![]() ![]() ![]() This story was all about queer joy having a father who accepts you wholeheartedly, having a friend group who also represents facets of the LGBTQIA+ community, being yourself without the disguises or the masks, feeling freedom to be goofy or fun or serious. When Klune said he wanted to write stories representing queerness accurately and positively, he most definitely delivered. This is my first TJ Klune and I’m impressed beyond impressed. But the one difference is that Nick Bell isn’t extraordinary. If you’ve ever wanted to be a superhero as a kid, then you will resonate so hard with this book. The story of a young kid named Nick Bell who truly wants to be like his favorite superheroes, extraordinary. ![]() The Extraordinaries is that life except in a world where superheroes actually exist. Just waiting for a black cat with a crescent on her forehead to tell me I’m the descendants of moon people and I’m a princess. Because I was that girl who stood on my parents bed watching Sailor Moon every afternoon and pretending that my magic pen will transform me into an evil-fighting superhero.ĭoesn’t every nerdy person go through this phase of their life? I might still be going through this phase. If you’re the type of person who’s been waiting to be a Sailor Solider since you were 15 years old, then this is the book for you. ![]()
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Jem Bendell is Professor of Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cumbria and the originator of the Deep Adaptation movement. ![]() Reconciliation: with what and whom shall we make peace as we awaken to our mutual mortality?.Restoration: what could we bring back to help us with these difficult times?.Relinquishment: what do we need to let go of so as not to make matters worse?.In 2018, a climate paper by Jem Bendell went viral, being downloaded over a million times. Resilience: what do we most value that we want to keep, and how? JInterview with Professor Jem Bendell on Deep Adaptation to climate chaos, by Facing Future TV.Deep Adaptation offers four questions to help guide our inquiry into what kind of adaptation may be appropriate for our lives: ![]() ![]() ![]() Promotional posts, comments & flairs, media-only posts, personalized recommendation requests incl. Please use a civil tone and assume good faith when entering a conversation. ![]() All posts must be directly book related, informative, and discussion focused. If you're looking for help with a personal book recommendation, consult our Suggested Reading page or ask in: /r/suggestmeabook Quick Rules:ĭo not post shallow content. ![]() It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres or publishing in a safe, supportive environment. Subreddit Rules - Message the mods - Related Subs AMA Info The FAQ The Wiki Join in the Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.Thu at 7pm, James Islington Author of The Shadow of What Was Lost. ![]() ![]() ![]() To put it in David Foster Wallace's words, Garner's discussion of rhetoric and style still borders on genius. However, one thing has not changed: in no sense is this a regular dictionary but a masterpiece of lexicography written with wit and personality by one of the preeminent authorities on This extensively revised new edition fully captures these changes, featuring a thousand new entries and over two hundred replacement entries, thoroughly updated usage data and ratios on word frequency based on the Google Ngram Viewer, a moreīalanced coverage of World Englishes, not just American and British, and the inclusion of gender-neutral language. Powerful tool of big data has revolutionized lexicography. ![]() ![]() After four previous editions and over twenty years, our language has evolved in many ways, and the The most original and authoritative voice of today's English lexicography presents a fully revised new edition of his beloved usage dictionary When Bryan Garner published the first edition of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage in 1999, the book quickly became one of the most influential style guides ever written for the English language. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() it is Thernstrom's personal narrative that keeps the reader turning pages into the night. In the Globe, Alec Solomita writes that Thernstrom's voice is what pulls readers along: The book examines how the medical community has approached pain through history how it is viewed in different cultures and various approaches to treating it, from neurobiology to acupuncture. Thernstrom was driven to explore the subject of chronic pain-which affects an estimated 70 million Americans-because she herself "suffers from an arthritic condition that ranges from irritating to incapacitating," Helen Epstein of the Times writes. Thernstrom's The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering is part memoir, part medical-historical exploration, and both reviewers give it a thumbs-up. ![]() A new book by Melanie Thernstrom ’87 was reviewed in the New York Times and the Boston Globe last week. ![]() ![]() ![]() But, I think it is just too different from her norm, and it didn’t work for me. I’ve just about loved all her books I’ve read in the past so I’m quite sad that this one didn’t do it for me. So I really hate that I’m even writing this review because of how much I love this author and her previous works. Don’t expect a future.They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all.Hearts get infiltrated. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her.Never ask about the past. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. ![]() When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's love at first sight. #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with a new heart-wrenching love story. 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It leads to massive and the desired results you are looking for. You are looking for big results and your efforts planning also should be 10 X more than what you will usually put. When you set your goals 10 times higher than what you want. The book is telling us to aim at least 10 X bigger goals than what you expect to achieve and accordingly also to put 10 X more efforts to get the desired results. ![]() ![]() ![]() "This tale feels comfortable and familiar, imitating Lewis Carroll’s casual, everyday description of magic and starring a sympathetic, mature boy with Peter Pan-like abilities. In this stunning and deeply imaginative debut, author Ruth Emmie Lang introduces us to a character who will live in readers’ hearts long after the last page is turned. ![]() But what makes him different? How does he possess the ability to transform others’ lives? How does he manage to find-and create-magic in the ordinary? This is the story of Weylyn’s journey, told from the perspective of those who knew him, loved him, or were bewildered by him along the way. People say that once Weylyn wanders into your world, you’ll wish he’d never leave. Full of nature and wonder, love and adventure, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance is a beautifully written novel that “bristles with charm and curiosity” (Winston Groom, New York Times bestselling author of Forrest Gump).īorn in a blizzard, orphaned, and believed to be raised by wolves, Weylyn Grey is someone who inspires endless curiosity in everyone he’s ever met. ![]() ![]() ![]() Longtime Ghibli fans who go in hoping for a theatrical masterpiece on the order of Spirited Away are setting themselves up for disappointment, and even expecting one of Isao Takahata’s risky Ghibli style experiments is setting the bar too high.Įarwig and the Witch is the first CG feature made under the Ghibli banner, and it’s clearly aimed at small children rather than an all-ages audience. Studio Ghibli’s CGI test run Earwig and the Witch is better than it looksīut anyone expecting a 3D Spirited Away will be disappointedīefore watching Studio Ghibli’s new movie Earwig and the Witch, it pays to set expectations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When HBO announced that Simon and longtime Wire writer George Pelecanos were producing a new miniseries called We Own This City, set in Baltimore and dealing with the Baltimore PD and the social cost of the War on Drugs, it was hard not to hope that this would be The Wire Season Six in disguise. Simon and Ed Burns made The Wire as much to politically agitate as to entertain, and Simon has said that the show’s inability to make so much as a dent in the systemic problems of America left him uninterested in revisiting Jimmy McNulty, Bunk Moreland, and friends. In the 14 years since The Wireconcluded its run as one of the most acclaimed dramas in television history, fans have pleaded with the series’ co-creator, journalist-turned-producer David Simon, for an additional season or three. ![]() |