An optimistic story about a woman helping people regain spiritual balance in their lives.
Starr’s debut memoir delves into the world of alternative healing.
When co-author Mulkey’s friend, a nurse, told him in 1994 about a Native American healer named Myra Starr, he thought that Starr might somehow be able to help his granddaughter Lindsay, who’d suffered from cystic fibrosis for most of her young life. Mulkey was “desperate for a miracle,” and Starr was already gaining media attention as a healer attuned to angels and the spirit world. Although Starr failed in Lindsay’s case—the child eventually died—Mulkey was sufficiently fascinated that he took on the task of helping to tell Starr’s story from her point of view. Her life story takes up the bulk of this book, starting with the near-death experience that, she believes, put her in touch with heavenly beings who sent her spirit back to her earthly body and gave her new healing abilities. The book affectingly conveys Starr’s sense of rebirth: “An awakening stirred within me, as if I’d come from the deepest of sleeps, and I was able to view life in a way I’d never done before.” After a series of enlightening incidents (and stumbles), Starr learned more about both her mission and her powers, and quickly realized that she was a “channel” between her heavenly guides’ wisdom and the mortal world. She soon gained a large clientele seeking guidance on everything from marital troubles to dietary problems. She also mastered the art of meditation, which “helps us to get out of our own way so that we may feel our basic connection with everything else,” and the book includes some specific meditation instructions for beginners. Overall, the book does an effective job of explaining Starr’s very human refinements of the spiritual forces she claims are guiding her.
An optimistic story about a woman helping people regain spiritual balance in their lives.Pub Date: Sept. 17, 2012
ISBN: 978-0985935306
Page Count: 166
Publisher: Wisdom Works Press
Review Posted Online: Nov. 29, 2013
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.
The legendary booze-addled metal rocker turned reality-TV star comes clean in his tell-all autobiography.
Although brought up in the bleak British factory town of Aston, John “Ozzy” Osbourne’s tragicomic rags-to-riches tale is somehow quintessentially American. It’s an epic dream/nightmare that takes him from Winson Green prison in 1966 to a presidential dinner with George W. Bush in 2004. Tracing his adult life from petty thief and slaughterhouse worker to rock star, Osbourne’s first-person slang-and-expletive-driven style comes off like he’s casually relating his story while knocking back pints at the pub. “What you read here,” he writes, “is what dribbled out of the jelly I call my brain when I asked it for my life story.” During the late 1960s his transformation from inept shoplifter to notorious Black Sabbath frontman was unlikely enough. In fact, the band got its first paying gigs by waiting outside concert venues hoping the regularly scheduled act wouldn’t show. After a few years, Osbourne and his bandmates were touring America and becoming millionaires from their riff-heavy doom music. As expected, with success came personal excess and inevitable alienation from the other members of the group. But as a solo performer, Osbourne’s predilection for guns, drink, drugs, near-death experiences, cruelty to animals and relieving himself in public soon became the stuff of legend. His most infamous exploits—biting the head off a bat and accidentally urinating on the Alamo—are addressed, but they seem tame compared to other dark moments of his checkered past: nearly killing his wife Sharon during an alcohol-induced blackout, waking up after a bender in the middle of a busy highway, burning down his backyard, etc. Osbourne is confessional to a fault, jeopardizing his demonic-rocker reputation with glib remarks about his love for Paul McCartney and Robin Williams. The most distinguishing feature of the book is the staggering chapter-by-chapter accumulation of drunken mishaps, bodily dysfunctions and drug-induced mayhem over a 40-plus-year career—a résumé of anti-social atrocities comparable to any of rock ’n’ roll’s most reckless outlaws.
An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.Pub Date: Jan. 25, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-446-56989-7
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2009
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