Is There A Wrong Time to Read Certain Books? Talking Books In Today's Crazy Mess... Spotlight on Award-Winning Top Writer Sharon Sala

 

This book originally came out in 2013. An updated book was published in 2021. After the Takeover of the Haves... When people are identified by loyalty to one political party and one conman.... And Havenots do not matter.

They think...

This trilogy offers the extremely tight copyright coverage  now being used to protect authors and publishers. I've spent the last hour trying to pull up the covers for the three-book trilogy by Sharon Sala

I finally submitted a curt response to a survey on the Author's Page on Amazon. As shared below.

I am more and more dissatisfied with Amazon... But books is being discussed today. I'm looking for a trilogy. This series is not here, on the Amazon's Author Page. I also cannot easily find it on my desktop library. I also cannot easily find it here on the main site... I found the first one. In the past, a trilogy or series would have been shown as a possible purchase on the main page of the first book. Instead it is filled with many other books that have no relevance to the author in question. I have found that computer systems people do not think as a user of products, thus changes are made without regard to how the user will search for them... Or, they just don't care... I have blogged successfully for 20 years using Amazon as my primary source of books. Right now, it disturbs me that everybody is interested in providing so much information that I cannot FIND ANYTHING. For instance, the desk top file does not allow a search by author... A search by title means that you have to know the exact title and, sometimes subtitle, it is inconsistent it seems. If an author doesn't use the same exact name on each book, then we can't find it. There is absolutely no ability to, as in the past, search key words... And when I attempted to ask a question with the latest "bot", it brought up a different book on the left side of the screen from the picture on the right. AI can only do what people have created. AI is not ready for true book selling and maintaining a library. I have thousands of books. You cannot remove books that have been read from the library and perhaps archive them. Finding a book is torture now!

I could have gone on but the survey space was linear, one line...and it scrolls to the right, meaning they really didn't expect any responses to the survey...

But Gabby is Talking Now. I stopped buying anything else on Amazon for one reason only. Delivery. Amazon takes NO responsibility of the companies they sub-contract to. I have lost money--considerable--due to carelessness of the delivery people. In my opinion, Amazon is the seller. That should include accountability for actual mail delivery. They do not, I no longer buy, except for e-bo0ks... But recently I was told that they had withdrawn coverage of all but my Fire reader and my desktop library. Three readers that I can no longer enter new books into...Thrown away for a reason they didn't feel I needed to know... Amazon is Not OK. Reduced in rank to 1 out of a 1-10 rank...

In addition to the copyright, these books also disavow that any character, or how they are presented, can be construed to be anything but from the mind of the writer (my words). I can see why, in this environment, a publisher and writer must cover themselves legally...

But there was no way, I was able to do that, as a reader who connects...

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Crime followed chaos, and it had been that way since the world began.--Sala. Sharon. Going Once: A Compelling Romantic Suspense Novel Featuring FBI Agents and a Serial Killer (Forces of Nature Book 1, MIRA Books. Kindle Edition

 As announced, I will be talking about books rather than GABixler as the professional reviewer. I acknowledge that I am Not Ok as long as the federal government is out of control and I have to watch as the world is being devastated and changed for the worse... I have no qualms speaking my Truth, as I did professionally. My reviews (in the right column) have shown that writers have appreciated my style of creating reviews. I now must include about what is being done which has brought all of the United States--and the world--into peril...

Through reading this trilogy, my mind became clear about a number of things. Based on the characters alone, I was either involved with three romances which were wonderfully created as only a wonderful author can do. I will be talking about the total trilogy rather than three different stories, however. The difference is that each book focuses on one of three different FBI team members as they meet their future wives. Each story is totally different. Each story pulls readers into the lives of these six people and I was enjoying the books totally.

He watched everyone sleep and thought how strange it was that life could be this way. One person’s world was crashing, one was being stalked by a serial killer, and everyone else went on as if nothing was wrong.--Ibid...

Except I recognized the villain comparable to one man in particular... Or, perhaps, all evil men have the same mental characteristics?

It was an easy connection in one way. One of the FBI agents was the team profiler. Sala turned out to be an individual who apparently takes the time to understand what her characters do professionally. Her descriptive coverage of the serial killer was sufficient enough that I soon had difficulty dealing with those parts of the book. Think Criminal Minds, the TV program. I've stopped watching it because the graphic descriptions of the murders proved too much for me. Watching that type of detail of what goes through the mind of an individual who has become mentally unbalanced, is not something I wanted to face on an ongoing basis.

“I can’t believe that all this started because of a flood,” she muttered. “Actually, it began in Iowa, because of a tornado,” Tate said.  Ibid.

Her overwhelming fear of showing weakness was a holdover from her days as a rookie with the Bureau. If you were tough, they called you a bitch. If you had a pretty face or showed weakness, then you couldn’t possibly do a good job. Ibid

I realized in the past that I actually enjoyed the good guy winning over the evil villain. Recently I've wondered about something that has developed due to the history of America. Our forefathers have taught us that they wanted what they wanted, whether there was peace or not...

