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Monday, March 18, 2024

Book Review:: DESPERATELY SEEKING PERSEPHONE by Janet Rudolph


TITLE OF YOUR BOOK:

BOOK TITLE:
 DESPERATELY SEEKING PERSEPHONE: The true story of my Shamanic Journey through the Underworld.

AUTHOR OF BOOK: Janet Rudolph


AUTHOR'S EMAIL ADDRESS:
Jandelion@aol.com 

AUTHOR'S FAVORITE LINKS: /mysticpagan.com/ /feminismandreligion.com/
 
 Yes, I have received permission from the reviewer to
reprint their review in its entirety. 

REVIEWER’S BYLINE: Elizabeth Cunningham is the author of numerous books
including My Life as a Prayer: A Multifaith Memoir and The Maeve Chronicles
5.0 out of 5 stars 
Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2023 on Amazon

REVIEW:
DESPERATELY SEEKING, JOYFULLY BEING FOUND
Rudolph takes us with her on a journey that is at once deeply personal to her and
as well as mythic. In her story, interwoven with Persephone’s and Inanna’s, we may
recognize elements of our own, find inspiration and companionship for our own quest
and questions. Janet also reminds us that life is full of mysteries, time spirals
backward and forward; we not only seek but we are also found by human angels who
come into our lives when we most need them, and who are, in some way, always with
us. This beautiful, thoughtful, funny, poetic memoir gives the reader comfort and
inspires awe.

MORE ABOUT THE REVIEWER:  Elizabeth Cunningham has written numerous
other novels including The Return of the Goddess and The Wild Mother. She lives in
the valley of the Mahicantuck (the river that flows both ways) on unceded land that
was home to the Esopus Tribe of the Lenape. She is at work on a fairytale novel. For
more visit her website: https://elizabethcunninghamwrites.com/

ABOUT THE AUTHOR WHOSE BOOK IS BEING REVIEWED:  Janet
Rudolph is a wife, lover, mother, grandmother, seeker, finder, earth-breather, water-
swimmer, there is no end to her descriptions. She has traveled to many sacred places
in the world to soak up knowledge and experience culture. Along the way she earned
two shamanic initiations and written a few books including When Moses Was a
Shaman, and When Eve Was a Goddess.. She writes wherever and whenever she can
to express, heal, inform, challenge, startle and to expand love. She is a contributor and
co-weaver at /feminismandreligion.com/ You can visit her website for more
information at https://themysticpagan.com/

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

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Monday, December 25, 2017

Writing, The New Yorker, and Christmas

This is a not-so-usual Christmas editorial from my SharingwithWriters newsletter. True to my time-saving advice to recycle (no one person--even one with a paid publicist) has enough time to do everything they want to!), it is never too late to download a pdf copy my newsletters from the archive at http://bit.ly/SWWNewsletter--or subscribe so you don't miss a single issue!


Dear SharingwithWriters subscribers and New Book Review readers, authors, and reviewers: 


I love The New Yorker. My son Trenton sent a subscription to me for Christmas for a couple years, but I told him not to do it anymore because I always felt guilty when I couldn’t read it from cover to cover.

Recently I reconnected with my cousin who had gone AWOL for a while and she sent me a link to a lovely essay on dying (and living!) in The New Yorker. It was written by a well-known memoirist, Cory Taylor. I love how that she wove the pleasures of writing into the other joys of her life. It made me think of the publisher who told my agent that he loved my memoir, but couldn’t publish it because it was just too sad. It also made me think of what I have come to think of as California’s Christmas fires. I have been affected only slightly (breathing smoke and getting less done because of time taken to help fire refugees), but the misery is everywhere. The sky, the freeways, the news.

It seems to me a memoir has no value without the sad parts that make us grateful for life’s delights. So, the upsides and downsides, the yin and yang of The New Yorker? Hard to believe there is too much of a good thing! And the fires? Well, maybe we have had enough of those!

You may already subscribe or decide to subscribe to The New Yorker after reading this. (You may be better at picking and choosing from an overabundance of readable material than I!) Even if The New Yorker has never been your cup of tea, you will want to read this essay. To absorb the author’s wisdom now, when gratitude is such a big part of the holiday season or take a lesson from this author’s writing style. I am sure that it will renew your appreciation of your chosen career.

The essay is “Questions for Me About Dying” by Cory Taylor. An interesting title, but one that in no way does justice to what is contained therein.

Happy writing, editing and promoting and happy holidays,
Carolyn Howard-Johnson,

http://HowToDoItFrugally.com 

PS: I know we think of Dec. 25 as a bit too late to be doing Christmas shopping, but that's why e-books were born.  The chapbook I wrote with Magdalena Ball is available today on Amazon and it's part of Amazon's Matchbook program for prime members--meaning the e-book is free when you buy the chapbook. Wouldn't one of your friends who loves literature like to have a e-greeting card of poetry in their e-mail box today? Here is more about it.  

Blooming Red:
Christmas Poetry for the Rational
Coauthored by Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball
Artwork by Vicki Thomas
Self-Published in the fine tradition of poets everywhere
Awards: USA Book News finalist, Silver Award from Military Writers’ Society of America
ISBN: 9781449948245
To order paperback or e-book on Amazon: http://bit.ly/BloomingRed
Celebration Series fan page on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/CelebrationSeriesPoetryChapbooks

Part of the Celebration Series by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, this little $6.95 book was written with passion and love for those who understand all the ramifications of the holiday that dominates celebrations throughout most of the English-speaking world. It is a lovely tuck-in gift that goes beyond the typical greeting card and is available in quantity discounts to use as a holiday greeting by contacting the authors at HoJoNews@aol.com.








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 The New Book Review is blogged by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers. Of particular interest to readers of this blog is her most recent How to Get Great Book Reviews Frugally and Ethically (http://bit.ly/GreatBkReviews ) that covers 325 jam-packed pages covering everithing from Amazon vine to writing reviews for profit and promotion. 

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