![]() ![]() Martin book will sound pretty similar, whether the book is about dragons in a fantasy setting called Westeros or about vampires in the antebellum south on a steamboat on the Mississippi). Mitchell showcases serious strength as a writer as each of those stories sound totally different (which is not easy for some authors to do for example, a George R.R. Literary but still accessible each story is wildly tonally different, but all are convincing and compelling. Each story is threaded through with action and consequence, and those consequences play out in the other stories. The book centers on six stories, told separately, set in different times (ranging from the 1800’s through an indeterminate period in the future), and all are connected in some way, heavily implying reincarnation. Frobisher is bisexual he also sleeps with women.īrief summary / book review: It’s one hell of a read. ![]() ![]() One of the stories is about Robert Frobisher, a composer who writes letters to his erstwhile lover, Sixsmith. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Jennifer has a passion for resurrecting heritage hand stitches. It’s not just discarded ephemera that she rescues. ![]() She spends hours painstakingly recreating household objects as 3D sculptures by manipulating and stitching paper, the latter often having a story of its own to contribute. Her love of literature has always been a pull, and pursuing this interest led her to focus exclusively on working with paper. As a student she worked with materials such as orange peel, jelly tots and other edible items now she mines the pages of books and scours charity shops and flea markets for pre-loved printed ephemera to feature in her work. At the heart of Jennifer Collier’s work is a love of experimentation as she explores what is possible – and what is not. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her writing has been featured in Fast Company, Quartz, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Entrepreneur, Quiet Rev, and other digital outlets, and she’s taught design courses at Stanford. Mollie is an Organizational Designer at global innovation firm IDEO. ![]() Her writing has appeared in CNN, The Economist, The Financial Times, and NPR. ![]() Liz has run workshops for leaders at organizations such as Google, Facebook, Nike, and Stanford on how to create inclusive cultures. Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy are the co-authors of No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotion at Work. Do they have a place? What can you do about them? We look at why you should be less passionate about your job, we explore the science behind actually being motivated at work and prevent yourself from being burnt out, and we share a powerfully simple emotion management checklist you can start using right now with our guests Mollie West Duffy and Liz Fosslien. In this episode we discuss emotions at work. ![]() ![]() ![]() This post is meant to help you with that–I’ll provide a short summary of the setting and premise of each of my recommendations, followed by the reasons why I think they’d make good starting points.įull disclosure: I haven’t read every single one of Butler’s books-I’m still missing four. If you haven’t read any of her work and you’re like me, then you’ll want to do a bit of research before picking your very first Octavia Butler. Problem is, Butler wrote loads of books, and they vary in terms of content and quality, and some of them are stand-alone and some of them form series. they double as philosophical treaties on racial and sexual power dynamics, as well as, often, the ethics of genetic tinkering: when reading her books, I often have a sense of Butler arguing and counter-arguing with herself, through her characters, the ins and outs of a series of fiendish moral puzzles, some of which ultimately have no answer, and/or resist the author’s attempt at figuring them out through logic. ![]()
![]() Though its earliest and latest chapters veer into polemic, Rationality is mostly intended to be something of a how-to manual for rational thinking. Unlike those pro-reason tomes, Pinker’s latest is less interested in making the case for “making sense” and instead functions as an introduction to logic, statistical inference and probability theory. In a way, Rationality is part three of a trilogy that includes The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011) and Enlightenment Now (2018). Though American culture has long made room for both (the Moon landing and Woodstock were separated by a few weeks in the summer of 1969), Pinker argues our irrational Dionysian tendencies have been ascendant, and to the detriment of Apollonian clear-headed logic. ![]() And in The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche popularized this ongoing tension as a duel between two Greek gods: Apollo (who appeals to rational thinking and order) and Dionysus (who represents emotion and chaos). ![]() How can we make sense of making sense – and its opposite?” How, indeed? The question of rationality versus the passions has been debated since the dawn of philosophy. ![]() “ an era blessed with unprecedented resources for reasoning,” he writes in the book’s preface, “the public sphere is infested with fake news, quack cures, conspiracy theories and ‘post-truth’ rhetoric. ![]() The central thesis of Steven Pinker’s Rationality is undeniable. ![]() ![]() ![]() They abide beyond the end of the minds reach we cannot catch up to them. ![]() ![]() He knows us better than we do: The plays remain the outward limit of human achievement: aesthetically, cognitively, in certain ways morally, even spiritually. