![]() The major flaw of having an unreliable narrator is that we cannot ever completely trust the narrator. While it’s nice as a reader to get the closure, I doubt events will always wrap up so nicely in reality, and I encourage readers to keep this in mind while reading Made You Up. This means that Alex also learns the truth. By the end, we learn what’s real and what existed only in Alex’s mind down to the smallest details we wouldn’t have thought to question. ![]() That said, I do want to acknowledge that Zappia wraps up the novel rather cleanly. ![]() In the process, we come a little closer to understanding what it would be like to be unable to discern what’s real and what isn’t real. On the one hand, I love the complexity that Zappia creates by intertwining reality and delusions so that we, the readers, finds ourselves questioning everything that we’re told. Made You Up is a mind boggling read.Īlex’s unreliable narration is both the charm and the major flaw of this novel. I would think that Alex perceives reality only to later question it only to later question my doubts. ![]() Made You Up is a novel that will make you question everything that you see. I never questioned if it was real or not. ![]() That first lobster scene is so cute, so precious, so full of feels. I fell in love with Made You Up from the time lobsters were first mentioned. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Doidge’s first book, The Brain That Changes Itself, published seven years ago, described how the principle of such healing was becoming established fact in the laboratory through a greater understanding of ways in which circuits of neurons functioned and were created by thought. Norman Doidge is a distinguished scientist, a medical doctor, and a psychiatrist on the faculty of both the University of Toronto and of Columbia University in New York. Not only that, but much of the healing–for conditions that range from Parkinson’s disease, to autism, to stroke, to traumatic head injury–can be stimulated by conscious habits of thought and action, by teaching the brain to essentially “rewire itself.” Neuroplasticity has developed from a growing understanding that the human brain is in fact capable of much more significant self-repair and healing. ![]() For centuries the human brain was thought to be a fairly fixed and unregenerative organ that, if injured or diseased, is subject to only very limited recovery. The Brain’s Way of Healing is a new book by Norman Doidge that focuses on the implications of a new are of neuroscience called neuroplasticity.
![]() All of the guys I worked with were devoted elk and mule deer hunters, and, when I arrived, bow season was in full swing. ![]() When I moved to Wyoming in September 2005, my perspective on hunting quickly changed. Through those years, I always enjoyed fishing and bird hunting, but never really considered them to be truly adventurous, challenging, or hardcore.* The adventures intensified through my teens and into my early twenties – a college semester spent mountaineering in the North Cascades, a climbing trip to Argentina’s Andes Mountains, pushing myself through long distance triathlons. Not particularly adventurous or challenging, especially when you consider the ridiculous numbers of whitetails in eastern North Carolina.Īs a boy, I was in perpetual motion and chose to spend my non-school time participating in more “interesting” activities – chopping trees, building trails, and exploring the woods behind my neighborhood, fly fishing for Tar River bluegill and bass (while avoiding copperheads), and becoming proficient at rappelling out of my 2 nd story bedroom window. ![]() ![]() As a young kid, it all seemed pretty boring – get up before sunrise, sit still in a cold tree stand for hours on end, (hopefully) shoot a deer, throw it in the back of a truck and drive home. Growing up in North Carolina, I was never drawn to the idea of deer hunting. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is what she quotes from him on page 61. Worse, she misrepresents the German anthropologist, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. ![]() For example, she does seem to imply that, because our society is structurally racist, all European-Americans are racist by definition. Unfortunately, her message is weakened in a couple of places by glaring overstatements and errors. De Gruy Leary is excellent on the trauma of slavery, and her personal stories (on how to teach and motivate a group of learning-disabled African-American tweens, for example) are illuminating. It takes conscious, disciplined effort to break the chain of abuse, and surely there can be no worse abuse that that endured by the enslaved peoples - African and otherwise - of the Americas. Trauma DOES get handed down in families! Surely that is inarguable by now. Much of her historical information is illuminating, and her main argument - that, due to their history of slavery, African-Americans perforce had to learn methods of coping that have been handed down through the generations, and which are no longer serving them well - simply makes sense. De Gruy Leary seems a gentle person who writes with a simple, clear, style. It's amazing to me, looking on Amazon, how divisive this book is. Every adult American should read it, for it offers much substance in spite of its flaws. ![]() ![]() A frustrating, thought-provoking and important book. ![]() ![]() 'An instant classic which catapulted Snerg to the rank of Poland's best sf authors' Science Fiction Encyclopedia. Editions for Robot: 8374536667 (Paperback published in 2005), 0241485118 (Paperback published in 2021), (Kindle Edition published in 2021), (ebook publis. Considered one of the most important Polish science fiction novels of all time, Robot is a haunting philosophical enquiry into the nature of our reality and our place in the universe. But as he penetrates its tunnels and locked rooms, encountering mysterious doppelgangers and a petrified city, he comes closer to the truth of his existence. Is BER-64 a human or a machine As he navigates the corridors and locked rooms of a strange bunker, he must solve the mysteries of murderous doppelgangers. An instant classic which catapulted Snerg to the rank of Polands best sf authors Science Fiction Encyclopedia. Is BER-66 a human or a robot? His controllers, known as 'the Mechanism,' tell him he is a living machine, programmed to gather information on the inhabitants of the strange underground world he finds himself in. Considered one of the most important Polish science fiction