Take for instance, the historical shows about "cowboys and indians..." You know what I mean, don't you... We learned about the white people going across the lands, establishing homesteads near water, perhaps... If they had to kill some i"njuns" to do that, well, they did... And stories were shared as news or later in books... I can remember only one early television show that changed that plot... The Lone Ranger had Tonto, as his partner in fighting crime... What culturally evolved was that white men won and pushed Native Americans who were not slaughtered in battle, into set areas of the country on which they had roamed freely before then. Peace was not sought then. Nor had it been sought in the old country where world wars and smaller wars were fought for power, land ownership, or, even, to try to "spread christianity" through violence... Remember the Crusades? One of the books I've read was when people in Spain were being attacked and forced to become christian, or else... This has been occurring for thousands of years that can be easily found in historical records... Yet we continue to sing...

I remember it was my brother who wanted to watch all of the cowboys that were being shown many years ago... Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and so many more. I finally found one that I chose as a favorite. Paladin

I liked the idea of a man traveling the globe fighting for justice, and, yes, carrying a gun to kill the bad guys... The thing is that over the years, writers got bloodier and more sensational in their death scenes... And thus we learned to enjoy watching violence and pain being forced onto who was "supposed" to be our brothers...

I could always differentiate. In those days, the good guys wore white hats and the bad guys black...LOL  In any event it was a story, a book, showing what really happened in history. It was white people who were the attackers having come into North America and taking what they wanted. My memory says that it was the Quakers only who made friends with the natives, according to history... But then there were the witch trials... but I digress...

My point in all this, is that we have learned about history, written about history, and now know who was the bad guys and who was the good guys. Through news, books, and movies. Some were true; Some were not.

But now, with the Internet and the full breadth of potential entertainment toys, we also see the Truth of the world as it really is played out by humans...And we have learned just how deadly, selfish, and willing to kill our supposed brothers as they can be...on a daily basis...Right onT our streets...

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Let me proceed, then, to talk about Sala's villain. As was created for a trilogy based on natural disasters... What we call, Acts of God because nobody is to blame... 

Wrong...

That phrase would not have included a certain death during Katrina when during the high waters, a couple had climbed to their roof to escape the high waters that were destroying homes all along the river. The wife was a diabetic; during the time on the roof she had no access to her insulin. She died in the night and slipped off the roof into the waters...

Her husband had a mental breakdown from which he later recovered. But...

He was now blaming everybody involved with the disaster and wanted retribution... and that was the first connection made to today's world. Connecting the villain with this administration was super easy...

Retribution is the major activity of the Trump administration, of course.

Climate Control is unrecognized by this administration, as witness lack of support for, say, fires in California... or emergencies in any blue state... Withholding of funds for nature's devastation... We first see that in a significant disaster, in Puerto Rico

At first there was a lighter declaration of how he viewed dealing with disasters--a lack of knowledge especially, declaring that raking forests was the best way to prevent any further fires... or throwing paper towers when there was no electricity available for the people of Puerto Rico...

The difference in Sala's villain, though, was that he was smart, a master of disguise, and kept his desire for retribution through his actions as opposed to creating a public spectacle...

But as the books progressed, it was clear to the reader that at some point, his motive changed. He became proud of his actions. He did want retribution; however, Sala placed a supernatural character, that was constantly screaming at the villain. His wife had been a follower of God and she began by pointing out that killing people was a sin. That he should not be killing on her behalf, and her attempts to stop him grew in proportion to the loss of any emotional feelings of empathy or awareness that the workers who were trying to help the people who were affected or lost in the storms could not be considered to have caused the many deaths in a natural disaster...

The news reps had soon given him a name: The StormChaser... Because what he had begun, after his wife died, due to loss of access to her medicine... the Stormchaser had begun traveling across the land, killing victims who had "lived" while his wife had died... In fact, blaming those also affected by the storm is how the man was initially identified. He had been seen by a woman who, in losing her house completely by the river, she had run, found a high tree and began climbing... And she would climb upward each time the water reached a higher level. It was at that height, she had watched as a family was on their roof, hoping and praying for air support to find them... But what she saw was a man who purposely, upon discovering the family, had murdered each of the family members, ensured they were in the water to later be found, and then walked away, passing along the tree where she had tied herself to a strong limb to ensure she would not be washed away if she would fall to sleep...

He could always go to Mexico and disappear, but that felt too much like running away. If he did that, it would mean they’d won, and that didn’t set well. Ibid

I'll just end that character analysis by pointing out that as he traveled to each emergency site, he would often join the organizations such as The Red Cross, who routinely established support and help for survivors or the families who were trying to find members of their families who lived in the area. Readers will learn much about that entire major support activity where housing/cots, food, and volunteers who did the searches were coordinated.

But what is the most devastating of the trilogy books was that the husband who had lost his wife and wanted to make somebody pay for his loss, actually became more and more violent. He began using multiple types of weapons, and even began dreaming and planning for trying, for instance, a hanging for the next individual discovered...

By the third book in the trilogy, he was selecting people, based upon where their homes were in relation to his final victim...He was totally involved in the thrill and power he now had to be able just to kill because he wanted to... You know, something like starting a war with a country for no reason other than seeking power and wanting to play with weapons of death and retribution...

