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Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare. While she may seem a bit flustered at times, who wouldn’t be, with those rambunctious twin boys? Now that the boys are starting school, Celeste and her husband look set to become the king and queen of the school parent body. But royalty often comes at a price, and Celeste is grappling with how much more she is willing to pay. The main goal of the book is to make it possible for the reader to find a power greater than himself to solve his problem. The writers indicate that an alcoholic "of our type" can under no circumstances become a moderate drinker: only abstinence and the understanding of the community of alcoholics can lead to recovery. By way of anecdotal evidence, the example is provided of a man who, after 25 years sobriety, began to drink moderately and within two months landed in hospital. The reasoning is that once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. George H. Jensen (2000). Storytelling in Alcoholics Anonymous: a rhetorical analysis. SIU Press. p.43. ISBN 0-8093-2330-3.

In light of current professional views of alcoholism, is the Big Book still appropriate in understanding the nature of the alcoholism and/or other addictive behaviours? However, when including preparation and fundraising it took two years from idea conception to release. Albert Ellis called the book "complex and profound" and admitted it probably helped millions of people with addictions. Ellis found seven of the twelve steps to be useful to the recovering alcoholic: steps 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, and 12, noting "these urge them to admit their addictive and self-destructive ways, make amends to those they have harmed, acquire a philosophic awakening, and carry their message to other alcoholics." However, Ellis believed that steps, 2, 3, 6, 7, and 11, those urging alcoholics to rely upon a Higher Power, to be of dubious value. Some of his reasons for distrusting these steps included the contention that millions had overcome alcohol while remaining agnostic or atheist and that the necessity to accept belief in a Higher Power likely pushed more people away from the program than it drew in. Ellis' analysis of the book was that it has some excellent views but that "A.A. is too good an organization to bow to the will of anyone – including any hypothetical Higher Power." [24]urn:lcp:massive00juli:epub:8ab9874b-df0e-46d2-8903-a05a696919df Extramarc University of Alberta Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier massive00juli Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t85h8qf1r Isbn 9781416902072 Anonymous (2010). The Book That Started It All: The Original Working Manuscript of Alcoholics Anonymous. Hazelden Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59285-947-4. Enter Adelaide Thom and Eleanor St. Clair. At their humble teashop, Tea and Sympathy, they provide a place for whispered confessions, secret cures, and spiritual assignations for a select society of ladies, who speak the right words and ask the right questions. But the profile of Tea and Sympathy is about to change with the fortuitous arrival of Beatrice Dunn.

Is the therapeutic approach to alcoholism as depicted in this text consistent with contemporary efforts to treating addictive behaviours like alcoholism? It turns out there are Muses that guide the course of the future of the Building. A Management that technically guides and controls the Muses. A magic system that was impossible to predict, let alone understand. A thrilling conclusion that I had to read twice, but still didn’t make any damned sense. What follows is a whirlwind of madness, plots and intrigue, looming war for the Building, all centered upon Wild Massive, a magic-based theme-park designed to tell the history of the building and the Association. But for me, with a binary education and a binary familial life, and -let's face it - a binary vocabulary, it was a little off-putting in the beginning, and broke the flow of about the first "Episode" as I got used to it. I'm pretty sure this is the first book I ever read that just used them, no explanation given. I admit - at first I thought it was a typo - this was an ARC after all.

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The story wasn’t actually bad to this point, however. It was actually rather adventurous and unique (very unique), wild and crazy, exciting and… crazy. Interesting and immersive—until it wasn’t. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last—inexorably—into evil.” (Goodreads) Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama The ending was actually half decent, thank heavens for that, because I only finished it so I could kind of get my money's worth of a story and so I hadn't felt like I just wasted hours of my life.