faridshenassaflipped into booksNon-fiction 6 books Erik Larson keeps returning to theweek.com Erik Larson is the best-selling author of The Devil in the White City and In the Garden of Beasts. His latest nonfiction thriller, The Splendid and …
Flavia Mysteryflipped into Sleep And RelaxationSleep ‘I look at the clock… it’s 3am’: Why can’t women sleep? The Guardian - Mariella FrostrupSometimes I have to laugh at what my mind dreams up to worry about It is 3am. I know because I’ve checked the clock three times since I crept to the loo at 1.45am. Within minutes of my return to bed I
archwizardflipped into Pour HommeBenjamin Franklin Search Results for “The Benjamin Franklin Effect: The Surprising Psychology of How to Handle Haters” – Brain Pickings Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova“He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.” “We are what we pretend to be,” Kurt Vonnegut famously wrote, “so we must be careful
The Guardianflipped into BooksMorocco ‘Virginity is an obsession in Morocco’: an extract from Leïla Slimani’s Sex and Lies The Guardian - Leïla SlimaniI left Morocco more than 15 years ago. With the years and the distance, I have surely forgotten quite how difficult it is to live without the freedoms that have become so natural to me. In France it can
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David Tibbettsflipped into Psychology The Brain Search Results for “An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness and How to Live with Presence” – Brain Pickings Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria PopovaWisdom on overcoming the greatest human frustration from the pioneer of Eastern philosophy in the West. “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” Annie Dillard wrote in her timeless
The Telegraphflipped into BooksAlt-Right Going Dark by Julia Ebner review: the woman who went undercover with extremists The Telegraph - By Colin FreemanIt’s hard not to feel sorry for Julia Ebner. An undercover researcher into online extremism, she spends much of her time among the web’s wilder-eyed, from far-Right groups to jihadi brides, and in person
The Telegraphflipped into BooksWinston Churchill Adventuress by Teresa Crompton review: rescuing 'millionaire harlot' Lady Houston's reputation The Telegraph - By Robert Leigh-PembertonThe £6 million left by the shipping magnate Sir Robert Houston on his death in 1926 caused something of a scandal. The public were willing to overlook the fact that his wife of only 16 months and heir
GarthRanzzflipped into 2020 DeathsObituaries Barbara Remington, Illustrator of Tolkien Book Covers, Dies at 90 The New York Times - Julia CarmelBarbara Remington, the illustrator who created the most widely recognized covers for J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy and “The Hobbit” — which she quickly executed before she even had chance
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The Telegraphflipped into BooksHollywood Cinema Actress by Anne Enright review: this novel deserves a standing ovation The Telegraph - By Francesca CaringtonAnne Enright is the Irish author of six novels, including the Booker-winning The Gathering and The Green Road. Those excellent novels were about large, troubled families; Enright’s seventh, Actress, is
Karen Lomasiewiczflipped into Books To ReadWomen's News 125 Books We Love for Adults nypl.org A totalitarian government controls everything in an imagined future. When a government worker starts to think for himself, he faces dire consequences. …
Marjan King Torrieflipped into Eclectical WorldCulture The Art of Second Chances The Atlantic - Ruth FranklinIn Emily St. John Mandel’s disaster-steeped fiction, a derailed life can take multiple forms. Writing in The New York Times in June 2003, less than two years after the events of September 11 shattered
NPRflipped into BooksCulture In 'The Only Child,' The Thrills Might Be Lost In Translation NPR - Silvia Moreno-GarciaWhen reviewing books in translation, there's always that nagging question: how much of the prose on display is the result of the translator making changes versus the author's original intention? I admit
The New York Timesflipped into BooksThe Arts ‘We Changed Harvard’: The Story of 18 Black Students The New York Times - John WilliamsWhen Kent Garrett enrolled as a freshman at Harvard in 1959, he did so with 17 other African-Americans, the largest number of black students in one class at the school up to that time. “We were headed
CinemaBlendflipped into CinemaBlendSam Heughan Did Outlander Season 5 Premiere Say Goodbye To Murtagh Because of The Books? cinemablend.com - Laura Hurley Spoilers ahead for the Season 5 premiere of Outlander on Starz, called "The Fiery Cross," and for the books of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander saga. The …
