Category: Review

— Book Review, Education, Parenting, Psychology —

Book Review: The We Generation: Raising Social Responsible Kids by Michael Ungar

July 14, 2016
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The world has the potential to be amazing, but apart from glimmerings of awesomeness here and there, the overwhelming conditions are pretty terrible (sorry, Mother Earth). One of the reasons behind such a terrible state of affairs is the pervasive effects of both individualism and consumerism, which has led us away from what human nature… Read More Book Review: The We Generation: Raising Social Responsible Kids by Michael Ungar

— Music Review, Review —

Music Review: Nemo James – ‘The Minstrel’

July 11, 2016
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Croatia-based singer-songwriter Nemo James released la 17-track album last August titled The Minstrel, which should be categorised in the adult contemporary genre. For the most part, it can be summed up in one word: mellow. The lyrics make most of these songs almost come off as poems set to music while everything about the instrumentation… Read More Music Review: Nemo James – ‘The Minstrel’

— Music Review, Review —

Music Review: J Burn – ‘Burnt Blue’

July 11, 2016
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San Francisco-based J Burn’s latest EP, the four-tracked Burnt Blue, is a low-key Americana rock collection filled with nostalgia and longing for better days long gone. Released this past June, Jay Burn (vocals, guitar), Jay Lane (drums, percussion), Robin Sylvester (bass, slide guitar), Jason Crosby (vocals, piano, violin), and Michael Nuzum (guitar, banjo, mandolin) are… Read More Music Review: J Burn – ‘Burnt Blue’

— Music Review, Review —

Music Review: Kimia Penton – ‘Lessons From Life and Love’

July 11, 2016
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This month, Dallas, Texas-based Kimia Penton is releasing her new EP Lessons From Life and Love in which she examines, with emotions ranging from melancholy to joy, the various things adulthood can teach. Kimia Penton takes care of the main vocals and violin and gets help from Wes Stephenson on bass, Leslie Williams Blum on… Read More Music Review: Kimia Penton – ‘Lessons From Life and Love’

— Book Recommendation, Fiction, Young Adult —

Book Recommendation: ‘Dear Opl’, by Shelley Sackier

July 10, 2016
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Happy Sunday! As you ready yourself for another great week, are you wondering what to take along with you on your commute? Take a peek at this week’s recommended commute companion! ‘Dear Opl’, by Shelley Sackier Review here. Purchase here. Author website here. Synopsis: ‘ There are three things Opl never expected to do during… Read More Book Recommendation: ‘Dear Opl’, by Shelley Sackier

— Blog Review, Review —

Blog Review: ‘100 Ways to Write’ by Chelsea Thorpe

July 9, 2016
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Name: Chelsea Thorpe Blog Reviewed: 100 Ways to Write Her favourite post: https://100waystowrite.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/the-cinderella-project/ Down in the spreadsheet where blog review requests are made by bloggers was an entry that captured my attention from the moment it was added.  One hundred ways to write, I thought to myself.  There are actually that many ways to write? … Read More Blog Review: ‘100 Ways to Write’ by Chelsea Thorpe

— Book Review —

Book Review: The Michael Jackson Tapes by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

July 7, 2016
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He was a genius when it came to music and entertainment, but he was also human, like we all are. Unfortunately for him, Michael Jackson didn’t have the privacy or the space to work on his flaws and subsequently to grow with each lesson learned. Throughout the years, we have seen and read countless interviews… Read More Book Review: The Michael Jackson Tapes by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

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Book Review: The Art of Overeating by Leslie Landis

July 7, 2016
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Food. Love it or hate it, you need it. Unfortunately, too many people have an unhealthy relationship with food, which should be a pleasure from beginning to… Well, to end. If you don’t mind, I won’t speak too much about the end part, OK? Unfortunately, the relationship with food has become yet another victim of… Read More Book Review: The Art of Overeating by Leslie Landis

— Music Review, Review —

Music Review: Gideon King & City Blog – ‘City Blog’

July 4, 2016
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New York City’s Gideon King & City Blog is not a band. They are a collective that has brought to life a collection of 10 tracks fusing together jazz and rock. The chill smoothness of jazz and sharp edges of rock create a unique sound cradling pointed lyrics The collective includes quite the sizable band:… Read More Music Review: Gideon King & City Blog – ‘City Blog’

— Music Review, Review —

Music Review: Lozk – ‘Meaningless Words’

July 4, 2016
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Bogotá, Colombia-based electronic artist Leonardo Suárez Jiménez has put together an audiovisual project called Lozk, under which he will be releasing early next month a project titled Meaningless Words. Words are in fact so meaningless in this project that they are non-existent; this electronica, post-industrial, world-inspired, and folk-tinged experiment features only syllables, with the thought… Read More Music Review: Lozk – ‘Meaningless Words’