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O.R. Melling

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Born in Ireland, raised and educated in Toronto, Canada along with my seven sisters and two brothers, now living back in Ireland again. I have a beautiful daughter, Findabhair, doing her M.A. in Marine Biology and a beautiful cat, Emma, who would love to eat the fish Finn (great name for a marine biologist, eh?) wants to protect. My favourite author of all time is CS Lewis. I've read everything he ever wrote including non-fiction and adult fiction, but the Chronicles of Narnia are the best of all. ...more

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FINALLY BACK TO WORK ON NEW BOOK

After my year-long immersion in XR/immersive tech, I've returned to the book I put aside to play with AI, VR, AR, and film/audio/video game technology. (There'll be a screenplay using that experience which you'll hear about in time.) To get myself back into traditional writing mode and mood, I went off to a longstanding favourite place, a Tibetan Buddhist Retreat Centre in County Cavan: www.jampa

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	The Hunter's Moon (The Chronicles of Faerie, #1) 3.82 avg rating — 5,897 ratings — published 1993 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Summer King (The Chronicles of Faerie, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 3,121 ratings — published 1999 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Light-Bearer's Daughter (Chronicles of Faerie #3) 3.96 avg rating — 2,141 ratings — published 2001 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Dreams (The Chronicles of Faerie, #4) 4.16 avg rating — 1,351 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Singing Stone 4.05 avg rating — 483 ratings — published 1987 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Druid's Tune 3.96 avg rating — 454 ratings — published 1983 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Book of Faerie (The Chronicles of Faerie, #1-4) 4.52 avg rating — 298 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chronicles of Faerie (The Chronicles of Faerie, #1-3) 4.36 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	People of the Great Journey 3.69 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Celtic Warrior Princess 3.90 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn't stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one's place in the world. To say 'I am here.' To say 'I am.”
― O. R. Melling

tags: instinct, self, strength, the-book-of-dreams, wild, wolves

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“If you're betwixt and between, trust the one with red hair.”
― O.R. Melling, The Hunter's Moon

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“When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.”
― O.R. Melling, The Summer King

tags: philosophy

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Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale by Donna Jo Napoli

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Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

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The Hunter's Moon by O.R. Melling

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This Charming Man by Marian Keyes

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Irish Girls About Town: An Anthology of Short Stories by Maeve Binchy

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The New Policeman by Kate Thompson

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Teacher Man: A Memoir by Frank McCourt

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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin

tags: courage, life

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“Europeans have depth but not distance while North Americans have distance but not depth.”
― Samuel Beckett

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“Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“We are asked by science to believe that the entire universe sprang from nothingness, and at a single point and for no discernible reason. This notion is the limit case for credulity. In other words, if you can believe this, you can believe anything.”
― Terence McKenna

tags: big-bang-theory, creation-of-the-universe, scientific-belief

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“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.”
― Terence McKenna

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