CBS Newsflipped into U.S. NewsNews (U.S.) A.E. Hotchner, prolific author and friend to Hemingway and Newman, has died at age 102 CBS News A.E. Hotchner, a well-traveled author, playwright and gadabout whose street smarts and famous pals led to a loving, but litigated memoir of Ernest …
Woman&Homeflipped into Woman & Home Latest NewsLifestyle (UK) This new podcast series champions women’s literature – and here’s why you'll love it | woman&home womanandhome.com - Grace Walsh MORE: The best audiobooks with five star reviews - to listen to on your commute, around the house, or on holiday We earn a commission for products …
Robert Kirkman The Walking Dead's Longtime Artist Hasn't Watched the Show Since Season 4 comicbook.com - Cameron Bonomolo The Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard, who illustrated the comic book penned by Robert Kirkman for 15 years, admits he gave up watching the …
South Island (New Zealand) Inferior: Science often gets women wrong and the book that proved it stuff.co.nz - DR SIOUXSIE WILES OPINION: On my bedside table there are two piles of books. The first pile is courtesy of my teenage daughter – the ones she's loved and wants me to …
Business Insiderflipped into Top StoriesEmploymentThe Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea on how his relationship with his parents impacted his life and music career, and why he vulnerability Business Insider - Dan SchawbelBorn in Melbourne, Australia, Michael Peter Balzary was nicknamed Flea as a teenager because of his inability to sit still. After moving to California, he attended Fairfax High School, where he started
Keithflipped into Notice MagazineOrchids Sunday Reading: The Art of the Profile The New Yorker - Erin OverbeyThis week, The New Yorker will be celebrating its ninety-fifth anniversary. (The first issue of the magazine was published on February 21, 1925.) To mark this occasion, we’re bringing you a selection twelve
The Guardianflipped into Top StoriesWomen's News Leïla Slimani: ‘This book is a mirror to make the elite look reality in the face’ The Guardian - Kim WillsherWhen Slimani was four, she told her parents: 'It’s my mouth and I’ll say what I want,' earning her the nickname Cémabouche Leïla Slimani is running late. She texts to say she’s waiting for her children’s
Kevin Lavigneflipped into Genetics & evolutionBiologyCharles Darwin asked for price of Origin of Species to be slashed after receiving letters from working-class who could not The TelegraphCharles Darwin negotiated a reduction in the price of The Origin of Species with his publisher after receiving letters from working-class tradesmen unable to afford its early editions. Darwin's seminal
The Telegraphflipped into BooksWomen's News Sounds and Furies by Jonathan Green, review: a very un-PC history of women's slang The Telegraph - By Lewis JonesThis erudite study of slang coined by women ends up being a wild goose chase, discovers Lewis Jones Jonathon Green is justly hailed as the King of Slang. His magnum opus, Green’s Dictionary of Slang, some
Los Angeles Review of BooksBodyArmor Necessary Protection lareviewofbooks.org - Erica Wright interviews Kenneth R. Rosen SOCKS, REFRIGERATORS, PILLS, and potatoes. The Object Lessons series from Bloomsbury Publishing makes us consider the ordinary in new ways. These …
Los Angeles Review of BooksSargent The Antidote to Hubris: On Mark Sargent’s “Fool on the Hill” lareviewofbooks.org - By Luke Cassidy What a question. Why the hell not? That would be the impression one gets when reading the work of Mark Sargent, and even more so when speaking with …
The Guardianflipped into BooksEqual Antonia Gransden obituary The Guardian - James ClarkMy friend Antonia Gransden, who has died aged 91, was among the foremost medievalists of her generation. Her substantial and sustained scholarship spanned seven decades and continues to guide today’s and
The Guardianflipped into BooksCrime Do people in prison matter less in an emergency than those who are free? The Guardian - Angela WilliamsIn the old sandstone cells at Berrima I asked a guard what to do if there was a fire, and he said “break out or burn” There is one image from the bushfire crisis that I am still not able to shake. It led
Shanny Basarflipped into Shanny's reading Emotional Intelligence Actress by Anne Enright review – boundless emotional intelligence The Guardian - Kate KellawayAnne Enright’s new novel opens with a question: “People ask me, ‘What was she like?’ and I try to figure out if they mean as a normal person: what was she like in her slippers, eating toast and marmalade,