novels of all time, Robot is a haunting philosophical enquiry into the nature of our reality and our place in the universe. so that you could discover a fraction of the great secret.' Overview: The first English-language publication of one of the greatest Polish science fiction novels of all time Robot (Penguin Science Fiction) by Adam Wisniewski-Snerg, Tomasz Mirkowicz (Translator) ![]() ![]() ![]() It will require all of her strength, cunning, and courage to defeat them. Aided by Folk she meets along the way and an albino Dragon that she rescues from near death, Nell battles the fearsome forces of nature, Evil, and ignorance that are amassed against her. Against the King's wishes, Nell sets out into the unknown with her pet demidragon, Minna. Her father, King Einar, forbids it, fearing for her safety and claiming that her heart is too soft. Princess Arenelle, a promising young Witch, has just reached eleven, the age of Magic, and wishes to undertake the quest. There is a long tradition in Eldearth that the keeper must be a Wizard, and only boys can be Wizards, but so far, all the boys who have attempted the difficult quest to become Apprentice Keeper have failed. If a new apprentice is not found soon, Eldearth may succumb to the evil powers of the dark Lord Graieconn. But the present Imperial Wizard, Keeper of the Light that protects Eldearth, is aging and ill. In the magical world of Eldearth, Witches and Wizards live side by side with Humans, Weefolk, though elusive, are abundant, and Dragons and Unicorns still walk the land. ![]() ![]() Instead, it discusses the general business principle of choosing a single task to work on to theoretically maximize the efficiency of that task and the overall project. The One Thing is the duo's first book that is not specifically focused on real estate. Prior to the publication of The One Thing in 2013, the two collaborated on The Millionaire Real Estate series of books which discussed how to invest in and earn money from real estate properties. ![]() Jay Papasan is the Vice President of publishing at Keller Williams. Gary Keller is the co-founder and chairman of the board at Keller Williams Realty, which is one of the world's largest real estate companies. It was first published by Bard Press on April 1, 2013. The book has appeared on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and. The book discusses the value of simplifying one's workload by focusing on the one most important task in any given project. ![]() The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results (stylized The ONE Thing) is a non-fiction self-help book written by authors and real estate entrepreneurs Gary W. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Previous published: Great Britain : Newnes, 1946Īccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 10:04:57 Boxid IA1998210 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() Her stories, which include The Famous Five, The Magic Faraway Tree, Malory Towers, St Clare's, The Wishing Chair and Amelia Jane series', remain timeless classics across the world. ![]() Enid Blyton is one of the world's best-loved children's authors with over 700 titles published and sales of over 700,000 in the UK each year. (Junior Design Awards on The Magic Faraway Tree). Will it be the Land of Spells, the Land of Treats, or the Land of Do-As-You-Please? "This should be on every child's bookshelf". And when they discover the faraway tree, that is the beginning of many magical adventures! Join them and their friends - Moonface, Saucepan Man and Silky the fairy as they discover which new land is at the top of the Faraway Tree. When Joe, Beth and Frannie move to a new home, an enchanted qood is on their doorstep. This is a stunning full-colour hardback deluxe edition of the third magical story in the Magic Faraway Tree series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A middle aged man sitting on a slouching bed in a rumpled bedroom, his entire right leg in a cast, his other leg bare except for a black sock. An open can of beer set next to a just-so anniversary cake. And yet, he also has an eye for when something is off - something added, or missing, or unusual. His selection process positions the snapshot as the container for secrets, something only family or close friends know. The 193 photos selected for Snapshots - culled from thousands he collected during the period - included “intimate, domestic, close-up information that I could never have known otherwise,” Lesy writes in his introduction. But Lesy recognizes that ordinary life, when you train a camera on it, becomes addictively strange. ![]() As hallucinations go, his trip was pretty earthbound: the images he was drawn to tended to feature people in ordinary circumstances, talking, celebrating, partying, traveling, and flirting. This was, as he relates in the introduction to his book Snapshots 1971-77, a transformative experience - a “drug experience without drugs” that kicked off a five-decade career as a scholar of American photography. In 1971, Michael Lesy recovered a cache of snapshots from the dumpster of a photo-processing plant in San Francisco. ![]() ![]() James Press, The Writers Directory by St. She is listed in numerous publications, including Contemporary Authors by Gale Research, Inc., Twentieth Century Romance and Historical Writers by St. ![]() Now, she has over 40 million copies of her books in print, which have been translated and published around the world. She also used the pseudonyms Diana Blayne and Katy Currie, and her married name: Susan Kyle. She began selling romances in 1979 as Diana Palmer. Susan and her husband have one son, Blayne Edward, born in 1980. Since 1972, she has been married to James Kyle and have since settled down in Cornelia, Georgia, where she started to write romance novels. Susan is a former newspaper reporter, with sixteen years experience on both daily and weekly newspapers. ![]() Susan grew up reading Zane Grey and fell in love with cowboys. Her best friends are her mother and her sister, Dannis Spaeth (Cole), who now has two daughters, Amanda Belle Hofstetter and Maggie and lives in Utah. ![]() Her mother was part of the women's liberation movement many years before it became fashionable. She was the eldest daughter of Maggie Eloise Cliatt, a nurse and also journalist, and William Olin Spaeth, a college professor. Susan Eloise Spaeth was born on 11 December 1946 in Cuthbert, Georgia, USA. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.ĭiana Palmer is a pseudonym for author Susan Kyle. ![]() |