WOW~

I Kid You Not...

At noon the sky turned dark and stayed that way until three o'clock. Then about that time Jesus shouted, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you deserted me?” Some of the people standing there heard Jesus and said, “He's calling for Elijah.” One of them at once ran and grabbed a sponge. He soaked it in wine, then put it on a stick and held it up to Jesus. Others said, “Wait! Let's see if Elijah will come and save him.” Once again Jesus shouted, and then he died. At once the curtain in the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, and rocks split apart. Graves opened, and many of God's people were raised to life.

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I hasdstopped for lunch. When I came back, what I had written including the loss of my first book cover Going Once. was gone...

I had used multiple word phrases under that picture. Apparently the software hadn't know how to handle what was essentially a straight typing... Who knows?

In any event, When I opened my article this morning. All that was gone...

My caretaker had cancelled my day to go get groceries, explaining that a storm was projected... Fine... I would begin this article... 

I was in the midst of trying to salvage the pic/underwriting... I was not succeeding. Suddenly the power went out. It was growing dark. I could not see so I stopped to find my extra lighting and ensured the batteries still worked. It slowed down and my satellite was still lit, so I tried to continue to redo what had gone wrong... Lightning struck louder... I reluctantly turned off the computer. And continued to read the ending of the trilogy. Yes, I had begun without continuing more reading about what happened to the serial killer...

At noon the sky turned dark and stayed that way until three o'clock. Then about that time Jesus shouted, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you deserted me?” Some of the people standing there heard Jesus and said, “He's calling for Elijah.” One of them at once ran and grabbed a sponge. He soaked it in wine, then put it on a stick and held it up to Jesus. Others said, “Wait! Let's see if Elijah will come and save him.” Once again Jesus shouted, and then he died. At once the curtain in the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, and rocks split apart. Graves opened, and many of God's people were raised to life.

Yes, This had become a God Incident

And I actually had reposted the scripture of how the sky changed

instead of the picture I had wanted to use... Left it...

Jesus is laughing ... At US... And I started laughing and listened...

For I really needed to wait for the end of the story before I concluded yesterday's article...

WOW!

You see, there was a very special character that had been literally haunting me. It was the villain's wife who had died from diabetes.

She would talk to her husband throughout each book and, yes, the same villain played the bad guy in each book... No new cases. FBI was failing...

We would hear her talking to her husband, oftentimes screaming. Why? Was she a new part of him? I use the old definition of Split Personality diagnosis... Had his mind split? Or, Was it her spirit not leaving earth like the show about a ghost whisperer? 

Or was it God speaking to a sinner??? Murderer??? But now, after all that happened, I remembered that, often, she would include the statement. That her husband was NOT to use her name as a reason for mass killings...

Just like our government is now doing...

And it sunk in this morning after finishing the book yesterday. In fact, it made perfect sense... Do you see? Was the author sending her readers a message... Revenge is not a reason for murder. Maybe even since the latest version came out, it was happening in today's world... I don't profess to know what was in Sala's mind as she created a ghost for a character, or whatever she intended. What I do  know that, for me, it was the solution to my WHY? 

For surely, there are many in today's world who have forgotten what God sent a climate message to show His anger, His misery, His grief to see that His Son had indeed been murdered for no reason other than to respond to those who CHOSE a criminal/criminality instead of the New Water, New Life, New Peace, New Love that Jesus had brought to the earth to All of His Children...

All without vengeance, retribution, or violence/death... 

And this trilogy ended as only a messenger of God could end it...

It was the frustration, the anger of God, that so many of us are feeling right now, today, in the world... I did not know that there was even a group called USAID until the present president had it demolished. My not knowing, for me, is understandable. I was like the Havenots. I was still in most ways, working to continue to succeed. I was even scared because it was my mother who kept pushing that her last child have a real home... I needed money to do that. I was satisfied living in a mobile home. It was for my mother that I, though scared,that I wouldn't be able to make the payments, bought my first home. A Condo which I later had to sell after I was no longer working...

Even at that point, when God knew that my mother had always worked to ensure that her four children was to have a better life than she had, God supported what occurred, due to powerful men, and provided a new life in my small home in the woods...

Are We All Like Sheep Gone Astray?

Even Though The Good Shepherd has promised to walk with Us Each Day?

Gabby is... now...OK...

Are You?

These Words came...

God works in mysterious ways; His Wonders to Perform

God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm.

Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never failing skill
He treasures up His bright designs
And works His sovereign will.

Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take;
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy and shall break
In blessings on your head.

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust Him for His grace;
Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.

His purposes will ripen fast,
Unfolding every hour;
The bud may have a bitter taste,
But sweet will be the flower.

Blind unbelief is sure to err
And scan His work in vain;
God is His own interpreter,
And He will make it plain.

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Trad / Eric Wyse

God Moves in a Mysterious Way lyrics © Vine Ridge Music, Love Your Enemies Publishing, Common Hymnal Publishing

Thou Shalt Not Take The Lord's Name in Vain...

