Shane Tolentino Synopsis:The book is basically an open letter to parents wanting to raise their daughters (although it could be used for all children, really) to be strong feminists who have self-worth and believe in true equality. Among her 15 suggestions, Adichie tells parents how they can ...
while e-book sales saw “renewed” growth, with sales up 7%, according to News Corp CEO Robert Thomson. Digital sales represented 25% of Consumer revenues for the quarter, the company added, compared to 22% in the prior year.
he was voted the Daily Times Chronicle Player of the Year, and named a Boston Globe All- Scholastic, at a time when the Globe only awarded that honor to 15 baseball players in the entire state. After receiving a full scholarship to play baseball at UMass he was also named to a US nati...
Name of the Wind. By Patrick Rothfuss—optioned by Lionsgate for Film, TV, or possibly gaming. (In blog) The Kingkiller Chronicleis a fantasy series by Patrick Rothfuss, which recounts the story of Kvothe, an adventurer and musician. The story is narrated from the third person, but mostly...
2012-12-31: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (**). 607 pages. Published in 1995. 2012-12-31: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre (***). 225 pages. Published in 1963. 2012-12-29: The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker (***). 802 page...
This book is more than just a chronicle of innovation; it’s a call to action for all dreamers, thinkers, and doers to engage with the future unfolding before us. Prepare to be inspired and equipped with the knowledge to shape a world that’s on the horizon. ...
If I treat each of these projects like an epic novel (I do have one of those that I plan to finish this year), I might feel overwhelmed and discouraged, but if I treat some, not all, of these half-baked ideas as orphans worthy of love, I might get somewhere. First, some of thes...
Of course, this was top news for theDemocrat and Chronicle,whose lead story showed the car's top poking up from the bay along with this gem: "It's likely to cost thousands of dollars to retrieve, said one towing expert." It was true. Neighbors and cops and ice fishermen and bay offi...
I was there to chronicle the calamity. Stocky fire engines blocked the street directly in front of us, their beige canvas hoses snaking toward a pair of ...
was published inVanity Fair,Good Housekeeping,Harper’s Bazaar,The New Yorker,TheWall Street Journal,The New York Times, to name just a few.Lillian Boxfish, just out in paperback, is a charming chronicle not only of the life of a remarkable woman but of six decades of change in Lillian’...