#new review material?

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Uhhh, question! Does anyone know this book? @maggiec70 ? @suburbanbeatnik ?

( @chickenmadam told me it was awful, but I am curious, as this is still review material.)

Speaking of reviews! I’m actually coming back very soon! With both “Chevalier” and “Napoleon’s Elysium”!

(Sorry, I kept being either sick or busy and almost had a depression relapse…)

[deimosatellite]

[puppppppppy]

if escape rooms as team building exercises became popular im not sure if id be more excited or terrified

[garrettwrites]

I am so tired of how Quotev/Wattpad level fanfiction, written by what reads as a 15 year old getting into their first fandom, gets pushed up the book ratings in the gay romance genre (m/m). Why is Red White and Royal Blue always at the top. Why is Boyfriend Material. Why must I suffer. Where are the standards. Why is a 30/40 year old recommending me, a grown adult man, stories that feel like they were written for highschoolers who don't like to read so they pick up the trashiest, most easily digestible shit in order to have the bare minimum of fun while doing their reading interpretation project for class.

This is coming from someone who had fun reading goddamn Twilight by the way. I'm not a book snob. I can enjoy objectively bad media if it's fun. My favourite book series with LGBT main characters is All For The Game, and that's a shitshow! But at least there's passion in it! There's fun!

I am going insane!!!!!

[yourbestamericangirlmp3]

i spent several hours trying to come up with exam problems and i honestly do not know what sorts of questions are reasonable to ask

[rotzaprachim]

As a staunch lover of that style of music I found Daisy jones and the six in both book and show form sooooo disappointing

[thevirginwitch]

Review for Crystal Healing Practices in the Western World and Beyond by Kristine D. Carlos

This article, unfortunately, did not help in my research regarding crystals as much as I had expected it to.

Carlos goes over very general information regarding the origins of crystal healing practices, and how they relate to New Age spirituality. In particular, she focuses on the studies of Stuart McClean and his techniques for understanding the way crystal healing "works".

While she is able to tie a few concepts together (and comes to the conclusion that New Age practices are "borrowing" from indigenous and pre-Christian culture), the information she provides is incredibly general, unfocused, and doesn't provide anything new about our knowledge of crystals or crystal healing practices among different cultures.

I was hoping this paper would underline the way different cultures utilize crystals in a more detailed manner - and Carlos just didn't do that.

This article is a good starting point for those who might be interested in learning about the origins of crystal healing, however, don't expect to be surprised by the information presented in this article.

2.5 out of 5 stars from me!

P.S. - you can gain early access to my digital occult library and download free ebooks/PDFs by becoming a Patron!

[singlethread]

I’m feeling anxious today

[itsleander]

Madonna's Pioneering Debut Album: A Retrospective Review

As I eagerly count down the days until December 1st, when I’ll attend my eleventh Madonna concert in Amsterdam, I’ve decided to build up the excitement by delving into Madonna’s extensive discography. I’ll be offering reviews of every track from her studio albums, beginning with her self-titled debut album. In the early ’80s, when I was just a young child, my mother used to play Madonna’s debut…

[general-bear]

This week got me fucked uppppooo

[bethrnoora]

so many letterboxd reviews for eternal sunshine that are just like "lol love is dead" does it get exhausting being so boring and obnoxious

[tvrningout-a]

staring at my hands and wondering why i didn't practice korean more during the summer

[unproduciblesmackdown]

also more odds & ends orville info & more not Not orville/phil info as well:

"In Steinkellner’s version of Summer Stock, Jane Falbury (Danielle Wade) and “Pop,” her father (Stephen Lee Anderson), are struggling to hang on to the family farm. Their farm is one of the few in the Connecticut River Valley that hasn’t been absorbed by the Wingates, whose holdings completely surround theirs.

The widow Margaret Wingate (Veanne Cox), whom son Orville (Will Roland) aptly describes as having eyes “as cold as death itself,” plans to absorb the Falbury farm by the simple expedient of having Orville marry Jane. After all the two kids had decided they were engaged in first grade!

Enter the prodigal younger sister Gloria (Arianna Rosario) who has been seduced by the lure of the Great White Way. She returns to the farm bringing along Joe Ross (Corbin Bleu in the Gene Kelly role), the director of the show that will make her a star, its composer Phil Filmore (Gilbert L. Bailey II), and the entire company. She has generously offered the company, which can’t afford rehearsal space in New York, the use of the family farm’s barn. Sister Jane reluctantly agrees to the intrusion with the proviso that the thespians will double as farm hands.

As rehearsals progress, Phil discovers that Orville, a bit of a doormat who has been raised with the understanding that he will never have to work, is a musical wunderkind. He is enlisted to work his magic on the show’s score and begins to blossom.

Widow Wingate takes umbrage with all this and vows to shut the enterprise down. Fortunately, the cold embers in her soul are stirred to renewed life by her encounter with Montgomery Leach (J. Anthony Crane), the has-been ham enlisted to give Ross’s show some cachet, so all might not be lost.

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They make this Summer Stock a veritable feast of nostalgia. I was especially taken by the amusing way Steinkellner used Jackie Gleason’s theme song “Always” to further widow Wingate’s plot to get Jane and Orville hitched.

[...]

Orville, who has found personal liberation in show biz, is accorded a moment that reminded me of a similar scene in the musical version of The Producers. In a triumphant declaration of his emergence from under his mother’s thumb he exults, “I’m in the theatre! And I love it!” The audience loved it, too.

[...]

As director, Feore has elicited some wonderful performances, especially from subsidiary characters. Veanne Cox is splendid as Margaret Wingate as is J. Anthony Crane as Montgomery Leach, the faded matinee idol. Will Roland (Orville) and Gilbert L. Bailey II (Phil) both have wonderful moments and their intense professional friendship is one of the show’s highlights."

INTENSE PROFESSIONAL FRIENDSHIP you say....and also ofc everything about orville and wanting to be a musician and being in the theatre and he loves it sounds so good. i love it

[worldsportsboats]

Lazzara UHV 100: Revolutionizing Yacht Design with Aerospace Materials

Exciting momentum continues at Lazzara Yachts with the upcoming arrival of their new yacht, the UHV 100, a 30.5-meter displacement vessel. It will feature aerospace-grade hull materials, promising premium performance. The WSB team takes a closer look at the innovative UHV 100. Continue reading Lazzara UHV 100: Revolutionizing Yacht Design with Aerospace Materials

[onewakingworld]

If all the car shopping this year has taught me one thing it's that car reviewers have a set of priorities completely detached from normal people

[fingertipsmp3]

Kinda want to create one of those like 100 days of self care or mental health or something challenges for myself & post abt it each day to hold myself accountable