Gabby Talks About John C. Lennox's Updated Edition, God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? Also Info on Copyright/AI

 

This guy was just as overwhelmed when he got the book... but he does repeat what I said about who recommends the book! So there is potential from a pastor who says so! Kinda better than me... Except he obviously hasn't planned for eyesight issues that many publishers are presenting for us... The old 12 point minimum size has gone down the tubes for many corporations who either have been caught up in losses caused by Trump, or is still trying to recover losses from COVID... He'll need to buy magnifying glasses like I had to... Really not a good substitute for enjoying a book where you're taking breaks, trying to read another paragraph during TV commercials... or whatever you need to do to be able to talk about a book that you haven't even started to read... At least I've got to sections up on him to talk about. But who's got more clout, LOL Gabby is just now starting to talk books on an ongoing basis, sigh... and I had to pick one of the most brilliant educators out there to start... more sighs...

John Carson Lennox (born 7 November 1943) is a Northern Irish mathematician, philosopher of science, Christian apologist, and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College, Oxford University. He is also Pastoral Advisor of Green Templeton College and Fellow of Wycliffe Hall.

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I like that this brilliant author, still active, is old... With all the other

 groups of people being spotted for extermination by this government, ageism is one of those groups. But, aging is something that is specific to an individual, NOT a group phenomenon. But that is similar to what the author found in the video above... Those who choose to hate first from personal prejudices, whether true or not, are the first to claim that  a human characteristic is actually a demon... or enemies within...

Before the birth of Christ, even, people looked to Greek philosophers and other science-oriented individuals to attempt to explain how the universe worked.  Even the Catholic Church looked to Aristotle as a basis of how they presented their religious beliefs... Then, of course, the Protestant Reformation began with a break from the Christianity as developed by Catholics... Those who wish to learn more look to various individuals who had gained recognition. Galileo was also one early involved...

Preface ‘What is the meaning of it all?’ Richard Feynman

Those who have been granted the spirit of curiosity and imagination have been trying to figure out just how Earth came to be. By the time the earth was populated, it had already been in existence for millions and millions of years, perhaps. I never saw this as a matter of conflict. For me, God had His own time. It was humans who later established how time was to be measured. So, whether or not the Genesis story was something I understood totally do not concern me. As you know, I love mysteries... For God, even one of the reviewers explained it for me to understand where I what was coming as I began to read...

‘This short book is more than just a critical analysis of the deep question posed in the title. It is a scientific detective story, which keeps the reader on his toes as the evidence is put in place bit by bit. John Lennox reaches his final conclusion in grand Hercule Poirot style, revealing the answer that he sees as the only possible solution to the pieces of evidence he has amassed along the way. If you begin this book thinking the answer to the question in the title is “No”, you will enjoy this masterful collecting of the evidence. If you begin it thinking it is “Yes”, maybe you won’t in the end be persuaded to change your view, but you will certainly be faced with a lot of challenging and thought-provoking ideas that will certainly tax your powers of reasoning. Whatever your final conclusion, it is impossible not to find this a stimulating read.’ --Keith Frayn, PhD ScD FRCPath, Professor of Human Metabolism, University of Oxford*

*_____Lennox, John C. God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (p. 4). Lion Hudson. Kindle Edition. 

It is clear as page after page begins, that Lennox has conducted a major research effort, pulling out all relevant books that have been written about this 2000+-year mystery. And, as a life-long student, clearly, some of which were actually within the great halls of education around the world, he begins with a Review of Research. His method to a great extent, is to take an issue and discuss both sides... BUT, and it is a big but, in the process he also clarifies that what I, for instance, may have learned along the way, has also NOW been debunked... Darwin with his evolution concept is one such supposed truth... 

And like today, when the lies are even more used by those who choose to gain their riches and fame through lies, manipulation and even criminal acts, including violence/death, there were always those who claimed that they were right and any alternative opinions were without evidence and therefore they were right...

I smiled when Lennox pointed out that they denied that Faith was evidence... Yet, in reality, were using "Faith" in their own beliefs even when it had been ultimately proven inaccurate

Kinda like the republican christian nationalist "faith" that the 2020 election was not won by President Biden... This is one time when an analogy between history and the present proves to be spot-on in Truth... even while those who deny it or claim that the election was rigged, broken, or whatever...it is still spouted by those who were elected to respond to the need of our citizens. All of Them...

Addressing the question whether science should do away with religion, Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg said: ‘The world needs to wake up from the long nightmare of religion... Anything we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion should be done, and may in fact be our greatest contribution to civilization.’ Unsurprisingly, Richard Dawkins went even further. ‘I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion.’ And yet, and yet... Is this really true? Are all religious people to be written off as prejudiced and underinformed? After all, some of them are scientists who have won the Nobel Prize. Are they really pinning their hopes on finding a dark corner of the universe that science can never hope to illuminate? Certainly that is scarcely a fair or true description of most of the early pioneers in science who, like Kepler, claimed that it was precisely their conviction that there was a Creator that inspired their science to ever greater heights. For them it was the dark corners of the universe that science did illuminate that provided ample evidence of the ingenuity of God.*

*_____Lennox, John C. God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (pp. 8-9). Lion Hudson. Kindle Edition. 

