The Book Worm

Photo: The Marsten House from the film adaptation (1979). I went through several reviews about this book before reading it, and I am so glad they were spoil-free.   Salem’s Lot  is the second novel that I read by Stephen King, and it is reputed to be a classic in the horror literary genre. It was thoroughly engaging, flawlessly well-written, disturbingly scary, and a real page-turner. The story starts with the arrival of Author Ben Mears, his childhood hometown hoping to find clarity and find inspiration for his new book only to realize that there might be a scheming malevolent force striving to seize control of the town.    In the beginning, I felt a little bit disoriented because of the abundance of characters in the book so I had to write down the names of every one of them and the relationship linking them for a more vivid mental picture. Hence the more I flipped the pages, the more I gained clarity about the story. There are books I adore which are extremely long, complex, and idi

Have you ever dealt with a toxic internal monologue? That horrible inner voice that keeps pulling you backward no matter how hard you try to move forward? When no one is talking to you, you talk to yourself, and that inner voice enables you to reflect on your life by using silent language.  Chatter is the moment you turn yourself inward to review your problems and come up with narratives to explain your experiences in ways that give shape to your understanding of who you are. If you end up being more worried, that’s when you get stuck in that endless loop that turns your inner voice from a blessing to a curse. That can be a symptom of a serious mental health issue and can lead to depression, low self-esteem, and anxiety. “ If you constantly think about the negative side of things, you will feed the evil wolf within to grow stronger and, eventually, completely overpower the good one .”  As Tony Robins says, energy flows where attention goes. It’s possible to divert those negativ

Painting: The Manipulation from the Anti-Consciousness Monsters by Darwin Leon  The American Writer Edgar Allan Poe exhibited the theme of revenge and manipulation in “ The Cask of Amontillado ” where the narrator Montresor lures his “friend” Fortunado to an underground maze of tunnels and tombs. There, he gets Fortunado drunk, chains him, and walls him up before leaving him to die a slow death.  I quote what Jordan Peterson said when he discussed the topic and said that a manipulator’s communication is always motivated for the purpose of power or domination or positive illusion or delusion or something. It becomes almost impossible to cognize what is real and what is not. You become programmed to try to please them and as soon as you do something vaguely useful, they will criticize you mercilessly and at the same time show you signs of love or affection. Such an appalling paradox! Isn’t it? And from a Freudian perspective, he attributed the matter to repression . But does a manipulato