![]() And we must actively and continuously choose how we use it. Odell sees our attention as the most precious-and overdrawn-resource we have. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives. In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. Porchlight's Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year One of President Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of 2019" "A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."-Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() As the 2012 Newbery Medal recipient, I don’t know what I expected– but it sure wasn’t this. This semi-autobiographical novel is billed as one which melds the “entirely true” and the “wildly fictional”. and possibly murder.Įndlessly surprising, this sly, sharp-edged narrative is the author at his very best, making readers laugh out loud at the most unexpected things in a dead-funny depiction of growing up in a slightly off-kilter place where the past is present, the present is confusing, and the future is completely up in the air. ![]() As one obituary leads to another, Jack is launched on a strange adventure involving molten wax, Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the past, Hells Angels. Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets.īut plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a feisty old neighbor with a most unusual chore-typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his Utopian town. ![]() Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction! ![]() ![]() ![]() Even when He’s silent - He’s still there. He isn't going to change the subject or walk away. Lament is a reminder that we're not alone. The world is too big to change, and the burdens too heavy to carry. There’s no strength to push this dream on anymore. The voice gets stuck at the back of the throat. Find your voice, tell your story, change the world and all that. So why am I talking about lament on this podcast? I’m supposed to be encouraging. ![]() And then of course there’s Job, and an entire book called Lamentations. ![]() He was quoting David, Psalm 22 - which says “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?” (Psalm 22:1, NIV) More than one third of the Psalms are laments. “My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?” You know who said that? Jesus, on the cross. It’s both an expression of grief or anguish, and a cry of hope. The Bible gives us plenty of examples an incredibly powerful way to deal with suffering, called a lament. But what happens when things don’t go as planned? What happens when you get bad news? When everything falls apart? All last month we talked about calling and purpose. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Warsaw he finds the point where the tram rails that led to the Jewish ghetto come to a dead end in a city park. At Ypres he hears the blast of munitions from the Great War that are still detonated twice a day. He describes what he sees at places that have become Europe's well-springs of memory, where history is written into the landscape. Read more Adriana Warno in Poland, with her holiday job at the gates of the camp at Birkenau. The result is mesmerising: Mak's rare double talent as a sharp-eyed journalist and a hugely imaginative historian makes In Europe a dazzling account of that journey, full of diaries, newspaper reports and memoirs, and the voices of prominent figures and unknown players from the grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II to. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium. Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, St Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. Num Pages: 896 pages, Illustrations, maps. This book offers an account of that journey, full of diaries, newspaper reports and memoirs, and the voices of prominent figures and unknown players from the grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Adriana Warno in Poland, with her holiday job at the gates of the camp at Birkenau. The author spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent. ![]() ![]() (Didion and her late husband moved from New York to Los Angeles in 1964, where they worked as highly successful screenwriters, producing scripts for 1971's The Panic in Needle Park and 1976's A Star Is Born, among other works, before returning to New York 20 years later.)Īnd from her New York perch, Didion was able to observe the political scene more closely, writing trenchant pieces about Clinton, El Salvador and most searingly the Central Park Five. Also included are three previously uncollected texts by Didion.Īs a Westerner transplanted to New York, Didion was able to look at her native land, its mores and fixed rules of behaviour, with the loving and critical eyes of a daughter who got out and went back. ![]() Arranged chronologically, the book highlights Didion's fascination with the two coasts that made her and includes 50 artists including Brice Marden and Betye Saar, with works in all mediums including painting, ephemera, photography, sculpture, video and film. Organized by critically acclaimed writer and New Yorker contributor Hilton Als, the exhibition features approximately 50 artists ranging from Betye Saar to Vija Celmins, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Maren Hassinger, Silke Otto-Knapp, John. A biographical exhibition in book form, author and curator Hilton Als has. Joan Didion: What She Means is an exhibition as portrait, a narration of the life of one artist by another. ![]() Writer and curator Hilton Als creates a mosaic that explores Didion's life and work and the feeling each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics. Dive into the world of this great American writer in Joan Didion: What She Means. ![]() ![]() ![]() Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. ![]() Worried that her husband has begun an affair, she seeks solace by writing paranormal romances in secret. No