I think I'm going to stop for today... I am still not comfortable with how to share...with new copyright concerns... Here's what I found on a search, which happened to be from LinkedIn, so I've followed the creator and will see if I can get more specific info as it pertains to writers and book reviewers... Note that AI is now part of searching... but did not include the creator, merely the link. To me that is not AI, it is merely, perhaps upgraded, but still a search we've been doing since the Internet was created... And with this administration, we all know anything is possible if a deal is made...and money crosses hands... Dealing with the issue of AI does not address the potential theft and reproduction of somebody's creative works!

As AI technologies continue to develop at an unprecedented pace, the tension between AI developers’ need for vast amounts of data and the creative industries’ rights over their content has become a central legal and commercial challenge.

Earlier this year, the UK Government closed its consultation on AI and copyright, aiming to strike a balance between innovation and intellectual property protection. But as ever, the global picture is far from unified and the differences between jurisdictions are telling.

🔍 How are different jurisdictions responding?
🔹 UK: Proposes an opt-out model. AI developers could use copyright works unless rights holders actively reserve their rights. Transparency obligations are likely.
🔹 EU: Permits text and data mining (TDM) for both research and commercial use, under the Digital Single Market Directive. Rights holders can opt out. Transparency measures are set to tighten under the EU AI Act.
🔹 US: Relies on the broad but uncertain fair use doctrine. Each case turns on its facts — as shown by the NYT v OpenAI litigation. Legislative reform is expected, particularly under a new Trump administration.
🔹 Japan: Offers the most permissive regime. TDM and AI training are allowed even for commercial use, provided outputs comply with existing copyright law. No formal transparency rules yet, but the JCO is watching the space.

📊 TDM & Transparency: a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction snapshot:

Text & Data Mining (TDM)
🔹 UK: Currently limited to non-commercial research. Proposal on the table to allow commercial use, provided rights holders can opt out.
🔹 EU: TDM permitted for both research and commercial purposes. Rights holders may opt out.
🔹 US: Flexible, thanks to fair use doctrine, but unpredictable. No specific legislation governing TDM. Judicial decisions will shape the boundaries.
🔹 Japan: Broad scope for TDM and AI training. Legal framework already accommodates information analysis, with minimal restrictions.

Transparency Obligations
🔹 UK: Consultation suggests requiring AI developers to disclose summaries training datasets. Aims to build trust and support enforcement.
🔹 EU: The EU AI Act introduces mandatory summaries of training datasets - they must be “sufficiently detailed”.
🔹 US: California’s new Assembly Bill 2013 mandates high-level disclosure of training data. Due to take effect in January 2026, so it is subject to change under the new administration.
🔹 Japan: No clear planned legislation on disclosure. However, the JCO has raised the possibility of future guidance or regulation on transparency and dataset disclosure.

💡 Our Perspective: In our full article, we unpack the legal issues in detail and suggest a middle-ground approach. Without careful alignment, overly strict local rules may stifle AI innovation while failing to prevent the use of protected content abroad.

Read the full deep-dive and our proposed solution here: https://lnkd.in/ehQ846hu


AI & Copyright Law: comparing global approachesvwv.co.uk

Talk Soon!

Gabby

Back Again... I got interrupted by somebody at my door and I accidentally pushed the publish button. Great start for Gabby! Yikes

Now Reading: God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? - And thousands of years later, they still lie and argue...

 How can you care about Housekeeping

While your pockets are getting cleaned out by the government? --Gabby

Secretary Kennedy is leader of health care for Prisoners - Formerly Referred to as Citizens or People

Welcome to Gabby's Talking!

Many of you might have seen that I've been signing Gabby to some of my posts already... But Now's it's a permanent and ongoing event occuring here at Book Readers Heaven... You know why, don't you? Of course, you do. I've had it and I'm not goin' take it anymore...

And keep my mouth shut... Be prepared for Stuff to happen that is quite different... That's an actual Warning, because I really have no idea what will come out of my mouth these days... As can be seen from what I've posted already, which certainly wasn't planned since I originally planned to talk about God's Undertaker... And I will... but it seems, maybe not today...???

But, first...

Although you might have guessed if you've followed me and my two blogs fairly routinely... The fact is--I'm Old! I've got a fairly recent pic that I was going to start using...but I haven't been able to figure out how to upload from my "latest" cell phone! As you might have guessed, I have a major issue with the way computers are being stuffed down our throats without even the courtesy to say Hello once in a while when help is needed... Heaven forbid that somebody gets on the phone or is willing to allow me to immediately answer an email that they have sent me, which now officially declares that you can not respond... And if you don't read that, they automatically reject your email response which is very long, but now worthless, with it being slammed back with a nasty note "I told you NO returns messages... We are not allowed to talk anymore...I'm sorry, this is a secret message by a friendly citizen who hates how the world has changed, too!" 

Actually, that last message can't even happen, because machines do all mail processes now. One email is typed once and then used over and over and over to millions of people who are being ignored because...

We would discover that supervisors don't know how to deal with people. No training, quite apparently, is now done. So if you accidentally get connected to an employee, he talks nonsense but never actually responds to your need... Supervisor tell new employees to go watch videos of the president and follow his communication methods... 

