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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.
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
...about the gray existing between the black and white of absolute terms, I began to experience more peace. The more I expanded my gray areas (more than 50 shades), the more peace I experienced in my life.”
- David W. Earle -
...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 -
“Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.”
- Eugene S. Wilson -
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 )
“Be calm. God awaits you at the door.”
“Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself.”
“In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.”
- Gabriel García Márquez -
www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/13450.Gabriel_Garc_a_M_rquez
"Gabriel García Márquez, Conjurer of Literary Magic, Dies at 87" www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/books/gabriel-garcia-marquez-l...
8.5.2013.
always reading.
(the books are The Reader by Bernhard Schlink and In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje.)
“Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.”
- Epictetus -
...not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.”
- Mahatma Gandhi -
...Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/dreams
"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) -
...which is technically a circle and thus infinitely broad. Yet we must choose each step we take with utmost caution, for the footprints we leave behind are as important as the path we will follow. They’re part of the same journey — our story.”
- Lori R. Lopez, Dance Of The Chupacabras -
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!)
...you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.”
- Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram -
Many of the same. Put me in mind of this quote:
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
― Rachel Carson