So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. Winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award * Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction * Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award * Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel * A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 * An Indie Next SelectionĬandace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. Club * Jezebel * Vulture * Literary Hub * Flavorwire NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR * The New Yorker ("Books We Loved") * Elle * M arie Claire * Amazon Editors * The Paris Review (Staff Favorites) * Refinery29 * Bustle * Buzzfeed * BookPage * Bookish * Mental Floss * Chicago Review of Books * HuffPost * Electric Literature * A.V. “A satirical spin on the end times- kind of like The Office meets The Leftovers.” - Estelle Tang, Elle "A stunning, audacious book with a fresh take on both office politics and what the apocalypse might bring." - Michael Schaub, NPR.org Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance.
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“Hilarious, fabulously improper, and completely relatable, Notaro is the queen of funny.” -Celia Rivenbark, author of Rude Bitches Make Me Tired “Notaro is a scream, the freak-magnet of a girlfriend you can’t wait to meet for a drink to hear her latest story.” - The Plain Dealer From defying nature in the quest to make her own Twinkies, to begging her new neighbors not to become urban livestock keepers, to teaching her eight-year-old nephew about hoboes, Notaro recounts her best efforts-and hilarious failures-in keeping a household inches away from being condemned. Housebroken is a rollicking new collection of essays showcasing her irreverent wit and inability to feel shame. Notaro chronicles her chronic misfortune in the domestic arts, including cooking, cleaning, and putting on Spanx while sweaty (which should technically qualify as an Olympic sport). #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurie Notaro isn’t exactly a domestic goddess-unless that means she fully embraces her genetic hoarding predisposition, sneaks peeks at her husband’s daily journal, or has made a list of the people she wants on her Apocalypse Survival team (her husband’s not on it). “If Laurie Notaro’s books don’t inspire pants-wetting fits of laughter, then please consult your physician, because, clearly, your funny bone is broken.”-Jen Lancaster, author of I Regret Nothing But the most perfect match of style and subject matter in his film poster work was also his major commercial breakthrough: the original theatrical posters for Stanley Kramer’s It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Jack created more than thirty-five of those posters, including ones for Woody Allen’s Bananas, Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye, and The Bad News Bears. His movie posters are a genre unto themselves-tours de force of cartooning and caricature, with instantly recognizable stars surrounded (but somehow never overwhelmed) by a gaggle of minor characters, sight gags, visual puns, and general chaos. He has drawn and painted countless comic books, gag cartoons, magazine covers, record covers, book covers, and bubblegum cards in a career spanning eight decades. The cartooning style he brought to MAD magazine in the fifties as one of its original artists, heavily imitated by those who followed, played a big part in defining its offbeat sensibility. "Jam-packed with mythological wonders." -Rick Riordan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series Nnedi Okorafor's work is wonderful!" -Diana Wynne Jones, award-winning author of The Chronicles of Chrestomanci "Highly original stuff, episode after amazing episode, full of color, life, and death. "I always loved science fiction, but I didn’t feel I was part of it-until I read first Octavia Butler, and now Nnedi Okorafor." -Whoopi Goldberg “The most imaginative, gripping, enchanting fantasy novels I have ever read!” -Laurie Halse Anderson, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Speak Le Guin, award-winning author of A Wizard of Earthsea "There’s more imagination on a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics." -Ursula K. “Okorafor’s novels tend to reflect both her West-African heritage and American experiences, but in this series she creates a stunningly original world of African magic that draws on Nigerian folk beliefs and rituals instead of relying on the predictable tropes of Western fantasy novels.” "The book puts a unique, inclusive spin on the timeless tale of the misfit chosen to save the world." One of Time Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy and Young Adult Books of All Time! “Gorgeously illustrated, brilliantly innovative…” “The very hungry caterpillar literally eats his way through the pages of the book-and right into your child’s heart…” The Horn Book Guide Volume VI, Number 1 July-December 1994 “Carle’s classic tale of a voracious caterpillar who eats his way through the days of the week and then changes into a beautiful butterfly has been reissued in a sumptuous twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a shiny, silver-coated cover and wonderfully thick, durable pages.” – by Judith Rovenger, Sesame Street Parents, July/August 1994 Caterpillar also brilliantly displays Carle’s ability to integrate a concept (days of the week), scientific information (the life cycle of a caterpillar), and an appealing story. Carle uses clever cutout pages to depict a caterpillar eating his way through the calendar week. “This early work by a premier author marked an exciting breakthrough in the traditional