#e-Book

[astroismypassion]

💖 THE ASTROLOGY OF WELLNESS AND SELF-CARE

E-BOOK ✨

In the month of December, I’m offering a new passion project of mine, E-book titled The Astrology of Wellness and Self-Care.

I’m passionate about connecting astrology with wellness and self-care for the well-being.

It’s a short and sweet read for busy people, since I’m aware that due life duties and responsibilities neither you nor I have the time to read long books.

It’s concise, useful also for beginners or simple astrology introduction to this specific, niche topic in astrology.

This booklet explores:

- health astrology

- signs and body parts

- planets and health

- houses and health

- well-being tips based on signs

- self-care checklists for each zodiac sign

- astrological wellness reminders for each zodiac season

- astrology and nutrition: how your zodiac sign influences your food craving

- Chiron: the wounded healer and self-care

It contains 39 pages, 9139 words, written in English, it comes in written pdf format. It’s easy to print, as it comes with zodiac self-care checklists.

You can buy the book via Ko-Fi or PayPal. The price is 6 EUR since it’s a small-sized e-book. You can grab your copy now by sending an email request to my Gmail at astroismypassion@gmail.com. I'll send it straight to your inbox!

🕤 It is limited time offer, available until December 31st.

📚 It's a practical, insightful toolkit to bring balance, self-awareness and self-improvement and it explores a niche topic of astrology. With this purchase you are funding future projects and help me cover expenses as an astrology creator.

If you’ve enjoyed my astrology posts here, consider checking out my e-book. You can read the whole or chapters you’re interested in. It’s a different format, but still a pragmatic read to satisfy your curiosity spark, you're warmly welcome to read! 💖

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[justwriteyoudummy]

Another year- another birthday sale!! "Spare me a buck and I'll tell you a tale..." The Fragments of Magic E-book is now on sale!! Now's the time to go and snag yourself a copy (or an extra copy if you're so inclined ;> ) Link to purchase is available on my Linktr.ee or find it by searching Fragments of Magic on Amazon! Paperback is still available for the normal price but the e-book will be on sale for the rest of the week to celebrate my birthday! . My gift to you guys~☆ . I hope you'll come explore Allunatia with Amber and Brentan!!

[techniktagebuch]

Oktober 2024

Fehlende Namen für Satzfehler bei digitalen Büchern

Im traditionellen Buchdruck gibt es schöne Fachausdrücke für Satzfehler: der Zwiebelfisch für einen Buchstaben in einer falschen Schriftart, Fliegenkopf für einen auf dem Kopf stehenden Buchstaben, vielleicht auch noch Hurenkind und Schusterjunge auf einer anderen Fehlerbene. Bei digitalen Büchern tauchen andere Fehler auf als bei gedruckten. Ich kenne hierzu keine Terminologie. Das erste Mal bewusst wahrgenommen habe ich eine bestimmte Art Fehler im Oktober 2024, als die Hälfte einer XML-Auszeichnung mitten im Buch sichtbar wird:

Vielleicht entwickelt sich noch ein Begriff dafür, vielleicht gibt es ihn schon und er ist nur noch nicht bis zu mir vorgedrungen. Vielleicht wird der Fehler bald heimlich korrigiert und verschwindet von meinem E-Book-Lesegerät

(Thomas Rau)

[fridaythe13ththeseries]

The author of the four Friday the 13th books that were aimed at young adults apparently wrote another years later, that combined the movies (as in Jason's mask) with the show we all love. I haven't read this, only just heard about - but I am intrigued!

[all-the-stars-hills-milky-way]

🍂 9-12-2024

Took my medication

Went to school

Understood why I force myself to work when I'm sick and how to stop it from now on

Solved a short math problem

Drew a lot

Took a long nap

Washed my hair

🕓 Total study time: 0:5

🎧 Listened: stargirl interlude by lana del rey and the weeknd

📖 Read: some chapters of book lovers by emily henry

📺 Watched: la revuelta

👣 Walked: 2,9km

[eulinoslivros]

Matthew Perry na sua autobiografia, "Amigos, amores e aquela coisa terrível" (2023)

[glasratz]

On "Sacred and Terrbile Air" by Robert Kurvitz

I just finished rading Kurvitz' "Sacred and Terrible Air" and I just want to give some thoughts on it.

