![]() ![]() By pretending we don’t have feelings at work, we’re overlooking important data and risking easily preventable mistakes. Humans are emotional creatures, regardless of circumstance. Liz Fosslien: The idea that we can ever check our feelings at the door is biologically impossible. Why are emotions so important for our work performance? ![]() RB: In the book, you talk about bringing in more of our authentic selves into the workplace. One of them-“ 6 Illustrations That Show What It's Like in an Introvert's Head ”-was viewed by over a million people! That’s when we realized many people might need to hear our message: It’s OK to acknowledge your emotions, and preferred work style, on the job. We soon started writing articles together based on our experiences in the workplace. The closer we got, the more we realized that we had both entered the workforce believing that if you wanted to be “professional” you had to cut out feelings entirely. We bonded immediately: We’re both introverts, have an irreverent sense of humor, need eye masks to sleep, and we take on creative side projects. ![]() After spending time worrying about imagined abuse she thought New Yorkers might heap on her, she reached out to her West Coast friends asking to be set up on platonic friend dates-I was one of those dates. Mollie West Duffy : I met Liz a few years later when she moved to NYC from SF. Rimma Boshernitsan: You met in an interesting way? How did that help the central idea for this book come to life? ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() But don’t worry, only in the second books, Spells, when Laurel goes to a magic school in Avalon, does loving Tamani really become an option. I’d say love takes up the majority of these books. He’s fiery and passionate, and altogether more than David, no matter how cute he is. She also has another love interest (cue the love triangle!) Taman, a faery guard who knew and loved her before she was sent to live in the human world. But discovering your a faery isn’t drama enough. She’s got a sweet and caring boyfriend, David, and a lovely best friend, Chelsea. Of course, Laurel is also a regular high-school girl. ![]() As the series progresses, Laurel faces more and more peril as she comes into contact with the faery world of Avalon, and the dangers that lie within her home world. It’s a big deal, because along with being a faery, are all the joys and threats that come with it, like: having a giant flower behind your shoulders, magic and troll attacks. Laurel, our protagonist, discovers she’s a faery. This year, I made it my mission to read more of Bee’s books, and the Wings series is possibly my favourite thing so far. They were some of the first YA books she read, and mark the genesis of her love for faery fiction. These beautiful, glittery pink books have been on Bee’s shelves for as long as I can remember. ![]() ![]() ![]() But birds – there’s something about them that’s always surprising. Years ago at Stanford, I would notice that if I was walking to class, no matter how stressed I was, birds were the one thing that could cut through that no matter what. It’s also a very present perspective – the bad kind of presence, being very wrapped up in whatever is happening right now, or what everyone is talking about on Twitter. And it ties into this idea that everything is a machine, and it just needs to be fixed, or made more efficient. Anything that detracts from that is too expensive, from the time-is-money perspective. It’s this perspective in which time is money, and you should have something to show for your time – either getting work done, or self-improvement, which I would still count as work. Where is our perspective stuck right now? What is the attention economy? Your book encourages a broad shift in perspective. ![]() The stakes, she argues, are high: “In a time that demands action, distraction appears to be a life-and-death matter.” ![]() Odell acknowledges that participating in this system is, for most people, not optional, and the book is dotted with examples of standing against the tide while remaining more-or-less in it – artists, labor movements, Oakland’s last old-growth redwood tree. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Versions of the ballad are found in Scotland, England and the US. It gives an account of the murder of a woman and her infant son by a man, in some versions, a disgruntled mason, in others, a devil, bogeyman or a motiveless villain. Bewitching and atmospheric, this is a truly stunning debut that will linger with you for days after the final, chilling pages. ' Lamkin ' or 'Lambkin' ( Roud 6, Child 93) is an English-language ballad. With the help of local schoolboys Roger and Peter, Cora must uncover the horrifying secrets buried deep within Bryers Guerdon - before it is too late for Mimi. Bewitching and atmospheric, this is a truly stunning debut that will linger with you for days after the final, chilling pages. ![]() When Cora and her little sister Mimi are sent to stay with their great-aunt in the isolated village of Bryers Guerdon, they sense immediately that they're not welcome. Now it has set eyes on its next victim, and it will stop at nothing to lay claim to her. Long Lankin Lindsey Barraclough Long Lankin Paperback Shop Now Summary Beware of Long Lankin. Something dark and evil has haunted the village for centuries. What they don't know is that the last time two young girls were at Guerdon Hall, their visit ended in a mysterious, violent tragedy. ![]() ![]() ![]() The fates of Calcifer, Pendragon, Shrike, and the Blood Queen are hopelessly intertwined, and new alliances will be forged and broken as war threatens to tear Amernia asunder. ![]() The rift between rich and poor, human and nonhuman, divides the kingdom more everyday, as a spectral rider streaks across the sky, heralding the death of kings. A wave of hatred ripples across her country, and she maintains order with fire and fear. War is coming to Amernia, and the Blood Queen stands at the heart of the chaos. Cunning, and with a mind sharper than a blade, Shrike’s luck is slowly running out, as sinister shadows conspire against him. Shrike, keeper of Amernia’s secrets, spends his days combing through letters in search of blackmail. When he is needed to stop an assassination, Pendragon is ripped from his retirement and sent north to save his country one final time. Tired and battle scarred, the old knight just wants to live out his last days in peace. Sir Clark Pendragon has murdered more men than he cares to remember. ![]() When she is assaulted and her mind is left in tatters, Calcifer seeks vengeance by any means necessary. Summary: From their prisons, the old gods watch, and wait.