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Collecting Feathers: tales from The Other Side Kindle Edition

by Daniela I. Norris (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
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In Collecting Feathers, Daniela I. Norris blends pitch-perfect storytelling and a keen spiritual awareness to bring us a beautiful and haunting set of tales from the beyond. A feast for the heart, mind and soul, each story is layered with unfolding intrigue, and each one will stay with you long after the pages have been turned.
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'Collecting Feathers' transports us to a world where our mental barriers and overly constructed stories no longer reduce our existence. It opens a door to another dimension where imagination and reality collide, liberating us from our self inflicted limitations. Daniela Norris exposes gracefully in this brief but powerful collection of short stories, how we are all connected, and how without judgement, evaluation, or labels, we are capable of accessing the greatest power of our Universe.
Sophie Parienti, Founder and Editor-in-chief, Yogi Times

Collecting Feathers: Tales From The Other Side offers a wonderful collection of stories set in various parts of the world and with a subtle otherworldly feel. For aficionados of the 'fantasmagoriana' short story brought up to date, this beautifully crafted collection is enhanced by those essential ingredients of a skilful use of language, evocative descriptions and read-on factor.
Suzanne Ruthven: Editor of Writers' Wheel magazine and Commissioning Editor for Compass Books

Like an interesting doorway into a secret inner garden, Daniela Norris' stories invite you into a rich experience of strange and fascinating personal culture. Before you know it, you find yourself on the other side of familiar boundaries of this life and what is beyond.
Mark Perry, CCHT, C-NLP, educator, healer, life fulfillment coach

Despite the title, and repeated motifs of death and the other side; Collecting Feathers is actually a collection of tales more about the journey to get to the end point of crossing over, than death itself. Each of the short stories in this book is completely different from the last, and yet also curiously similar. This variation forms a powerful reflection of the book's major theme: the vast range of human journeys through life.
Sarah Gonnet, sabotagereviews.com

About the Author

Daniela I. Norris, a former diplomat turned political writer, lost her twenty-year-old brother in a drowning accident in May 2010. While feeling as much shock and grief as everyone else around her, she also felt something different. She felt that her brother Michael was not really gone. He was physically gone, but he was still around. That was when she embarked on a journey of learning and exploration, her very own skeptic's journey to mediumship. Her writing then shifted from political, to spiritual and inspirational. She lives with her family near Geneva, Switzerland.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00OMCD5DG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Soul Rocks Books (November 28, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 28, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3043 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 105 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 44 ratings

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Daniela I. Norris is a former political writer, turned inspirational author and speaker.

Her award-winning fiction and non-fiction is published in magazines and anthologies and her recent books include On Dragonfly Wings (2014), Collecting Feathers: Tales from the Other Side (2014) and her trilogy of novels Recognitions (2016), Premonitions (2019) and Precognitions (2020). She also co-authored From Last to First - a parent's guide to Fencing success (Changemakers Books) with Jon Salfield. www.danielanorris.com https://www.facebook.com/pages/Daniela-I-Norris

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Mike Joy
5.0 out of 5 stars Twilight Zone
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2015
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This is, very much, a book for Twilight Zone and Night Gallery fans. Fortunately, I happen to be both. Loved it!
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Marysue Page
4.0 out of 5 stars A cleverly crafted compilation of short stories
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2015
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Creative short stories which are both thought provoking and spiritually calming. I enjoyed the variety of tales, each with a mysterious twist. The book is hard to put down and easily read in one sitting.
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5.0 out of 5 stars It is very attractive. Though I am not Jewish ...
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2015
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It is very attractive. Though I am not Jewish I ampleased to have it in my house.
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Devi Nair
5.0 out of 5 stars captivating anthology
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2015
This quote says a lot about Collecting Feathers. The way some stories make you see things in a whole new perspective, really makes you wonder what the author was thinking at the time of writing the story and whether you got the right intended gist of the story or not. Collecting Feathers is a collection of the short stories which bring so many things into perspective. Each story brought out a different emotion in me, which I captured while reading.

That is about the story. Now, coming to language and flow of the story. There are some reviews in some sites which say that the stories have abrupt endings. Yes, that is true, but I feel it is more left to the perception of the reader. That makes the story more interactive and forces the reader to use their imagination. It might not work for all, but it definitely worked for me.

The cover of the book is very captivating. The bunch of feathers surrounding the Title gives a slightly ethereal but intriguing look to it, which makes the book even more tempting to read. The different types of characters introduced in different stories bring the book to a different league of complexity. It is complex enough to make you want to know more but simple enough to understand where the story is going. Daniela is a wonderful narrator, enough to engage the audience throughout the book without even a single slack anywhere in the book.

