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5/24/2023 0 Comments The legion series kami garciaI can't wait for the next book!"― - Ally Condie, #1 New York Timesbestselling author of the Matched trilogy " Unbreakable is a fast-paced, relentless race through a world of demons and spirits, darkness and light - and the finish line comes when you least expect it. The twists will leave you breathless."― - Rachel Caine, New York Times bestselling author of the Morganville Vampires series " Unbreakable is a fantastic adventure - strong, engaging characters and a romance to die for. ― - Ransom Riggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children It's about forgiveness and redemption, love and loss, and it's anything but predictable. "Tense and deliciously twisty, Unbreakable is a breath-stealing midnight run through some of the creepiest locales I've seen rendered in fiction. Praise for Unbreakable: 2013 Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel Absolutely riveting."― -Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Rot & Ruin and V-Wars A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. A fantastic read."― -Marie Lu, New York Times bestselling author of Legend "Get ready to scared, surprised, and thoroughly entertained. Praise for Unmarked: 2014 Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel"A rare sequel that surpasses the original." ― -Random Riggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Hollow City 5/24/2023 0 Comments Bliss montage by ling maOr the husband in “LA” who speaks in dollar signs. There is the lover in “Tomorrow”who speaks warm and endearing things to the narrator but only when he thinks she is asleep, and sends an email that turns into a functional document when he’d been thinking of a loving dream of the narrator because all his tender thoughts turn to “cement” when he tries to express them. They can never express who they are or what they want. The stopping at those crucial moments can be frustrating for a reader, but for me those moments capture a key idea, that most of the characters, while sharply perceptive in their thoughts about each other, almost never can speak their truths face to face. ” ‘Fiction can be a space for the alternate self,’ he would tell them … ‘It often serves as a fantasy space for our other selves.’ ” In a sense, that is a description of what Ling Ma is doing in Bliss Montage, except that she focuses on the other selves trying to be born and often catches them (and stops) just as they are emerging. In “Returning” the narrator quotes her husband describing fiction to his college class. She doesn’t try to build to a knock-out punch but closes many stories at a heightened moment that leaves you on edge and having to think back over how the different strands of narrative have led you to that point. Each of Ling Ma’s stories works by building resemblances, interweaving several stories of different relationships to bring out truths about each one that otherwise might slip by. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Romancing mr bridgerton reviewAfter half a lifetime of watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks she knows everything about him, until she stumbles across his deepest secret. Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend’s brother for. Find out more about how I review books here.Įveryone knows that Colin Bridgerton is the most charming man in London. When you click on and/or purchase from some links, I make a portion of the sale. Note: This post contains affiliate links. And this has been my absolute favorite in the series by far! Bridgerton, the fourth in the Bridgerton series. When I headed on vacation, I knew I needed to download a romance novel on my Kindle before (the only genre I read by the pool, of course). It was pretty good, just like the first two books in the series. Last month, I read Book 3 in the series, An Offer From a Gentleman. I started the Bridgertons series by Julia Quinn last year when I heard that there would be a Shonda Rhymes Netflix adaptation. 5/24/2023 0 Comments The golden spyglassThis part of the valley was where the streams and cascades ran most confusingly: shafts of green-white water would sink into potholes and emerge a little lower down, or gush upward in splintered fountains, or divide into myriad streamlets, or swirl roundĪnd round trapped in a whirlpool. She put down the bag, but she didn't go straight home she climbed a little farther, up past the cave and through the thick rhododendrons,Īnd farther up still to where the trees thinned out and the rainbows began. How in the world could she ever manage to reach the sleeping girl? Would the woman never leave the cave forĪma came to the rock where the woman had told her to leave the food since she wasn't allowed in the cave anymore. Ama climbed the path to the cave, as she'd done for many days now, bread and milk in the bag on her back, a heavy puzzlement in her heart. 5/24/2023 0 Comments In another country james baldwinHis essay collections Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, and The Fire Next Time were influential in informing a large white audience.