![]() The book does have its more tender moments. I can't help but find myself smiling during many of the scenes because being in Angel's head is just funny at times. ![]() There is a zombie movie filming in Angel's town during this book which I thought was unexpected. I really enjoy the underlying sense of humor in this book. I like how easy it is to relate to and like this character even though she has an imperfect background. She does what she feels is right even if it it isn't easy. She is smart, resourceful, and just pretty much kick ass. But if I had to be a zombie then I would want to be like Angel. I am pretty sure that I don't want to ever be a zombie. This series has been a lot of fun so far and is the perfect choice when I am looking for a fun and light-hearted story. ![]() I finally caved in and bought the book and am really happy that I did. I have so many audiobooks in my personal library that I still haven't read so I tried really hard to resist adding any more to the pile. ![]() This audiobook was just a lot of fun! Over the past few months, I have kept circling back to this book wanting to buy it. This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life. ![]()
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Thomas Sowell calls "Disparate Impact" ideology the "grand dogma" of our time.īut what is disparate impact and why is it so important? ![]() ![]() ![]() If that sounds like your cup of tea, please click the button below and fill out the form and I’ll happily send you a promo code! ![]() So let’s dive in with some updates on the Adventures and Episodes that have been happening around here! But first, HAPPY PI DAY!Īlso, if any of you dear readers would be interested in a free audio copy of An Echo of the Fae in exchange for an honest review, I have a limited quantity of promo codes that I can hand out. But hey, it’s light out later now, so that’s happy.Īnd stuff has been a-happening around here, my friends. Even if it is already technically the third week of March already… shhhhh, I’m totally not in denial about the fact that February is over and we’re almost halfway through March already!īut Daylight Savings Time has returned… which means we’re all going to be confused and groggy for a bit. ![]() However, I can come over here and give y’all a little sneak peek into what’s been happening around here lately. I just released the audiobook of An Echo of the Fae, and I’m already racing around, impatiently waiting on what feels like a dozen other projects and wishing I could just release them all right now! But I can’t. ![]() It just feels like I can never do anything fast enough. I’ve got that song stuck in my head right now. Or whenever we wanted something to move faster than it currently was. That’s a song my mom used to sing to my siblings and me whenever we were tired of waiting for something. Have patience, have patience, don’t be in such a hurry… That’s the title of my son’s favorite bookĪnd it’s true. ![]() ![]() ![]() Facebook, Google, Apple) establish themselves by being radically different, and innovating continually. Focus on making a positive difference with your business, and success will follow. Building a business takes significant time and effort, and you should do something you enjoy. Branson attributes his business success to 5 key secrets, which are expanded upon in various parts of our full summary: The Virgin Group has probably created the most number of billion-dollar companies in the most number of industries. In our full 15-page summary, we’ve distilled and organized the key points from the book into these broad segments: Business Success Principles, Important Business Philosophies, People-management, Management & Communications, Customer Services & Branding, Failure, Innovation & Learning. In our Like a Virgin summary, we’ll outline some of Branson’s advice tips and insights for business, leadership and leading a fulfilling life.ĭo get our complete book summary bundle for the more highlights, or get a copy of the book for the full details and examples! In “Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School”, Branson compiles 76 short chapters to address common questions about starting and growing a business, managing people, and living life to the fullest. ![]() Business magnate Sir Richard Branson is well-known as a serial entrepreneur, investor, adventurer and philanthropist. ![]() ![]() ![]() “In essence,” she writes, “these recipes are invitations. The book pairs narratives with recipes that are often accompanied by stories of their own, almost a book within a book, activities to try, challenges to take on like she did. If I were writing an encyclopedia, the facts would be the story. “Delight,” she writes, in her chapter about the inedible Osage orange, “isn’t a story. Humor, heartbreak and huckleberries –all “struggle and sweetness.” Italian plums, pain and intrigue. B is for blackberry, both the native, trailing and the invasive brambles. ![]() … Imagine a blackberry briar, forbidding and sweet, and follow me in.”Ī is for aronia, a most sour berry. Some are an acquired taste some can’t even be acquired. Some can be medicine or poison, depending on the size of the dose. Some are impossible to domesticate or tough to prepare. She notes: “Each fruit in this book is difficult in its own way. Her ideas and descriptions of fruits and their flavors, family secrets, lost loves and home tempt and tantalize long after the last chapter. Her writing –breathtakingly beautiful, brave and complex – sparkles and lingers. ![]() Kate Lebo deftly weaves them all together, making for a brilliant, richly layered and absolutely delicious book. The 26 lyrical essays in this exceptional compendium of lesser-known or forgotten fruits, one for each letter, explore culinary, cosmetic, cultural, natural, medicinal and the author’s own often deeply personal history. ![]() ![]() ![]() It turns out this little boy is her ancestor and that she has to travel more often into the past to save him every time he’s in trouble if she ever is born in the future.