![]() The follow-up is just as warm and wise as the first, and in my opinion, even wittier. Plus, there isn’t a single mention of social media in it (a good thing, if you ask me).Ī little over ten years later, Kristin published Did I Say That Out Loud? Midlife Indignities and How to Survive Them. Reviewing it again to recommend it here, it has aged well. Using experiences from her own life, Kristen presents terms and concepts in alphabetical order: from absentee parenthood to musical beds to Zuzu’s petals phenomenon – you’ll have to read the book to find out what this is. This book perfectly captures the joys and frustrations of working motherhood. ![]() I was in it up to my eyebrows, working from home (more than full-time most days) and hearing questions like, “Why aren’t you more involved in the PTA?” from people who hardly knew me. ![]() When I received her first book, Just Let Me Lie Down: Necessary Terms for the Half-Insane Working Mom, as a gift in 2010, my kids were ten, twelve, and fourteen. I first noticed Kristin when she was the editor of Real Simple and immediately fell in love with her personal and powerful writing. She calls the youngest her mid-life crisis baby – she had him at age forty-three – ten years and two miscarriages after her first two boys were born. Kristin van Ogtrop has raised three sons in the suburbs while working high-powered jobs in publishing over the past twenty years. Relatable, funny, and easy to read – Kristin van Ogtrop’s essay collections should be on every mom’s bookshelf (and/or Kindle). ![]()
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![]() ![]() With time, Frances and Emma only grow closer, on the cusp of an unbreakable friendship, when tragedy strikes.įrom the surface, More Like Her seems to be nothing more than the far-too-often-retold tale of an unlucky woman who, when it comes to romance, never seems to get it right. When a bullying incident brings her closer to the headmistress, however, Frances discovers that behind the veneer of perfection, Emma is hurting, broken, and doubtful. From the outside, Emma is everything Frances aspires to be-sophisticated, intelligent, and successful. ![]() Where Jill is in a steady relationship, however, Frances is recently single-yet again-and is eager to prove herself to the new headmistress, Emma. Just.impeccable.įrances is a guidance counselor at the prestigious Markham School, vying for a promotion alongside her best friend, Jill. Instead, it's much rawer, realer, and makes truly worthy statements about self-esteem and society. ![]() Both romantic and horrific, comforting and shocking, this isn't the warm story of Nowhere But Home or the amusing tale of Seeking Me Naked. I didn't expect More Like Her to wind up being my favorite Liza Palmer novel, but it is - it most definitely is. ![]() ![]() ![]() To most of us under 60, however, Gifford was primarily a broadcaster-that or a disembodied spousal reference on Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee (Mark Consuelos replaced him in that regard when Kelly Ripa took over). Gifford was also an unwilling icon of the sport’s violence, losing a year and half to a vicious hit from the Eagles’ Chuck Bednarik, who became an icon himself for the same play. To New York football Giants fans such as Exley, Gifford was a league MVP and a key player on the 1956 championship team it was their last until Bill Parcells won the Super Bowl thirty years later. ![]() 1 1“Exley,” unless noted otherwise will refer to the fictional Exley going forward. Or, at least, the Exley who narrated his fictional memoir, A Fan’s Notes, an alter ego for whom Gifford was an obsession to the point of becoming, as the author claimed, a further alter ego. ![]() Nobody would have mourned football legend Frank Gifford, who died this week at the age of 84, quite like Frederick Exley. ![]() ![]() ![]() Long Way Down is a narrative that takes place during a short elevator ride. As this one contained such a tight and concise narrative, I was excited to see how it would work. It’s not exactly a normal method of reading when you’ve got a collection of poems loosely tied together by a similar theme but that are all separate. It feels like a novel written in verse is the ideal way of doing this as I sometimes find it difficult to get into poetry. ![]() And I am still trying, though not very hard, to read more poetry this year. After all, it’s not a very long read so I knew I could blast through it in a matter of hours. So, when To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before proved too much for me to handle, I decided it was time to give it a try. Loads of people I respect on Bookstagram loved it and I heard loads of praise for it in general. But Long Way Down is the kind of book that I couldn’t ignore for long. So you’d think that I’d definitely want to steer clear of a piece of YA fiction written entirely in verse. Anyone who has read a few of my book related posts may know that I have a rocky history with YA fiction and I’m not entirely convinced by contemporary poetry. ![]() ![]() ![]() Based on deep familiarity with the novels and their scholarly literature, his book will instruct and delight both literary critics and economists. Michael Chwe's beautifully written and argued book makes the case, crushingly, that Our Jane was fascinated by human prudent interaction-what the game theorists call strategy. "Jane Austen, game theorist?! You will cry, how absurd! But you will be wrong. ![]() ![]() This is insightful literary analysis at its most accessible and enjoyable. Well researched and with an excellent index, the book will appeal to Austen fans who can see her characters in another light.Ĭhwe's volume is a valuable first step toward a more interdisciplinary and much more inclusive field of decision sciences. This is such a fabulous book-carefully written, thoughtful and insightful.