The power of habit book review6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() With your habits.Ī couple of years ago, I made a decision to change my life for the better, but where do you start? When you are getting the same undesired result over and over, what do you change? When you want to achieve any dream in your life, or want to change yourself, or design for a life according to your true values, you start with you. This quote really hits the nail on the head. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. No psychology background needed.Įxcellence is an art won by training and habituation. The books simplicity and its case studies are really perfect to learn about behaviour. When you want to learn about habits, this book is a good starting point. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhig was the one I started with. ![]() When I learned about habits under Professor BJ Fogg from Stanford University, I realised that to become better at behaviour psychology, and in particular, in habit formation, I needed to read every piece of relevant literature that I could get my hands on. ![]()
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The Elite by Kiera Cass6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() One of them will be named the new princess and queen. The group of girls has slimmed down to the Elite. I read the three books in quick succession since I wasn’t feeling great at the time and binged the three books, so forgive me if I confuse certain details from the books.Īmerica Singer is still our protagonist and the only point of view character in the book. The Elite is the second book of the Selection series by Kiera Cass. ![]() But the rest of the Elite know exactly what they want-and America's chance to choose is about to slip away. Is it with Maxon, who could make her life a fairy tale? Or with her first love, Aspen?Īmerica is desperate for more time. Now with the group narrowed down to the six Elite, the competition to win Prince Maxon's heart is fiercer than ever-and America is still struggling to decide where her heart truly lies. The Selection began with thirty-five girls. Published by HarperTeen on April 23rd 2013 The Elite (The Selection, #2) by Kiera Cass ![]() Fear Me by Tim Curran6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Coincidentally, that same winter, a Soldier in my company was not wearing a helmet and suffered a fatal injury while snowmobiling.Īfter learning to skate, I was ready for recreational hockey. I was lucky enough to complete all of my lessons without hurting myself. As the blood pooled on the ice and she was carried away on a stretcher by the medics, I thought, "I'd better get a helmet." But I didn't … at the risk of looking uncool. I signed up for skating lessons at the physical fitness center and on the first day of lessons watched a Soldier's wife lose her footing, fall backward and bang her head on the ice. When I arrived to my duty station in Alaska, I became fascinated with the speed and grace of hockey players. We need to take care of ourselves and look out for others on and off duty.Īs a kid, I ice-skated a little bit. This ideology applies to every injury, and the safety message should reverberate throughout our ranks. ![]() If you lose a thumb, your Family has to take care of an injured Soldier, and the unit suffers by losing your expertise. ![]() ![]() The safety rule of thumb states that there is no difference to you, your Family or the unit if you cut off your thumb while at work or when off duty. Although put into different words, the message was also something I heard several times while attending the aviation safety officer course (ASOC). A colonel at my last duty station always included the safety rule of thumb message in his briefings prior to every long weekend. ![]() Jodi ellen malpas this man trilogy6/4/2023 ![]() This 2nd book continues the story with Ava and Jesse – with Ava continuing to try to push to learn more about what makes Jesse the way that he is all the while trying to accept what it is that he does since it was all smoke and mirrors so far. ![]() We saw it start to happen in book 1 especially with how things ended and picked up in this 2nd installment right on that same roller coaster. ![]() What we know from the first introduction into this series is that Jesse and Ava has something so deep and passionate that they are certain to self destruct or cause the other to do that. I’m so deep into this story that i don’t even know what to make of it. And it’s exactly where Jesse wants her-within touching distance… That means letting herself get close to the Lord of the Manor once more. Ava is equally determined to get at the truth beneath this man’s steely exterior. She should have known that Jesse Ward is impossible to escape-and now he’s back in her life, determined to remind her of the sensual pleasures they had shared. Leaving him was the only way Ava O’Shea could survive. Jesse Ward drowned her with his intensity and blindsided her with his passion, but he kept her away from his dark secrets and broken soul. ![]() Publisher/Year: Grand Central Publishing īook 2 of the #1 New York Times bestselling This Man trilogy ![]() Fostering faust book 36/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Warning: This novel explores dark subjects, and what people will give up of themselves, and each other, to get what they want. If Alex wants to keep living, to keep his soul from being sent to the darkest corner of hell, he’ll have to ask himself that question. The better question, is how much would you take from others? How much would you give of yourself to live on in the world is an easy question. From things as simple as a meal, to their very lives. ![]() That they could never speak of what they’d done.ĭeals for anything, and everything. It’s not even a similar period in time, but from something long past in history.Īnd part of the deal to live again, is to make pacts with others. He can instead, return to the land of the living, though his soul would belong to another.