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Music of a Life (Book Review)

A story with relatively few words but full of meaning, The Music of Life is the life of a frustrated musician. The story is told by a narrator who meets the musician in a train ...

Volleyball Systems and Strategies:A Book Review

Volleyball coaches looking to learn about different offensive and defensive systems of play may find the book Volleyball Systems and Strategies worth exploring. This article provides a review.

The Joy of Cooking Book Review - Irma Rombauer Cookbook Review

The Joy of Cooking has become one of the most well known cookbooks in existence and for good reason. If followed properly, the recipes in this cookbook are sure-fire successes, and the recipes are made easy to follow. The Joy of Cooking is a staple cookbook for anyone from the beginning cook to the

Book Review: Neighbors

In J.N. Sadler's novel, Neighbors, a reclusive man reluctantly enters into the world of alien beings after a brief encounter with his new neighbor. It is a strange story with a science fiction slant that features abductions and an outrageous amount of pizza consumption.

Garage on Fire (A Poem With Life in Motion)

Here is a slight form of Polirritmo Poetry; that is, poetry with a life form of motion, this is in its most simplest form, or style, but it gives the reader an idea of the life it has, or is starting to form; its push, its drive, motion.The Stanza is taken out so it does not slow down the action, it

Writing a Poem

It doesn't take a genius to create a poem. Patience and perseverance will help the willing hand to paint pictures with words.

The Millstone by Margaret Drabble

The Millstone by Margaret Drabble was written in the 1960s when attitudes towards single parents were not what they are today. Rosamund does not like sex, nor relationships. But she becomes pregnant and has a daughter, prompting a psychological battle between selfishness and selflessness.

Book Review - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle is a fiction book written by the Japanese author, Haruki Murakami. It is 600 pages thick and may be a difficult read but is engaging just the same. The plot that Murakami stitched is compelling up to the last pages.

Writing an Academic Book Review

Writing a critical review on an academic book can be a scary task, yet one that is more and more requested by undergraduate and graduate students. Following this basic draw round will help you write ...

Driving the Wolf Out (A Short Story on Alcoholism)

Emery Golf shut his eyes. He was starting to hear noises, those that were not within his physical reality, wolf sounds. He knew this kind of nausea would create a long enduring craving, soon to come thereafter the D.T.'s, and the visual appearance of the wolf, all this combined drove the wolf o

Closeness Or Intimacy

Hello and little smile brings us so close. Reddishness on cheeks and ready for pose...

Humanities Future?

We step outside our cubicles of land and look up. What we see is only the past and nothing but the past of what was there billions of years ago. Space is enormous and even though we are trying to plot every part of it, space is still expanding.

Make a Difference to Your Spoken Language With Some of the Best Quotes in Town

If you have been looking for a way to sound very erudite when you speak, then it is best that you draw parallels while you speak. An even better way to sound more scholarly is to use some of America's most brilliant Mark Twain quotes. Mark twain quotes have been in use for a very long period of

Jesus Changes Lives

In a world full of constant trials and tribulations that seem unsolvable there is someone who can help you and change your life totally. He is a transformer not only of the heart, mind, and spirit, but one who can and will save your from your circumstances. His name is Jesus.

Facing My Phantoms By Sheeba Shah

We all like it when we get an inside scoop into affairs, right? Like right from the horse's mouth! Because it is only then that we tend to believe, and rightly so, that the story that comes to us is official, is the correct story, and not a fragment of someone's illusive imagination.

New Book Offers Dad-Style Humor to Benefit TBI Survivors

Mark Elswick, survivor of a car crash and a Traumatic Brain Incident (TBI) writes with humor about his role as a man, father and boyfriend in this short collection of anecdotes from his life. Intermixed are a few serious essays to raise awareness about TBI. Partial proceeds from the sale of "Pa