Leaf and her husband, Mac, live with their four children in Dallas and Los Angeles. Switch On Your Brain Workbook: The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking, and Health by Dr. She is frequently interviewed on TV stations around the globe, has published many books and scientific journal articles, and has her own TV show, The Dr. Leaf practiced clinically for 25 years and is an international and national conference speaker on topics relating to optimal brain performance such as learning, mindful thinking, stress, toxic thoughts, male/female brain differences, mindful eating and much more. Since 1981, she has researched the science of thought and the mind-brain connection as it relates to thinking, learning, renewing the mind, gifting, and potential. Caroline Leaf is the author of Switch On Your Brain, Think and Eat Yourself Smart, and The Perfect You, amongst many other books and journal articles.
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"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Skillfully weaving together stories and evidence from history, brain science, pop culture, literature, anthropology, and humor, The Pun Also Rises is an authoritative yet playful exploration of a practice that is common, in one form or another, to virtually every language on earth.Īt once entertaining and educational, this engaging book answers fundamental questions: Just what is a pun, and why do people make them? How did punning impact the development of human language, and how did that drive creativity and progress? And why, after centuries of decline, does the pun still matter? Watch a Video In The Pun Also Rises, John Pollack-a former World Pun Champion and presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton-explains why such wordplay is significant: It both revolutionized language and played a pivotal role in making the modern world possible. But such attitudes are relatively recent developments. The pun is commonly dismissed as the lowest form of wit, and punsters are often unpopular for their obsessive wordplay. Henry Pun-Off World Championship, yet neglects to pun-tificate or write at least one Al-a-Gore-y about his experience as Bill Clinton ’s speech writer. Pollack goes into detail telling us how he won the 1995 O. A former word pun champion's funny, erudite, and provocative exploration of puns, the people who make them, and this derided wordplay's remarkable impact on history. The Pun Also Rises by John Pollack is a serious book about a silly subject. Together with a recommended reading list this is both a book to be read and a valuable reference work. The editors also present an overview of the genre in Australia in 2010, including noting significant works, events, and the results of the major awards. From this plethora of work, editors Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene have selected 33 tales of fantasy, dark fantasy, horror and paranormal romance for this volume. Several hundred fantasy and horror stories by Antipodeans were published in 2010, contained in Australasian and international magazines, webzines, anthologies and collections. 2010 was a great year for Australian fantasy and horror, with the World Science Fiction convention held in Melbourne serving as an impetus for many publishers, both large and small, to showcase the breadth and depth of Australian and New Zealand speculative fiction. The boundaries between Heaven and Hell are easily traversed, but a person must be wholly remade if they choose to enter Heaven. The narrative itself is revealed to be a dream, and it is this characteristic that makes it all the more real. Heaven is shown over the course of the narrative to be the result of a choice freely offered to humankind to make. The narrator and his traveling companions on the bus ride find that they are ghosts, imperfect shadows against this country of impermeable beauty. The narrative develops from the narrator taking a bus ride up and out of a grey and dank city away to the countryside he finds himself within the earliest parts of Heaven upon getting off the bus, a land of intense beauty and perfection. Lewis undertakes the task of redefining the relationship between Heaven and Hell for the purpose of dispelling the belief that “mere development or adjustment or refinement will somehow turn evil into good without our being called on for a final and total rejection of anything we should like to retain” (Lewis Preface). Lewis’ work entitled The Great Divorce is an allegory of the way that Lewis himself views Heaven and Hell. Lewis’ The Great Divorce: The Nature of Heaven and HellĬ.S. The beginning of the book was a bit challenging for me to get into. The cover looks rad and it was published by Tor, it was all I needed. All I knew about Gideon the Ninth was that we have queer necromancers in space. I’m someone who likes to know very little about books I’m getting into, to keep expectations neutral and just let the book take me where it does. Secondly, I’m sliiightly sad I’m coming into this series late but better now than never. Of course, some things are better left dead.įirst of all… I have FEELINGS. Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die. If Harrowhark succeeds she will become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.