![]() ![]() Speaking concretely is the only way to ensure that our idea means the same thing to everyone in the audience. This is where most of the business communication goes awry. Concrete: We must present our ideas in term of sensory information.Once our attention is grabbed, sticky ideas refuse to let go, holding our interest by creating in us a need to discover the outcome, to see how things work. Unexpected: The best ideas represent a break from the everyday, the ordinary, the status quo.Simple does not have to mean short (but it helps) what is important is that the single most important thing be highlighted. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Lepore’s life of Jane Franklin, with its strikingly original vantage on her remarkable brother, is at once a wholly different account of the founding of the United States and one of the great untold stories of American history and letters: a life unknown. Making use of an amazing cache of little-studied material, including documents, objects, and portraits only just discovered, Jill Lepore brings Jane Franklin to life in a way that illuminates not only this one woman but an entire world-a world usually lost to history. Unlike him, she was a mother of twelve.īenjamin Franklin, who wrote more letters to his sister than he wrote to anyone else, was the original American self-made man his sister spent her life caring for her children. ![]() Jill Lepore opens a smeared casement on the life of Jane, Benjamin Franklins gifted sister, confidante and life-long correspondent. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. Book of Ages is an ardently told life story, brimming with love and loss against a background of political strife and war. From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister and a history of history itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book took a very unexpected turn, though in a very good way. No matter how long it takes, you always find your way back to one another. But you know what they say about true love-it braves whatever storm, whatever bump in the road life gives you. She lost her way, she lost her family, she lost her soul, she lost the love of her life. She's a very sweet, smart and sassy girl with a very courageous soul who was taken into the wrong crowd-a vicious gang, to be exact. And let me tell you, Lexi Klein couldn't be more fitting for this man. And what piqued my curiosity the most is who or what kind of girl would actually win the heart and soul of a man like Keith. ![]() I've always been intrigued by his mysterious demeanor that every time he gives us a glimpse of his sweetness and vulnerability, you latch onto it like crazy. Drake, you did it again!īrandon Keith has always been the silent, broody member of the Blackstone team who kept to himself more often than not. ![]() And those last few chapters just about gave me a heart attack! To say that this book had me on the edge of my seat the entire time would be a huge understatement. My stomach twisted, my hands started turning icky and clammy because I was nearly at the end of the book and I still had no clue where it's going to take me and how it will all end. Oh my gosh, Keith's story couldn't be more perfect than this! Everything that happened-damn, it would never be a book written by J.L. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.ġ828. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. ![]() One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out.” - Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of Brassįrom award-winning author R. Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War ![]() ![]() ![]() Just too busy imaging what she'd say then staring, Thats just weird and annoying when she does this like every chapter. She doesn't even speak up for herself even a little. Do stories have to have these weak, dim witted FMCs just to exist? My goodness she just a willing punching bag for the entire book. If you love sarcastic heroines with unexpected powers, obsessive supernatural men who'll do anything to defend their woman, and plenty of mystery and mayhem, dive right in! Note: The Stalking Dead is the first in a darkly humorous new paranormal romance series by best-selling author Eva Chase. But what if the only way to set things right is to get a little ghoulish? I promised myself I'd stick to the straight and narrow from here on. And that's not the only strangeness stirring inside me. In ways very different from how I felt as a kid. Maybe I'm still not all that sane either, because part of me finds them strangely appealing. So they'll bludgeon, maim, eviscerate - tear a strip of havoc right through this sleepy town. They're crude, criminally inclined, and more than a little unstable after ages trapped in afterlife limbo. The four "imaginary" friends who made my childhood bearable barge into my life in a very real way. Horrible enough that my little sister won't even speak to me.