“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
Neurologist Flaherty explores the drive to write, what sparks it, and what extinguishes it. She offers a brave and compelling account of the role of emotion and the ways in which neurological and mood disorders can lead to meagre–or prodigious–creative output. And there was I hoping for an easy day!!!
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Who could NOT resist Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise? I loved Anne Rice’s book Interview with a Vampire. Much preferred The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned though. Kind of, sort of, a precursor to the very successful TWILIGHT franchise. Anyhoo – Joseph Haydn as played by Lestat.
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I’d promise this’ll be the last aromatherapy book but….who knows? I’ve never owned a Medical Dictionary in my life. This is my “help, please” source. Valerie has two other books that sit, well-thumbed, on my shelves.
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When my animals are sick, this is my GO TO book. From Amazon : £274 ????? That is OUTRAGEOUS. Criminal. Go secondhand! This book describes how animals have an innate ability to forage for plant and mineral extracts, in order to look after their own emotional and physical health. This […]
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Again with the books. Sheesh! The majority of my life, I have been fascinated by aromatherapy. I have this book. And Gattefosse’s and many, many more. The bold words below are important. Why? Well… I’ve a sneaky feeling that plants and fragrance and their true importance were very well known LONG before the 19th century. Ever […]
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Why? Do not ask. I’m only answering simple questions today! Like…… NO. I don’t have any tattoos. I’ve nothing against them whatsoever. I just chose not to go there. Written on the Body surveys the history of the tattoo in Europe and North America from Antiquity to the present. While the subject of […]
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Warning : there are loads more books on the list. Sigh! This one was recommended to me years and years and years ago by a beautiful friend :o) This is why I have NEVER thrown a book away in my whole life. Lent a few, lost a few but never binned. This groundbreaking book […]
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This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than fifty years ago, was the outcome of Graves’s vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion and magic. Erudite and impassioned, it is a scholar-poet’s quest for the meaning of European myths, a polemic about the relations between man and woman, and […]
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Okeydokey. It must be a book recommendation day today. Last year I wrote a little sentence about the Hero’s Journey being fitted from the outside in. I still sort of agree with that but, having learned a few new things, I’ve realised that out or in or upside down, The Hero’s Journey is as old […]
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…this book has been a go-to of mine for several years. A lovely “ology.” Despite the chronology, (!!) it is a goldmine of history, myth and legend. I’ve just checked Amazon. £50? Go secondhand. Especially if you cover it with post-its and hand-written notes and exclamation marks in red/black/blue biro… like me :o) Or visit […]
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Written by Barbara Erskine. Kate has been betrayed. She goes to a wild Essex coast to finish her biography of Byron. And gets haunted a a Roman Ghost P.S. Barbara’s Literary Agent kept my MS for 6 months. Then she Rejected me. Heyho! Barbara Erskine The audiobook is Fabby. Read by Rula Lenska
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Wiki : Belleruth Years ago Leslie introduced me to Belleruth’s work. I’ve used it ever since. Health Journeys Her book Invisible Heroes … …was a “recommended read.” First Hand. Second Hand. Empirical. Not everyone’s cup of tea but… …That’s Not MY problem!
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Hidden History Research 