Įxcept the world he’s being sent to, isn’t the same one he came from. ![]() Luckily for him, he’s about to be given a chance. Please read all the way through.))ĭead, and apparently with a one way ticket to a place that only the worst of the worst go.Īll for a simple choice he made about a product his company owned. ((Minor Spoiler and Warning at the bottom of the blurb. ![]() Missing you metropolis poems6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() (Think John Wayne in The Green Berets before the military escalation, being replaced in the aftermath by Robert DeNiro in The Deer Hunter.)Īlthough DC superheroes Superman and Batman had been around since the late 1930s, it was the introduction in the 1960s of Marvel’s comic book anti-heroes Spider-man, Iron Man, the Hulk, etc. The world of the superhero is the cultural component many male adolescents turned to as they attempted to reconstruct new icons to fill the void left by those erased or radically altered after the war. ![]() Gary Jackson’s collection, Missing You, Metropolis, (selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize) explores the impact pop culture, as defined by the rise in stature of the comic book superhero, had on individual and generational development in the United States during the years following the Vietnam war. ![]() A Juror Must Fold … by Kathleen McClung.A Plumber’s Guide to Light by Jesse Bertron.The Death of a Migrant Worker by Gil Arzola.I Will Pass Even to Acheron by Amanda Newell. ![]() Imago, Dei by Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose.Visiting Her in Queens … by Michael Mark.The Morning You Saw … by CooXooEii Black.“Ocean Ancient and Evolving” by Kat Lehmann.“Lights Turn Off in May at the Gateway Arch to Assist Migratory Birds” by Wendy Videlock.“After Senza Titolo” by Matthew Gavin Frank.“Ode to the Automobile and Human Happiness” by Alicia Ostriker. ![]() A swim in the pond in the rain6/3/2023 ![]() Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. ![]() ![]() #2 in Bestselling Literary Criticism Audiobooks Summaryįrom the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves-and our world today.įor the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. ![]() The paperboy by dav pilkey summary6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() When he is not making books for kids, Dav loves to kayak with his wife in the Pacific Northwest. He has published more than seventy books for children, including the bestselling Dog Man and Cat Kid Comic Club graphic novels.ĭav's stories are semi-autobiographical and explore universal themes that celebrate friendship, empathy, and the triumph of the good-hearted. It was both a USA Today and New York Times bestseller. narrative persuasive / opinion descriptive expository / informative creative / story writing procedure / how-to list-making letter / postcard writing. In 2002, Dav published his first full-length graphic novel for kids, called The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby. Dav was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit out in the hallway. ![]() Dav made many other books before being awarded the California Young Reader Medal for Dog Breath (1994) and the Caldecott Honor for The Paperboy (1996). When Dav Pilkey was a kid, he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. ![]() He took her advice and created his first book, World War Won, which won a national competition in 1986. In college, Dav met a teacher who encouraged him to write and illustrate for kids. He spent his time in the hallway creating his own original comic books - the very first adventures of Dog Man and Captain Underpants. ![]() Luckily, Dav loved to draw and make up stories. Dav was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit out in the hallway every day. When Dav Pilkey was a kid, he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. ![]() A tale of two cities amazon6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Only then did I notice the band of mourning black around his upper arm. The story is set in the late 18th century against the background of the French. Joseph put one foot on a pedal and said, real quiet, "If you'll excuse me, I've a funeral to attend." Novel by Charles Dickens, published both serially and in book form in 1859. I stood there, feeling awkward and a fool. ![]() And the quickest flash of hate you ever did see danced across the dark of his eyes. "That all you got to say?" I near shouted, frustrated at how easily he'd turned my good intentions into a fool's errand. But I can't accept." And got back on his bicycle. Joseph's face went blank as the cloudless sky overhead. "Don't you know that, Will?" Which put my nose out of joint so bad that I told him he was being rude, and that I was only trying to do him a favor at no small risk to myself. "The rules aren't the same for me as they are for you," Joseph replied, shaking his head. Which took me by surprise and set me stammering how it was proof he was making his payments, and how he should take it because it was the right and proper way to do business. When I answered truthfully, he handed the paper back like the useless thing it was. He asked whether Pop had written it or me. ![]() The amazing adventures of kavalier6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to the Golden Age of comic books, and in a distant corner of Brooklyn, Sammy is looking for a way to cash in on the craze. ![]() A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. ![]() The beloved, award-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a Michael Chabon masterwork, is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay.Ī “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” ( Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus” ( The New York Review of Books), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a triumph of originality, imagination, and storytelling, an exuberant, irresistible novel that begins in New York City in 1939. ![]() |