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ANGELIC LUMINOSITIES

Name: ANGELIC LUMINOSITIES
Author: Angelique Patrice
ISBN: 978-1491839911

ORBS, LIGHT WAVES, LIGHT RODS & OTHER INTERDIMENSIONAL SPIRIT BEINGS

by Angelique Patrice ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 23, 2014

A colorful keepsake album about angels all around us.

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An illustrated guidebook to supernatural beings in what the author calls “Hidden Realms.”

The dozens of flash photos in Patrice’s debut show a range of light distortions and other chromatic effects. The shots were taken at night in various locations in Washington state and Oregon, and the author constructs an elaborate explanatory framework around the surreal images. In a brief preface, and in the descriptions accompanying each shot, Patrice describes the various supernatural beings represented by the optical effects, from “Orbs” to “Light Rods” to “Angels” to “Segmented Worms.” She imbues them with not only life, but also personality: “Orbs are pure energy which have an aura, as we do,” she writes, “and are just as interested in us as we are in them.” The Orbs hover near to the humans, unseen by them. However, Patrice asserts that she’s gradually developed the ability to see her subjects even before developing the photos (“Before I could only see the Light Waves after the picture was taken,” she writes, “I also see moving waves of energy in my peripheral vision while reading at night”). These light-beings, she writes, can also be angels or, in one instance, the spirit of a beloved cat who went off to die and sent a ghostly image back to reassure its owner. Patrice, her son and grandson feature in some of the photos, always accompanied by the hovering apparitions. The book offers an upbeat, optimistic worldview that’s full of hope: “Love is energy and never dies,” the author writes at one point, stressing the constant renewal of the spirit-beings she claims to photograph. She also provides an encouraging vision of the unity of all life, which she grounds in her own view of quantum physics and the forces that bind all living things together. She ends her book on a note of adventure, assuring her readers that “my camera is ready to capture whatever may come its way.”

A colorful keepsake album about angels all around us.

Pub Date: Jan. 23, 2014

ISBN: 978-1491839911

Page Count: 92

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Review Posted Online: April 1, 2014

Review Program: Kirkus Indie

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GENERAL NONFICTION

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NUTCRACKER

by E.T.A. Hoffmann ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 28, 1996

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This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)

Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996

ISBN: 0-15-100227-4

Page Count: 136

Publisher: Harcourt

Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996

Categories:

GENERAL NONFICTION

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TO THE ONE I LOVE THE BEST

EPISODES FROM THE LIFE OF LADY MENDL (ELSIE DE WOLFE)

by Ludwig Bemelmans ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 23, 1955

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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.