Ĭalcifer, the arrogant and obtuse sorcerer turned monster hunter, wants nothing more than to bleed his country of its gold, and return to his lover. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1912, Violet Schuyler Grant moved to Europe to study physics, and made a disastrous marriage to a philandering fellow scientist. But this is 1964, and the editor dismisses her…until a parcel lands on Vivian’s Greenwich Village doorstep that starts a journey into the life of an aunt she never knew, who might give her just the story she’s been waiting for. A story of love and intrigue that travels from Kennedy-era Manhattan to World War I Europe from the New York Times bestselling author of Her Last Flight and The Golden Hour.įresh from college, irrepressible Vivian Schuyler defies her wealthy Fifth Avenue family to work at cutthroat Metropolitan magazine. ![]() ![]() In original recordings of his own vivid, compassionate voice, here at last is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s unforgettable chronicle of his life and his legacy. This history-making autobiography is Martin Luther King in his own words as read by others and in his own words and voice: the mild-mannered, inquisitive child and student who chafed under and eventually rebelled against segregation the dedicated young minister who continually questioned the depths of his faith and the limits of his wisdom the loving husband and father who sought to balance his family's needs with those of a growing, nationwide movement and the reflective, world-famous leader who was fired by a vision of equality for people everywhere. drawn from a comprehensive collection of writings, recordings, and documentary materials, many of which have never before been made public. ![]() Now, in a special program commissioned and authorized by his family, here is the life and times of Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the twentieth century's most influential men and lived one of its most extraordinary lives. ![]() He was a husband, a father, a preacher - and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform America and the world. ![]() ![]() (Several of these I address in an interview with Guy Hammond, “ Gay & Christian?”.) But after a few hours fleshing out my thinking on Gushee’s work, I stopped. Meanwhile, a friend dealing with LGBTQ issues in his own community emailed, mentioning Gushee and asking some pointed biblical questions. And I am glad I did this is an important work, if only because it is influential. I asked her if the book was well done-with over 1 million new books appearing every year, we all need to be selective! She said Changing Our Mind is well worth reading, so I ordered it right away, and read it last week. Gushee’s Changing Our Mind: Definitive 3rd Edition of the Landmark Call for Inclusion of LGBT Christians with Response to Critics (Canton, MI: Read the Spirit Books, 2017). Prism : Insight & Inspiration (Christ in the Old Testament)Ī thoughtful American sister recently asked what I thought of evangelical scholar David P. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While I do not think it was conscious, I suspect that my doing so was rather purposeful. It was quite rightly pointed out that I had somewhat stacked the decks by including a Christie title among the ones offered. Last week I put the call out on Twitter for my followers – a small but intrepid band – to help me select the title I would read and write about for today’s locked room or impossible crime post. With one spot of blood as his only clue, Hercule Poirot must embark on a journey not just across the desert, but into the darkest crevices of the human soul to unravel a mystery which taxes even his remarkable powers. Her patient’s bizarre visions and nervous terror seem unfounded, but as the oppressive tension in the air thickens, events come to a terrible climax–in murder. Amy Leatheran has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a celebrated archaeologist, events prove stranger than she could ever have imagined. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sanctity is desperate both to keep the plague secret (not least from the end-of-the-world religious sect, the Moldies, who would spread the plague if they could) and to find a cure. And then, just to add to the general joy, a terrible inter-planetary plague breaks out. Unsurprisngly a lot of people have already emigrated to other planets already. However as one of most powerful institutions is the fundamentalist style church, Sanctity, there are also strict prohibitions on contraception, which means large numbers of people fall foul of the law and end up being shipped to prison-planets. Our planet, Terra, has been despoiled by massive over-population, with the result that there are now strict laws about reproduction. GRASS is set in a distant, but not unimaginable, future. I started looking for more of her books, and soon after happened upon GRASS which blew me away. A fairly typical Tepper book in some ways, as one thing this writer does not lack is inventiveness. It was about a bunch of singers who lived on a planet of moving crystal mountains, whose job it was to sing the songs which hit the right frequencies to keep the mountain passes open…. I discovered Sheri S Tepper by accident many years ago, when I picked up one of her books from a sales rack. Guest reviewer Emma Barnes uncovers the themes at the heart of a science fiction classic. ![]() |