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![]() ![]() In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I had met with in my reading, I found the catalogue more or less numerous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the same name. For this purpose I therefore contrived the following method. I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our slipping and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. While my care was employ’d in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another habit took the advantage of inattention inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. ![]() But I soon found I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I bad imagined. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. I wish’d to live without committing any fault at any time I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. It was about this time I conceiv’d the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. ![]() INTRODUCTION NEEDED The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Excerpts) ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Gratitude by oliver sacks![]() ![]() OL17722803W Page_number_confidence 54.17 Pages 74 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211016154712 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 174 Scandate 20211012195601 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780451492937 Tts_version 4. ![]() Urn:lcp:gratitude0000sack:epub:aff6af04-301a-4eb9-a9f0-9d067a1e6e5b Foldoutcount 0 Identifier gratitude0000sack Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2c94xg38 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0451492935ĩ780451492937 Lccn 2015952928 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-beta-20210815 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.8031 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-0000180 Openlibrary_edition Gratitude By: Oliver Sacks Narrated by: Dan Woren Length: 36 mins 4.4 (588 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:gratitude0000sack:lcpdf:39d343ed-9474-4d27-bd8c-b79eace6ed06 Gratitude Oliver Sacks Knopf Canada, Biography & Autobiography - 64 pages 678 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 09:07:04 Boxid IA40260205 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier His brief reflections on that unfortunate development give way to, yes, gratitude as he examines the good things that he has experienced over what, in the end, turned out to be a rather long life after all, lasting 82 years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I love that she brought that balance to her advice, and it made me wish my own parenting advice had been as solid and as validating in those moments. When Ryan shares her worries about camp with her grandmother, her grandmother responds not only by encouraging her to show kindness and be open to allowing another girl into her friend group, but also empowering her to be strong and not let anyone else make her feel small or less valuable. The story also explores changing friendships as one of Ryan’s two best friends brings a new girl into the mix at summer camp. Ryan navigates her changing role in her family from little sister to big sister with poise and pizzazz. Every page is packed with energy, love, and summertime fun. I loved Ryan Hart’s debut, WAYS TO MAKE SUNSHINE, but I feel like Renée Watson really hit her stride with WAYS TO GROW LOVE. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Wylding hall by elizabeth hand![]() ![]() Their reminiscences paint a vivid picture of trippy inspiration and intense creativity, ‘halcyon days and golden nights’ writing and playing music. In the present day, a documentary maker interviews the surviving bandmates, as well as their manager, the rhythm guitarist’s former girlfriend – now professional psychic, a journalist, and a then-teenage photographer about what happened – or what they think might have happened all those years ago. ![]() ![]() But singer-songwriter Julian Blake – spookily beautiful, multi-talented and charismatic – then vanishes without a trace, leaving behind his contribution to what will eventually become a critically-acclaimed, highly influential album (named ‘ Wylding Hall‘ after the house). In Elizabeth Hand’s Wylding Hall, a haunted house story meets folk-horror when a brilliant young musician disappears in mysterious circumstances.ĭuring the early 70s, Windhollow Faire, a promising folk-rock band, decamped to a sprawling manor house in the middle of the Hampshire countryside to record their second album. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments J dilla time book![]() Here, music is a story of Black culture in America and of what happens when human and machine times are synthesized into something new. He also rewinds the histories of American rhythms: from the birth of soul in Dilla’s own “Motown,” to funk, techno, and disco. In Dilla Time, Dan Charnas chronicles the life of James DeWitt Yancey, from his gifted childhood in Detroit, to his rise as a Grammy-nominated hip-hop producer, to the rare blood disease that caused his premature death and follows the people who kept him and his ideas alive. And at the core of this adulation is innovation: a new kind of musical time-feel that he created on a drum machine, but one that changed the way “traditional” musicians play. Yet since his death, J Dilla has become a demigod: revered by jazz musicians and rap icons from Robert Glasper to Kendrick Lamar memorialized in symphonies and taught at universities. He died at the age of thirty-two, and in his lifetime he never had a pop hit. ![]() He wasn’t known to mainstream audiences, even though he worked with renowned acts like D’Angelo and Erykah Badu and influenced the music of superstars like Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson. ![]() “This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius.” -QUESTLOVEĮqual parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century. WINNER OF THE PEN/ JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY ![]() ![]() ![]() After failing to develop as a musician, he turns to theology, initially as an academic pursuit, not a spiritual calling. Raised in a privileged, upper-middle-class German family at the beginning of the 20th century, Bonhoeffer is a sheltered and dreamy loner, indulged and protected by his family. ![]() Saints and Villains recreates the life and martyrdom of German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who participated in a plot to kill Hitler and was executed at Buchenwald in the waning days of World War II. Saints and Villains was awarded the Boston Book Review fiction prize and was semifinalist for the International Dublin Literary Award. ![]() It is a fictionalized biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor who opposed fascism, became involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler, and was ultimately hanged by the Nazis. Saints and Villains is a 1998 novel by Denise Giardina. 1998 novel by Denise Giardina Saints and Villains ![]() ![]() We don't stop trying to please our parents as adults and Diana was in an especially precarious situation raising her brothers children. She's of Mexican decent and while she is more "Americanized" and liberal, her parents are such stereotypical Mexican Catholics that it added a level of familial humor that I just loved. I freakin love a strong female lead and Diana was awesome. Diana just wants to be a good parent to these boys and a good daughter to her overly protective parents and a good employee but most of all a good person. ![]() She is in her late 20's and going through IT. Diana is the aunt to 2 boys that were otherwise orphaned from her brother dying. Those stories that have so much build up, you think you'll explode before it peaks. ![]() *audio review* Mariana Zapata is queen of the "slow burn". ![]() ![]() ![]() The author recognizes these forms as an embodied discourse, which predominates in Cooper’s work. ![]() She fundamentally believed that we cannot divorce Black women’s bodies from the theory they produce. In Voice, Cooper places the Black female body and all that it knows squarely in the center of the text’s methodology. They include: 1) a commitment to seeing the Black female body as a form of possibility and not a burden, and 2) a commitment to centering the Black female body as a means to cathect Black social thought. To understand this methodological approach, one needs to first become acquainted with two of Cooper’s cardinal commitments. Beyond Respectability employs an Anna Julia Cooperian approach to reading and interrogating the theoretical work and lived experiences of Black women intellectuals. ![]() ![]() Blair’s relationship with Tess and Sophie is much more at peace.Īs they try to find their way in a relationship neither of them dared hope for, both Rachel and Blair allow their insecurities to take over at times. Rachel’s feelings for Shay interfere with her blooming attraction to Blair and add to the difficulty of coming to terms with said attraction. ![]() The MCs from these two books are secondary characters in this one and while I don’t think you absolutely need to read those first, knowing the background always helps understand the dynamics at play. You may remember Rachel from Just One Moment and Blair from Love by Proxy (which I haven’t read). They try to keep it casual yet despite juggling conflicting schedules, feelings get involved. ![]() However, when they meet again by chance in Florida, they pick up where they left off. She didn’t expect them to click so well in such a short time. Thankfully, a fling with a bartender makes it all better. ![]() Having to fly to Las Vegas at the last minute for a conference wasn’t Rachel’s plan. ![]() |