Glenda O'Rourke

Fiction communicates a philosophy of history and mind.

Revisado: 11-22-24

The story told in this book felt like an electrical wire that repeatedly lit brilliant lights in its revelation of Masonic history and philosophy, and the recent breakthroughs in noetic science.

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Complex, intriguing and philosophical

Revisado: 08-07-24

I am not usually a fan of crime mysteries, and I almost quit on this one when I thought it was going be a slasher, but I’m glad I went back to it and read the whole thing. The author does a great job of weaving together not one but two missing person stories, as well as raising meaningful issues ethics and class. I found it riveting and could barely put it down.

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Road to nowhere

Revisado: 07-29-24

The language and the narrators accent were fascinating and delightful. The premise of the story had a lot of potential. It felt like the author, maybe fell into a depression halfway through and took his characters down with him. If this was an exercise in Irish fatalism, it succeeded.

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Time, love, and the malleability of Destiny.

Revisado: 07-06-24

This was the most intelligent and culturally relevant love story I’ve ever read. The narrator exhibits an enormous capacity for both self reflection and sociological assessment of our times. The sci-fi quantum aspects are also well described and entertaining.

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A touching depiction of young and elderly love.

Revisado: 05-31-24

The endless descriptions of our protagonist sexual adventures in the interim became tedious and beside the point.

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A tale of pain and possibility

Revisado: 06-30-23

I love how this novel plays with the quantum concepts of entanglement, and brings them into very human experience. I also appreciate the correlations that get made between quantum theory and the ancient traditions in Buddhism.
For me, the novel perfectly expressed the threads that weave continually in my own mind and spirit.

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A beautiful balance between the real and ideal

Revisado: 05-25-23

When I started this book I think I expected a simplistic love story with a happy ending. I was surprised and pleased when it turned out to be a more nuanced tale reflecting a dreadful historical reality and the redemption that is possible through story and imagination.

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Fairytales are archetypes

Revisado: 03-27-23

And these touch, so many familiar places in my own heroic journey. Dreams of true love are so attractive and also shatter so easily but the sense of another deeper level of reality paralleling the every day is the stuff of Carl Jung and quantum physics. I look forward to sharing this book with my granddaughters as a primer on these matters, and as a warning.

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A profound invitation to deep meditation

Revisado: 12-23-22

This book introduced me to meditative practices that I had never heard of before, even though I had some history with the Kagyu lineage. Andrew Holecek is one of the clearest, most present instructors I have ever experienced. It’s quite a feat to inspire one towards emptiness. Well done.

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Tragic and yet hopeful

Revisado: 04-17-22

What an amazingly fresh perspective, a window into looking at the obvious through new eyes. Long may the trees endure, and may human consciousness come to appreciate and care for them, along with all of the rest of the miraculous natural world.

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