![]() He provides all the details we need to make it real. In place of abstract answers, Montaigne tells us what he did in each case, and what it felt like when he was doing it. He wondered constantly about the emotions and motives behind what people did.Īnd since he was the example closest to hand of a human going about its business, he wondered just as much about himself. This question drove him both to write and to read, for he was curious about all human lives, past and present. How to live a good life - meaning a correct or honorable life, but also a fully human, satisfying, flourishing one. Writing about oneself creates a mirror in which other people recognize their own humanity. “How to live?” : This is not the same as the ethical question, “How should one live?” I loved learning about Pyrrhonian Skepticism. ![]() Go to the Amazon page for details and reviews.Ī great biography of the original essayist Michel de Montaigne from the 1500’s, it also explores his philosophical questions. How to Live - by Sarah Bakewell | Derek Sivers Derek Sivers How to Live - by Sarah Bakewell ![]()
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![]() Anne becomes besties with a girl in her building, Neely, and starts dating a nice guy, who turns out to be a secret millionaire. She immediately finds a nice, affordable room, and lands a well-paid, interesting job as a more-than-secretary to a firm of entertainment lawyers. She is beautiful and smart, a teenage Radcliffe grad, with an inheritance to support herself, just in case Manhattan isn’t perfect. In 1945, beautiful young Anne Welles leaves her stifling hometown in Lawrenceville, Mass. So, I’m going to assume that everyone else has read this one, and let some spoilers into my reaction. ![]() Published in 1967, Valley of the Dolls is one of those retro novels that I’ve been meaning to read for ages. ![]() I found this one at a sweet Little Free Library in Harrison, Arkansas on our road trip. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her world a handsome exterior often hides the monster within a monster who can just as easily kill as kiss you. ![]() Luca might be one of the most sought after men in New York thanks to his good looks, wealth and predator-like charisma that radiates power, but the society girls throwing themselves at him don’t know what Aria does: that the bad boy aura isn’t just a game blood and death lurk beneath Luca’s striking gray eyes and arrogant smile. Now at eighteen, the day Aria has been dreading for years is looming dangerously: her wedding to Luca.Īria is terrified of marrying a man she hardly knows, especially someone like Luca who got his nickname ‘the Vice’ for crushing a man’s throat with his bare hands. Aria was only fifteen when her parents betrothed her to Luca – The Vice – Vitiello, the oldest son of the head of the New York Cosa Nostra to ensure peace between the two families. Bound by Honor (Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles #1)īorn into one of the leading Mob families in Chicago, Aria Scuderi struggles to find her own path in a world where no choices are given. ![]() ![]() The results clarified the dependence of Vs accumulation on the GB character. Researchers investigated the accumulation mechanisms of Vs at Fe GBs, mainly focused on the interaction processes of Vs with different GBs. ![]() The horizontal line indicates the GB position. ![]() Several V motion trajectories near the GBs drawn from LKMC simulation. The technology developed in this research can not only distinguish the spatial position dependence of defect properties at GBs, but also simulate the evolution of defects away from the GB region in a coarse-grained manner. If these properties are simply abstracted as a single interaction parameter, a lot of atomic information related to defects would be missed, thereby affecting the accurate prediction of defect evolution on a long time scale. However, the diversity of GB character makes GBs exhibit distinct local structures and defect properties. In previous multiscale simulations, GBs were often abstracted as two-dimensional planes without specific structures, and a series of energetic and kinetic parameters were used to characterize the structural characteristics of GBs. ![]() Polycrystalline/Nanocrystalline (PC/NC) Fe was found to exhibit improved radiation resistance. The results were published in the Journal of Nuclear Materials. Using this software, research team explored the accumulation and evolution of vacancies at iron (Fe) grain boundaries (GBs). ![]() ![]() ![]() Being nice isn’t my biggest goal in life. “I could do nice, but it’s just not as much fun. But she didn’t mind the rumors, as Stone wasn’t interested in being nice. The Basic Instinct star acknowledged there might be some truth to the gossip. In a 1992 printed edition of Movieline, Stone once opened up about her past reputation of being challenging behind the scenes. Sharon Stone was once told that Arnold Schwarzenegger didn’t like her He tries harder than most people I’ve worked with.’” You’re so darn cute together!’ Arnold is unbelievably focused and available. I said, ‘I think I’ll leave you two guys alone. Arnold was lying on the bed and Paul was on top of him, straddling him, caressing his hair, explaining to me how he thought the scene ought to go. We were doing rehearsals in a hotel room. It’s not an individual sport for Arnold,” she said. But he wants you to do the best you can do because he wants his team to win. ![]() ![]() ![]() Zoey’s pregnancy estranges her from her own family, but also focuses and settles her. Meanwhile, her best friend Zoey has paired off with Jake’s friend and roommate Scott, a short-lived romance that results in Zoey getting pregnant. Her first time having sex, with a local boy named Jake whom she meets in a nightclub, is a disappointment, and she is later humiliated when she learns that Jake knows about her illness. Nevertheless, Tessa’s plans are complicated by the needs of her family and friends, and by her own illness. She keeps the list in her bedside drawer so that her father will not see it. Tessa’s list of things she’d like to do before death is her way of behaving like a typical rebellious teenager despite her illness. Tessa lives with her patient and devoted father and her younger brother Cal her mother, who left the family when Tessa was twelve, lives in a separate apartment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We’re of the mind that Joseph and his dog Blink have a lot more in common with “The Marvels” and with Joseph’s “Uncle” than they think. ![]() The watchface is off-center, and the glass is scuffed at the 15 minute mark. We received the following clue in the mail–a gold wristwatch stopped at 11:16 (and 23 seconds), with the date frozen on the number 22. Also, Joseph’s uncle’s house sounds like it’s pretty cool. The explicit mention of “time travel”? Well that makes us think that time travel must play a role in this somehow. Joseph loves to read, and has just–we think–discovered his Uncle’s home. (Did the kraken sink the ship? Was the ship’s name The Kraken? QUESTIONS.) Also immediately apparent is the fact that the boy and dog in the illustration are the eact same boy and dog featured on the newspaper–a detail that the woman in the bonnet behind the aforementioned old-timey newspaper-reading man has discovered to great alarm. Things we notice–the newspaper being clutched by the old-timey newspaper-reading man in overcoat says that the setting is London, and that apparently a kraken is involved in a shipwreck. To gear up for the release of The Marvels, we have a few clues to unravel–and some goodies to reveal. The Marvels tells two different stories, one through pictures, the other through words, and follows young Joseph as he tries to piece together clues found in his Uncle’s mystery-shrouded home about his family legacy. We are thrilled to be a stop on the blog tour for Brian Selznick’s newest book: The Marvels! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Brown’s noirish digitally colored and composited pencil illustrations - black, white, gray, and Day-Glo green - heighten both the silliness and the spookiness that are on display in equal measure.įrom the September/October 2017 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. A grown rabbit couldn’t be terrified of his underpants”) captures Jasper’s age-appropriate not-quite-a-big-kid dilemma. ‘You’re so jittery lately.’ ‘Nothing!’ he yelped. ![]() Humorous text (“‘What’s the matter with you?’ his mom asked. No matter what Jasper does to dispose of the offending undies - throw them in the trash, mail them to China, cut them into bits - they always make their way back. ![]() While underwear-shopping with his mom, young bunny Jasper Rabbit spies a pair of green glow-in-the-dark undies with a Frankenstein’s-monster face and thinks they’re “glorious.” But once he’s alone in bed in the dark, and they’re glowing their “ghoulish, greenish glow,” Jasper’s fears take flight. This companion book to the author-illustrator team’s Creepy Carrots humorously spookifies another not-usually-scary item. ![]() ![]() They include "Culture, Genuine and Spurious," "The Meaning of Religion," "Language," "Cultural Anthropology and Psychiatry," and "The Statue of Linguistics as a Science. These essays, nine in number, representative of his contributions in three fields of learning, have been chosen from the larger collection entitled Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture, and Personality published in 1949 by the University of California Press. The nine contributions brought together in this volume well show the distinction and lasting quality of Sapir's work. The interplay of culture and personality was a field where Sapir was a pioneer and many of his essays have become classics in the social sciences. His stress on the fact that language is a cultural or social product helped to make linguistics an integral part of the study of man. ![]() His long essay on language, his principal field of study, is an illuminating exploration of various aspects of the subject. ![]() His writings on frontier problems in cultural anthropology, psychology, and linguistics are outstanding for their provocative insights and remarkable control of factual data. ![]() Edward Sapir was one of those men, rare among scientists and scholars, who are spoken of by their colleagues in terms of genius. Culture, language and personality Edward Sapir selected essays edited by David G. ![]() ![]() ![]() In other places, I also found myself distracted by the erratic, choppy pacing.Īs the novel opens, a crew of a workers are finishing up a maintenance project in deep space when they suddenly pick up a distress signal from a luxury liner called the Aurora. That the book fell short of them has more to do with me and my feelings on the different direction the story took in the second half, which I felt stole something away from the creeping horror. And when your synopsis touts something as irresistible as “Titanic meets The Shining” then heck yeah, my expectations are going to be somewhere in the stratosphere. ![]() This does not affect the contents of my review and all opinions are my own.įirst let me just say I enjoyed Dead Silence, though perhaps not as much as the majority, so I also want to preface this review with a confession: I am extremely picky when it comes to sci-fi horror. I received a review copy from the publisher. ![]() |