![]() ![]() Things are stressful you deserve a treat. You can leave behind your job, the chaos of the subway, but your children always have to be fed. She bought cold, hard lemons and seltzer and Tito’s vodka and two bottles of nine-dollar red wine.” The list goes on and on, bacon and maple syrup and cheddar and boxed yellow cake and zucchini and kale and ground beef: “It was more than two hundred dollars, but never mind.” There’s something particularly potent and mesmerizing about grocery and cooking scenes in vacation novels, a chore suddenly elevated into an indulgence. ![]() ![]() She bought organic hot dogs and inexpensive buns and the same ketchup everyone else bought. She bought potato chips and tortilla chips and jarred salsa full of cilantro, even though Archie refused to eat cilantro. She bought sliced turkey, whole-grain bread, that pebbly mud-colored mustard, and mayonnaise. The mother, of course, goes to the closest grocery and buys, buys, buys: “She bought yogurt and blueberries. ![]()
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![]() If you want to achieve your goals, then you need a well-organized mind. We might even lose our keys! And because our brains aren’t always working properly, they don’t help us get things done efficiently either. Sometimes the clutter gets so bad that it’s hard for us to do anything without getting distracted or forgetting what we were thinking about completely. However, unlike when you’re trying to find something in your messy bedroom at home, this mess can actually hurt you. ![]() ![]() Your brain isn’t tidy either – all kinds of information are stuffed into every nook and cranny in the place, just like junk in any other cluttered home. It’s not a nice, new house it’s an old and rickety one. It’s still relevant today because it teaches people how to take notes while reading and how to organize their thoughts after they’ve finished reading something. ![]() However, this classic bestseller by Mortimer J Adler and Charles Van Doren has valuable advice that can help anyone read more effectively. ![]() For example, when you’re reading an essay or report now, you don’t actually see a blank sheet of paper instead, the document is displayed on screen with a blinking cursor. Since How to Read a Book was first published in 1940, there have been many changes. 1-Page Summary of The Organized Mind Overview ![]() ![]() ![]() I began journaling about this experience as it was happening in 1993.īelieve it or not, it took me 20 years. ![]() My foundation was shaken when I experienced multiple miscarriages as my mother’s health gradually deteriorated. ![]() My husband and I had just returned to my home state of North Carolina ready to build a horse farm and start a family. ![]() Motherhood: Lost and Found is the story of my mother’s descent into Alzheimer’s at the same time I was trying to become a mother myself. Motherhood: Lost and Found was a finalist in the Next Generation Independent Book Awards, the world’s largest not-for-profit independent book awards. Her graceful, exacting language rises above the grief of infertility and the struggle to care for aging parents, connecting the reader ultimately to the heartbeat and resilience of the human experience. The voice in Ann’s memoir, Motherhood: Lost and Found has been called constant and abiding, her imagery indelible. The author’s devotion to her family and her horse Crimson sustained her as her mother’s illness progressed and her own window of potential motherhood began to close. Ann’s foundation was shaken when she experienced multiple miscarriages at the same time her mother spiraled into Alzheimer’s. I wanted to share my story so that others might have an emotional roadmap to help them on this difficult journey.Īnn Campanella – 3 October 2016 The Back FlapĪt age 33, award-winning author and poet Ann Campanella returned to her home state of North Carolina ready to build a horse farm and start a family. ![]() ![]() Obviously by me having read the book the 5 star review won me over and I am so glad it did. But finally I thought I'd read one of the reviews that marked it at 5 stars and one that marked it at 2 stars just to see which one would lead me to either finally reading the book or passing it by again. Every time I came to it thinking it was time for me to read it I would see so many mixed ratings that I thought, "maybe not right now". I've had this book on my kindle for a very long time. I find myself not writing a lot of review's this year, but I thought I needed to for this one since I loved it so much. It was interesting enough to get me to finish. Ok, ok…in list form, it’s worse than in actuality. “The older man” x1000 (why do author’s LOVE to overuse this as a descriptor? And PS – the guy was only TWO years older!) 100 different characters who all have relationships with each other Oh, didn’t I tell you we’re in an “open” relationship Perfect new boyfriend, to-become-husband ![]() 2 married men, one in a “beard” relationship, the other blissfully happy hetero ![]() ![]() However, if you have the itch for a poorly written, unbelievable GFY plot than close your eyes as I spoil away in this review: I will try and save you by telling you to run the other way from this book. Bad writing, horrible editing, and just outrageous story points. ![]() ![]() ![]() The opening line “The places we are born come back” not only sets the theme but also provides the structure of the narrative – “Hunt”, “river”, “cottage” being the map. ![]() This is an absorbing story moving through time, different locations, gender and states of mind tied, all together by the past that is inevitable to make sense of the puzzle that is the present. ![]() Sarah now suffers from dementia, but Gretel is still hoping for answers about what has happened and why her mother left her. Johnson tells the story of a young woman, Gretel, who is reunited with her mother, Sarah, after many years of abandonment. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2018. (vf) The first novel “Everything Under” by the British writer Daisy Johnson is a fairy-tale version of the Oedipus myth with a touch of magical realism. ![]() ![]() ![]() Makumbi's writing is largely based on oral traditions. In 2021, her novel The First Woman won the Jhalak Prize. In 2018 she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize in the fiction category. Her story Let's Tell This Story Properly won the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. ![]() Her first novel, Kintu, won the Kwani Manuscript Prize in 2013 and was longlisted for the 2014 Etisalat Prize for Literature. She is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Lancaster University and lives in Manchester with her husband Damian and son Jordan. She realised that oral traditions were so broad and would be able to frame all her writing regardless of subject, form o Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, a Ugandan novelist and short story writer, has a PhD from Lancaster University. ![]() Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, a Ugandan novelist and short story writer, has a PhD from Lancaster University. ![]() ![]() This tenth anniversary edition includes updated data and new information but maintains the same long-term perspective as in its predecessor.īogle has also added two new chapters designed to provide further guidance to investors: one on asset allocation, the other on retirement investing.Ī portfolio focused on index funds is the only investment that effectively guarantees your fair share of stock market returns. While the stock market has tumbled and then soared since the first edition of Little Book of Common Sense was published in April 2007, Bogle's investment principles have endured and served investors well. Bogle describes the simplest and most effective investment strategy for building wealth over the long term: buy and hold, at very low cost, a mutual fund that tracks a broad stock market Index such as the S&P 500. Bogle reveals his key to getting more out of investing: low-cost index funds. ![]() The Little Book of Common Sense Investing is the classic guide to getting smart about the market. ![]() ![]() The best-selling investing "bible" offers new information, new insights, and new perspectives ![]() ![]() Indigo Ridge is the first book of Devney Perry’s new series The Edens and is Grifffin and Winslow’s story. Beautiful and intelligent, she proves hard to resist. Winslow does her best to avoid Griffin, but when a woman is found dead on Eden property, the two of them have no choice but to cross paths.Īs clues to the murderer lead to one of Quincy’s own, Griffin realizes Winslow is more than he gave her credit for. ![]() He’s insufferable, arrogant and keeps reminding everyone that she’s an outsider. Sleeping with Griffin Eden was a huge mistake, one she’s trying to forget. In her defense, it was her first night in town and she didn’t realize that the rugged and charming man who wooed her into bed was Quincy royalty. But winning over the town’s founding family might have been easier if not for her one-night stand with their oldest son. ![]() As Quincy, Montana’s new chief of police, she’s determined to prove herself to the community and show them she didn’t earn her position because her grandfather is the mayor.Īccording to her pops, all she has to do is earn favor with the Edens. ![]() ![]() Winslow Covington believes in life, liberty and the letter of the law. ![]() ![]() ![]() He campaigned against creationism and proposed that science and religion should be considered two compatible, complementary fields, or "magisteria," whose authority does not overlap. In evolutionary theory, he opposed strict selectionism, sociobiology as applied to humans, and evolutionary psychology. He contributed to evolutionary developmental biology. Gould helped develop the theory of punctuated equilibrium, in which evolutionary stability is marked by instances of rapid change. Most of Gould's empirical research was on land snails. Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. ![]() Stephen Jay Gould was a prominent American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. ![]() ![]() ![]() He spent over 20 years in Naval Special Warfare as a SEAL Sniper, Troop Commander, and a Task Unit Commander leading a team in Iraq and Afghanistan. My guest today is the one and only Jack Carr. “Social media is my storefront.” Tweet That - Jack Carr Jack Carr ![]() Today, we talk about putting yourself in the public eye, pursuing something you’ve always been interested in, how military combat compares to civilian life and the life of a writer and forging the path you’ve always wanted to walk. Jack is one of the most genuine men I know and I’ve always been fascinated with his transition from warrior to author. And, if you’ve listened to any of our previous episodes, you’ll know exactly why. His name is Jack Carr and I take every opportunity I can to talk with him. My repeat guest, friend, former Navy SEAL, and author of the James Reece series which includes Terminal List, True Believer, and his newest (released today), Savage Son. ![]() |