![]() ![]() ![]() And Willa herself has long strived to build a life beyond the brooding Jackson family shadow. The Blue Ridge Madam?built by Willa's great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water's heyday, and once the town's grandest home?has stood for years as a lonely monument to misfortune and scandal. It's the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. ![]() (The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town's famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is just as real as you want it to be. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Tina Fey has that ability to tell you her life in such a comedic way that at times I felt as if I was listening to her reading the book to me (No I did not buy the Audiobook.yet). ![]() ![]() I can’t say “I loved it” because that’s in the past tense, I LOVE IT with every fiber of my being. Now, onto my review of the book foreal this time: All I know is, executive man or stay-at-home wife, college girl or restaurant busboy, get Bossypants. Squint your eyes and try to read! If by reading the back cover you did not laugh or find it comedic at all, there is something wrong with you, or perhaps you had a bad day, who knows. I went to the Barnes and Noble that’s right across the street from my house and picked up a copy because I refused to read it on my Kindle for some awkward reason (the reason actually being that since the book had pictures I wanted to see them on actual paper, not a screen).Īt any rate, if you ever come across this book, it will take you 5 seconds just by reading the back cover to start laughing. I wish the title for this post wasn’t “Book review” I wish it was “My love letter to Tina Fey and the uber-awesomeness that is Bossypants”.įrom the moment I heard the book was out, I was like “I HAVE to get it”. ![]() ![]() But beyond that, it can erode our relationships with other people, with time, and with the environment around us. ![]() Yes, at the most basic level, social media and the news cycle take away our ability to reflect and think deeply about what’s actually happening underneath the status updates and headlines. The bulk of this book is about the things that we are unable to do when our attention is tied up in social media or the news cycle. ![]() ![]() There is really no how-to in this book, and I don’t think Odell’s work here can be even halfway summarized with buzzwords like “mindfulness” or “digital detox” or whatever. Instead it’s a really well-researched book on some abstract and sometimes seemingly esoteric concepts: the self, attention, bioregionalism, what it means to refuse/resist in place, and the effects of late stage capitalism on all of the above. The title is misleading as this is not at all a how-to on unplugging or leaving social media (for that, maybe read Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism or Catherine Price’s How to Break Up With Your Phone). ![]() First, I understand the negative reviews of this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2011, Morgan denied having ever hacked a phone and stated that he had not, "to my knowledge published any story obtained from the hacking of a phone". Morgan was the editor of the Daily Mirror during the period in which the paper was implicated in the phone hacking scandal. Since 2022, Morgan has been a presenter for TalkTV on the programme Piers Morgan Uncensored. ![]() In 2008, he won The Celebrity Apprentice US, appearing with future US President Donald Trump. He co-presented the ITV Breakfast programme Good Morning Britain with Susanna Reid (2015–2021), and was a judge on both America's Got Talent (2006–2011) and Britain's Got Talent (2007–2010). He was the editorial director of First News during 2006 to 2007.Īs a television presenter, Morgan has hosted the ITV talk show Piers Morgan's Life Stories (2009–2020) and the CNN talk show Piers Morgan Live (2011–2014). From 1995, Morgan edited the Daily Mirror, but was fired in 2004. ![]() In 1994, aged 29, he was appointed editor of the News of the World by Rupert Murdoch, which made him the youngest editor of a British national newspaper in more than half a century. He began his Fleet Street career in 1988 at The Sun. ![]() Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan ( / p ɪər z/ né O'Meara, born 30 March 1965 ) is an English broadcaster, journalist, writer, and television personality. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's important to note that these aren't meant to be done in isolation. The researchers concluded that if educators knew which factors produced the greatest positive gains in student achievement, they could do more of the effective practices and fewer of the negative or ineffective practices. The research produced data on over 250 aspects/actions' impact on student learning in terms of effect size. ![]() They called this Visible Learning, what action was observed and the effect size or impact it had on student learning. From this research, they were able to quantify the effect size on learning from each action/evidence on the impact on student learning. John Hattie, Viviane Robinson and a group of educational researchers analyzed data of over 800 meta-analyses from thousands of studies on every aspect of school and instruction. Effective instructional leaders often examine actions within a school through the lens of evidence=impact, what do teachers/students do and what is the impact on student learning. ![]() ![]() ![]() With humorous sagacity and consummate craft, Gabriel García Márquez traces an exceptional half-century of unrequited love. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he does so again. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. As he rises in his business career, he whiles away the years in 622 affairs - yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. ![]() ![]() In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people's lives together for more than half a century. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Barton, Bella Forrest, Dale Mayer, Madison Faye, C.M. Link, Maria Spada, Aquila Editing ( 1,510 ) 4.44 Victorias day starts out like any other aboard the transorbital ship, Phoenix. ![]() Sure, she had always dreamed of interacting with intelligent extraterrestrial life- the real thing, not those microbes on distant moons. Such is the life of an emergency medicine specialist in the age of post-discovery. Chasing Earth: Saving Askara Part II (Tori & Aderus Book 2) by J.M. ![]() ago Just finished Land of the Beautiful Dead. 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The wave of all-women exhibitions in the United States hit first in Florida this past winter. Now we face it again, because this year, 2016, is once again the year of the woman artist-it happens roughly every decade-although no one has formally declared it so. Nearly half a century has passed since Nochlin posed her question. Our very idea of greatness, of genius, she argued, is bound up with manliness. The fault, dear brothers, lies not in our stars, our hormones, our menstrual cycles or our empty internal spaces, but in our institutions and our education … everything that happens to us from the moment we enter this world of meaningful symbols, signs and signals. ![]() ![]() That’s not to say that she is infallable, flawless, or pefect in every way-because she’s not-but she never gives up even in the bleakest moments. I’ve talked about Rose before in previous reviews, but it bears repeating that she is absolutely resilient. She went from being a student in Vampire Academy to a warrior and fighter in Last Sacrifice. Rose has been through so much in such a short amount of time. Almost everyone is left in a good place at the end, which made me insanely happy. LAST SACRIFICE was a great way to end this series and say goodbye to the world of Rose, Dimitri, Lissa and Christian. Over the course of six books, I came to love these characters, despite the mistakes they make along the way. Reading this series almost 5 years later, I still love the books just as much now. I appreciate my readers and make it my goal to be upfront and honest. ![]() This small income goes back into my blog, so I can continue to create fun content for you. In plain English, this means that I may receive a small commission (at no cost to you) if you purchase something through the links provided. ![]() ![]() Affiliate Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. ![]() ![]() ![]() Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti, even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Collapse moves from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland. ![]() As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe, and weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted. ![]() |