![]() George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press. ![]() As the narrator says of a heavenly woman in this tale, "She knew something too good to be told." One senses the same of the author himself. ![]() The glory of MacDonald's work is that this surrender is both hard won (or lost!) and yet rippling with joy when at last experienced. At times almost forthrightly allegorical, at other times richly dreamlike (and indeed having a close connection to the symbolic world of dreams), this story of a young man who finds himself on a long journey through a land of fantasy is more truly the story of the spiritual quest that is at the core of his life's work, a quest that must end with the ultimate surrender of the self. In MacDonald's fairy tales, both those for children and (like this one) those for adults, the "fairy land" clearly represents the spiritual world, or our own world revealed in all of its depth and meaning. ![]() Lewis said that upon reading this astonishing 19th-century fairy tale he "had crossed a great frontier," and numerous others both before and since have felt similarly. ![]()
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![]() Major findings included leaders with different characteristics associated with emotional intelligence and mindfulness, such as being driven by a noble goal, empathetic, and able to overcome hardships, fears, self-doubts, and worries, tended to use emotional intelligence skills for the promotion of other people versus self-promotion, which correlated to ethical leadership styles such as authentic and servant. From the data analysis, 83 invariant constituents emerged and were clustered into eight meaning units or themes. ![]() ![]() Ten participants were interviewed using semi-structured interview questions built with the leader and employee perspectives in mind to help explore emotional intelligence. Further focus was given to leaders’ and employees’ perceptions of whether or not practicing mindfulness and emotional intelligence within the business environment enhances the use of emotional intelligence and contributes to, if needed, the use of different leadership styles. ![]() The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological inquiry was to gain insight and understanding of how leaders and employees perceived the effect of mindfulness and other factors on a leader’s emotional intelligence. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m not really sure how Naruki Nagakawa features in all of this. ![]() He described it as ‘ the relationship between a male cat and his female owner told from the cat’s perspective.’ In 2016 it was adapted into an anime TV series as well as a manga version drawn by Tsubasa Yamaguchi. She and Her Cat began life as a five minute 1999 anime by Makoto Shinkai. Judging by my success with this one, the other four are sure to appear here soon!)įirst up, I should declare that I am a cat person, and I am very fond of the Japanese fascination with cats in literature. (The other four books to soothe a battered soul are Banana Yoshimoto’s new book of stories, Dead-End Memories, Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi (already on my TBR), Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada and Idol, Burning by Rin Usami. My soul was not feeling particularly battered (except for this seemingly endless La Niña rain!) but I definitely felt soothed after reading these four short interconnected cat stories. ![]() One of the online sites that came up when I duck, duck, go’d this title, suggested She and Her Cat was one of the five translated books this season that could soothe a battered soul. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the first book of Emma's I have read which gives me a quite rough idea of what other adventures she has written and I now look forward to reading another book of hers. The story was amazing with a happy ending and it hooked me in very well, I kept reading the WHOLE day on Sunday because it was sooooo good. The book is packed with mystery and suspense which made me want to read it as I love mystery and history books. I have read Letters from the lighthouse - by Emma Carroll which I have thoroughly enjoyed. I want to read more books by Emma Carroll because they are very interesting and mysterious. This book has made me want to find out more about history because it is set in the 2nd World War and was very interesting so I would love to find out more. ![]() I really enjoyed the character Olive because the liked trying to solve her sisters code whom went missing (the sister is called Sukie). I enjoyed this book because there were a lot of mysterious things happening and at some points I didn't want to put the book down. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just maybe one Coal sees the real Eden and will save her - she has begun to secretly date her handsome co-worker Jamal. ![]() But no matter how much Eden darkens her skin and hair, she's still a Pearl, still ugly - cursed with a tragically low mate-rate of 15%. If only a dark-skinned Coal from the ruling class will pick up her mate option, she'll be safe. The clock is ticking: if Eden doesn't mate before her eighteenth birthday, she'll be left outside to die. In a post-apocalyptic world where resistance to an overheated environment defines class and beauty, Eden Newman's white skin brands her as a member of the lowest class a weak and ugly Pearl. Would you betray your loves ones - and maybe your entire race - to avoid a horrible death? Genre: Young Adult - Fantasy/Adventure/Romance ![]() ![]() Lewis says that we must understand our fallenness. Just as there is importance placed in a strong rope when you’re dangling from a precipice, faith is the only way to pull ourselves out from a life of desperation, a life of anxiety and need, a life of doubt and insecurity.