Little habits book6/12/2023 “We strive for even bigger goals now that we’ve seen the success of Fabulous,” says Chu. Users also work toward achieving larger, long-term goals such as feeling more energized throughout the day, getting a better night’s sleep, and healthier eating. The tool aims to help its users reset their habits through setting small, obtainable goals, such as drinking more water. With the help of Dan Ariely, a behavior change scientist at Duke University and the author of the New York Times best-seller “Predictably Irrational,” Fabulous was born. “And the idea blossomed into an app that invites and encourages people to be better versions of themselves by leveraging the science of behavior economics,” Chu says. The concept for the app grew out of a conversation between a group of friends who were discussing productivity and focus. In everything that we do, we want to be better versions of ourselves, but sometimes we lack clarity to achieve our goals, so that’s Fabulous… moving along,” says Kevin Chu, growth marketing lead at Fabulous. The Fabulous app is built on a common goal many people share: to be their best self.
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Summer of '69 by Todd Strasser6/12/2023 “Strasser’s protagonist is a riveting character-funny, yet also pitiful foolish, yet justifiably frightened self destructive, yet at his core self aware. “A sweetly bittersweet, surprising, even melancholy bildungsroman set against a world in flux. When tuning in, turning on, and dropping out is no longer enough, what else is there? less … As the pressures grow, it’s not long before Lucas finds himself knocked so far down, it’s starting to look like up to him. If that isn’t heavy enough, there’s also the free-loving (and undeniably alluring) Tinsley, who seems determined to test Lucas’s resolve to stay faithful to Robin a frighteningly bad trip at a Led Zeppelin concert a run-in with an angry motorcycle gang parents who appear headed for a divorce and a friend on the front lines in ’Nam who’s in mortal danger of not making it back. But life veers dramatically off track when he suddenly finds himself in danger of being drafted and sent to fight in Vietnam. With his girlfriend, Robin, away in Canada, eighteen-year-old Lucas Baker’s only plans for the summer are to mellow out with his friends, smoke weed, drop a tab or two, and head out in his microbus for a three-day happening called the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Drawing from his teenage years, author Todd Strasser revisits a tumultuous era and takes readers on a psychedelically tinged trip of a lifetime. Be Real, Macy Weaver by Lakita Wilson6/12/2023 The only problem is that Brynn already has a BFF and, as everyone knows, you can only have one. When she meets Brynn, who’s smart and kind and already seems to have her whole life figured out-down to her future as a high fashion model-Macy knows she’s it. Lonelier than ever, Macy sets her sights on finding a new best friend. Her mother’s never around and her dad’s always working. So when Macy’s mother decides to go back to college three states away, Macy jumps on the chance to move-anything for a fresh start.īut Macy’s new home isn’t exactly what she expected. Fresh off her latest friendship breakup, she’s spent most of her summer break on her own. Perfect for fans of From the Desk of Zoe Washington and Stand Up, Yumi Chung.Įleven-year-old Macy Weaver knows relationships are complicated. A humorous, heartfelt, and fashion-filled contemporary novel about Macy Weaver, a young girl struggling with how to be her true self and make a best friend. Jim kay order of the phoenix 20226/11/2023 Rowling's wizarding world with the dazzling artistic alchemy fans around the globe have come to know and love, perfectly complemented by Neil Packer's own unique and eclectic illustrations, skilfully woven into the heart of the story. Prepare to be enchanted once again as Jim Kay depicts J.K. Now an exciting new collaboration brings together two virtuoso artistic talents, as Kate Greenaway Medal winner Jim Kay is joined by acclaimed guest illustrator Neil Packer, winner of the 2021 BolognaRagazzi Award for non-fiction. Rowling's classic series is an epic artistic achievement, featuring over 160 illustrations in an astonishing range of visual styles. The deliciously dark fifth instalment of Jim Kay's inspired reimagining of J.K. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Illustrated EditionĪs the Order of the Phoenix keeps watch over Harry Potter, troubled times have come to Hogwarts in a year filled with secrets, subterfuge and suspicion. Kwame mbalia tristan strong6/11/2023 Can Tristan save this world before he loses more of the things he loves?ĭon’t get me wrong. But bartering with the trickster Anansi always comes at a price. In order to get back home, Tristan and these new allies will need to entice the god Anansi, the Weaver, to come out of hiding and seal the hole in the sky. Tristan finds himself in the middle of a battle that has left black American gods John Henry and Brer Rabbit exhausted. In a last attempt to wrestle the journal out of the creature’s hands, Tristan punches the tree, accidentally ripping open a chasm into the MidPass, a volatile place with a burning sea, haunted bone ships, and iron monsters that are hunting the inhabitants of this world. Tristan chases after it - is that a doll? - and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a Bottle Tree. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up in his bedroom and steals Eddie’s journal. Tristan is dreading the month he’s going to spend on his grandparents’ farm in Alabama, where he’s being sent to heal from the tragedy. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. Marian keyes book reviews6/11/2023 So what happened to Anna, and where’s Aidan in her time of need? Against everyone’s pleading, Anna returns to New York, and we learn the tragic truth: Anna and Aidan were in a car accident in which Aidan died. There are flashbacks to her recent life in New York, where she has The Best Job in the World in cosmetics public relations, and a hunky, adorable husband, Aidan. With deep cuts and bandages on her face, fingers without nails, an arm cast and a limp, Anna has never looked less stylish (except when she wore all those hippie skirts). On her daily walk, the local schoolboys call her Frankenstein, and for good reason. The first 100 pages build up a mystery of sorts: Anna lies dazed in the front parlor of her parent’s Dublin home as her mother nurses her back to health. Three of the five Irish Walsh girls have novels of their own, and now it’s time for Anna’s story. Keyes’s proven formula for success-a chatty, engaging heroine, a bawdy sense of humor, an unhappy turn of events-works again in her eighth novel ( The Other Side of the Story, 2004, etc.). William empson ambiguity6/11/2023 This ambiguity arises when two meanings that are apparently unconnected emerge simultaneously. This ambiguity emerges from A and B of C. Eliot about his revisions of the Shakespearean language. It happens because of the use of double metaphors simultaneously. Geoffery Chaucer has also used such a type of ambiguity in which a word may have double meanings, but they ultimately resolve into one. Empson has cited various examples of grammar from the sonnets of Shakespeare. However, both of these alternatives resolve into one when compared. This ambiguity comprises two alternative meanings of a word. Empson also adds an annexure about dramatic irony and its role in creating ambiguity through verbal nuances. He cites examples from Alexander Pope, Ben Jonson, Robert Browning, William Morris, Robert Spenser, and Christopher Marlow. The words causing such ambiguity are mostly comparative adjectives, rhythmic meanings, and subdued metaphors. It is actually the problem of pronunciation and its understanding in a context that depends on various comparisons through antitheses and similarities. Such meanings, he argues, come from the analysis of words. However, Empson suggests that it should not be stretched too far due to fear of its becoming absurd. The first type of ambiguity is the pronunciation or speech that comprises various alternate reactions due to verbal nuance. Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin6/10/2023 Winter in Sokcho – in its first English translation the novel was originally published in French in 2016 – takes place over a few weeks either side of Seollal (Korean New Year), during which the protagonist finds herself drawn towards a guest at the hotel: Yan Kerrand, an enigmatic French comic artist who, having wandered the world for years, has arrived in this small border town to finish the last of a comic book series.Įlisa Shua Dusapin’s first-person narrative is formed of crystalline sentences that favour lucid imagery to describe themes of loneliness, familial obligation, identity (the protagonist’s mother is a Korean fishmonger, but she doesn’t know her European father), societal pressures and sexuality. Unsure of what she wants in life, she is adrift. She works in a quiet, dilapidated guesthouse in Sokcho, a fishing town and popular holiday destination in northern South Korea. She doesn’t have a name, or at least no one speaks it. By Elisa Shua Dusapin, translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins, Daunt Books Originals, £9.99 (softcover) Reviewed by Fi Churchman The serpent of essex book6/10/2023 But unlike Cora, this man of faith is convinced the rumors are caused by moral panic, a flight from true belief.These seeming opposites who agree on nothing soon find themselves inexorably drawn together and torn apart-an intense relationship that will change both of their lives in ways entirely unexpected. Eager to investigate, she is introduced to local vicar William Ransome. A keen amateur naturalist with no patience for religion or superstition, Cora is immediately enthralled and certain that what the local people think is a magical sea beast may be a previously undiscovered species. After nearly 300 years, the mythical Essex Serpent is said to have returned, taking the life of a young man on New Year's Eve. Seeking refuge in fresh air and open space in the wake of the funeral, Cora leaves London for a visit to coastal Essex, accompanied by her inquisitive and obsessive eleven-year old son, Francis, and the boy's nanny, Martha, her fiercely protective friend.While admiring the sites, Cora learns of an intriguing rumor that has arisen further up the estuary, of a fearsome creature said to roam the marshes claiming human lives. Wed at nineteen, this woman of exceptional intelligence and curiosity was ill-suited for the role of society wife. When Cora Seaborne's brilliant, domineering husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was not a happy one. Woolf three guineas6/10/2023 From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front, introd. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Įrnst Junger, Storm of Steel. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. The relegation of women to the family, Woolf argues, not only causes women’s lack of power in the public affairs, but also their lack of power within the family. Woolf traces women’s lack of power and influence in the public affairs of England back to the nineteenth-century tradition of the separate spheres, which relegates women to the home and family. Instead of turning towards those countries that were experiencing fascist rule in the 1930s, Woolf examines England, a democratic country, and shows that women are systematically excluded from all public positions of prestige and power, excluded from all positions that would enable them to have real political agency, making that country far from democratic for women. In Three Guineas fascism is not treated as some kind of extreme aberration but as the consequence of the patriarchal sex-gender system. Woolf’s analysis of fascism focuses on the patriarchal relationship between men and women, and she argues that the unequal distribution of power between the genders is a key element for producing fascism. Virginia Woolf’s essay Three Guineas is a comprehensive attempt to theorize the significance of gender for fascism. |