She noted that in her experience the last thing most people in organizations need is five new things to do on Monday morning. The ideal would be for participants to walk away with five new things they can do Monday morning.” Sally had heard such requests in the past and tried to accommodate them. “We have a very proactive culture around here, so we want to make sure you give people plenty of to-dos. How Women Rise Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job By Sally Helgesen By Marshall Goldsmith 29.00 Format: Hardcover 29.00 ebook 16.99 (Unabridged) Trade Paperback 16.99 (Unabridged) 30. “The most important thing is that your program should be immediately actionable,” she said. After she had sketched out the program, the head of the planning committee spoke up. A vivid example came during a recent client call about a leadership workshop she was scheduled to deliver. Sally has also seen how the bias for action can undermine the ability of people to let go of behaviors that no longer serve them. Even the simple injunction to “stop being a jerk” is often more effective than itemizing desirable behaviors to try out. “of “to-do” behaviors (say please and thank you, be more patient, treat others with respect) have a more difficult time changing than those who focus on a few “must-stop” behaviors (stop sharing your opinion on everything, quit taking other people’s work for granted, don’t claim credit you don’t deserve).
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William wrote his first story when he was six. He was one of four kids - one of his brothers is named Tycho (and is now the president of the Internet Chess Club). William Sleator was born on February 13, 1945, in Maryland. * probably reverse chronological order, certainly as they're listed inside Others See Us They have cute little story lines, complete with happy endings and interesting ways of looking at reality, and they only take a couple of hours to read. Sleator's books were intriguing when I was in 4th grade, and I find upon re-reading them now that they're a refreshing change from the kind of literature that "educated college folk" such as myself are supposed to read. I daresay he might be something of a Neo-luddite, and he certainly seems to have a fascination with dualism. Most of the ones I've read have main characters which are young men, 14-18 years old, who end up getting involved in some abnormality or technological alteration of space-time that they've somehow stumbled upon. Massively cool author of a collection of " juvenile" sci-fi books. In which case, what else should I focus on? Well, The Manuscript could be said to be a Gothic novel, with ghosts featuring heavily, and I did once, as a child, apparently claim to have seen one sitting on the end of my bed, but that was likely the overactive imagination of a troubled little boy. Even a self-obsessed blabbermouth has his limits. As much as I want to engage and entertain the reader, to build a relationship with the reader, I don’t much fancy going there. So as I came to write about Jan Potocki’s The Manuscript Found in Saragossa I was understandably perturbed when I realised that group sex is so central to the novel’s plot. I tend to introduce these reviews with a story or anecdote inspired by the text in question, something, in most cases, from my own past or present life. There’s no physical abuse at God’s Promise, but Cam and her friends are told again and again by the staff - Reverend Rick (John Gallagher Jr.) and Dr. Sent away to a program in the woods, Cam and her friends are trapped in a literal and figurative wilderness. The film captures the aching loneliness of being young, queer and confused - a story that’s still too rarely told. Slated for an August release, The Miseducation of Cameron Post has already won big at Sundance, where it took home the Grand Jury Prize, and just played at the Tribeca Film Festival. There, isolated in the woods, in the Internet-less early 1990s, Cam and her friends Jane and Adam - played by Sasha Lane and Forrest Goodluck, respectively - contemplate the desires that got them shipped off to God’s Promise, where they are subjected to the mental horrors of what’s now known as conversion therapy. God’s Promise is a sort-of evangelical summer camp-cum-boarding school for kids who are “struggling with same-sex desire,” as the school’s misguided leadership puts it. In the new film The Miseducation of Cameron Post, the titular main character, Cam, played with teenage apathy and fragility by Chloë Grace Moretz, gets caught fooling around with a friend and quickly finds herself at God’s Promise. Evelyn Paglini, shamans, voodoo priests, psychics, Catholic demonologists (Ed and Loraine Warren), numerous Protestant ministers, priests, and numerous lay people with no success. The list includes clairvoyants, charlatans, white witches, New Agers, authors, paranormal investigators, parapsychologist Dr. What is interesting about this account that although the family seems to be Catholic, Deborah is not a woman of any faith in the begiining and the family seems to reachout to anyone and anybody for help. An unwieldly relationship between the two through which she is able to bargain with it at times. As she tells her tale of a haunting, later identified as a demonic oppression and the escalating attackes on her family, specificaly Lee, her mother-in-law, Deborah becomes familiar with the demon whom she dubs, Mr. She is a 'no frills' writer in that she gives you background information, personal insights, doubts, and facts in bite-size morsels. Deborah Moffitt's pedestrian narrative style works exceedingly well. She headed for the cattle gate at the back of the pastureland that was lined by the dirt road. Her journey passed rapidly as she listened to birds singing their morning songs and counted fence posts.