īut how can faith be present if we don’t realize we need something beyond our own person? How do we believe unless we recognize how frail our efforts have become to maintain everything just so? ![]() The two texts compliment one another by identifying parts of our struggle, the intellectual and physical difficulty life will bring, and how pain can bend us toward a loving God if we let it.įrom the loss of his mother at a young age to the untimely death of his wife Joy, Lewis experienced pain as God’s megaphone, as he says, to rouse a deaf world. The Problem of Pain demonstrates a more distant, less emotional reaction to humanity’s situation, while A Grief Observed reads like a psalm of lament from within pain itself. ![]() Lewis puts his wages on a God who holds goodness and pain in a paradox. ![]() ![]() Alice promises that there is hope – both for her and the baby: Perhaps death was right behind me, stepping with me, moving in my shadow, and at any moment it would gather me in its cloak.īefore she can work up the courage to confront her husband, in the woods Fleetwood meets Alice Gray, a strange young midwife. ![]() ![]() Fleetwood’s constant nausea, lack of appetite and deathly pallor all reinforce this assertion: In it, a doctor states that Fleetwood will not survive another pregnancy. She fears for her marriage and also her very life when she discovers an old letter that Richard has kept secret from her. Without an heir for her husband Richard, and with a strange distance growing between them, Fleetwood’s position feels tenuous. Fleetwood Shuttleworth, Mistress of Gawthorpe, is 17 years old and pregnant for the fourth time after three dreadful miscarriages. Stacey Halls plunges into the witch craze of 17th-century England in her new novel. Tags: historical fiction/ Lancashire/ Stacey Halls/ The Familiars/ witches ![]() ![]() When people ask, my students especially, what my favorite book is, I always tell them, "I have lots of favorites. In my 32 years on this earth, I have yet to declare one favorite book. Don't get me wrong, there are so many great moments worthy of discussion in any book club or literature class, but to sit here, only 24 hours after turning the final page? All I can do is marvel. But the closer to end I crept, the more I realized that this book can't be reviewed. I planned to write a review for this book. Scenes that would have been cliche and caused me to roll my eyes in any other book made me weep at their tenderness and romanticism. Conversations that were supposed to be tragic ended up making me laugh out loud at their light-heartedness and humor. As I sat there reading, a pile of sodden tissues in my lap, my thoughts ping-ponged between sadness and joy. So as their tragic story unfolded, I grieved for them, as I'm sure you did as you wrote their story. They were two of the most wonderful teenagers ever to have graced this planet, even if only in the pages of a book. ![]() Hazel and Augustus were real people to me. I don't even know how to express my feelings in words. ![]() ![]() ![]() But one day, the Martians looked through their telescope and discovered the Venusians. Both Martians and Venusians lived happily on their respective planets. Let’s imagine there was once life on Mars and Venus. So, get ready to understand the opposite sex! We are from different planets ![]() Based on seven years of research, he explores how men and women can have happy, healthy relationships through learning about their differences. That is what John Gray explores in his landmark publication, which was the highest ranked work of nonfiction in the 1990s. Have you ever had a fight with your partner in which you both seemed to be talking past one another? You probably did, since men and women are substantially different in their emotional needs, the way they communicate, and their intimacy cycles. ![]() ![]() ![]() Based on an extraordinary true story, this is an original, dazzling and witty novel - a compelling portrait of an unforgettable woman. Yet Julie is destined to die alone in a convent at the age of 33. Her lovers include some of Europe's most powerful men and France's most beautiful women. Within another year, she has become a beloved star at the famed Paris Opera. ![]() ![]() tempestuous, swashbuckling and volatile, within two years she has run away with her fencing master, fallen in love with a nun and is hiding from the authorities, sentenced to be burnt at the stake. Versailles, 1686: Julie d'Aubigny, a striking young girl taught to fence and fight in the court of the Sun King, is taken as mistress by the King's Master of Horse. A sparkling, witty and compelling novel based on the tragic rise and fall of the beautiful seventeenth century swordswoman and opera singer, Julie d'Aubigny (also known as La Maupin), a woman whose story is too remarkable to be true - and yet it is. ![]() |