Sarcasm on purpose--Gabby

Well, maybe that's not exactly the truth, but it sure feels like it when I'm talking with the idiots, like the one that broke me from Direct TV... for about 2 minutes to cry at the insanity of this world we are now living it...

But I digress... My apologies... But let me tell you. Glenda is an introvert, as you know... Well, at my age, now...and seeing what the republicans are getting away with--destroying the United States--I felt quite sure that Gabby needed to "come out..."

And now a message about Neuriva

Perhaps even recommend it to many politicians

I have gone through 3 available options and now

use 3D the latest upgrade...

This has been a totally unsolicited ad because this works better than leading brand you'll see on television...

--Gabby 

Ahhhh...Neuriva is an off-the-counter med for, ah...Memory

Sigh...More on this later - At least I got the name and spelling out there...

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God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? - Whew! I sure didn't know what I was getting into when I decided to read this book...

Especially since "I" already knew the answer... Not...Duh...

But, I have to admit that I was glad I was on a Reader because I did a lot of research of the "words" just to keep reading. Ok, You know a book has been written by a brilliant man when all of the reviews printed in the front of the book are those credentialed with nothing below a doctorate degree...

I got through the Preface and First Chapter and when I came to the second chapter, I was relieved to stop. Truthfully I don't know if I'll actually read this entire book, even if I want to...

I immediately turned to the 3rd trilogy book by Sharon Sala and sunk in for some relief from so many deep and heavy thoughts and arguments of different opinions...

But what I did learn from God's Undertaker was what I concluded with on my heading...

And reading what I did, I learned that this type of disagreement was going on long before Jesus was even born... We're talking about God Himself! The Great I Am... The Father, The Creator and so much more to those who know we are His children!

And what I also learned was that it was NOT a fight between Believers and Scientists... Frankly it was easier for me to decide, again, that each human is unique with a unique mind and a free will...

The problem is that some of us CHOOSE to disagree on purpose... or because we've been misled in some way...

Just like the republicans who apparently have no real beliefs or effective management skills to rule a nation and had to turn to lies and corruption to get what they want--riches and power...

So it really goes back to the haves and havenots, except when God is involved, we tend not to become a member of a cult/groupthink type of life...

And Now the Plan of Action

Re Process (I hate when a computer decides I want to doublespace when I don't!)

On this particular book, I will be using the process used for students...At a level where a format is established in advance, which must be used, or else... LOL I think I still have my copy of Campbell's these writing. No I never earned a higher degree, but I've typed a number of them and learned the parts that the students "couldn't" or "wouldn't" do himself...

What that hopefully means, if I am thinking right, is that I can use actual excerpts from this book, by using and creating a lists of references; i.e., providing where I found what I was excerpting. I'm trying to figure out if this responds to the extremely tight copyright restrictions because of AI now being required. Actually, this is a test case, so I'll see how it goes with the first two parts of God's Undertaker. 

But

I do want you to know that I woke up this morning after having dreamed about buying plants from somebody I didn't like and I felt like I was drunk, although I don't drink... My body felt heavy. even walking with my cane, I was leaning against the wall for major support.

Or maybe that was because of what I read in the 3rd Trilogy book...so you'll have to wait to hear about that story when I get to it, LOL 

So busy; So little time... It's Hell to get old. Forget about whether there is really Hell... God had no idea of AGING! He was already looking to the Forever business... Not good planning in my opinion... Oh Wait, Sorry Father...

You know, folks, when you become friends with the Holy Spirit - 3 in 1 you might find that it's too easy to forget the God Almighty part of that relationship... That's why Music in So Important. Especially with Words!

Our Father

Who Art in Heaven

Hallowed Be Thy Name

Thy Kingdom Come

Thy Will Be Done

On Earth

As It Is in Heaven

Give Us this Day

Our Daily Break

And forgive us our debts

As we forgive our debtors

And Lead Us Not Into Temptation

But deliver us from Evil

For Thine is the Kingdom 

And the Power

And the Glory

Forever!

Amen!

This is how I pray, I cannot SAY the words

For I immediately start singing as I would sing it with some type of instrument accompaniment...

This group sang it as I would

And shares the faces of people like you and me...

God Bless All God's Children

Gabby

Watch next for God, who doesn't need an undertaker...

GABixlerReviews Presents Series - Spotlighting Life, Books, Today's World - as Seen by Gabby

 

--Gabby

Things HAVE Changed

And I Can't Take It Anymore...

BUT!

I am going to begin a new very open series of my perspective on life as it is right now as instigated in 2015 by the republican party...

This is the video that God sent to begin my reviewing...

I will be reading this author... Starting with an earlier Book 

God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

Indeed, Science Fiction has Already Introduced the Concept (Star Trek)

Gabby gives Star Trek Original top ratings with 1-10 - 25; Second Generation as 20, other captains 10 - Latest version recently shared here - 5...  But, now meet the Science Fiction beginning of the issue presented with 2nd video...

Meet BORG!