Ĭhwe makes an argument for Austen as a founder of decision science in this 2013 book that boasts an impressive array of diagrams and hard-nosed textual analysis. An enjoyable read." -Susan Skeath, coauthor of Games of Strategy Michael Chwe shows the efficacy and pitfalls of such thinking in her characters' actions, and in their perceptions and understanding of the actions of others. Jane Austen, in particular, develops a clear model of strategic thinking in her novels. "Polished, organized, and well-documented, this book demonstrates the existence of well-defined game theory in historical texts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pain and pleasure collide when a sophisticated underworld boss crosses paths with a naive photographer hell-bent on bringing him down! This deluxe edition includes never-before-released material as well as a double-sided color insert and special cover treatment! Photographer Akihito Takaba takes on a risky assignment trying to document the illegal activities of the Japanese underworld. When he captures its leader-the handsome, enigmatic Ryuichi Asami-in the crosshairs of his viewfinder, Takaba's world is changed forever. ![]() ![]() ![]() General overall light wear and darkening to cardboard slipcase, short closed tear at opening on one side. Book is housed in original cardboard slipcase in VG+ condition. ![]() Attention Please Please read this carefully before you download it. Very light bump to rear fore-edge, a few light spots on rear board, very light foxing to fore-edge, owner's name on front pastedown under dust jacket flap, - else a tight, bright and unmarked near Fine copy in VG+ dust jacket (dust jacket spine a bit darkened and creased at ends, price clipped). texts Soma Divine Mushroom Of Immortality by Wasson, Gordon R. With an essay on 'The Post-Vedic History of the Soma Plant' by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty. ![]() Wasson's investigation into the God / plant known to the Ancient Aryan' as Soma - which he identifies as the hallucinogenic mushroom fly-agaric. to spine, color plates, numbered illustrations and maps, index. Small quarto, xiv + 382pp, Original blue cloth with gilt title, etc. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968. Soma Divine Mushroom of Immortality (Ethno-mycological studies No. With an essay by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty. ![]() ![]() ![]() His thought, which popularized Pan-Turkism and Turanism, has been described as a "cult of nationalism and modernization". He found Greeks, Armenians and Jews to be a foreign body in the national Turkish state. He advocated a Turkification of the Ottoman Empire, by promoting Turkish language and culture to all Ottoman citizenry. ![]() Influenced by contemporary European thought, particularly by the sociological view of Émile Durkheim, Gökalp rejected both the Ottomanism and Islamism in favor of Turkish nationalism. Gökalp's work was particularly influential in shaping the reforms of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk his influence figured prominently in the development of Kemalism, and its legacy in the modern Republic of Turkey. In a 1936 publication, sociologist Niyazi Berkes described Gökalp as "the real founder of Turkish sociology, since he was not a mere translator or interpreter of foreign sociology". As a sociologist, Ziya Gökalp was influential in the negation of Islamism, pan-Islamism, and Ottomanism as ideological, cultural, and sociological identifiers. After the 1908 Young Turk Revolution that reinstated constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire, he adopted the pen name Gökalp ("celestial hero"), which he retained for the rest of his life. Mehmet Ziya Gökalp (23 March 1876 – 25 October 1924) was a Turkish sociologist, writer, poet, and politician. Branko Merxhani, Sati' al-Husri, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ![]() ![]() ![]() There is nothing wrong with the performance by John Cusack except that it is unnecessary if John Lee Hancock's screenplay had abandoned the Kelso character and just jumped into the midst of Savannah's menagerie with both feet, the movie might have had more energy and color. He is not, however, really a major player in the book, and the movie makes a mistake by assigning its central role to a New York writer, now named John Kelso, through whose hands all of the action must pass. The plot grows labyrinthine after the antiques dealer is charged with the murder of a young hustler.īerendt introduces these people and tells their stories in a bemused, gossipy fashion he's a natural storyteller who knows he has great stories to tell, and relishes the telling. ![]() Gradually he meets the local fauna, including a gay antiques dealer, a piano bar owner of no fixed abode, a drag queen, a voodoo priestess, a man who keeps flies on leashes, a man who walks an invisible dog and the members of the Married Women's Card Club. ![]() The book tells the story of a New York author who visits Savannah, Ga., is bewitched, and takes an apartment there. ![]() ![]() ***Disclosure: I received this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. They’re just kind of light, refreshing reads! Overall, I enjoyed this one and would definitely read more in this series if Rae decides to write more. Zelda was cute and fun, though I sometimes wished she’d give Dan a bit of a break (but I guess then there would have been no story) and I did think that she and Dan were pretty perfect together. And I thought that fed into a lot of his issues with popularity – even more than popularity itself – and it helped me just let go of the fact that I didn’t quite buy into Dan’s angst. ![]() Because, of course, all the popular kids were mean and unworthy of him? I did feel sorry for him when it came to the pressures he was living under trying to please his dad, though. ![]() I have to admit that I had a little bit of a hard time feeling sorry for Dan when it came to the popularity thing. Dan does not like the idea of being popular – he always avoided most of the kids who now seem to want to be friends with him. This book follows Logan’s friend Dan, who has now become begrudgingly popular due to his basketball prowess and the fact that he’s grown into his looks. This was a super cute read, very similar to the first book in the series (they can be read as standalones), but it didn’t quite capture my attention quite as well as The Summer I Became a Nerd (click on the link to see my review of the first book). ![]() |