Īs she topped the hill, a baritone voice sang an unfamiliar tune. Paul would be at the end of her one-mile jaunt. She took another long look at her homestead before traipsing onward. There was a life out there-one that had elbowroom-and it called to her. Some days the desire to break from her family’s confinements sneaked up on her. Freedom beckoned to her, but so did her relatives. Her Amish heritage was hundreds of years old, but her heart yearned to be as modern as personal computers and the Internet. She closed her eyes, breaking the visual connection to home. Seventeen years ago she’d been born in that house. Her family’s gray stone farmhouse was perched amid rolling acreage. When she topped the knoll and was far enough away so her father couldn’t spot her, she turned, taking in the view behind her. Early morning light filtered through the broad leaves of the great oaks as she ran toward her hopes…and her fears.Ī mixed fragrance of light fog, soil, garden vegetables, and jasmine drifted through the air. Hannah Lapp covered the basket of freshly gathered eggs with her hand, glanced behind her, and bolted down the dirt road. A pleasure for any Francophile like myself. Written in flawless British English, with many French words included in his phrases. What Peter Mayle admired was the willingness of the French to support good cooking and the quality of food. All their memorable meals descriptions are made with passion, wit and appreciation. The book is a fascinating introduction in the Provençal and Occitan cuisine. ‘ This year started with lunch’ is the first sentence in chapter 1 – January, during winter in Provence. Maybe that’s why I started reading other books in parallel while I was home in Berlin, and took this one with me in my travels to Madrid, Florence, Vienna. Somehow, reading it took months for me, because I wanted to savor every paragraph. Particularly I enjoyed the book structure with 12 chapters, each for every month of the year. The author invited us in his journey in all seasons in the French provincial life. To be read before taking the Provence roadtrip for lavender fields, or watching a movie adaptation with Marion Cotillard and Russel Crowe, but definitely not on an empty stomach. Is incredible that it was published almost 34 years ago. It had me at bon appétit.įirst of all, I do recommend this memoir from 1989, that I would include in the travel writing genre, as the title tells us. In his memoir, he enjoyed the French lifestyle and explored local events, all in a delicious mix of culture and cuisine. The author Peter Mayle moved with his wife to the South of France, and wrote with humor about their first year in Provence. John Lloyd Ackrill died in Oxford on 30 November 2007. In 1953 he married Margaret Kerr with whom he had four children. In 1981 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy and, in 1996, an Honorary Fellow of St John's. He retained that Chair, whilst remaining a fellow of Brasenose, until he retired in 1989 as an emeritus professor. In 1966, Oxford university created a statutory chair in the History of Philosophy, to which Ackrill was elected as the first holder. Granted two years of study-leave, Ackrill was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1950-51 (as he was again in 1961-62) before becoming, in 1953, a tutorial fellow at Brasenose College. He then accepted a teaching position as assistant lecturer in Logic at Glasgow before being appointed university lecturer at Oxford in Ancient Philosophy in 1949. He returned to Oxford in 1945 to read Literae Humaniore, graduating in 1948. The next year he left for war service in the Royal Berkshire Regiment and General Staff, reaching the rank of captain. John's College, Oxford as a scholar in Classics where his philosophy tutors were Paul Grice and John Mabbott. Ackrill was born, to Frederick William Ackrill and Jessie Anne Ackril, in Reading, Berkshire where he attended Reading School. Fantagraphics republished the first four issues and the remaining eight.Ī compiled hardcover volume was released by Pantheon Books in 2005, albeit without the interstitial character portraits from the single issues. The first four issues were released by Kitchen Sink Press, before the publisher went out of business. Publication history īlack Hole was published as a 12-issue comic book limited series between 19. Burns has said that the mutations can be read as a metaphor for adolescence, sexual awakening and the transition into adulthood. The story deals with the aftermath of a sexually transmitted disease that causes grotesque mutations in teenagers. It was released in collected form in 2005 by Pantheon Books. Black Hole is a twelve-issue comic book limited series written and illustrated by Charles Burns and published first by Kitchen Sink Press, then Fantagraphics. Throughout the day, Mateo holds onto a secret about himself that he only reveals after he finally sings in front of a crowd: he’s gay, and over the course of the day, he’s fallen in love with Rufus. As the day wears on, Mateo becomes increasingly braver-he finally agrees to ride on the back of Rufus’s bike, and he even willingly leaps off a 20-foot cliff into a pool at the Travel Arena. He starts to take risks and trust others, and he learns that playing it safe isn’t always the best way to go. Inside, Mateo wants to be a fun-loving and carefree person, and with Rufus’s help, Mateo begins to be that person in real life. Mateo is initially suspicious of Rufus-he views Rufus simply as a way for him to break out of his shell and become the person he’s always wanted to be. This leads him to join the app Last Friend and to connect with Rufus, as he doesn’t want to burden Lidia with the news that he’s dying. However, when Mateo receives his own call from Death-Cast, he realizes that connecting with people online isn’t enough-he has to connect in person while he still has the chance. He feels that he can do good by being there virtually for people on their last days. Mateo spends much of his time on the blog CountDowners. He only has two real friends: Dad (who has been in a coma for two weeks) and his best friend, Lidia. Mateo suffers from anxiety and keeps to himself as much as possible. Mateo is one of the novel’s protagonists he’s an 18-year-old Puerto Rican teen. |