īrought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1) by Tamsyn Muir She quickly determines that he’s not insane: He isn’t mad he is maddened. As she is being introduced to the patients, she is stunned to encounter Christian, manacled and confined to a barred cell. Maddy’s cousin runs the asylum, Blythedale, and she and her father go there to live. In the wake of what we would recognize as a stroke, he’s been confined to a madhouse, diagnosed as suffering from the effects of a moral breakdown. Nevertheless, Maddy is dismayed, and a bit puzzled by the intensity of her sadness, when word reaches her that Jervaulx has died.Ĭhristian’s not dead, though, he just wishes he were. When her father’s work brings her into contact with Christian Langland, the “mathematical Duke” of Jervaulx, she writes him down as a practiced rake, a man of creaturely amusements (as indeed he is – we first encounter him in his mistress’s bedroom her husband catches him as he’s leaving the house and promptly calls him out). It’s Laura Kinsale at the top of her game – or anybody else’s, for that matter.Īrchimedea Timms is a sensible, strict Quaker lady, the spinster daughter of a mathematician. The story, the language, the emotional intensity: this book has everything. If you want to read a book that comes as close to perfection as any historical romance, then pick up Flowers from the Storm. Her fourth novel, My Education, received a 2014 Lammy Award. In 2010, Choi was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W. A Person of Interest was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. Her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into a film. Like the characters in TFS, Jenny inhabits that subversive. The outside world of family life and economic status, of academic pressure and of their future adult lives, fails to penetrate this school’s walls - until it does, in a shocking spiral of events that catapults the action forward in time and flips the premise upside-down.Ĭhoi’s first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian American Literary Award for fiction. The American woman is a Japanese American radical on the lam in a traumatized 1970s America. In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. Early life and education edit Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana to a Korean father and a Jewish mother. The New Yorkercalled it 'an auspicious debut,' and the Los Angeles Timestouted it as 'a novel of extraordinary sensibility and transforming strangeness,' naming it one of the ten best books of the year. The author of five novels, Susan Choi won the 2019 National Book Award for Trust Exercise, an ingenious meditation on fiction and truth, friendships and loyalties, the capacities of adolescents, and the powers of adults. Susan Choi (born 1969) is an American novelist. Susan Choi's first novel, The Foreign Student, was published to remarkable critical acclaim. In fewer than 200 intense, dense pages, she considers class prejudice, the shame that poverty brings, the AIDS epidemic, and the healing powers-and the limits-of art. As in Olive Kittredge (2008), Strout peels back layers of denial and self-protective brusqueness to reveal the love that Lucy’s mother feels but cannot express. She marries a man from a comfortable background who can’t ever quite quiet her demons his efforts to bridge the gap created by their wildly different upbringings occupy some of the novel’s saddest pages. The possible threat to her life brings Lucy’s mother, from whom she has been estranged for years, to her bedside-but not the father whose World War II–related trauma is largely responsible for clever Lucy’s fleeing her impoverished family for college and life as a writer. The eponymous narrator looks back to the mid-1980s, when she goes into the hospital for an appendix removal and succumbs to a mysterious fever that keeps her there for nine weeks. From Pulitzer Prize– winning Strout ( The Burgess Boys, 2013, etc.), a short, stark novel about the ways we break and maintain the bonds of family. Sophie Hannah and Tana French: Author One-on-One Faithful Place is Tana French's best book yet (readers familiar with In the Woods and The Likeness will recognize this as an incredible feat), a compelling and cutting mystery with the hardscrabble, savage Mackey clan at its heart. Because he is too close to the case, and because the Place (including his family) harbors a deep-rooted distrust of cops, Frank must undergo his investigation furtively, using all the skills picked up from years of undercover work to trace the killer and the events of the night that changed his life. They say going home is never easy, but for Frank, investigating the cold case of the just-discovered body of his teenage girlfriend, it is a tangled, dangerous journey, fraught with mean motivations, black secrets, and tenuous alliances. Faithful Place is Frank's old neighborhood, the town he fled twenty-two years ago, abandoning an abusive alcoholic father, harpy mother, and two brothers and sisters who never made it out. That which was buried is brought to light and wreaks hell-on no one moreso than Frank Mackey, beloved undercover guru and burly hero first mentioned in French's second book about the Undercover Squad, The Likeness. Amazon Best Books of the Month, July 2010: The past haunts in Tana French novels. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. 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