Kate’s 2¢: “Many rivers to cross: by Peter Robinson

“Many rivers to cross: by Peter Robinson

NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   A very interesting story about sex trafficking, a woman whose perfect memory of faces is invaluable to the police; however, puts her in grave danger, and the effects of drugs in a neighborhood.

From Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia

Peter Robinson(17 March 1950 – 4 October 2022) was a British-born Canadian crime writer who was best known for his crime novels set in Yorkshire featuring Inspector Alan Banks. He also published a number of other novels and short stories, as well as some poems and two articles on writing.

Early life[edit]

Robinson was born in Armley, Leeds, on 17 March 1950.[1][3] His father, Clifford, worked as a photographer; his mother, Miriam (Jarvis), was a homemaker.[4] Robinson studied English literature at the University of Leeds, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with honours.[3] He then emigrated to Canada in 1974 to continue his studies, obtaining a Master of Arts in English and Creative Writing from the University of Windsor, with Joyce Carol Oates as his tutor. He was later awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in English at York University in 1983.[3][4][5]

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Robinson, Peter. Reading time: 11 hours, 34 minutes.

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When the body of a young Middle Eastern boy is found in a wheelie bin, Detective Superintendent Alan Banks knows his team must tread carefully as they investigate. They soon discover the boy was murdered elsewhere. But Banks is distracted by a close friend’s precarious situation. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020.

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Kate’s 2¢: “THE ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:  INTERVIEW YOUR FAMILY TO UNCOVER STORIES AND BRIDGE GENERATIONS–to preserve your family history, enrich your character development, and/or enhance your memoir writing” by Elizabeth Keating

“THE ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:  INTERVIEW YOUR FAMILY TO UNCOVER STORIES AND BRIDGE GENERATIONS–to preserve your family history, enrich your character development, and/or enhance your memoir writing” by Elizabeth Keating

   The Behind Our Eyes.Org is a venue where writers with disabilities can share their pieces, learn about publishing, and among other topics, chat with successful, prominent authors. Elizabeth keating discussed her new book and shared her views via a telephone conference with BOE on January 8, 2023.

from Elizabeth Keating’s website:

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Elizabeth Keating is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of books and articles about language and culture. Language

is a phenomenal tool in creating and sustaining relationships, yet most people are unaware of how it really works, and how much the language we use every

day to get things done in the world is influenced by habits we learned in our cultural surroundings. Through the perspective of anthropology, it’s possible

to gain greater understanding among people from different cultural backgrounds and to gain new insight into the immense varieties of human behavior. In

her most recent book, The Essential Questions: Interview your family to Uncover Stories and Bridge Generations, Keating uses anthropology to guide families

seeking greater connection and communication across different generations. 

Keating has been a Fulbright Scholar in Ireland, a Visiting Fellow in the School of Language & Literature at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies

in Germany, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in The Netherlands. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the

University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and her B.A. in Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught anthropology at the

University of Texas at Austin for over 25 years.

In addition to her three books, Keating is author or co-author of over 60 academic articles and book chapters for academic audiences, and has given research

talks in 15 countries. 

Keating has a wide range of research interests in linguistic anthropology, including how language contributes to social inequality, how virtual environments

impact our language use, how misunderstandings develop in the cross-cultural work place, as well as research on visual language, oral narratives and human

stories. She has researched societal impacts of technology and has been Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program at the University of Texas

at Austin. She has done ethnographic fieldwork in Micronesia, the U.S., Romania, India, Brazil, Germany, and in the Texas Deaf community.

   “THE ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:  INTERVIEW YOUR FAMILY TO UNCOVER STORIES AND BRIDGE GENERATIONS” (copyright 2022) include Tips on Interviewing Your Family; Questions to Get Some Basic Background; Questions on Space:  Learning Where Your Elders Grew Up; Questions on Time:  Connecting with the History of Your Family… Social Interactions:  The Importance of Everyday Encounters…:  Rights of Passage and How Your Elders Were Raised;… Identity:  The Factors that Made You Who You Are… the Body and Adornment:  An Expression on How You See Yourself and Others;… Belief:  The Ideas that Shaped You and Your Family;… Kinship and Marriage:  The Making of a Family;… Material Culture:  Your Family’s Most Treasured Possessions;… Fear:  Learning Courage through Fear;… Memory:  The Things You’ll Never Forget; What Do You Wish People Knew about You?; Conclusion:  How to Avoid Genealogical Amnesia.

   “THE ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS…”  is available on Amazon, Bookshare, e-book as a Kindle book. You may read an excerpt of the book on the author’s website:

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Book review by Alice Massa, BOE program chair

   The extremely well-organized book is a wonderful tool for writers and can serve us  writers in a multitude of ways.  THE ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS is a down-to-Earth, practical, and useful read that can give you a number of ideas for your writing plans of the new year.

Source: January 8, 2023, Sunday evening at 8:00, Eastern Time

Conference Call with author Elizabeth Keating as guest speaker

.  Please mark your calendar for attending this special opportunity to hear author Elizabeth Keating.  (On Wisconsin Public Radio’s “The Morning Show,” I heard Ms. Keating’s one-hour, outstanding interview.  After hearing her extremely interesting presentation, I listened to her book via “Alexa” and found her book very pleasantly readable and highly useful with meaningful examples.)  The following bio is from Elizabeth Keating’s website where you may also read an excerpt of her book.

