![]() ![]() This is a book about our attention crisis unlike any you’ve read before. The answers will surprise and thrill you. ![]() He shows how he learned this in a thrilling journey that takes him from Silicon Valley dissidents who figured out how to hack human attention, to veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD from a favela in Rio where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, to an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore their workers’ attention.Ĭrucially, he learned how – as individuals, and as a society – we can get our focus back, if we are determined to fight for it. Johann discovered there are twelve deep cases of this crisis, all of which have robbed some of our attention. ![]() This has been done to us – by powerful external forces. We think our inability to focus is a personal failing – a flaw in each one of us. New York Times best-selling author Johann Hari went on an epic journey across the world to meet the leading scientists and experts investigating why this is happening to us – and discovered that everything we think we know on this subject is wrong. In the US, college students now focus on one task for only 65 seconds, and office workers on average manage only three minutes. All over the world, our ability to pay attention is collapsing. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In 2019, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her House of Day, House of Night, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Granta, 2002 Northwestern University Press, 2003), was shortlisted for the IMPAC Literary Award, and her Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, also translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018 Riverhead, 2019), and The Books of Jacob, translated by Jennifer Croft (Fitzcarraldo, 2021 Riverhead, 2022), were shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. In 2018 she was awardedalong with her translator, Jennifer Croftthe Man Booker International Prize for her novel Flights ( Bieguni ), which also won Poland’s highest literary honor, the Nike, in 2008. The story is introduced by one of Tokarczuk’s short set pieces, many of which I appreciate more than the longer fictional narratives. In 2015 she received the prestigious Brueckepreis (Bridge Prize), as well as the Nike Readers’ Prize for The Books of Jacob ( Księgi Jakubowe). She is the author of several novels, short-story collections, and essays. The climax of the book comes in another long fictional narrative, which is given the title of the book as a whole, Bieguni (Flights/ Runners ). In 2018 she was awarded-along with her translator, Jennifer Croft-the Man Booker International Prize for her novel Flights ( Bieguni), which also won Poland’s highest literary honor, the Nike, in 2008. She is the author of several novels, short-story collections, and essays. Olga Tokarczuk is one of the most acclaimed contemporary writers in Poland. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's the DCU's darkest day, and long-lost heroes from the past have returned to make things right in the universe.at any cost. And in the middle of it all, a critical moment has divided Earth's three greatest heroes: Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. 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The story is arranged in five different sections, as follows: The Book of Nanette, The Book of Ursule, The Book of Irène, The Book of Morwen, and The Book of Veronica. And it took me all of (maybe) five minutes to wish I hadn’t waited so long to do it.Ī Secret History of Witches tells the story of five generations of the Orchiére witches. However, it wasn’t until I was approved for an early copy of The Age of Witchesthrough Netgalley that I decided to read this book. ![]() I’ve had this one on my TBR for a long time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Childs explains, “I am not offering a guidebook to places, but a guidebook to context, meaning, and ways of seeing.” Thus, he gives no directions to particular spots, and he offers no particular textbook interpretations. The whole point is to look and to experience. Some rock art is best seen at dawn, others at sunset, by starlight, or even at the precise moment of winter solstice when a spiral uniquely reflects the sun’s rays. He picks his times carefully, too, coordinating with the sun’s path. He conveys that affinity in leisurely fashion, often taking hours to observe a single rock art panel, sometimes revisiting a special place day after day after day. Part of his authorial charm is his obvious love for the landscape. Not only did I learn about rock art from reading Tracing Time I also spent hours vicariously hiking the Colorado Plateau Canyon country, revisiting favorite spots and discovering many new ones.Ĭhilds has a keen descriptive eye. The result is my idea of a powerful book of nature writing. Tracing Time is my favorite! Childs has masterfully blended his personal observations with careful research and countless conversations with knowledgeable people. ![]() I have read most, if not all, of Craig Childs’ books about the American Southwest’s red rock country. Tracing Time, Childs brings the rock art of the Colorado Plateau Canyon country into a rich and moving focus. ![]() ![]() “The Rocket Man.” The quiet human story of a Rocket Man’s relationship with his family. The final conversations of astronauts lost in space after an accident dredge the raw feelings of lost opportunities, seething angry, and unfinished business. “Kaleidoscope.” Tragic, painful, and undeniably human. ![]() By the time their parents notice and care, it may be too late. ![]() Spoiled children keep playing in a ‘virtual reality’ version of the African Veldt. “The Veldt.” This is a well known classic, but one that feels as fresh as ever. Some of the truly great stories in this collection are: While the language and circumstances may seem quaint to a modern reading, the messages and emotions are truly timeless. More than that, it is worth thinking about. Almost every word of this collection is worth reading. Some of Bradbury’s all time classics are here as well as his most important themes: Mars, Rockets, Family, and Midwestern Americana. This reads like the gems from a lifetime of writing Science Fiction and yet it is merely stories from 1947 through 1951. It is easy to forget that this isn’t a “Best of Ray Bradbury” collection. Buy a copy from Amazon and support this blog. AVERAGE STORY: 4.16 6 great / 10 good / 3 average / 0 poor / 0 DNF. ![]() ![]() Since this is HL Mencken's copy (given to the Library of Congress in 1926), I presume that the presentation may have been made by the author to him, though I do not know why. There is a long presentation inscription on the title page (dated 1926). No place of publication, year, or publisher is listed. 13) : " As the council fires died out and the tipi flaps began to close, the small girl returned to the tipi where she slept to wait. No names, marks, tears, folds, nor stains. The D.J.images and lettering are identical to the boards. Back board has a drawing of a bluebonnet. ![]() Front cover graphic shows the heroine of the story clutching the object of her sacrifice. Cond : Pictorial boards are buckskin in colour with black lettering. The book, aimed at the 8 to 12 year old group, is very respectful of the culture of the First Peoples of present day TEXAS. ![]() These 28 pages (UNpaginated) tell the legend about the origin of the bluebonnet flower. ![]() A young girl of the Comanche people takes a very SELF-less action that ends up creating a legend among her tribe. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. ![]() It started with an itch-first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. ![]() Jaouad’s insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us.”- The Washington Post Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown.”-Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review “I was immersed for the whole ride and would follow Jaouad anywhere.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Rumpus, She Reads, Library Journal, Booklist A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life-from the author of the Life, Interrupted column in The New York Times. ![]() |