There are very few books which have touched my heart the way this one has.I would really recommend it to everyone. It has something for everyone.
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Circa1952
2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2015
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The first story was very good. I didn't get into the others as much.
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Nicola71
3.0 out of 5 stars Shame about the endings
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2015
A collection of beautifully written, atmospheric short stories. So why only 3 stars?........ These are beautiful stories that pull you in from the first, the author then builds the emotive stories which are very enjoyable building to the endings and for me that is where they go wrong. Most of the stories have a very sudden ending, leaving you unfulfilled and disappointed. Some endings are literally one sentence, abrupt and over. If all the stories ended well and as thoughtfully as the rest of the story I would have given 5 stars and recommended this author to everyone, but sadly they were not and therefore I cannot give more than 3 stars. If the rest of the writing wasn't so good it wouldn't matter as much, I felt with the endings as they are the author let herself and her stories down. I will read more from her, in the hope she gives endings as much thought as she does the beginning and middle. Really sorry I can't give more stars, as the stories other than the ends really are beautifully written, full of atmosphere and emotion. Many delicately delectable and bittersweet.
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Helen
5.0 out of 5 stars Prepare to be taken on an unexpected journey
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2014
Collecting Feathers by Daniela Norris

Death rarely comes alone. In our human experience, it is usually accompanied by pain, or suffering. Generally speaking, we are conditioned to greet the phenomenon with fear and dread.
For me, this collection of thought-provoking tales presents the reader with a more gentle aspect, shading in the space so often perceived in black and white, evoking subtle shifts in consciousness around the subject.

Each story in this collection is a sole feather floating graciously to the ground.

Whether the context is the unexpected warp of classic, Swiss time in `Clockworks,' or set amongst the garden shadows of a stately hospital facility in `A reason to go on', there is a comforting sense of the blurring the edges between life and death, of softening the sense of finality that death often brings to the grieving. The author's attention to detail in `Train' lulled me into false sense of reality, before artfully transporting me to an alluring state of liminality.

Prepare to be taken on a most unexpected journey!

Helen Noble author of 'Scorpio Moons'; 'The 49th Day,' and 'Tears of a Phoenix.'

Thank you to the author for a free copy of this book.
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Rick Vincent
4.0 out of 5 stars The fisherman in Collecting Feathers
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2014
Daniela Norris’ short story collection titled Collecting Feathers is a mix of spiritual and supernatural. Norris is a fisherman of short story. She knows how to cast the hook and reel you in, a critical skill in story writing. In “Gemmi Travelers”, Laurent gets lost on a mountain with the elements bearing down on him. In “The Right Place”, Sarah is attacked. In “Repent”, Paulo the pickpocket gets more than he bargained for when he robs a marble-eyed old woman who curses him. All of these are great conflicts drawing the reader in.

One of the strongest tales, “A Reason to Go On” has a supernatural twist as two unlikely people come together and find softness and grace in the face of tragedy. It’s the story of an aloof banker who falls into a depression and whose suicidal thoughts fall to the wayside when he meets an old lady at the train station. “Clockworks” was an inventive story as well, where watches made in Switzerland are slowing down due to physics experiments going on at the particle collider at CERN. I would have liked to have seen a more interesting conclusion to the conflict of the time loss after being drawn is so skillfully, but the idea itself had me flipping the pages. “Repent” was a great story as well. I enjoyed watching Paulo try to dig himself out of the hole he’s dug for himself.

Collecting Feathers is a well-written short story collection easily accessible to any reader, but targets the more spiritual reader with tales teetering on the edge of life and death without getting at all religious.

Thanks to the author for a free copy in exchange for an honest review.
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Manumit
5.0 out of 5 stars A thought provoking collecting of stories.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 19, 2016
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A thought provoking collection of eleven intriguingly different stories, which, perhaps with the exception of 'Clockworks', have similar themes - that of the interface between this world and the next. Daniela Norris's has created a diverse set of characters, all unpredictable, believable and from a wide range of different cultures and parts of the world. I was particularly struck by the first one, 'A Reason to Go On', and really felt for the young man - 'Repent', also stayed with me for a long as did 'Train', and of course, 'Clockworks was most enjoyable in a completely different way.These evocative tales are beautifully and sensitively written and stay with you long after you've finished reading the book. Highly recommended.
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J. Huntsman
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2015
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Yeah - lovely wee tales.
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R E Davidson
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating take on ghosts and spirituality
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 26, 2021
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An interesting collection of short stories, all separate from one another, but having a connecting theme of spirit-phenomena, life after death and connection to spirit. I finished it in one sitting. Recommended.
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Carol Hodge
5.0 out of 5 stars Present for my niece
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 2, 2015
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Bought as a present for my niece
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