Summary of the important point: Don't read it now. Wait for a better translation.

Four girls on summer vacation go missing without a trace. Three boys who befriended them make it their quest to find out about their fate. Twenty years later, whit the world on the brink of nuclear war, they meet again at a class reunion to finally figure out the mystery.

The book takes place in the same world as Disco Elysium, so people who played the game will be familiar with several concept like the Pale, the Innocents and the political structures of the Isolas. For everyone else, these things are well enough explained in the text itself, the glossary at the end is a bit superfluous - especially since there is no index to make you know about it being there at all. It's an e-book. I don't know about you, but I usually don't just flip through the pages of an e-book like I would do with a regular book.

Even though the translation seems rough (more on that below) the writing style is very good. It has several characteristics of Soviet-style sci-fi stories. However, I think Kurvitz took some of those characteristics to the extreme, especially with the ending. Sure, the ending is fits the overall plot and is not unlike something you'd read in a story by the Strugatsky brothers - but it still looks like there's a sequel missing.

However, the presentation of the plot is also modern to the extreme. It's told in a non-linear manner with constant leaps back in time - and even forward later in the story. This is very common in modern storytelling and definitely necessary to build up some tension. But... I think it was overdone here. Many of the chapters are very short, the point of view constantly changes. Sometimes rather unimportant scenes are held back for later for not apparent reason. I really think a bit more of consistency and longer scenes would have done the plot good. Often I felt like the author was holding information back from me just to rise the tension and then those facts turned out not to be important at all. There's a long story arch that turns out to be just a red herring for example.

The character presentation is rather good for the most part. The three men on their quest are nicely described, even though we only really learn about Khan's motivation. I wish they would be allowed to shine a bit more, I felt like they were given too little room to act.

The world Kurvitz creates is phantastic. Mysteries and stories are hinted on, political systems are created with just a few words. I would have loved to read more on that - but that is actually what you get from Disco Elysium instead. The game will teach you much more about the world than the book does.

The edition I read was the supposedly "better" translation, allegedly done by a professional translator. If that is true, I assume it was an Estonian native with English as his or her second language. That may work sometimes, but it's not the ideal way to do it.

English is not my first language either, but I read English books on a regular basis (just startet Peake's "Titus Groan" which was never translated into German). Well, I had a really hard time with "Sacred and Terrible Air". Many of the sentences just aren't right. It's very hard to make out who is talking in a dialogue. Sometimes one character referred to in an action when the context makes is clear that another one should actually be referred to. I also felt that there were many parts that were supposed to be humorous, but the joke is missing. That is why I would really recommend not reading this book at this point in time.

Unfortunately, the book is not "more Disco Elysium" as many people expect it to be. DE is probably much closer to Kruvitz' tabletop RPG sessions than it is to the book: Countless different characters, and abundance of facts about a weird world and clever dialogues. You don't get this in Sacred and Terrible air. It's a work on its own, and I felt that it had a vastly different tone.

[astroe-book]

Understanding Your Life's Perspective (pdf E-book)

[anilbertovillalobos]

Read the Millionaires' Secret for free here.

[astroismypassion]

This is just a small taste of what you’ll find in The Astrology of Wellness and Self-Care e-book. Ready to dive in? Grab your copy here: astroismypassion@gmail.com

[pieterhb]

The Black Forest - The Black Forest - (Complete Story) (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1468171438-the-black-forest-part-1-of-2-complete-story?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=Pieterhb When Jack and Madeleine embark on a fateful drive through the notorious Black Forest, they unwittingly step into a malevolent realm beyond human comprehension. Their journey quickly transforms into a harrowing race against time as a raging storm bears down on them. Not long after, when two student geologists, James and Pierre, heard the chilling tale of Jack and Madeleine, they set out to unravel the mystery. Their expedition into the Black Forest quickly turns ominous as a fatal bend in the road vanishes before their eyes. What evil mysteries does the Black Forest keep to itself, and is there an escape once caught in its monstrous grip?