As some of you already know, GABixlerReviews became Gabby when I stopped accepting reviews... But, really, about 5 years ago when Avi, my new great-great-nephew came into my life... And his mother became my caretaker and helper as my body's health declined. Avi is now preparing for his first school year... and I've aged along with him... He calls me Gabby and he is already a creator of fiction... Hopefully, my first books to him began that thirst for imagination and creation...

But an even older connection GABixlerReviews has is with Google - Whoever they are...

Google, for me at least, is right up there with my first introduction to the Internet.  Most of us have been automatically substituting Google when we say we need to do a search. We "google" it... For the most part, Google has been a significant partner in my online life. But like every other site, they refuse to talk... That, alone, heightens my frustration and lowers my ranking of this fantastic group of technical experts...

When I was looking for a new site from the book review site out of which I began to review books professionally--Independent Professional Book Reviews--created by Bettie Tucker, Rainbow's End Publishing Company Director until she decided to retire as a publisher, I found Blogger and have been here ever since. When I first joined Blogger, I moved all my IP site reviews at one time and found my new long-term home. That been about 25 years ago and I've been blogging every since, with breaks for surgeries, vacations when I took them, and other life activities...

The government was the reason we disbanded IP Reviews. As we all know, especially now, the federal government is constantly searching out how the new Internet was being used to "Make Money." Heaven forbid that somebody would be making money and they didn't get their share! Of course, we all know that the present administration has tried recently to steal money from the IRS to use as pay-back money for his worshippers... Money - reminds me that I've just finished a 4-post article regarding a recent health break caused by forces outside my control... If you didn't get info, I hope you'll take time to catch up on my Open Memoir... on my sister blog, Just My Personal Opinion...

Mainly because it led to this new activity at Book Readers Heaven. Reviewing Today's World from Gabby's perspective... Once I found the video this morning, I knew it was a God Incident--a message from My Father Who Art In Heaven...