One Can Pronounce My Name: A Novel is written by Rakesh Satyal and published by Picador. Meanwhile, Ranjana, also an Indian immigrant in her mid-forties, has just seen her only child, Prashant, off to college. Rakesh Satyal, No One Can Pronounce My Name 1 likes Like If you had the capacity to shove love into a princess or fury into a winged monster, you had the capacity to generate passion or mirth or humility or patience in yourself. ![]() In a misguided attempt to keep both himself and his mother sane, Harit has taken to dressing up in a sari every night to pass himself off as his sister. Harit, a lonely Indian immigrant in his mid-forties, lives with his mother who can no longer function after the death of Harit's sister, Swati. No One Can Pronounce My Name A Novel By: Rakesh Satyal Narrated by: Amol Shah Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins 4.1 (126 ratings) Try for 0. Rakesh Satyal is the author of the novel Blue Boy, which won a Lambda Literary Award and the Prose/Poetry Award from the Association for Asian. For some, America is a bewildering and alienating place where coworkers can't pronounce your name but will eagerly repeat the Sanskrit phrases from their yoga class. No One Can Pronounce My Name is an insightful look into the lives of immigrants and outsiders, who must reconcile the strictures of their culture and traditions with their own dreams and desires. ![]() Summary: "In a suburb outside Cleveland, a community of Indian Americans has settled into lives that straddle the divide between Eastern and Western cultures. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL8400950W Page_number_confidence 96.56 Pages 438 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220119141742 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 454 Scandate 20220115104305 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780575077850 Tts_version 4. Joe Abercrombie, quote from The Blade Itself. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 09:06:01 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA40332201 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else. ![]() ![]() ![]() She also said people need to be willing to hold officials accountable when they fail to show up. ![]() Lee called the recent battle over voting rights “a shame and disgrace” and said that it is vital to elect people who unequivocally support matters of justice. She says that part of that strength includes the political will to do what’s in the best interest of Black communities. “Our perspective, our background, our brilliance, the historical context in which we live not only strengthens our communities, but it strengthens the country.” “I’m so glad to see so many Black women running for office,” Lee said. Lee said Black women are no longer sitting on the sidelines waiting to serve but stepping up to change their communities and this country for the better. So, this country needs to salute Black women and encourage Black women. Okay, so can you imagine what has been lost since 1789 in terms of Black women’s experiences, their intellect, their passion, their persistence. “When I was elected in 1998, I was only the 20th Black woman ever elected to Congress,” Lee shared. It would take another 30 years for that number to reach 20. Congress, Chisholm became the first Black woman to serve in the body in 1968. For Lee, part of Chisholm’s legacy is how she inspired and empowered other Black women to reach higher. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ll do whatever it takes to escape the Ricci family’s wrath, even if it means seeking sanctuary with the most unlikely and unwilling of allies.īellerose is the hottest rock band in the world right now-in popularity and looks-and it’s just my luck that I stumble into their laps while running for my life. He’s coming for me, has men out all over the city looking for me, and if they find me, I’m as good as dead.īut I’m not giving up so easily. Eight years later, when I find myself homeless, jobless, covered in blood, and running from a ghost of my past.Īngelo Ricci, the second boy I've ever loved, knows I saw him shoot a man. ![]() Things got progressively worse from that moment on, until now. The day I broke my first love's heart, ending things before I could ruin his career as a rock star. I thought I’d hit rock bottom when I turned 16. You know that saying, things can’t possibly get worse? They always can. ![]() ![]() ![]() I love how she is so physically active, courageous, headstrong, and often acts before thinking. (They are some of the most understanding parents in children’s literature.) Her parents are loving, accepting, and affirm who she is even when she causes problems. Katie John has a great imagination that often gets her in trouble, but often helps her get out of a fix. ![]() I can see why I loved this character and her adventures. The KATIE JOHN books were some of my favorites as a child, and my son just bought me a set of “the old ones” for Christmas. Katie John's friends and parents may be unrealistically good and understanding, but I would think even contemporary readers might be glad to feel that sense of safety, that at least some adults were worthy of confiding in. All I know is, there’s more to life than BOYS-I hope!” Her plans f or the future had been more in the realm of ‘When I grow up…’ “I don’t know what I’m going to do. ![]() “Actually, didn’t have many ideas about being a teenager. Some of the other girls seem to have a clear picture of what it means to be a teenager. Even though one of her two best friends is a boy, Katie John starts the Boy Hater’s Club, and frustrated with feelings she can’t understand or control, alienates almost every other student in her class except for her loyal friend, Sue. Katie John can’t understand why the other girls in her class are so silly about boys. This third book in the KATIE JOHN series exquisitely captures the pain of early adolescence. ![]() |