Amazing - I think now my favourite books and favourite author!
like the titanic, exciting story despite knowing what's going to happen
This blog post reflects very well why I love this series so much: http://io9.gizmodo.com/10-reasons-why-le-guins-earthsea-books-can-still-chang-14....
Excellent important read for everyone. Highly recommend it.
A New Understanding of ADHD in Children and Adults: Executive Function Impairments by Thomas E. Brown
While very much a text book, easy to understand ideas and well laid out format. Interested to learn more from Thomas E. Brown on ADHD and executive functioning.
So much to think about from a book written in 1940! Loved it!
Confusing in some ways but so beautifully written! And so interesting. Loved it!
Interesting read about the SS St. Louis and Jews in Havana.
Funny, educational and inspirational. A quick and enjoyable read. Thank you Hannah Hart for sharing!
Another great read from Elizabeth Hay. Would love to hear her speak since she's local!!
Sometimes challenging to follow (for me) but enjoyable, humorous and insightful.
Easy, enjoyable and educational to read, captivating from beginning to end, including footnotes!
Well written, thought provoking and great conversations brought up by this work.
Love Roxane's writing and her genuine honesty. Her memoir is, her stories are, for better or worse, so relatable.
Beautifully written story. Loved the theme repetition and how the story crescendo'd to a great ending. Wish my French was good enough to read the original.
Favourite lines:
PG 262
"I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privileged one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something."
PG 365
"There was but a thread between life and death, and he had stumbled blamelessly onto the wrong side of it...He too had been a boy once, desirous of understanding the world. And how he had wasted all his talents, all is obvious facility for learning, twisting every new fact and arranging it into senselessness and cruelty.
PG 262
"I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privileged one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something."
PG 365
"There was but a thread between life and death, and he had stumbled blamelessly onto the wrong side of it...He too had been a boy once, desirous of understanding the world. And how he had wasted all his talents, all is obvious facility for learning, twisting every new fact and arranging it into senselessness and cruelty.
"But of course, it's not the world that needs saving. Only the thing that people call by the same name."
Read during the Covid-19 pandemic. DD's, 12 yo, book, and an excellent read for all ages. "We all react differently to fear, so situations like this can bring out the best and the worst in people." Kate Messner's novel has lots of interesting ideas too think about and talk about: communal fear, racism, leadership, justice and law enforcement. I also thought there was some great poetry lessons in there too! Thank you for a really enjoyable read Ms. Messner!
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed – A New York Times Bestselling Mental Health and Psychology Memoir by Lori Gottlieb
Thoroughly enjoyed this book: Entertaining and enlightening. Lots of great quotes/ideas to consider over a cup of coffee :)
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything by Chris Hadfield
I can't believe I waited seven years to read this book. I also think I picked the perfect time to read this book. Hadfield's writing is easy but, has clarity and many profound ideas about staying positive, being prepared, working hard, making mistakes and how to overcome errors, in actions, in thinking and in life in order to better oneself. Particularly great reading for this era (during the Covid-19 pandemic) of our lives. Reading this book makes me think about friends and family. I stop every few pages it seems to bookmark a passage that seems particularly poignant for one person, or for one reason or another. Thoughts from this book: stretch yourselves in order to give yourselves and others "more". Cherish each opportunity to make more mistakes and learn from them. Our purpose isn't to know everything. But rather, perhaps to discover as much as we can about the world around us the other beings around us and then ultimately ourselves. But discovery doesn't come in a vacuum. Discovery comes by trial and error, over and over again. Try new things, make mistakes, acknowledge them as your own. Don't blame others but rather take ownership and learn how to do things differently in the future. There are right ways, as well as different ways, to do things, of course and practice makes perfect. In this book that idea is hammered home. Astronauts train by doing the same thing over and over again in order to be able to do it practically in one's sleep. however they also do it show more over and over again in order to see what can go wrong and then how to do it better the next time; to see what can go wrong and how to correct a mistake themselves. Not to beat oneself up over a mistake but really to learn from the it and move on and move forward. show less
Lots to think about and great book discussion material. Even more interesting was discussion with ppl who had only seen the series and the different interpretations.
Listened to the audio book: fascinating listen and so original. Took the ebook out from the library: unique and so interesting! Want to purchase, but too expensive.
Thoroughly enjoyed this book. A quick but great read.