![]() The good news is that we have the unique ability to adapt to such threats. As an industry insider, I know their Achilles’ heel-and soon you will too. But I’ll also share how I overcame struggle and explain why we are much more powerful than any of the tech giants. In the next few pages, I’ll reveal my own struggle with distraction, and how I, ironically, got hooked. “The fact is, in this day and age, if you are not equipped to manage distraction, your brain will be manipulated by time-wasting diversions. In this great book, he gives us a practical look at *why* we’re so vulnerable to getting hooked in the first place and, most importantly, how to make ourselves Indistractable so we can control our attention and choose our lives. ![]() ![]() As philosopher Paul Virilio wrote, ‘When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck.’ In the case of user-friendly products and services, what makes some products engaging and easy to use can also make them distracting.” After finding HIMSELF hooked to many of the products created by designers inspired by *his* work, Eyal got himself UNHOOKED and, ultimately INDISTRACTABLE. As he says, “But there’s also a dark side. ![]() We have Nir to thank for helping make the technology we use better. It was called Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. His first book was an international bestseller that’s influenced the product development of pretty much all of the leading tech companies on the planet. Nir Eyal is a former lecturer at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. ![]()
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![]() In a whimsical style that recalls the early Marguerite Duras, “ Kitchen” and its companion story, “ Moonlight Shadow,” are elegant tales whose seeming simplicity is the ruse of a very special writer whose voice echoes in the mind and the soul. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale with the kitchen and the comforts of home at its heart. Grieving, Mikage is taken in by her friend Yoichi and his mother (who is really his cross-dressing father) Eriko. Mikage, the heroine, is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. ![]() Kitchen is an enchantingly original book that juxtaposes two tales about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. 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There are obvious parallels to Michel Faber’s masterpiece “The Crimson Petal And The White” and this is a suggestion at the back of the book for further reading. Moth escapes but life on the streets is impossible in the New York of 1871 and she thinks herself lucky to be taken in by Miss Everett, a madam who sells the virginity of the girls she looks after to the highest bidder, then keeps just a select few on her books until the girls find a better offer, or, more frequently, get put out of the house. Main character is twelve year old Moth who is sold by her mother to the abusive and cruel Mrs Wentworth. The title refers to the misguided belief that syphilis could be cured by having sex with a virgin. This is Canadian author Ami Mckay’s second novel and she has chosen nineteenth century New York as her setting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Before the frequent hospital visits and stints in rehab, there was five-year-old Matthew, who traveled from Montreal to Los Angeles, shuffling between his separated parents fourteen-year-old Matthew, who was a nationally ranked tennis star in Canada twenty-four-year-old Matthew, who nabbed a coveted role as a lead cast member on the talked-about pilot then called Friends Like Us. So begins the riveting story of acclaimed actor Matthew Perry, taking us along on his journey from childhood ambition to fame to addiction and recovery in the aftermath of a life-threatening health scare. ![]() “Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. The BELOVED STAR OF FRIENDS takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this “CANDID, DARKLY FUNNY.POIGNANT” memoir ( The New York Times)Ī MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK by Time, Associated Press, Goodreads, USA Today, and more! ![]() ![]() ![]() West Yorkshire in 1975, awash with serial killers. Donald Neilson, the Black Panther from Bradford, hadn't been captured yet and Harold Shipman had probably already started killing patients unlucky enough to be under his care in Pontefract General Infirmary. ![]() They would both see the beginning of the Ripper's killing spree but Arkwright would be retired long before the end of it. WPC Tracy Waterhouse, a big, graceless girl only just off probation, and PC Ken Arkwright, a stout white Yorkshireman with a heart of lard. By the time they neared the top they were resting at every turn of the stair. The two PCs huffed and puffed their way up the stairs. They had been told that it was on the fifteenth floor of the flats in Lovell Park and-of course-the lifts were broken. It was growing bigger with every step she took. ![]() In the middle of it all, Tracy Waterhouse was only concerned with the hole in one of the toes of her tights. The Black and White Minstrel Show is still on television, John Poulson is still in jail. At the end of the month Saigon falls to the North Vietnamese army. At the beginning of the month, in Albuquerque, Bill Gates founds what will become Microsoft. Margaret Thatcher is the new leader of the Conservative Party. Gaslight still flickering on some streets. Leeds: "Motorway City of the Seventies." A proud slogan. ![]() ![]() I remember the hardest transition was going from one to two kids. What I wanted to say was, “After five kids I’ve learned life will just be crazy, but peace is found in my heart – not in the swirling whirlwind of my life.” Sometimes I take a step back and look at my life and think, “How DO I do it?!” Then I remember I’ve not always been so calm. Last night I had someone again comment on my five kids with “I don’t know how you do it…” What she meant was I don’t know how you manage to keep your cool and take care of five kids. The circumstances in my life has always been busy. It isn’t managing an online business, blog, and finding time to write. It’s not the amount of kids or the stress of juggling homeschooling and Christian school. One of my new favorite verses is Isaiah 26:3 “You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.” I don’t know about you but peace is not something I find very easily. ![]() ![]() It has a genuine plot in the strictest sense, and it persuades you to read on simply in order to know what will happen. ![]() Peake's first novel hold one with its glittering eye. ![]() His inventiveness, his ingenuity, and his humor are astonishing." - San Francisco Chronicle "Many readers admire Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, but fans of Mervyn Peake's Titus trilogy maintain that this extravagant epic about a labyrinthine castle populated with conniving Dickensian grotesques is the true fantasy classic of our time." - The Washington Post Book World "Mr. Lewis "The true fantasy classic of our time." - The Washington Post "Peake's style is marvelous. a classic of our age." -Robertson Davies, author of The Deptford Trilogy " are actual additions to life they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience." -C.S. ![]() a work of extraordinary imagination." - The New Yorker "Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. 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I continue to be amazed by the variety of aesthetics people have wrung from Unity and The ABC Murders is one of the best, barring a few issues with pathing and lip sync.Īnyway, it’s a mystery game. ![]() And then another letter arrives…įor the most part, The ABC Murders is your standard point-and-click adventure, albeit done in gorgeous pseudo-hand drawn style. a book that tells when trains leave from each station) cracked open to the Andover section. The most conspicuous part of the scene? An ABC Railway guide (a.k.a. ![]() “What will happen” turns out to be a murder, and sure enough Poirot is called to Andover in the summer of 1935 to investigate the murder of one Alice Ascher, a shopkeep. ![]() ![]() By completing this purchase, you agree to the merchant’s and venue’s COVID-19 safety policies in effect at the time of the Event. Upon purchase, we will provide your email to Ticketmaster to be used in accordance with Ticketmaster's Privacy Policy. 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