 Andre Bocelli is my favorite tenor singer. A blind artist who has given joy to millions of people with His God-given voice... is ranked 1-10 as 25!

~~~~~~

Health Care in U.S.

Comparative Review between 1960s and 2026

Communication - 1960s - 10

                            2026 - 2

Technology - 0

After hurrying to finish the last page of my post on Job Burnout, I ate a little to take my evening meds and went to bed to read... my normal routine...

But I almost immediately noticed that my heart was beating faster! My left arm was painful, a dull pain, but more than when I decided to go to ER. Was it what I ate? Did I actually take my evening med? Or had I taken my morning med? PTSD results in my mind moving quickly--too quickly so that I lose words, become unsure about what I had or had not just done, because my mind was still within the trigger putting me in PTSD... And my mind moves from one thing to another to another... 

Kinda like Trump always talks... kinda makes you wonder about his state of mind. Mine? The jumping of issues normally lasts just during the moment of frustration. say no more than 10 minutes if I reach a countdown stage, which I rarely do... Does that mean he's in crisis mode continuously? Or at least since January and he began to be controlled by the Project 2025/Republican Party Financial Owners (my word combination, of course).

Was my heart in trouble? I started doing what I had done before when the dull pain moved into my arm. I started rubbing, squeezing hard on my left arm, I thought to try to get the blood flowing... I also threw in a couple of Tums because I wasn't sure that what I'd eaten that day had not produced a reaction of faster heart beating... Apparently, my self-care actions worked, as I woke up with wanting to review the WVU Hospital computer system! As it Now is...

My recent Job Burnout article related to listing what outside activities had occurred which placed my mind swirling... Last night, apparently, my heart was what felt the aftershock physical reaction... Will Life under this administration and the world as it now is, lead to my death?

I woke up thinking that I was going to fight all the way 'til that happens!

And Google has a small part of that... You see, I had to use 4 articles because I've never been able to figure out how to control the linear formatting. Everything I write there is set to take up, it seems, 3 times the length of what is on this blog. So a review is due on this site...

I have found help is tedious, if totally not available or, worse, understandable...

It is clear to me that there is NO Internet company that has Users as part of the development process... And since Google is one of the original creators, At this time, I give Google communication skills - 0 of a 1-10

I will quickly admit that I figure since I, who has worked on computers from age 18 with mainframe computers and with every level since then, I make a perfect reviewer to claim that online Internet expertise of interpersonal communication SUCKS!

And it's gotten  WORSE SINCE AI IS NOW IN COMPETITION AMONG AND BETWEEN THEM! Or it's from the deals made with Trump... We all saw techie's at the Inauguration of the worst administration ever known! And know that deals were made thereafter... We just don't know how or why... That's the scary part since we quickly saw the devastation of what Trump has done to the nation. Now we begin to see the move to less people involved than ever before! One company has already announced huge layoffs of people due to "AI" implementation! Not OK

Google Tries - 10 for Effort within the constraints of the communication process. But still fails the user--this user almost daily... I figure if I can have failure that at least thousands of or even millions of others have felt the same type of frustration and confusion... but can't interact to even get attention from a site... They give up...

As far as I am aware, Google provides no chat process AT All. If there is one, It's been hidden from my computer for 25 years. So a reviewer like myself must automatically ask why.

Have they already adopted the belief that people are stupid, dumb and computers are the future. It is people who must be assimilated, become a part of BORG? 

Since I'm a reader am I being judged because I refused to read their pages and pages of instructions and various "stuff" that they THINK is sufficient, but have never really people checked? No, that can't be it, because millions of people cannot understand computerese even as much as I can... Communication level for Google continues at an overall 0 for lack of even trying...

Here's one area that sent me into withdrawal--if I can't deal, I retreat to calm my anger and frustration...

Because NO ONLINE SITE REALLY COMMUNICATES AS NEEDED TO BE EFFECTIVELY USED UNLESS YOU ARE A NERD, A GEEK, A COMPUTER WHIZ... And I guarantee that millions of users of these sites are not... We are the ones that are kicked off, shut out with some excuse, ignored, forced to change our name to get back on... or, even, change a bank where new equipment has been added, but not your own bank?! Your insurance man dies? Too bad...We The People must initiate action to find out where we are not to be "serviced...." Oh year and my favorite, sites who use a telephone number as your ID... and never bother to verify that that is still an active ID... (One exception to that is WVU My Chart activity, but even there the telephone system overall also SUCKS! Yes, all things Gabby has been forced to deal with because no company ever wants to talk... All they want is OUR MONEY! And that's changed since the 1960s.

Advancements have occurred; Communication has been almost deleted!

Of course I have my opinions related to why communication is so different... I may even do another separate post on that...

I could continue with specifics for Google but they know it already since I send feedback every time my frustration is raised--changes are made without notification, creates messes that are unwanted, etc... Has that happened to you who use Google? Well, you now know you're not alone...

Take for instance, Google Analytics... You would think that this could be an easy creation. After all Our Trillionnaire is trying to get to the moon, having failed often, but keeps trying... So, why, after 20 years, the analytics remain the same? Is it because they see that nobody uses them? But would they admit to themselves that it is because they present illogical, actually incorrect, unusable information?

Okay, I'm going to close with Google by describing what I have found on analytics. The numbers never tally...

First, I have two blogs. At one point, the second was used more often. But a new system was put in. I had to choose to use my primary blog, for reviews, because I had to relearn the new blog formatting, with which I continue to see changes and have to figure out how to adjust on my own... In the meantime, as I already said, I have not been able to figure out even the line spacing--yes the line spacing--on my other blog... Now, I have to point out that most systems follow the older word processing typing that millions learned... apparently programmers never took typing and progressed from there to word processing... An assumption on my part since programs which don't match some basic patterns of historical document use are extremely hard to learn...for me, at least...

Still, Analytics appears. There is no reference to my other blog, which also is getting visits, but I cannot see. Does that mean I am not using the right format for the other blog, the one I haven't been able to reformat? Or does it mean that my analytics is one blog at a time? And that's all you get? Or any other variation of possibilities that can be considered in a normal analysis of data which I've managed routinely in my own work?

Then, if it is NOT my fault? I must ask. How can analytics not tally? You see, my blog, if correct, apparently is viewed all over the world. I know that could be correct, because I've reviewed books for people from Canada, Australia and German, as a few I remember... So... I get all these technical machine info...but nothing accurate for my actual readers??? 

Well, let's take a closer look. I open my analytics on Book Readers Heaven

Posts

Desert God by Wilbur Smith -- Historical Fantasy and Adventure Never Better Merged!

Posted by Glenda A Bixler Reviews

1.28K

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James Houston Turner Has A Winner in Greco's Game!

Posted by Glenda A Bixler Reviews

119

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Blackie - A Biography of Captain Harold F. Blackburn by William F. Cass

Posted by Glenda A Bixler Reviews

102

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Take a look at the first book in particular... This is graphically shown as the last 7 days, with a major hike on one day, July 15th... All other analytics are based on this 7 day period... I can guarantee that 1.28K people did not visit my blog recently. and on one day...

My response is that this impossible analysis, cannot happen... unless it was hacked and changed...

Or the graphic representation is incorrect.

Key to these assumption are what I, the user, the creator of the blog, want to use/see to analyze. In fact, I'd like to be able to do various sorting routines, if I thought they would actually mean anything and worth sharing.. Thus far Analytics is rated 0 out of 1-10. It is worthless...

Without going into details, I will submit to you that the 1.28K is a TOTAL NUMBER OF VISITORS READING THIS REVIEW AND NOT THE LAST 7 DAYS. If I am correct, then the entire analysis is worthless. 

Indeed on another graphic, there is ALWAYS a number that has not been assigned geographically or otherwise. My guess is because of technical limitations on the part of what type of computer access is being used (hackers, dark web?) Who knows? No matter what the problem, if NOT explained by the graphic in detail, makes the entire analysis worthless...

Data is communication. Google does not effectively communicate in many ways.

Bottom line ranking of Google's response to Gabby's needs  must register no more than 3 because of lack of trust for communication practices

Given my brief health scare last night, this video of the U.S. life is kinda reflected by this video (note the extra line placed without any action on my part) Except my two emotions are either tears or anger...This guy seems to want to cry but stops and laughs instead...just like a man... LOL)

Gabby's Speaking Out!

For All God's Children!