The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville As a boy, Daniel Rooke was always an outsider. At school, he learned to hide his clever thoughts from his cruel peers; at home, his parents were bemused by their bookish son. Daniel could only hope - against all the evidence - that he would one day find his place […]
… so you’re looking for answers but you’re not entirely sure about the questions. But you know you have to become someone. A SOMEONE. This film is a dash through ‘the journey of life’ and contains a huge paradox which might not make sense … at first. You will need to pay careful attention. Blinking […]
"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. You can see that when you think how the friends that really listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius as though it did us good, like ultraviolet rays."-- Brenda Ueland
"No man is happy unless he believes he is" -Publilius Syrus
: the role of hostile cognition People who feel socially rejected are more likely to see others’ actions as hostile and are more likely to behave in hurtful ways toward people they have never even met, according to a new study. http://adjix.com/4y9m
(The Secret Life Samantha McGregor, Book 4) by Melody Carlson From the reviews If your vision asked you to risk your life to save others, would you have the courage? This is the dramatic fourth and final book in Melody Carlson's The Secret Life of Samantha McGregor series. Samantha is the girl who can […]
The tech event season is beginning to heat up. If you're a speaker, you know that standing in front of a crowd isn't half as hard as getting critical feedback on your talks. People who disliked it will generally remain silent or opt for a snarky tweet or two. Those close to you will tell […]
Do you ever feel that within you is the potential to achieve greatness yet you don’t know exactly what it is you want to achieve or how you’re going to get here? Is there a goal perhaps that you want to achieve such as losing weight or quitting smoking? Is there a certain part of […]
"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor."- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Michelle Harrison has been awarded the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize in the U.K. for The Thirteen Treasures (Simon & Schuster), the story of a girl who can see fairies, and who tries to solve a mystery that has haunted her family for generations. Harrison will receive a £5,000 prize and the bookstore chain will support […]