įrom 1948, Baldwin made his home primarily in the south of France, but often returned to the USA to lecture or teach. Go Tell It on the Mountain, his first novel, is a partially autobiographical account of his youth. Critics, however, note the impassioned cadences of Black churches are still evident in his writing. In the early 1940s, he transferred his faith from religion to literature. At age 14, Baldwin became a preacher at the small Fireside Pentecostal Church in Harlem. He was the eldest of nine children his stepfather was a minister. James Baldwin offered a vital literary voice during the era of civil rights activism in the 1950s and '60s. James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. The state of flow that we achieve by this mastery is as close as it gets to true happiness this is when we are fully engaged, in complete control of ourselves regardless of the situation. It is a condition achieved by mastering control over the contents of our consciousness. The book starts with Csikszentmihalyi discussing the concept of happiness and defining it as “a condition that needs to be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person” (p. This is the key discussion point in this classic and popular title in positive psychology, Flow: the psychology of optimal experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. This state in which people are “so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it” (p. Or at least, I know I experienced this when I’m playing a game or reading. Have you ever been so focused on a task or activity to the point that you stopped noticing the passage of time, and even forgot to eat or drink? Like you’re just “in the zone” and feel a deep exhilaration or great enjoyment? I believe most of us have experienced this before. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Heath brothers made to stickTo simplify your idea, you can use the Commander’s Intent approach. It should be universally understandable and communicate the most important part of your message. □ SIMPLICITY: find the core of your idea, strip it down to its most critical essence.įor your idea to be sticky, you need to begin by simplifying it. If you stick around until the end, you’ll leave with a crystal clear understanding of how to apply the takeaways from Made to Stick to breathe fresh life into your great ideas. In what follows, I’ll briefly elaborate on each of the sticky-ness principles and provide a concrete example. It lists all the qualities your message needs to succeed and have a long shelf life in the market of ideas. While my Kindle notebook is positively bleeding from everything I highlighted along the way, the most practical ( and practical is the name of the game here!) is what the Heath brothers have called their checklist for SUCCESS. Taking a magnifying glass to everything from urban legends to political slogans to iconic marketing campaigns, the Heath brothers artfully break down what makes an idea truly sticky, or as I understand it, understandable, memorable, and impactful. In Made to Stick, authors Chip and Dan Heath tackle the question: Why do some ideas succeed while others fail? Contrary to the modern scientific vision of the moon as a “lifeless, rocky satellite,”3 the protagonist of this new materialist tale is no less than a major cosmic actor, a vibrant and powerful god who shaped and safeguarded the everyday life and fate of humanity. In doing so, as an art historian, my biased focus is on the various apparitions of the moon on monuments, works of art, and the artifacts of visual culture, which will help me narrate its story. For the sake of brevity and coherence, I will focus on the ancient Mesopotamian engagements with the moon during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and pursue the very popular cult of the moon in Hellenistic and Roman Anatolia. In this essay, I discuss both the veneration and the visualization of the moon in Pre-Islamic (ritual) contexts to provide a visual-historical biography of the moon, which was imagined both as a divine presence and as a cosmic actor. The moon played a major role in the ancient Middle Eastern world as a celestial body, as a material measure of time and temporality, as a site for predicting the future, and as a benevolent god of abundance, prosperity, and in certain places, even healing. 5/23/2023 0 Comments Mistik Lake by Martha BrooksThe winner will receive a plaque and a cheque for $1000. The award is given annually, when merited, at the Canadian Library Associations annual conference. To be eligible for consideration, the following must apply: it must be a work of fiction (novel, collection of short stories, or graphic novel) published in 2015, the title must be a Canadian publication in either hardcover or paperback, and the author must be a Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident. "This award recognizes an author of an outstanding English language Canadian book which appeals to young adults between the ages of 13 and 18. "The Young Adult Canadian Book Award logo was designed in 1983 by Nicolette Jacquin in Regina, Saskatchewan." "Book Award Committee members select winning titles annually, from among the best of new English-language fiction for young adults by a Canadian." "In 1989, responsibility for the selection and presentation of the Young Adult Canadian Book of the Year Award was transferred to the Young Adult Services Interest Group of the Canadian Library Association." "The Young Adult Canadian Book Award was conceived and presented by the Saskatchewan Young Adult Caucus, 1981-1988." |