![]() ![]() ![]() Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent. ![]() Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we hear so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind's role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. Odell sees our attention as the most precious-and overdrawn-resource we have. ![]() So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity. Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention-and our personal information-that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In Tyson’s bestselling memoir Undisputed Truth, he recounted the role D’Amato played in his formative years, adopting him at age sixteen after his mother died and shaping him both physically and mentally after Tyson had spent years living in fear and poverty. D’Amato died a year before Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history. When Cus D’Amato first saw thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson spar in the ring, he proclaimed, “That’s the heavyweight champion of the world.” D’Amato, who had previously managed the careers of world champions Floyd Patterson and Jose Torres, would go on to train the young Tyson and raise him as a son. “From the former heavyweight champion and New York Times-bestselling memoirist comes an intimate look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D’Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tyson’s surrogate father. ![]() You can read this before Iron Ambition: My Life with Cus D’Amato PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Iron Ambition: My Life with Cus D’Amato written by Mike Tyson which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Iron Ambition: My Life with Cus D’Amato by Mike Tyson ![]() ![]() I ended up finishing it at 4.20 am! (not of the same day of starting it, though) But No regrets, I freaking loved this book and I had such a fun time! Elle Kennedy is the queen!! ❤ ![]() I’m in this weird reading slump at the moment so I am always in search of something fun to read. Dean is in full-on pursuit, but when life-rocking changes strike, he starts to wonder if maybe it’s time to stop focusing on scoring…and shoot for love. ![]() For one night, the feisty blonde rocked his entire world-and now she wants to be friends? Nope. Girls, grades, girls, recognition, girls…he’s a ladies man, all right, and he’s yet to meet a woman who’s immune to his charms. It’ll take more than flashy moves to win her overĭean always gets what he wants. Just once, though, because even if her future is uncertain, it sure as heck won’t include the king of one-night stands. Wild rebound sex is definitely not the solution to her problems, but gorgeous hockey star Dean Di-Laurentis is impossible to resist. To make matters worse, she’s nursing a broken heart thanks to the end of her longtime relationship. ![]() With graduation looming, she still doesn’t have the first clue about what she’s going to do after college. He knows how to score, on and off the iceĪllie Hayes is in crisis mode. ![]() ![]() ![]() His father has died, and his sister deserves her inheritance and all that comes with being part of a noble family. One day a duke strolls into her shop to make an unusual request: help in finding the half-sister he only just discovered he has. Marena Baine-Torres is a biracial, Latinx, Caribbean immigrant who runs an apothecary. The Duke Makes Me Feel… begins in London in 1879. It’s partially set in Paris, so I figured it’d be a good substitute and a nice preview of her upcoming novel. But the author did just make available her novella, The Duke Makes Me Feel…, which was first included in an anthology called Duke I’d Like to F…. ![]() Though it doesn’t come out until the end of May, I was hoping I’d get an ARC of it in time for my April reading challenge (to read books set in Paris!). ![]() One of my most anticipated books this year is A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera, the first in her Las Léonas romance trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Chanel Hardy Book View of Gun Kiss »Read More BookView with Gun Kiss, author of Gun Kiss »Read More Cups of Books »Read More Fabulous and Brunette »Read More Two Ends of a Pen »Read More Christine Young’s Blog »Read More Elaine Cantrell Blogspot »Read More Jess Bookish Life »Read More Spotlight on Crime Writer Khaled Talib »Read More Debra’s Book Cafe »Read More Author Spotlight – A Quaintrelle in the City »Read More Tangled in Text »Read More Books are Theatre of the Mind »Read More Kit ‘N Kabookle »Read More BoundtobeMe »Read More Pulp Den »Read More Rae’s Books & Recipes »Read More The Book Cove Interview »Read More Smashwords_Khaled Talib Interview »Read More BookReader Magazine Interview »Read More MysterySuspenseReviews »Read More Arlena’s Book Reviews »Read More Nubelila Traducciones »Read More B-Gina Review »Read More The Fiction Fact on Writing About Love »Read More Caleb and Linda Pirtle ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus readers don't get the same insider's view of the bonesetter's apprenticeship that they saw of midwifery through Brat's eyes. Fresh from the intolerant Father's