Romantic Fiction, Reality Shaping and The Work

345Stella RileyRoundheads & Cavaliers1The Black Madonna
346Stella RileyRoundheads & Cavaliers2Garland of Straw
347Stella RileyRoundheads & Cavaliers3The King's Falcon
348Stella RileyRoundheads & Cavaliers4Lords of Misrule
349Stella RileyThe Shadow Earl

After the Rockliffe series, had then jumped into The Shadow Earl, which in the latter part of that story introduced a number of interesting old family names and reconnects with others from Rockliffe. One realizes, there is much to these names that come up, and if read after the Roundheads & Cavaliers as the civil war explodes, it would have connected. However, even this way it has been very interesting following different characters knowing some will emerge, or their generational families would in later books.

As for the Roundheads & Cavaliers, the author Riley did a lot of deep research to tell these stories, stories that had characters in so many different religious and political polarities that became central to the civil war. Horrible hard times, and Stella does not pull any punches in the writing of them.

Lastly, if I had read Stella's books (have not finished) before any of the other Romance novels, none would have been forgotten. With these books being read now, they do indeed set the stage for the years that followed.



 
A mirror to the real psychological evil.

What is wrong with society?

Wicked Little Letters (2023)

Statistically its not the serial killers that are wreaking havoc in society today and in past centuries. Its the wicked little things people do to each other deliberately.

Brings forth the anti-dote in the end, shows us what is possible with external consideration, compassion, understanding. Maybe we could build a real society, if we just let it go? All the lies.

Wonderful new movie came out with the big surprise of having actual hidden qualities - ending in a tears-inducing Romance Book / Work effect. Its like after a powerful therapy session. Release and made me think hard about what went wrong in my life.

You don't know what it is [?], - when you start watching - you don't suspect anything. This masterpiece works its hidden effect on you, just like participating in an unfamiliar Gurdjieff-exercise. You don't know what it is about. Until you experience the end-result.

Wicked Little Letters (2023) slowly starts working, while you watch. Its not a tricky story. Since the movie deliberately harbors now mystery. Spars us the cheap puzzles. It shows you the culprit early on, right there!

But how exactly can people behave like this? How can the minds of a 'virgin society' in 1920 in West Sussex, England react, like they do in the movie? Are people really this gullible?!

Dealing with the root causes behind people's distraught relationships, resulting from mountains of lies to the Self. Tons of internal considering. Social psychology, massive lack of understanding towards the other. Either in the family or in court.

The movie manages to resolve the conflict in the end in a wonderfully liberating fashion, that brings out the recognition of hidden conflicts within the Self. Shows us how much did NOT change since 1920.
In 1920, during the suffragette movement in the United Kingdom, Edith Swan, a spinster and devout Christian in Littlehampton, becomes the target of hate mail - an issue of great distress to her, her controlling father Edward and gentle mother Victoria. Having endured nineteen such letters spilt with profanities, Edward [her father] seeks the assistance of the local constabulary, suspecting their neighbor, the haughty-yet-lone mother and Irish migrant Rose Gooding, as the sender.

Based on a true scandal, it follows an investigation into the anonymous author of numerous crudely insulting letters sent to the residents of seaside town Littlehampton.[6][7][8].

(No, the trailer won't help!)
 
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