![]() ![]() When she has turned her face from us, only the wand can reveal her hidden blessings. There are several documents in the Library that give hints as to the correct Words of Power to be used with certain items and the ideal moon phase.Īs she falters, open the book and offer onto her the knowledge of things remembered. Values from 50 to 300 have been observed. The amount of Gloss received also seems to be based on the player's Arcane Level, and exact values at each level are not yet known. However, the amount of Gloss produced by the Necklace is double that of the other items.Įach item has four tiers of Gloss rewards, which correspond to the Rarity of the item. The Necklace only gives Gloss, and the reward is the same regardless of the Word of Power used. Sacrificing an item at the appropriate time will increase the gloss awarded. Other Words will still work, but the player will not receive Gloss. In addition, each of these items have a bonus reward of Gloss if the correct Word of Power is used. The Book, Wand, Bowl, and Knife always reward the player with an Arcane Key. The rewards depend upon what type of item was used, its Rarity, what Word of Power was used, and the phase of the moon. This can done once per day, and only at night. Place a Book, Wand, Bowl, Knife, or Necklace in the Offering Bowl and use a Word of Power to receive a reward. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her ability to find dead bodies is one I haven’t read much about in urban fantasy so I was intrigued. This book opens up right into a certain level of intrigue, in regards to the main character Harper Connelly and her step-brother, Tolliver Lang. Because for the living it’s always urgent – even if the dead can wait forever. Traveling with her step-brother Tolliver as manager and sometime-bodyguard, she’s become an expert at getting in, getting paid, and getting out fast. The way Harper sees it, she’s providing a service to the dead while bringing some closure to the living – but she’s used to most people treating her like a blood-sucking leech. She can sense the final location of a person who’s passed, and share their very last moment. ![]() Harper Connelly has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. ![]() ![]() ![]() My onset happened after he’d gone so I never got a chance to tell him I finally understand what it’s like, being him. I wonder if sober alcoholics miss how it feels being drunk. Sometimes I miss when my meds weren’t so well tuned. It won’t feel good to lie in bed, eyes wide open, with the Ritalin running my Hamster in its wheel in my head. Maybe she’s cocooned in her bed for the same reasons I wish I were in mine-it’s hereditary-but I can’t do it. Mom’s in her room, probably because she was up late with my boyfriend, Netflix. ![]() The title of the book actually comes from a scene where Mel watches HJ get ready to go out on a Friday night, thinking the spectacle is both wonderful and tragic, and this scene below takes place the following morning.Īunt Joan isn’t home yet when I get back to the house around ten. But for those who’ve read the book, here’s a scene with HJ that didn’t make the final draft and for those who haven’t read, this is as good an introduction as any. My early drafts did have more scenes with HJ, but she was taking over too much of Mel’s story so many got cut. ![]() Mel has bipolar disorder with most of her time spent in depression, while her aunt’s type is mostly hypomanic, making her energetic, impulsive, obsessive, opinionated, and volatile. ![]() Many Goodreads reviews for A TRAGIC KIND OF WONDERFUL have wished there were more scenes with Aunt Joan, aka Hurricane Joan, aka HJ. ![]() ![]() Meik uses data, interviews, global surveys, and real-life experiments to explain the nuances of nostalgia and the different ways we form memories around our experiences and recall them-revealing the power that a "first time" has on our recollections, and why a piece of music, a smell, or a taste can unexpectedly conjure a moment from the past. The Art of Making Memories examines how mental images are made, stored, and recalled in our brains, as well as the "art of letting go"-why we tend to forget certain moments to make room for deeper, more meaningful ones. But how do we make and keep the memories that bring us lasting joy? In his work as a happiness researcher, Meik Wiking has learned that people are happier if they hold a positive, nostalgic view of the past. Memories are the cornerstones of our identity, shaping who we are, how we act, and how we feel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What's the actual secret to happiness? Great memories! Meik Wiking-happiness researcher and New York Times bestselling author of The Little Book of Hygge and The Little Book of Lykke-shows us how to create memories that make life sweet in this charming audiobook.Do you remember your first kiss? The day you graduated? Your favorite vacation? Or the best meal you ever had? ![]() ![]() The former FBI director did not make a determination on whether Trump obstructed justice. Mueller’s probe did not find evidence that members of the Trump campaign coordinated or conspired with Russia during the 2016 election. Trump” is expected to provide an insider’s view on some of the most notable and politically infamous investigations in modern American history, including the investigation into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia to influence the presidential election. “Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. ![]() ![]() Strzok was fired in 2018 after a series of text messages from August 2016 surfaced in which he says his agency would “stop” then-candidate Trump from becoming president. Strzok played a key role in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential race. Former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok is releasing a book detailing his concerns that President Trump could be compromised, The Associated Press reported Tuesday. