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![]() ![]() The book’s an easy read, and I enjoyed it enough to pass my copy along to our pastor. Acuff offers simple tips to fill your mind with healthier thoughts or “soundtracks,” and his self-deprecating sense of humor runs throughout. I tend to be an overthinker (no surprise to those who know me), so the premise intrigued me. Not only a heart-wrenching and inspiring read but also a testament to the incredible power of storytelling. This is the second Acuff book I’ve read, and I pre-ordered it, something I don’t usually do. In Before and After, Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate gracefully chronicle the experiences of survivors forever affected by a corrupt Tennessee orphanage, leading many to a life-altering reunion in search of healing. In Before and After, Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate gracefully chronicle the experiences of survivors forever affected by a corrupt Tennessee orphanage, leading. “Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking,” by Jon Acuff, the only brand- new release on my list. ![]() Examples from this year that you might enjoy: Sometimes these are challenging books that stretch my thinking, and they usually touch on learning a new skill or broadening my understanding of work-life balance in some way. And, whew, did I need it as we enter year two of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is my book-lover version of spring cleaning for the heart and soul. ![]() Each year I get the urge, come spring, to read nonfiction books on varied topics to help dust off winter’s cobwebs in my brain and open room for new ideas. ![]() ![]() ![]() His father's financial troubles compelled his mother to go to work as a lady's maid in a local mansion, while the children were put to work as apprentices with various local tradesmen. His father, a professional cricketer and failed businessman, regularly brought him books from the local library so that he could pass the time. As an eight year old boy, he was once confined to bed with a broken leg. Herbert George Wells' writing career owes itself to an accident suffered in childhood. Based on scientific theories of optics and physics, this story instantly caught the imagination of readers and has been regularly adapted to film, television and radio since it first made its appearance more than a hundred years ago. Written in novella form, this bizarre science fiction tale was first published in Pearson's Weekly as a serial and later compiled into a single book. The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance (to give the book its full title) by HG Wells was published in 1897. The stranger is the keeper of a terrible secret. Mysterious burglaries and fires break out, culminating in a destructive rampage across the peaceful countryside. Suddenly, strange events begin to happen in the village. He stays cooped up in his room all day and night, working with strange chemicals and apparatus. He takes a room at the inn, but refuses to socialize with anyone. ![]() He is heavily clad in an overcoat and his face is wrapped in bandages. ![]() One dark and stormy night, a stranger arrives in West Sussex at a village inn. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike The Great Gatsby's Nick Carraway, however, Richard understands Tony's background and is aware of his current dilemma, and tries actively to intervene and change the course of Tony's descent. ![]() It is through Richard's eyes that we witness Tony's steady decline. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the story of Tony and his relationship with his manservant Hugo Barrett is told through the point of view of an observer, an old army buddy of Tony's. Rules have changed, however, as the world has turned upside down.Īs with F. Maugham's novel is a grim depiction of post-war London a squalid city where both the privileged and underprivileged must struggle to carve a place for themselves in society. The film is quite different in content and approach, mainly because it was produced during a very different era. Robin Maugham's The Servant is best remembered by Harold Pinter's 1963 film adaptation, also titled The Servant, directed by Joseph Losey. ![]() ![]() ![]() The rule can be exploited as the exchange does not need to be equal - we do not like feeling indebted.The rule also holds when the favor is unsolicited - even if unwelcome.Liking a person has no effect on whether they feel the obligation to return the favor.This rule holds throughout human society.Ex: if one person does us a favor, we should try to do them one in return.Rule for reciprocation: we should try to repay, in kind, what another person has provided us.Contrast principle: if the the second item in a presentation is fairly different from the first, we will tend to see it as more different than it actually is. ![]() There are several components to these “weapons” of automatic influence: they are nearly mechanical in activation, they can be exploited, and they can be easy to trigger.Automatic, stereotyped behaviour is prevalent in much of human action - it is often efficient, and other times necessary.Adding the word “because” when asking a small favor vastly increases compliance, regardless if the reason is a good one. ![]() ![]() She received the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Her book Howl's Moving Castle was made into an Academy Award-nominated major animated feature by Hayao Miyazaki. This is the definitive edition of The Tough Guide, featuring a new map, an entirely new design, and additional material written for it by Diana Wynne Jones.