(Photo: Hannah Whitaker/New York Magazine) Could this be the summer we finally bury the notion that a beach read must be mindless to be fun? We find ourselves particularly drawn this season to nonfiction and a few realistic novels. Below, some of our top picks through July. Save August for Thomas Pynchon’s latest, Inherent Vice—“part […]
Everything ravaged, everything burned by Wells Tower The stories in this outstanding debut collection explore the troubled relationships of men down on their luck, in failed marriages, estranged from family, caught in imbroglios between sons and their fathers and stepfathers, and even, in Wild America, the subtle and ferocious competition between teenage girls.
Sydney Writers’ Festival The Big Read title for 2009 is F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Arguably Fitzgerald's finest work, this popular classic written in 1925 is often referred to as 'the great American novel' and the quintessential portrait of the Jazz Age, in all its decadence and excess. To see how your Book Club […]
Time management tips that inspire you to renew and deepen your gratitude also energize you, every single time you open your heart. If you really want to experience new zest, learn how to genuinely appreciate and care for your life, starting right now. Cultivating the gift of gratitude is a powerful way to ground yourself […]
Don't blame others for your failure to be fully accountable for your own life. If others are to blame then you have given them control. Bob Perks …………………………………………………………………… The Instrument is an interactive, self-directed, multi-sensory, multimedia tool that will help you build and create whatever you desire. It is specifically designed to help you focus […]
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"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare
The Girl who played with fire by Steig Larsson The thriller of the decade - Evene.fr. Warning - addictive thriller. All who taste it get hooked! - Pascale Frey, Elle. When a writer delivers such a complex and fascinating portrayal like that of Lisbeth Salander all we can do is bow down in gratitude. It […]
Dozens of authors and thousands of readers will converge on Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center on May 16 and 17 for the National Black Book Festival. Featured authors will include Roland S. Martin (Speak Brother! A Black Man's View of America), Mary B. Morrison (Noire, Single Husbands) and Persia Walker (Harlem Redux, Darkness and […]
"The power to move the world is in the subconscious mind." -- William James