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a crushing defeat for the Confederacy, and a month later the great general would offer Confederate President Jefferson Davis his resignation Davis refused to accept it.ĭid you know? Edward Everett, the featured speaker at the dedication ceremony of the National Cemetery of Gettysburg, later wrote to Lincoln, "I wish that I could flatter myself that I had come as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes."Īs after previous battles, thousands of Union soldiers killed at Gettysburg were quickly buried, many in poorly marked graves. ![]() After three days of battle, Lee retreated towards Virginia on the night of July 4. Casualties were high on both sides: Out of roughly 170,000 Union and Confederate soldiers, there were 23,000 Union casualties (more than one-quarter of the army’s effective forces) and 28,000 Confederates killed, wounded or missing (more than a third of Lee’s army) in the Battle of Gettysburg. Meade) in Gettysburg, some 35 miles southwest of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Lee’s Confederate Army clashed with the Army of the Potomac (under its newly appointed leader, General George G. ![]() From July 1 to July 3, 1863, the invading forces of General Robert E. ![]() ![]() ![]() It also became clear that Dazai, who hadn’t attended school since shortly after his older brother, Keiji’s, death in 1930, would not be able to graduate. At that same time, Dazai, who had always thought of Hatsuyo as pure and innocent, came to know of her sexual history as a Geisha. After the second incident, he cut ties with the left-wing movement. Twice, he was questioned by the police about his involvement with the left-wing movement in Japan, but both times he was released almost immediately. Over the next two years (1931-1932), Dazai wrote very little. The following month, Dazai was allowed to marry Hatsuyo. Shortly thereafter, feeling isolated from Hatsuyo and disapproval from his family, Dazai attempted double suicide with Shimeko Tanabe, a waitress. Bunji agreed and returned to Aomori, taking Hatsuyo with him. Before agreeing, however, Dazai made Bunji promise that he would be allowed to eventually marry Hatsuyo. In an attempt to avoid a potential scandal, Dazai’s eldest brother, Bunji, soon arrived and made Dazai send Hatsuyo away. ![]() ![]() Hatsuyo had broken her contract and fled from Aomori to Tokyo. In 1930, while enrolled at the University of Tokyo, Dazai was visited by Koyama Hatsuyo, a Geisha whom he had known since he was in high school in Aomori. Osamu Dazai in 1928, a few years before writing The Final Years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My wife feels otherwise but then, she’s one of those systematic readers who finishes every book she starts, so there’s no accounting for taste. Fortunately, I consider random Jenga towers of books to be the height of sophisticated décor. As a consequence, books tend to pile up on my night stand in teetering stacks, accumulating passive-aggressively, like an accusation. I spend hours every day reading, but I magpie around and don’t finish things. I’m an appalling reader, promiscuous and inattentive. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Clement Stone, founder of Combined Insurance, whom Kimbro met with and mentions early in the book, "Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything." Instead, wealth is the result of a conscious choice, action, faith, innovation, effort, preparation and discipline. "The Wealth Choice" argues that wealth (millionaireship) is not a function of circumstance, luck, environment or the cards you were dealt. Kimbro says that many of today's black multimillionaires started out poor or worse. Lewis, Tyler Perry, Daymond John, Bob Johnson, Cathy Hughes and Antonio Reed. Kimbro's seven-year study included wealthy blacks such as Byron E. Kimbro, a business professor at Clark Atlanta University, conducted extensive face-to-face interviews, took surveys and had other interactions with nearly 1,000 of America's black financial elite, many of whom are multimillionaires, to discover the secret of their success. Nowhere has this been made clearer than in Dennis Kimbro's new book, "The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires." ![]() If you stay poor, you're to blame because it is your fault. No one can blame you if you start out in life poor, because how you start is not your fault. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Up until now I have not loved Flannery O'Connor's writing. People in an online poll in 2009 voted her Complete Stories as the best book to win the national book award in the six-decade history of the contest. In 1988, the Library of America published Collected Works of Flannery O'Connor, the first so honored postwar writer. Survivors published her letters in The Habit of Being (1979). Her Complete Stories, published posthumously in 1972, won the national book award for that year. Survivors published her essays were published in Mystery and Manners (1969). When she died at the age of 39 years, America lost one of its most gifted writers at the height of her powers. O’Connor wrote Everything That Rises Must Converge (1964). She lived most of her adult life on Andalusia, ancestral farm of her family outside Milledgeville, Georgia. The Georgia state college for women educated O’Connor, who then studied writing at the Iowa writers' workshop and wrote much of Wise Blood at the colony of artists at Yaddo in upstate New York. ![]() Critics note novels Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960) and short stories, collected in such works as A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955), of American writer Mary Flannery O'Connor for their explorations of religious faith and a spare literary style. ![]() |