ĭana takes on this task – however physically and emotionally daunting it is – and saves, educates, and cares for him, but it wasn’t long until she realizes that his ancestor is growing into a monster. ![]() Suddenly, she falls sick and wakes up in the past, where she has to save a little boy from drowning. In ‘ Kindred‘, Edana, or Dana as she is mostly called in the book, is a black young woman in her twenties who is constantly – and without her consent – being drawn back through time to save her white ancestor, Rufus, from being killed and preventing her from being born in the first place.Ģ6-year-old Dana has just moved with Kelvin into a new city and is trying to get her career back on track – amid a burning desire to know more about her family. ![]() ![]() ![]() Will they allow the past to define the future? When Mack arrives, all three sisters are forced to confront their long-held beliefs about the conflicts that tore them apart and the bonds of love and loyalty that still draw them together. ![]() And Adalee, a college coed, resents the family’s intrusion into her summer plans. Maisy, a California designer, still blames Riley for ruining her one true love. Now Riley, a single mom who doubts any man will ever live up to the ideal Mack Logan, must work with her sisters while hiding a shattering secret about their mother. His choice of Maisy over Riley during that pivotal summer destroyed the special closeness between the sisters, and sent their lives in very different directions. But June also marks the return of Mack Logan, who thirteen years ago was Riley’s best friend and Maisy’s teenage crush. ![]() In the small seaside town of Palmetto Beach, the Sheffield sisters – responsible Riley, vivacious Maisy, and fun-loving Adalee – reunite to celebrate their mother’s birthday and try to save the family bookstore, which has long been a beloved gathering place in their tight-knit community. ![]() ![]() Most of the sections detail Garner’s personal life, with musings on her sense of place, tributes to her literary friends, diary entries following the lives of her grandkids and her introspective view about growing older. The stories all stand alone and are fantastic in their brevity, as all short stories are. The book is broken up into five sections, each touching on a different aspect of Garner’s writing and life. However, as the book progresses, it becomes obvious that the stories included have a deeper, more personal meaning and are laying the groundwork for an understanding of Garner’s creative mind and her reasons for focusing on such dark and tragic events. Initially, Everywhere I Look seems to do little more than showcase the effortless beauty of Garner’s writing. ![]() Helen Garner’s latest offering gives us an insight into the world in which her most acclaimed works were written. ![]() ![]() When a rescue goes awry and results in the death of something precious, a devastated Guinevere returns to Camelot to find the greatest threat yet has arrived. The more she tries to claim herself as queen, the more she wonders if Mordred was right: she doesn’t belong. She has no sense of who she truly was before she was Guinevere. The closer she gets to Brangien, pining for her lost love Isolde, Lancelot, fighting to prove her worth as Queen’s knight, and Arthur, everything to everyone and thus never quite enough for Guinevere-the more she realizes how empty she is. Guinevere might have accepted her role, but she still cannot find a place for herself in all of it. Yet every night, dreams of darkness and unknowable power plague her. King Arthur is expanding his kingdom’s influence with Queen Guinevere at his side. You can read this before The Camelot Betrayal (Camelot Rising, #2) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Įverything is as it should be in Camelot. ![]() ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Camelot Betrayal (Camelot Rising, #2) written by Kiersten White which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: The Camelot Betrayal (Camelot Rising, #2) by Kiersten White ![]() ![]() ![]() It took Martin decades to reconnect with his parents and sister, and he tells that story with great tenderness. To be this good, to perform so frequently, was isolating and lonely. Martin illuminates the sacrifice, discipline, and originality that made him an icon and informs his work to this day. ![]() The dedication to excellence and innovation is formed at an astonishingly early age and never wavers or wanes. The story of these years, during which he practiced and honed his craft, is moving and revelatory. In the decade that followed, he worked in the Disney magic shop and the Bird Cage Theatre at Knott’s Berry Farm, performing his first magic/comedy act a dozen times a week. ![]() His memoir of his years in stand-up is candid, spectacularly amusing, and beautifully written.Īt age ten Martin started his career at Disneyland, selling guidebooks in the newly opened theme park. This book is, in his own words, the story of “why I did stand-up and why I walked away.”Įmmy and Grammy Award–winner, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Company, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Martin has always been a writer. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly. ![]() |