children’s book format. Striking pictures and cleverly die-cut pages offer interactive fun. This all-time favorite not only follows the very hungry caterpillar as it grows from egg to cocoon to beautiful butterfly, but also teaches the days of the week, counting, good nutrition and more. How many times we have wrongly judged someone! In reality Thomas was one of the most steadfast and loyal apostles among the Twelve. Today when someone is skeptical, we call that person a doubting Thomas. No doubt he showed great faith many times, but we remember him because of his doubt. The good is oft interred with their bones.” This is what happened to Thomas. Shakespeare said, “The evil that men do lives after them. When we think of Peter, we remember his denial. When we think of Jacob, we think of how he stole his brother’s birthright. We forget what a great man he was in spite of his failure. When we think of David, we think of his sin. Further, we never let the world forget it. Text: “Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe” ( John 20:25 RSV). Sermon Title: Thomas: Changed from Doubt to Faith Use or adapt the sermon below in your own preaching or teaching ministry. Electricity is explained through the example of a basic flashlight, which is then expanded upon through the explanation of the electrical telegraph. Code is notable for its explanations of historical technologies in order to build the pieces for further understanding. Petzold begins Code by discussing older technologies like Morse code, Braille, and Boolean logic, which he uses to explain vacuum tubes, transistors, and integrated circuits. The idea of writing the book came to him in 1987 while writing a column called "PC Tutor" for PC Magazine. On June 10, 2022, Petzold announced that an expanded second edition would be published on Augand he is building a companion interactive website. Petzold describes Code as being structured as moving "up each level in the hierarchy" in which computers are constructed. In the preface to the 2000 softcover edition, Petzold wrote that his goal was for readers to understand how computers work at a concrete level that "just might even rival that of electrical engineers and programmers" and that he "went as far back" as he could go in regard to the history of technological development. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (1999) is a book by Charles Petzold that seeks to teach how personal computers work at a hardware and software level. In a Holidaze is the book for you if you’re looking for a book to get you into the Christmas spirit. This review feature was originally created by Mostly Ya Lit. Recently in Romance is a new to this blog review feature where I’ll be sharing my thoughts on some romance novels I’ve read. 2022, Shion Miura, Simon Pulse, The Easy Life in Kamusari, Three More Months, Tif Marcelo, webtoons, Well That Was Unexpected, young adult Sutanto, Know You by Heart, Lake Union Publishing, Literary Fiction, Love & Luck, May 2018, Montlake Romance, Nov. 2021, Delacorte Press, Jenna Evans Welch, Jesse Q. Tags adult contemporary, April 2022, book reviews, Dec.With two months to go before 2023, I still have several more books to read and review, and so far they’re more promising, so hopefully I’ll be able to end 2022 on a high reading note!Ĭontinue reading “What I Read In October” → Categories Book Reviews, Mini Book Reviews This was another month of just okay reads, but I managed to knock quite a few books off my TBR pile. My October reviews post is up a bit later than usual as I was feeling a bit under the weather, and I saw a tweet from a friend of mine about the importance of keeping yourself healthy, especially if you’re creating bookish content for free, so I decided to take her advice. Now he and Diesel will have to read between the lines, before Melba is shelved under "G" for guilty. But things take a turn for the worse when a threatening e-mail throws suspicion on Melba.Ĭharlie is convinced that his friend is no murderer, especially when he catches sight of a menacing stranger lurking around the library. With enemies aplenty, the suspect list is long when Reilly's body is discovered in the library. But his biggest offense is declaring all four-legged creatures banned from the stacks. The new library director, Oscar Reilly, is a brash, unfriendly Yankee who's on a mission to cut costs-and his first targets are the archive and the rare book collection.Īs annoying as a long-overdue book, Reilly quickly raises the hackles of everyone on staff, including Charlie's fiery friend Melba, whom Reilly wants to replace with someone younger. Springtime in Mississippi is abloom with beauty, but the library's employees are too busy worrying to stop and smell the flowers. Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority. Achievers do sooner what others plan to do later and defer, perhaps indefinitely, what others do sooner. They pause just long enough to decide what matters and then allow what matters to drive their day. Tackling these tasks in the order we receive them is behaving as if the squeaky wheel immediately deserves the grease.Īchievers operate differently. Most inboxes overflow with unimportant e-mails masquerading as priorities. If allowed, they set our priorities the same way an inbox can dictate our day. Which is why most of us have a love-hate relationship with our to-dos. While to-dos serve as a useful collection of our best intentions, they also tyrannise us with trivial (and important) stuff that we feel obligated to do. Success isn't a game won by whoever does the most. Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business. In the world of achievement equality is a lie. |