![]() ![]() ![]() For every child who was identified with serious attention problems when I was seven, there are now 100 children who are identified with those problems today. And even some of the early evidence on this was quite a shock. I decided to use my training in the social sciences at Cambridge University to really dig deep into this. It seemed to be happening to everyone around me, particularly the young people in my life whom I really love, who seemed to be whirring at the speed of Snapchat-where nothing still or serious could touch them. I could still do them, but they were getting harder and harder. Johann Hari: With each year that passed, things that required deep focus, that are really deep to my sense of self, like reading a book, having long conversations, were getting more and more like running up a downward escalator. This transcript has been edited for clarity. Please view them as open invitations to dive deeper into each resource and topic explored. Note: *Our episodes are minimally edited. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Rewriting America from this lense was like reading something refreshing. ![]() It’s a society where there is zero prejudice if you belong to the LGBTQ+ community. In the To Paradise 1893 version, America is divided in The Free States, The Colonies, The North & The West. ~~BOOK ONE~~īook One is set in 1893 in a very different America than it actually was at the time. I will review the 3 books separately & then towards the end, I will share thoughts for To Paradise as a whole. If you want to check it out, here is the link: Goodreads Description. I am not adding the Goodreads description for this one because the post is going to be long as it is. But, when it comes to To Paradise, it will be third in the list for me. I had also enjoyed reading People in the Trees. You all know how much I loved A Little Life. Whether you love it or hate it, it always feels amazing just because you accomplished this big feat! Well, in this case, I didn’t much like the book. What a feeling it is to complete a 700-page book novel. Hi Readers! After 2 long months, I have finally completed To Paradise. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bolu Babalola’s Honey and Spice is the new TikTok Book Club pick. The Library of Congress 2022 National Book Festival returns in person, with live coverage from C-SPAN. The Barbara Jefferis Award shortlist is out, and the Laurel Prize announces its longlist. Agent: Danielle Egan-Miller, Brown & Miller Literary Assoc. Fox Creek by William Kent Krueger leads holds this week. Not just regional mystery fans will be enthralled. Krueger skillfully blends an evocative look at nature’s beauty and peril with Native American lore. Meanwhile, Cork and Dolores’s brother-in-law, Anton, a tribal cop, follows the killers. Henry uses his highly developed sense of mysticism to lead Dolores and Rainy deep into the Boundary Waters wilderness to escape two killers pursuing the women. Dolores later confirms that the stranger is not her husband, Louis, who has been missing. Henry is indeed with Dolores, who’s having a cleansing sweat under the guidance of Cork’s wife, Rainy, who’s also Henry’s great-niece. ![]() Cork immediately knows something is wrong, because his friend Henry, an Ojibwe healer, is more than 100 years old. Louis wants the PI to find his wife, Dolores, who he believes is having an affair with Henry Meloux. In Edgar winner Kruegers outstanding 19th mystery featuring PI Cork OConnor of. The man says that she has run away to be with Henry Meloux. ![]() In Edgar winner Krueger’s outstanding 19th mystery featuring PI Cork O’Connor of Minnesota’s Tamarack County (after 2021’s Lightning Strike), Cork is tending the grill at his burger joint when he’s approached by a stranger who introduces himself as Louis Morriseau. Fox Creek, William Kent Krueger, author David Chandler, narrator When a man comes to Cork O’Connor to engage his help in finding his missing wife, Delores Morrisseau, Cork’s curiosity is piqued. ![]() ![]() ![]() She must now flee as Roy threatens to call the police. However, when Diane tries to stab Roy as well, he manages to fend her off and shouts for help, starting her. She grows quietly enraged, frightening Julian as she tells him that she deliberately pushed Leon off the roof after he rejected her and because he was falling for another girl, and then tells him that she has stabbed Chris to death. When Roy, horrified, confronts Diane with this information, she admits it. It is only when Roy tries to warn the woman he suspects is Chris' next victim, a female French teacher at the school named Diane Dare, that he puts two and two together and realizes, from her description and her recent arrival at the school and her movements over the past term, that he is talking to Julia - aka, Julian Pinchbeck, who we discover is actually a woman. ![]() ![]() ![]() I would like to know more about what exactly happened the day the world all but ended. There was a great deal divulged, but slowly, very gradually – and, in the end, not enough. Reading Angelfall was possibly the only time I have ever wished for just one big old infodump. The drawback about the way the background was told was, simply, that it took it too far in the opposite direction of infodump. There was an excellent balance of explanation and subterfuge, doling out a morsel of knowledge here and a crumb there. ![]() And I have to say I’m impressed by the storytelling – the reveal of what happened with the angels’ arrival was nearly – nearly – flawless. It made me forget that it was set in the first-person present tense, which I’m still not fond