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By Graeme Blundell and Margot Hilton.
A great read about his early life with my cousin Kelly in Lucretia Ave Longuevile Sydney in the early fifties.
I heard this story from Kelly on this last trip while noticing a Whitely print he had.
Found the book on the shelf of Mal's in the room we stayed with Mal and Julie in Brisbane!
Love to get it for our shelves... and add to Goodreads..
For a missed connection in Providence, RI: “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
The books I read in 2014, screenshot 1 of 3.
See domesticat.net/2014/12/year-books-came-back-me for more explanation.
A page from The Girl from the Sea by Molly Ostertag (2021). Reviewed here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/4039400602
Foodspotting:
There are more and more apps for making various aspects of our lives more social. Goodreads and LibraryThing for books, Yelp for community reviews and business, GetGlue for movies and games, Foursquare for simply moving about town.
The whole social food app market is a fascinating space, targeting people in the place and moment where they make their decision. Anyone else ever buy something on impulse? Anyone NOT shop by impulse?
There was a great panel discussion of this phenomena in InternetWeek last Month.
Social Food Apps: How They're Changing Your Mind at Point of Sale:
www.ustream.tv/recorded/15228581
Foodspotting was one of the companies on the panel, along with Consmr, Snooth, and Grubster. I noticed a few folk I know on Foodspotting, so that is the one I'm trying out first. It is a simple concept - go to a restaurant, snap a pic of your meal with your smartphone camera, and say what you liked or didn't.
For myself, I actually like it better from the point of view of a lurker, rather than for choosing a restaurant. I get all kinds of wonderful ideas for what to make at home. I guess I'm a bit strange though.
These types of apps do have me thinking about how these simple social concepts connect in learning, and in critical thinking, as well as personal decisionmaking. Who do you trust and why? This is a very different process when choosing food than in choosing a book. It is intriguing looking at these different types of apps and thinking behind the scenes how they might really be working.
“Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy.”
- Elizabeth Gilbert -
.ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,
waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like
worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their
songs never cease."
- John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914) -
“I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.”
- Tana French, In the Woods -
My 2018 Goodreads goal was 25 books and I only read 16, most of which were short (average length: 208 pages). Seven of them were public domain books about singing (which have all been pretty fascinating, but most people probably don't care about them 😂). Singing is one of the reasons I haven't read much, because I always read at night and I always practice singing first thing in the morning, so it's hard to have both and still get enough sleep. Anyway, that's why I'm not beating myself up about not meeting my goal, because I was doing other stuff that was fulfilling and productive. It was a fair trade. . Books I rated 5 stars: - Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children #3) by Seanan McGuire (READ THIS SERIES, IT'S AWESOME) - Great Singers on the Art of Singing: Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists by James Francis Cooke . That's it! I've never had so few. I did enjoy most of the rest of what I read (my average rating was 3.8), but this was a slow reading year so there weren't as many standouts. So two 4-star books I'd recommend: - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas - The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James . I do intend to read more in 2019, if I can get my routine balanced out! BTW, I'm sciencensorcery on Goodreads if you wanna add me there! . bit.ly/2SvR5q0 . #2018inreview #goodreads #goodreadschallenge via Instagram bit.ly/2AnQfot
“The highway of human possibility extends on forever into unknown territories, which have not yet been imagined.”
- Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason -
...with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
...live in the question.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet -
বইয়ের নাম : ‘উৎবচন’ (মুক্তচিন্তা)
লেখক : রণদীপম বসু
প্রকাশক : ‘শুদ্ধস্বর’ প্রকাশনা, ঢাকা
প্রকাশকাল : ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০১২
প্রচ্ছদ: তৌহিন হাসান
ISBN 978-984-8837-13-9
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Book name: 'Utbachan' (free thinking)
Publisher: 'Shuddhashar' publication, Dhaka
Publish: February 2012
COVER: Touhin Hassan
ISBN 978-984-8837-13-9
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(বই সম্পর্কিত আরো তথ্য : www.goodreads.com/book/show/24807315 )
...you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”
- Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie -
...what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.”
- Tom Hiddleston -
8.5.2013.
always reading.
(the books are The Reader by Bernhard Schlink and In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje.)
“When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.”
- P.D. Ouspensky -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/awakening
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"Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere."
- Sharon Salzberg (Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation) -
My beautiful granddaughter Penny Gracie with her book 'Penelope, the Mountain Pygmy Possum'
www.goodreads.com/book/show/30642983-penelope-the-mountai...
Gordon Wynch, who wrote the book, is described as one of Australia's best loved children's authors.
www.newfrontierpublishing.co.uk/authors-and-illustrators/...
Stephen Pym, the book's illustrator, also Australia based, was shorlisted for the Chrighton Award.
www.newfrontier.com.au/authors-and-illustrators/stephen-pym
Stephen Pym has also illustrated a book titled 'Apollo the Powerful Owl.'
Found in the back of the Reading Notebook. (Some of the students have started using Goodreads to keep track of their books now!)