Kate’s 2¢: “Men Are From Mars and Women Are From Venus” by John Gray

“Men Are From Mars and Women Are From Venus” by John Gray

NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.

“Men Are From Mars and Women Are From Venus” is the title of John Gray’s 1992 best-seller book.  (Harper, Collins Publishers Inc., 10 E. 53rd St., NY, NY, 10022) 286 pages.  This book is “A Practical Guide  For Improving Communications and Getting What You Want From A Relationship”. 

   Once the title has grabbed your attention and if you can forgive the author for over simplifying the obvious that men and women are different,  the book becomes an entertaining and informative narrative on how men and women use fundamentally different systems of communicating.

   It is written in non-technical terms that we all can understand without consulting our Merck Manual.  The book format contains numerous charts and glossaries for quick reference. 

   Gray identifies six primary love needs of men and six for women.  He points out that men and women need all twelve, but knowing which are the primary six for which sex will help you communicate better.

   According to Gray, a man’s six primary love needs are trust, acceptance, appreciation, admiration, approval, and encouragement.

   A woman’s six primary love needs are caring, understanding, respect, devotion, validation and reassurance.

   A problem arises when a woman, whose primary need is caring, tries to ‘care’ for a man.  Caring is not HIS primary need.  He needs to be trusted.

   Gray also discusses how men are like rubber bands and need to go into their cave every now and then.  If a woman can let him go into his cave, he’ll come back to her stronger than ever  if she knows the best way to support him during his cave period.

   Women, on the other hand, need to hit the bottom of their “well” before they  can ride their wave to its crest. The man needs to know the best approach to support her while she’s in the well.

   The relationship is  euphoric when the man is out of his cave, snapping back to his woman, and she is out of her well, riding the crest of her wave toward him. But, this is cyclical.

   What happens when the man needs to be in his cave at the same time the woman needs to be in her well?  How can they support each other then?   

   “Men Are From Mars And Women Are From Venus” by John Gray gives some interesting and practical suggestions to try.

   This book can be found in the library, in print and on audio cassette. It is also in most book stores.  It would make a nice gift to someone you love.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gray was born in Houston, Texas, in 1951 to a father who was an oil executive and a mother who worked at a spiritual bookshop,[1][2] and grew up with five brothers.[3] His parents were both Christians and taught him Yoga and took him to visit Indian Saint Yogananda during his childhood. The Autobiography of A Yogi inspired him greatly later in life.[4]

He received a bachelor’s and master’s degree in the Science of Creative Intelligence, though sources vary on whether these degrees were received from either the non-accredited Maharishi European Research University (MERU) in Switzerland or the accredited Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa.[1][5][6][7]

Gray received an unaccredited (but state-approved) PhD in 1982 from Columbia Pacific University (CPU), a now-defunct institution located in San Rafael, California, upon completion of a correspondence course[6][8][9] and an honorary doctorate from Governors State University in Illinois after he delivered their commencement address in 2002.[6]

Career[edit]

In 1969, Gray attended a Transcendental Meditation lecture, later becoming a celibate and personal assistant to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for nine years.[1][8][3][10]

Gray writes a USA-syndicated column with 30 million readers that appears in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, New York Daily News, New York Newsday, The Denver Post, and the San Antonio Express-News. Internationally, Gray’s columns have appeared in publications in England, Canada, Mexico, Korea, Latin American and the South Pacific.[11][third-party source needed]

Gray is a family therapist and a member of the American Counseling Association and the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors.[6]

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Gray, John Reading time: 9 hours, 19 minutes.

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Therapist Gray describes what he perceives to be fundamental differences in how men and women communicate. Provided are instructions on translating what the other sex is saying and responding in an appropriate manner to improve relationships. Bestseller. 1992.

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Kate’s 2¢:” Magic for liars” by Sarah Gailey

“Magic for liars” by Sarah Gailey

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   Fantasy isn’t usually my book of choice, but since the NLS snail mailed this cartridge to me, I read it. Once I was able to suspend my belief and enter the novel, I liked it.

From: Goodreads

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No, Ivy Gamble is not magic, but she’s an investigator—and a damn good one. Rather than coasting on a well-worn narrative, in her novel Magic for Liars, author Sarah Gailey deviates refreshingly from the expected.

   Sarah Gailey is an American author. Their alternate history novella River of Teeth was a finalist for the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novella,[1] the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novella,[2] and the 2018 Locus Award for Best Novella.[3] In 2018, they also won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer.[2]

   Gailey is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area,[24] and as of 2019 lives in Los Angeles with their partner.[13]

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Gailey, Sarah. Reading time: 9 hours, 9 minutes.

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Fantasy Fiction

A gruesome murder is discovered at the Osthorne Academy for Young Mages, where private investigator Ivy Gamble’s estranged twin sister teaches. Although she has no magic herself, Ivy is pulled into the world of untold power and dangerous secrets. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019.

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