of. In Angelfall the word is used more correctly, and to effect. In that book, the magic-using folk (wizarding world folk) were called Nephilim, which I strongly objected to it was one of many misuses or weird twistings of mythology. This was a funny book to read so soon after City of Bones. ![]() ![]() In the 20 years since then, and in the 20 years hence (the story is set in 2048), Pluto will have traveled through fire (Sagittarius, 1995-2008), earth (Capricorn 2008-2023), air (Aquarius 2023-2043) and then water (Pisces 2043-2066). ![]() It is a scenario that is not so far-fetched today, but in 1993 a world such as this seemed far in the distant future. The Fifth Sacred Thing is Spirit, after the four elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water. In this post-apocalyptic novel, set in San Francisco, a theocratic dictatorship has seized all of the assets of the earth: air, food and water, and is the sole source of pharmaceutical antidotes for the ecological poisons they themselves create. ![]() In 1993 Starhawk, an early spokesperson for the neo-pagan movement, wrote a book called The Fifth Sacred Thing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From Marshalls mysterious experiences in The Light to Coopers haunting perspective in The Black. MacHale Trade Paperback LIST PRICE 10. Series list: Morpheus Road (3 Books) by D.J. MacHale launches his eerie trilogy with a story so packed with chilling suspense, listeners will want to sleep with the light on. The Light Book 1 of Morpheus Road By D.J. ![]() In the first installment of this chillingly compelling trilogy, 16-year-old Marshall discovers that something beyond our world is after him. Number one New York Times bestselling author D. Morpheus Road 3 books in series 1 rating The Light Publishers Summary Marshall Seaver is being haunted. Together with Cooper's beautiful but aloof sister, Sydney, Marshall searches for the truth about his friend while ultimately uncovering a nightmare that is bigger and more frightening than he could ever have imagined. Marshall has no idea why he is being tormented by this forbidding creature, but he is quickly convinced it has something to do with his best friend, Cooper, who has gone missing. That is, until he comes face-to-face with a character who only exists on the pages of a sketchbook - a character Marshall himself created. It begins with mysterious sounds, a fleeting face outside a window, a rogue breeze - all things that can be explained away. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lady Catherine de Bourgh, who, like Lady Susan, is the daughter of a nobleman, is a troublemaker rather than a villainess. Norris in Mansfield Park is one of the worst villains in fiction-but none of them are dastardly, in a James Bond villain way (‘Ha! Ha! Now you are in my power! ’)-and no one else is an aristocrat. Clay in Persuasion must be quite a schemer really, Mrs. ![]() 1 There are bad women in other novels-Lucy Steele in Sense and Sensibility is pretty bad, Mrs. That, even more than its epistolary form, makes it unique among Jane Austen’s completed novels. 2 For Jane Austen’s dismissive attitude to the aristocracy, see, for example, David Spring, ‘Interpre (.)ġ Lady Susan is about the adventures of a wicked aristocrat. ![]() 1 For a recent assessment of Lady Susan’s force of personality, see William Galperin, ‘ Lady Susan, In (.). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Tales of Beedle The Bard released as editions illustrated by Chris Riddell ( U.K. Rowling for charity, were published in previous years. Illustrated editions of Harry Potter companion books, also written by J.K. The fifth instalment in the illustrated series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is already in the works, and Kay will also be illustrating the final two books in the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. ![]() The tour will also include opportunities for guests to have their copies of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire signed, and receive a free print taken from the book. tour An Evening With Jim Kay, offering an evening listening to Jim Kay discussing the ins and outs of illustrating J.K. Beginning October 8th, Bloomsbury will kick off U.K. ![]() ![]() ![]() After thinking about it for some time, I chose this, the first volume in Angelou’s memoir series, and the one which is often considered to be the best. ![]() I also wanted to avoid titles that would most likely have been ghost-written. The June theme was an autobiography, a tricky category since enjoyment can often depend on your feelings about the author. I chose this book for my 2018 Facebook Reading Challenge. It is a sobering tale, and a testament to her immense ability, that someone with that kind of background could become such a great and important figure, well-known not just in the United States, but throughout the world. Her early life in Arkansas featured parental abandonment, overt racism, sexual abuse, discrimination and poverty. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings is the first volume and covers her childhood and coming of age. In the late 1960s she was persuaded to begin writing an autobiography and she went on to publish it in seven volumes, the latest one appearing in 2013, just a year before her death. And yet, her start was a decidedly inauspicious one. Poet, author, civil rights activist, speaker, friend and advisor to figures of national and international importance, her career was, by any standards, glittering. When Maya Angelou died in 2014 at the age of 86, she was one of the towering figures of American culture and politics. ![]() |