[justwriteyoudummy]

The Fragments of Magic Ebook is On Sale!

You can get the Ebook Copy of Fragments of Magic for $0.99 over on Amazon! .

Perfect for fans of Avatar the Last Airbender and Deltora Quest! 

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'Amber's dull life tucked away in the woods is upended when her mentor, Sage, is captured by the King's men for crimes against the crown. Armed with an elemental magic she can only half wield, Amber must set off to journey across the realm to seek help in rescuing Sage from the palace dungeons. Quickly realizing she's in over her head, she turns to a thief named Brentan to help her. With elemental magic of his own, he's more than happy to help in exchange for a mysterious favor. Seeing no other options, Amber must place her trust in the untrustworthy stranger and hope he's not like the roguish thieves from her fairy tale books.' .

Some of my favorite tropes can be found within including: +Forced Proximity! +Bound By Fate! +An Evil King! +A Greek Inspired Fantasy Pantheon! +And best of all: AN EXPANDED ELEMENTAL MAGIC SYSTEM! (When I say expanded I mean it ;) )

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This Ebook only sale continues until Saturday June 3rd so be sure to snag yourself a copy!

[techniktagebuch]

28.11.2024

Lost in translation im Fachliteraturbetrieb

Ich stöbere auf Amazon durch Fachliteratur zu einem Thema. Mir werden deutsche und englische Bücher angezeigt, eines, dass mich konkret interessiert, ist auf deutsch. Da ich aber lieber im Original lese (sofern ich die Sprache ausreichend beherrsche), versuche ich, die englische Version zu finden.

Die Übersetzer haben sich offenbar auch am Titel ausgetobt, denn auf der Autorenseite des Autors finde ich keinen englischen Titel, der ähnlich klingt und da es ein Fachautor für ein konkretes Thema ist, ähneln sich die Titel auch sehr, so dass ich wenig Anhaltspunkte habe.

Ich gucke, ob es eine deutsche Wikipediaseite des Autors gibt, auf der die deutschen Bücher gelistet sind. Üblicherweise steht dann nämlich auch der Titel der Originalausgabe daneben. Der Autor hat aber nur eine englische und eine portugiesische Wikipediaseite, das hilft mir nicht.

Ich gucke mir die Leseprobe des deutschen e-Books an, in der Hoffnung, dass da vielleicht eine Referenz auf die Originalausgabe steht, aber das ist nicht der Fall. Einen Blick ins Papierbuch gibt es nicht.

Ich könnte jetzt natürlich die Inhalte der Leseprobe mit denen der englischen Bücher vergleichen, das ist mir aber zu aufwändig.

Dann fällt mir ein, dass ja auf Goodreads üblicherweise alle möglichen Ausgaben gelistet sind. Ich gehe also zu Goodreads, suche das Buch über den deutschen Titel, klicke dann auf die Option, mir alle anderen Editionen anzugucken und finde darüber den englischen Titel. Damit gehe ich dann wieder zu Amazon, suche das Buch raus und lade mir die Leseprobe aufs Kindle.

Wahrscheinlich gäbe es auch noch diverse andere Wege, an die Information zu kommen, aber so richtig leicht wird es einem nicht gemacht.

(Anne Schüßler)

[r0silva]

Desenho do zine Comunique III. 2019

Disponível pra leitura online no Issuu

(Flor morta encontrada numa edição alemã antiga de Guerra e Paz, do Tolstói)

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Drawing from the zine Comunique III. 2019

Available for online reading on Issuu

(Dead flower found in an old german edition of War and Peace, by Tolstoi)