Publisher: Macmillan – Uptown Oracle https://www.uptownoracle.com Living Your Bookish Life ✨ Sat, 30 Mar 2024 18:05:07 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.uptownoracle.com/755/2021/05/cropped-Uptown-Oracle-Logo-File-NOTAG.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Publisher: Macmillan – Uptown Oracle https://www.uptownoracle.com 32 32 117146186 Uptown Oracle Reads… Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey https://www.uptownoracle.com/hyperfocus-chris-bailey/ Fri, 05 Apr 2024 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.uptownoracle.com/?p=25226 Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey explores the power of intense concentration and focus in a world filled with distractions. Bailey delves into the concept of hyperfocus, which he defines as the ability to concentrate deeply on a task or activity, allowing individuals to achieve greater productivity and creativity. He contrasts hyperfocus with its counterpart, scatterfocus, which […]

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]]> 25226 Uptown Oracle Reads… Sistersong | Celtic Magic in the Time of Constantine of Dummonia https://www.uptownoracle.com/sistersong/ Mon, 15 Mar 2021 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.uptownoracle.com/?p=8606 As the titles alludes to, Sistersong is about Sisters in medieval England (around Devon and Cornwall by today’s geography) and relies a bit on old Celtic myth and Magic. Set in around 500 AD as the Saxons are slowly taking over Briton, I enjoyed how the historical setting was written whilst keeping a sense of magic, especially around the Nemeton and the woods that the sisters visit.

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]]> 8606 Uptown Oracle Reads… We Hunt the Flame | An Effortless Arabian Fantasy https://www.uptownoracle.com/uptown-oracle-reads-we-hunt-the-flame/ https://www.uptownoracle.com/uptown-oracle-reads-we-hunt-the-flame/#comments Wed, 08 Jan 2020 16:58:00 +0000 https://www.uptownoracle.com/?p=5949 We Hunt The FlameHafsah Faizal (Affiliate Links) People lived because she killed.People died because he lived. Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the king. […]

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