to mock war heroes and their families. “What is patriotism? Let us begin with what patriotism is not. ![]() ![]() Returning to the issue of political correctness, she reflected on her debut novel White Teeth, which had depicted characters from many backgrounds but, she said, had been given an easy ride by the white critics because “ were mostly brown. ![]() It’s a responsibility to be as open as you possibly can to the world as an aesthetic object.” “Then I had an epiphany, and suddenly realised that her voice was beautiful. “The reason for hating Joni Mitchell was that I didn’t listen to classical or ‘white’ music,” said Smith. In an essay in her collection, Feel Free, she investigated one such change in herself, when she fell in love with the music of Joni Mitchell, a singer she had despised when she was a mixed-race teenager growing up on a London housing estate. People are searching through social media. ![]() “We are being asked to be consistent as humans over great swathes of time. She went on to question the role of social media in policing personal development. The strange thing to me is the assumption that their identity is the right to freedom.” “He turned to me and said: ‘I used to be myself and I’m now white guy, white guy.’ I said: ‘Finally, you understand.’ But the lesson of that is that identity is a huge pain in the arse. ![]() She conceded that the assertion of a collective identity was sometimes necessary “to demand rights”, but cited the dismay of her husband – the poet and novelist Nick Laird – at finding himself increasingly categorised. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some readers will consider the new book too contained and restrained, and will lament the fact that there is no denouement featuring a man wearing a goat-head (to be fair, there is a short digression about a man who carries death in a little bag). It’s a return, in some ways, to the territory of Norwegian Wood (1987), the relatively straightforward and hugely successful love story that made Murakami famous.Īt a mere 298 pages in its English translation, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki is far shorter than his usual literary wanderings. But in his latest, stripped-down novel, we are mostly in the world as we know it – or at least as we think we know it – though there are, naturally, forays into dreams and the subconscious. Menacing creatures writhe beneath the Tokyo metro. A giant frog visits a nervous bank clerk. In several of his stories, that alternative reality takes on physical form. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was expecting a light-hearted Christmas romance but I got something a little bit more than that. And as Nory spends more time with Isaac over the wedding festivities, she finds herself falling hard for the boy who used to throw mud at her and her posh friends.Īs Nory and Isaac explore their common ground, pressures mount on all sides and Nory must decide what kind of life she wants to live and what sort of love is worth the risk…Ĭontent Warning: mention of suicide, cheating When she falls quite literally into the arms of Isaac, the head gardener with nothing but contempt for the ‘snobby prep school kids’, the attraction between them is undeniable. The reunion brings back fond memories, but also requires Nory to dodge an ill-advised former fling. So, when her oldest friends invite their school gang to spend the days leading up to their wedding together at the school castle, Nory must prepare herself for an emotionally complicated few days. ![]() ![]() Forever torn between her working-class upbringing and her classmates’ extravagant lifestyles at the posh private school she attended on scholarship, Nory has finally figured out how to keep both at equal distance. ![]() Elinor Noel – Nory for short – is quite content running her second-hand bookshop in London. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Inquest, work, health & safety incident, deceased fatally crushed by falling pipe from forklift unloading truck, non-suspicious death. You can also read more about findings including what to do if you disagree with findings or would like an inquest reopened. Search or sort for the relevant findings below. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned, findings contain the names of deceased persons.Īn Inquest sittings listfor the Coroners Court is posted online at the end of every month (note: the list is subject to change). WARNING - content in these findings may be distressing to readers. If an inquest was held, the findings may include comments or recommendations made by the coroner relating to public health and safety, the administration of justice or ways to prevent similar deaths. Inquest findings (since 2004) as well as non-inquest public interest matters (since 2012) are available below.įindings are published on this website when an inquest was held or a coroner otherwise orders they be published in the public interest.Ī finding is the document handed down by a coroner at the end of an investigation into a death. ![]() ![]() Queensland Civil Administration Tribunal (QCAT)įindings and upcoming inquests - Coroners Court.Queensland Civil Administration Tribunal. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book uses prime numbers to number the chapters, rather than the conventional successive numbers. The book is not specifically about any specific disorder", and that he, Haddon, is not an expert on the autism spectrum or Asperger syndrome. In July 2009, Haddon wrote on his blog that " The Curious Incident is not a book about Asperger's.if anything it's a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising and revealing way. ![]() Although Christopher's condition is not stated, the book's blurb refers to Asperger syndrome (which today would be described as an autism spectrum disorder), high-functioning autism, or savant syndrome. The novel is narrated in the first-person perspective by Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old boy who is described as "a mathematician with some behavioural difficulties" living in Swindon, Wiltshire. ![]() |