Midwest Book Review on Robin Marvel’s Life Check

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Life CheckLife Check: 7 Steps to Balance Your Life!
Robin Marvel
Marvelous Spirit Press
http://www.marvelousspirit.com
9781615995035, $26.95, HC, 104pp, www.amazon.com
Synopsis: “Life Check” by Robin Marvel provides her readers with simple, effective ways to balance their lives. “Life Check” encourages us to stop asking what if and start living the life we have imagined or dreamed of for ourselves. Freeing ourselves from the mundane routine of life by providing life tools that will get us rocking the boat, diving in and finding our passion for being alive!
Critique: Replete with inspiring quotes, thoroughly ‘user friendly’ in organization and presentation, as motivating as it is insightfully practical, “Life Check: 7 Steps to Balance Your Life!” is a truly extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to personal Self-Help/Self-Improvement reading lists. It should be noted that “Life Check” is also readily available in a paperback edition (9781615992041, $14.95) and in a digital book format (Kindle, $4.95).

Wet Silence: Poems about Hindu widows

978-1-61599-256-0
$14.95
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UPC: 978-1-61599-256-0
Brand: Modern History Press
"Sweta Vikram captures bold raw passion, poignant reality and crafts a powerful voice for the voiceless."

--Kate Campbell Stevenson, Actor & Producer


Wet Silence bears moving accounts of Hindu widows in India. The book raises concern about the treatment of widowed women by society; lends their stories a voice; shares their unheard tales about marriage; reveals the heavy hand of patriarchy; and, addresses the lack of companionship and sensuality in their lives. This collection of poems covers a myriad of social evils such as misogyny, infidelity, gender inequality, and celibacy amongst other things. The poems in the collection are bold, unapologetic, and visceral. The collection will haunt you.


"Nothing short of sacred genius, Wet Silence reads with a sensual and dangerous grace. It is a body of work that ushers presence into absence and love into a world that has all but done away with the word."

--Slash Coleman, author of The Bohemian Love Diaries and blogger for Psychology Today.


"Sweta's poems did a powerful job at highlighting the mental and sexual abuse, violence, loneliness and the pain experienced by millions of widows in India. Why I ask, is being a widow a crime?"

--Shruti Kapoor, Founder of Sayfty, an organization that helps women protect themselves against violence


"In a gorgeous choir of reclaimed voices, Sweta Srivastava Vikram tells the stories of women forgotten and passed over, women silenced and without choices, women who 'don't exist'--Hindu widows. Through the magical breath of her poetry Vikram not only animates these women's hopes, sorrows, dreams, and defeats, she lovingly restores them to honor."

--Melissa Studdard, award-winning author of I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast.


Learn more at www.SwetaVikram.com

From the World Voices series at Modern History Press

POE005060 Poetry : American - Asian American

SOC028000 Social Science : Women's Studies - General

FAM001000 Family & Relationships : Abuse - General



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