Ī Hugo Award Finalist (Nonfiction) About the Author: Diana Wynne Jones was the multiple award-winning author of many fantasy novels for children, teenagers, and adults. Now this cult classic is back, and readers can experience Diana Wynne Jones at her very best: incisive, funny, and wildly imaginative. Both a hilarious send-up of the cliches of the genre and an indispensable guide for writers, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland has been nearly impossible to find for years. The Tough Guide to Fantasyland is your travel guide, a handbook to everything you might find: Evil, the Dark Lord, Stew, Boots (but not Socks), and what passes for Economics and Ecology. ![]() Imagine that all fantasy novels-the ones featuring dragons, knights, wizards, and magic-are set in the same place. ![]() The definitive edition of a cult classic by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Edward the Confessor died in 1066, William I made a hereditary claim to the Anglo-Saxon throne (Edward’s mother was a Norman) and invaded the island kingdom. He then conquered the county of Maine in 1063.Īcross the Channel. Succeeding his father as duke in 1035, William I began to put down rebel elements of the duchy who questioned his right to rule, a process not completed until 1060, when he defeated a combined army sent against him by King Henry I of France and Count Geoffrey Martel of Anjou. ![]() As a youth he developed an intelligence and shrewdness that served him well as an adult. ![]() This illegitimacy did not, however, keep him from becoming one of the most important military and political leaders of the Middle Ages. William I (William the Conqueror or William the Bastard) was the son of Robert I, duke of Normandy, and his concubine Herleva, a peasant girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() This sets the dark and comic tone for Hitchhiker's Guide. Of course, even if you laugh in the face of death and destruction, that doesn't solve anything: you can laugh, but people are still going to die. It laughs in the face of death and destruction. Wells's War of the Worlds? Because The Hitchhiker's Guide is hilarious. ![]() ![]() So if you want to sit down and read a serious book about aliens destroying Earth, may we recommend H.G. Also, he was British, so his role models were British sketch comedy writers like Monty Python alum John Cleese-who, at 6'5", was also very tall. To understand The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, we have to understand something about Douglas Adams: he was very tall. Lots of comedies begin with the destruction of Earth, right? That might sound like a tragedy (after all, Earth is where our favorite food is made), but take it from us: it's totally a comedy. Arthur isn't a hero-he's actually pretty boring-but after Earth is destroyed, Arthur is thrust into a series of crazy adventures that he's totally unprepared for. That's the situation faced by Arthur Dent, totally normal English guy (favorite drink: tea). What if the world ended tomorrow-where would you get your favorite drink? ![]() The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Introduction ![]() ![]() ![]() 'The ground floor accommodation is ideally arranged for formal and informal entertaining with one room leading seamlessly into another. 'It lies in the centre of the historic coastal village of Rottingdean overlooking the attractive village green. A former stable block is now storeroom and workshop.Ī spokesman for Strutt & Parker, which is handling the sale of the home listed for £2.95million, said: 'North End House is a substantial Grade II listed village house with a beautiful "country" garden. ![]() The grounds are a stunning feature of the property with a tennis court, swimming pool, kitchen garden and a wild garden with a gazebo. Bagnold died in Rottingdean three decades ago in 1981 at 92Ī further detached cottage in the grounds has a sitting room, kitchenette, bathroom and bedroom, or could be used as a home office. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lipton's iconoclastic, feminist approach is refreshing and intriguing. The model emerges as a strong and independent woman who defies all efforts by traditional scholars to patronize and degrade her. ![]() ![]() Using reminiscences of her own troubled childhood as a catalyst and projecting her feelings and desires onto her elusive subject, she fleshes out the story and constructs a highly original portrait of Meurent, for whom she invents colorful monologues. Even though the results of her quest were meager-she found little about Meurent's life and was unable to locate any of her paintings-Lipton's account of her search is as exciting as a good detective story. By combing through libraries and archives in Paris and New York, Lipton ( Looking into Degas ) hoped to reconstruct the life of Victorine Meurent and prove that this mysterious 19th-century woman, an artist in her own right as well as the model for the famous nudes of Manet's Olympia and Dejeuner sur l'herbe, was more than the pathetic alcoholic who appears in academic studies by male art historians. Alias Olympia: A Woman’s Search for Manet’s Notorious Model and Her Own Desire by Eunice Lipton The Parisian Sphinx, upcoming nonfiction by Summer Brennan (cover not final) Share this: Share Loading. ![]() |