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is a companion to Shakespeare's work, and just as much an inquiry into what it means to be human. In short, Shakespeare invented our understanding of ourselves. Before Shakespeare there was characterization after Shakespeare, there were characters, men and women capable of change, with highly individual personalities. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is an analysis of the central work of the Western canon, and of the playwright who not only invented the English language, but also, as Bloom argues, created human nature as we know it today. He discusses that a character (such as Hamlet) observes himself speaking, or thinking, and is changed or enlightened by. Bloom calls his characters ‘self-overhearing’. The two noble kinsmen - Coda : the Shakespearean difference - A word at the end : foregrounding The second critical notion to be referred to is one from Harold Bloom, who quotes that wonderful line of Hegel’s in his book ‘Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human’. ![]() Chronology - To the reader - Shakespeare's universalism - I. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now that the charges against her have been dropped, Gloria Carmody is spending the last dizzying days of summer on Long Island, yachting on the sound and palling around with socialites at Forrest Hamilton's swanky villa. ![]() ![]() She can't bear to see Marcus lose a chance for true love. The old Lorraine would have sat by and let the chips fall where they may, but she's grown up a lot these past few months. Finding out that Marcus is marrying a gold digger who may or may not be named Anastasia? A nightmare. And if she has to be unhappy, she's going to drag everyone else down to the depths of despair right along with her.īeing a Barnard girl is the stuff of Lorraine Dyer's dreams. If Marcus Eastman truly loved her, how could he have fallen for another girl so quickly? Their romance mustn't have been as magical as Clara thought. Parties, bad boys, speakeasies-life in Manhattan has become a woozy blur for Clara Knowles. Joy and tragedy collide in DIVA, the riveting conclusion to the Flappers series, set in the dazzling Roaring Twenties. If you love The Great Gatsby, you'll want to read the Flappers series. ![]() ![]() ![]() This has taken him through a close collaboration with Professor William R Miller on the subject of motivational interviewing, a Doctoral thesis (1993) on counselling for excessive drinkers, to more recent work on consultations about lifestyle and medication use in healthcare practice. His early experience as a trainee nurse in a hospital addiction treatment setting led to an interest in constructive methods for helping people resolve difficult behaviour change problems. ![]() ![]() Since then he has lived and worked there as a clinical psychologist in the National Health Service and more recently, as a member of the Department of General Practice. Professor Stephen Rollnick grew up in Cape Town, South Africa and completed a Masters training in research methods in Strathclyde University in Glasgow (1978) and a professional training in clinical psychology in Cardiff (1983). Alongside William R Miller, he developed many of the founding principles of motivational interviewing. ![]() Stephen Rollnick is Honorary Distinguished Professor in the School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Wales, UK. ![]() ![]() Her parents had everything planned out for her. My Synopsis:This Fine Life by Eva Everson(For review from Revell)Mariette Puttnam had no idea what she wanted to do with her life. There is a strong religious current through this one, and even though I have a very strong faith, I did not like the way the husband's faith was presented as a domineering even "my way is right, and your way is wrong" kindof faith.There were parts of this story that were touching.aspects that I wish this author had followed up on.the stories surrounding the lost child of the present and the one from the past in particular would have been places where the author could have expounded and created more depth for this story.This one was ok, but I wouldn't have missed anything had I skipped this one. He gives up a lucrative position in her father's business to become a preacher, and they struggle through the next several years.This one tries to have a happy ending.but it was unrealistic and silly as far as I was was like all of a sudden everything was supposed to be ok. She runs off and marries him even though her parents forbid her. ![]() ![]() ![]() A young proper woman of the 50s-60s era finishes school and is trying to decide what to do with her life when she meets a young man from the wrong side of the tracks. ![]() ![]() ![]() This relationship proved the model for Frederic and Catherine's tragic romance in A Farewell to Arms. Severely wounded, he recuperated in a Red Cross hospital in Milan where he fell in love with one of his nurses. Hemingway served as an ambulance driver for the Italian army in World War I. It will surprise no one that a book so vivid and deeply felt originated in the author's own life. Hemingway masterfully interweaves these dual narratives of love and war, joy and terror, and-ultimately-liberation and death. It would also be hard to find a more harrowing American novel about World War I. Ernest Hemingway is the notorious tough guy of modern American letters, but it would be hard to find a more tender and rapturous love story than A Farewell to Arms. ![]() |
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