tutelage, Matilda, in her zealous piety, snubs Peg and inadvertently thwarts the woman's work: more than once, while lost in prayer, the girl ruins a salve or a simple meal of porridge. As the novel opens, her self-appointed guardian, Father Leufredus, has just dropped her off at the meager lodgings of Red Peg the Bonesetter to learn Peg's trade. The daughter of a wealthy lord's clerk and a mother who fled soon after her birth, Matilda finds herself orphaned when her father dies. Unlike Catherine and Brat, heroines whose combination of rebelliousness and resourcefulness made them instantly likeable, 13-year-old Matilda is less winning than her supporting cast. Fans of Cushman's previous medieval novels (Catherine, Called Birdy The Midwife's Apprentice) may be disappointed with this historical adventure set in ""Blood and Bone Alley"" in the town of Chipping Bagthorpe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Elihu had originally invited those gangs into Personville to help him impose and then enforce the end of a labor dispute. The Op begins to investigate Willsson's murder and meets with Willsson's father, Elihu Willsson, a local industrialist who has found his control of the city threatened by several competing gangs. The Continental Op is called to Personville (known as "Poisonville" to the locals) by the newspaper publisher Donald Willsson, who is murdered before the Op has a chance to meet with him. ![]() Time included Red Harvest in its 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005, noting that, in the Continental Op, Hammett "created the prototype for every sleuth who would ever be called 'hard-boiled.'" The Nobel Prize-winning author André Gide called the book "a remarkable achievement, the last word in atrocity, cynicism, and horror." Plot Some of the novel was inspired by the Anaconda Road massacre, a 1920 labor dispute in the mining town of Butte, Montana. The plot follows the Op's investigation of several murders amid a labor dispute in a corrupt Montana mining town. The story is narrated by the Continental Op, a frequent character in Hammett's fiction, much of which is drawn from his own experiences as an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency (fictionalized as the Continental Detective Agency). Red Harvest ( 1929) is a novel by Dashiell Hammett. ![]() ![]() ![]() Your post must contain enough content to have a discussion.ģ) Ten comment karma in /r/Entrepreneur required to post - we ask you interact with the community before you lead the discussionĤ) No Self Promotion - No selling, unsolicated offers outside the Tuesday/Thursday threads. ![]() He is the main force behind and sjo.com and previously did an AMA here.ġ) No Personal Attacks - criticism of ideas is allowed, attacking people is notĢ) Self Posts Only - links can only provide supplementary material. Sol Orwell - Sold several websites and was a nomad for a while. If approved we will schedule you on the sidebar, so please also provide a Title and 140 character teaser. Body: Date(M-F only), your background/experience, some form of validation (LinkedIn, Website, IG, etc). ![]() ![]() ![]() The apparent paradox presented by the full title deserves further investigation. The full title, News from Nowhere or An Epoch of Rest being some chapters from a Utopian Romance, reveals Morris’s awareness that the strategies of imaginative fiction are not those of the discursive mode which he had used to present his vision of socialism through his journalism and public speaking and to which he had dedicated much of his energies in the 1880’s. ![]() It is at once the culmination of the political journalism in which he had attempted to expound the principles of socialism to a wider public and a more realistic version of the "radical fantasies"1 which occupied the later years of his life. It was a product of his thinking about social conditions in late-nineteenth Britain, thinking which had led to his profound engagement with socialist politics. ![]() News from Nowhere is the representation in fictional terms of William Morris’s vision of a sane and humanly feasible society. Lineaments of Ungratified Desire: William Morris’s News From Nowhere as Utopian ![]() ![]() ![]() Though there a couple beats at the end that felt kind of tired.īrilliant book and would highly recommend. The entire last quarter and conclusion was excellent in almost every way. The book makes an honestly jarring turn that didn’t take me out of the book but did give me pause. ![]() Not saying it was terrible but just not my thing. The magic system is also great though Brandon does his thing and ruins all the mystery and intrigue by explaining it in long boring exposition chapters. The world building is a little overwhelming but still great. Halfway through the story becomes so much darker and more interesting. Great and well-realised characters with more shades of grey than I expected.įor the first quarter the book had an almost comedic tone for some reason, maybe it was just the narrator, but I was fine with it. At first Vivienna’s sections weren’t as interesting as the other two but halfway through it ensnared me and demanded every ounce of my attention. ![]() |