5/13/2023 0 Comments Zappos happiness book![]() ![]() This is a great book about creating company culture through customer service and at the same time building experiences. ![]() This video post is about a book called Delivering Happiness by Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh. I consume books, blog posts, and articles that are applicable to our industry and I’ve decide to begin doing some book reviews so that you can benefit from the great pool of knowledge out there. Myers Barnes, a good friend and mentor of mine told me years ago that if I wanted to double my income, read an hour a day. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments A little life near me![]() Brilliant and creative, each is flawed in some important way. The book begins soon after they have graduated and ends decades later. This is the story of four college friends and roommates-Willem, Malcolm, JB and Jude-who presumably, although it is only implied, went to Harvard. (See below for my reasons why you should read a book that is so melancholy and deeply sorrowful.) More than anything, it is absolutely, totally heartbreaking. There is (extremely) disturbing violence. ![]() It is more about misery than joy, and it sucks the reader down into that misery like quicksand. This is not a book I would casually recommend to anyone. It is also the saddest, most upsetting book I have read-perhaps ever. This truly exceptional book by Hanya Yanagihara is a literary masterpiece. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Michael ausiello memoir![]() In the film, from The Big Sick director Michael Showalter, Parsons plays Ausiello, who, after the heartbreaking diagnosis, sets aside relationship issues with Cowan (played by Ben Aldridge) to help him in his final months. But it's also filled with immeasurable gratitude for the 13-and-a-half years that I was lucky enough to spend with this extraordinarily loving, funny, talented, complicated man." 5, 2015.Īt the time, Ausiello wrote in a tribute to Cowan on TVLine (which he founded) that "as you can imagine, my heart is broken. They later married on March 21, 2014, and Cowan died at 43 of a rare form of neuroendocrine cancer on Feb. Spoiler Alert is an adaptation of Michael Ausiello's 2017 memoir Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies about how the television journalist fell in love with photographer Kit Cowan in the early 2000s. Jim Parsons' latest movie has a touching true story behind it. ![]() ![]() Giovanni Rufino/2022 FOCUS FEATURES, Michael Ausiello/Instagram Left: Jim Parsons and Ben Aldridge in Spoiler Alert Right: The real-life Michael Ausiello and Kit Cowan ![]() Jim Parsons stars as Michael Ausiello and Ben Aldridge as Kit Cowan in director Michael Showalter’s SPOILER ALERT ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880–1929), called Monty, ten years older than Agatha.īefore marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. ![]() She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.Īgatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance. Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.ĭame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is the best-selling author of all time. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The Spare Room by Helen Garner![]() ![]() ![]() The fact that the footy season exists, that it’s coming around again. ![]() The under-16s footy coach leaning on the fence and muttering between clenched teeth, “ Don’t turn your back on the play.” “Resentment is like taking poison and hoping that someone else will die.” Maybe they’ll lead me somewhere good before I shrivel up and blow away. I plan to keep writing them down, praising them, arranging them like stepping stones into the dark. Hand-lettered signs, quotes from books, offhand remarks that make me think of dead people, or of living ones I can no longer stand the sight of. Words that people choose, their accidentally biblical turns of phrase. I’m going to settle for small, random stabs of extreme interestingness – moments of intense awareness of the things I’m about to lose, and of gladness that they exist. So I’m not going to spend what’s left of my life hanging round waiting for it. And before you’ve had time to take a big gasp and name it, it’s gone. It’s something you glimpse in the corner of your eye until one day you’re up to your neck in it. It exists all right, it will be given to you, but it’s fluid, it’s evasive, it’s out of reach. It’s more like the thing that Christians call grace: you can’t earn it, you can’t strive for it, it’s not a reward for virtue. W hat is happiness, anyway? Does anybody know? It’s taken me 80 years to figure out that it’s not a tranquil, sunlit realm at the top of the ladder you’ve spent your whole life hauling yourself up, rung by rung. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The murderer ray bradbury![]() ![]() Back at home, the robot cook tells him to take dinner out of the oven, the robot maid tells his son to wipe his feet, and his wife won’t shut the hell up with her electronic interactive Spanish lessons. Awakened by a robot alarm clock, blasted by music in the shower, hit with cell calls before he reaches his desk, met with yards of paper spewing out of his cutting-edge dot-matrix continuous feed printer. And dropping his tape recorder in a glass of water although, since it was set on Record, I don’t think it would have made much of a racket. Brock demonstrates why it is quiet by biting a chunk out of the doctor’s phone. So we kind of see where this is going.