īut when I'm released back into a town determined to rub my unknown sins in my face, the past isn't the only thing that's haunting me. ![]() ![]() Thanks to a blank in my memory, I'm not sure what that thing was, but it was horrible enough to get me locked up in the mental ward for seven years. ![]() ![]() ![]() The art style looked adorable, and once I noticed it had been blurbed by Alice Oseman and Tillie Walden, I knew I had to add it to my tbr. Thank you to the publisher for sending me a copy of this in exchange for an honest review!Īs soon as I saw this graphic novel, I knew I wanted to pick it up. And she can’t stop thinking about her huge crush on Madeleine, who she definitely can’t tell about her sudden penchant for kleptomania… But does Maddy have secrets of her own? Can they piece together that night between them and fix the mess of their chaotic personal lives in time to form a normal, teenage relationship? That would be nice. Ella can’t seem to remember a single thing from the party the night before at a mysterious stranger’s mansion, and she sure as heck doesn’t know why she’s woken up in her bed surrounded by a magpie’s nest of objects that aren’t her own. ![]() ![]() Before that, the readers knew them only through conversations from other characters. Austen completed the first draft of 11 chapters and began the 12 th, where both Sidney Parker and Miss Lambe made their first appearances. ![]() In my copy of Sanditon, the unfinished manuscript is 75 pages long. Seeing them back to back gave me a new perspective.įirst, I wondered why Andrew Davies, the writer, used so little of Austen’s actual material. I had an extreme reaction to Episode One at first, then viewed all the episodes in two days’ time. Reading and hearing the opinions of my Janeite friends overseas, I approached reviewing this series with some trepidation. It seems that a mixed reaction to this mini-series is not unusual. ![]() ![]() Sanditon on PBS Masterpiece exceeded my expectations in some respects and not in others. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her mother was left to raise their five children alone. Her father was a peripatetic traveler, military man, politician, and writer who committed suicide when Karen was just nine or ten years old. A complex personality, Dinesen’s place in modern literature continues to be debated.īaroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke, born Karen Christenze Dinesen, was born into a family of aristocrats, merchants, and landed gentry. This issue will be discussed later in this brief biography. Though admired as a master storyteller, contemporary reconsiderations of her work shed light on the inherent racism in her portrayals of the Africans she lived amongst during the colonial period. One of her best known collections is Seven Gothic Tales, and a standout short story (turned film) is “Babette’s Feast” (1958). ![]() She’s also considered a master of short-form fiction. ![]() Isak Dinesen (Ap– September 7, 1962) was a Danish author best known for Out of Africa(1937), a now-controversial memoir of her life as the owner of a coffee plantation in colonial Kenya of the 1920s. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a stirring small-town story that explores many different issues albinism, blindness, depression, dyslexia, growing old, and more with a light touch and lots of heart. The funny thing is, as Alice confronts her own blindness, everyone else seems to see her for the first time. No one, not even her new friend Kerica, believes she can scout out her new town’s stories and write the essay by herself. To prove it, Alice enters the Stinkville Success Stories essay contest. She’s going to show them and herself that blindness is just a part of who she is, not all that she can be. ![]() But when her parents start looking into schools for the blind, Alice takes a stand. ![]() In Stinkville, Alice finds herself floundering she can’t even get to the library on her own. Back in her old neighborhood in Seattle, everyone knew Alice, and Alice knew her way around. Until Stinkville.įor the first time in her life, Alice feels different like she’s at a disadvantage. But life has always been like this for Alice. Putting on sunscreen and always wearing a hat are just part of life. And a cane keeps her from bruising her hips on tables. Sure, she uses a magnifier to read books. Before Stinkville, Alice didn’t think albinism or the blindness that goes with it was a big deal. ![]() ![]() The hereditary owners of the town's congregational mosque occupy a large, old house. The House of the Mosque unfolds in Senejan, a traditional carpet-weaving town that has affinities with Abdolah's home town, Sultanabad or Arak. ![]() The original of this novel has sold in its hundreds of thousands in the Netherlands, while an Italian critic has compared Abdolah, in his mastery of an alien literary language, to Nabokov and Conrad. His 2000 novel Cuneiform, published as My Father's Notebook in 2005, was praised in this country. K ader Abdolah is the nom de plume of an Iranian man who quit his native land in 1985, first for Turkey and then the Netherlands, and has since written novels and other works in Dutch. ![]() |