įellows comments on how quiet it is in the cell. ![]() En route, he gets a cell call from his son asking for a tele-transfer of his allowance, gets a pass printed out from a fax machine in his briefcase, punches in an electronic code to enter the prison, and enters another code to enter the the hallway, and enters another code to enter Brock’s cell. Fellows is going to see Albert Brock in Meadowbrook Penitentiary. ![]() The episode starts out like Koyaanisqatsi with a fast-mo montage of clouds moving across the sky, cars racing along the freeway, people rushing through a train station, people walking down the street.ĭr. ![]() ![]() Perhaps current events involving, for example, police-involved shootings are too sad, too fresh, too morally muddled, or too lacking in resolution to be molded into an eight-episode drama with a royal-flush ensemble. “When They See Us” was, nevertheless, a period piece that echoed contemporary cases, but lacked the punch of a story ripped from recent headlines. That show drew its power from how relevant the issues it explored remain three decades since the real-life incident that inspired it. The recent exception is “When They See Us,” Ava DuVernay’s gut-wrenching retelling of the Central Park Five case, which remains a potent example of how myopic and flawed police investigations can ruin lives. (The quality of such well-intentioned episodes generally ranges between “Not totally humiliating” and “May induce cringe spasms.”) The problem of dysfunctional policing and its disproportionate impact on communities of color has been largely ignored by scripted television, save for occasional arcs on the fictional police dramas whose rose-tinted views of police work have contributed to that very issue. And yet for as many as there are, notably few have drawn from what is arguably America’s most consequential (and most intractable) criminal justice phenomenon. ![]() ![]() Scripted limited-run dramas inspired by recent, buzzy true-crime tales have recently oversaturated the market. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Dear Cyborgs by Eugene Lim![]() “ Search History is a luminous, peerless work that establishes Lim as one of the best-suited authors to write about our distinct moment of environmental decay amidst technological advancement,” writes Meghana Kandlur. Often simultaneously hilarious and devastating, Search History is an adventure story that offers profound insight into grief and grieving in the contemporary era. In the ensuing sections, the novel continues to fall down such unexpected rabbit holes, but at the heart of the story is a madcap search for a dog who is believed to be the reincarnation of a dead friend. In the prologue alone, two characters topple through a series of disparate reincarnations: They attend an opening at a gallery, then suddenly they are workers in a cellphone factory, then pieces of debris in the Atlantic Ocean. ![]() To read Search History is to fall through a series of trap doors. This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Eugene Lim, whose latest novel, Search History, is out today from Coffee House Press. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The witches tonie![]() ![]() A victim of the pandemic, this once-theatrical blockbuster is now landing on HBO Max today, just in time to terrify children into staying up all night on Halloween. That project fell apart but del Toro’s love of challenging scares remains in the 2020 version of “ The Witches,” as he co-produced and co-wrote (with Kenya Barris and the director) this version, now directed by a very different technical master, Robert Zemeckis. ![]() Years ago, del Toro started working on a stop-motion film of Dahl’s The Witches, already adapted once in 1990 by Nicholas Roeg. The same could be said for Guillermo del Toro, a craftsman who does not believe in holding your hand, no matter how old you are, and understands the sheer power of fantasy. Roald Dahl did not believe in babying children, often forming images in their heads that pushed from childish vision to surreal terror. ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Skip to main content Weekend Sale Save 10. Ellen Conford Get the Picture, Jenny Archer Library Binding See all formats and editions Library Binding 2.66 1 Used from 2.66 Paperback 7.21 5 Used from 7.21 Language English Publisher Bt Bound Reading age 13 years and up Dimensions 0.5 x 5.5 x 8. We have new and used copies available, in 4 editions - starting at 0.99. Joyce Richards, Prairie Grove Elementary School, ARĬopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Buy Whats Cooking, Jenny Archer by Ellen Conford online at Alibris. ![]() As in other titles about Jenny, her naivete and vivid imagination get her into predictable scraps, and she is dependent on her irrepressible charm to pull her through. ![]() The black-and-white drawings add to the overall simplicity of the plot in this easy-to-read, beginning chapter book. When she does, her attempts at candid shots cause her to misinterpret her subjects' actions and remarks, creating complications and strife throughout the neighborhood. She decides to enter a photo contest, but has trouble coming up with an appropriate, exciting subject. Grade 2-4-When Jenny Archer's grandparents give her their old camera, she begins to look at things in a new light. Ellen Conford is the well-loved author of more than thirty books, including several about the irrepressible Jenny Archer. ![]() |