Jess ??'s bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 01 Jan 2025 09:44:34 -0800 60 Jess ??'s bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Vanity Fair 17349731 912 William Makepeace Thackeray 0141199547 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.91 1847 Vanity Fair
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]]> <![CDATA[Don't Believe Everything You Think]]> 60726415
In this book, you'll discover the root cause of all psychological and emotional suffering and how to achieve freedom of mind to effortlessly create the life you've always wanted to live.

Although pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

This book offers a completely new paradigm and understanding of where our human experience comes from, allowing us to end our own suffering and create how we want to feel at any moment.

No matter what has happened to you, where you are from, or what you have done, you can still find total peace, unconditional love, complete fulfillment, and an abundance of joy in your life.

No person is an exception to this. Darkness only exists because of the light, which means even in our darkest hour, light must exist.

Within the pages of this book, contains timeless wisdom to empower you with the understanding of our mind¡¯s infinite potential to create any experience of life that we want no matter the external circumstances.

Don¡¯t Believe Everything You Think is not about rewiring your brain, rewriting your past, positive thinking or anything of the sort.

We cannot solve our problems with the same level of consciousness that created them. Tactics are temporary. An expansion of consciousness is permanent.

This book was written to help you go beyond your thinking and discover the truth of what you already intuitively know deep inside your soul.]]> 99 Joseph Nguyen Jess ?? 0 currently-reading 3.79 2022 Don't Believe Everything You Think
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]]> All About Love: New Visions 37652218 268 bell hooks 0062862170 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.04 1999 All About Love: New Visions
author: bell hooks
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]]> <![CDATA[Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)]]> 55987278 How far would you go for happily ever after?

For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings... until she learns that the love of her life will marry another.

Desperate to stop the wedding and to heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal with the charismatic but wicked Prince of Hearts. In exchange for his help, he asks for three kisses, to be given at the time and place of his choosing.

But after Evangeline¡¯s first promised kiss, she learns that bargaining with an immortal is a dangerous game¡ªand that the Prince of Hearts wants far more from her than she¡¯d pledged. He has plans for Evangeline, plans that will either end in the greatest happily ever after or the most exquisite tragedy...]]> 408 Stephanie Garber 1250268397 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.06 2021 Once Upon a Broken Heart (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #1)
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]]> Intermezzo 208931300 An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family¡ªbut especially love¡ªfrom the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties¡ªsuccessful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father¡¯s death, he¡¯s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women¡ªhis enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude¡ªa period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.]]> 454 Sally Rooney 0374602638 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.88 2024 Intermezzo
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]]> <![CDATA[Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)]]> 58684524
While her ultra-wealthy parents want her to carry on the family legacy of world-renowned surgeons, Alexis doesn¡¯t need glory or fame. She¡¯s fine with being a ¡°mere¡± ER doctor. And every minute she spends with Daniel and the tight-knit town where he lives, she¡¯s discovering just what¡¯s really important. Yet letting their relationship become anything more than a short-term fling would mean turning her back on her family and giving up the opportunity to help thousands of people.

Bringing Daniel into her world is impossible, and yet she can¡¯t just give up the joy she¡¯s found with him either. With so many differences between them, how can Alexis possibly choose between her world and his?

The New York Times bestselling author of Life's Too Short delivers a refreshingly modern fairy tale perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Emily Henry.]]> 389 Abby Jimenez 1538704374 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.26 2022 Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)]]> 26032825 Of course I want to be like them. They¡¯re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.

And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.

Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.

To win a place at the Court, she must defy him¨Cand face the consequences.

As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.]]> 370 Holly Black 0316310271 Jess ?? 0 currently-reading 4.01 2018 The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
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]]> Greek Lessons 61686012 ¡°Now and then, language would thrust its way into her sleep like a skewer through meat, startling her awake several times a night.¡±

In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight.

Soon the two discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it¡¯s the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages, and the fear of losing his independence.

Greek Lessons tells the story of two ordinary people brought together at a moment of private anguish¡ªthe fading light of a man losing his vision meeting the silence of a woman who has lost her language. Yet these are the very things that draw them to each other. Slowly the two discover a profound sense of unity¡ªtheir voices intersecting with startling beauty, as they move from darkness to light, from silence to breath and expression.

Greek Lessons is the story of the unlikely bond between this pair and a tender love letter to human intimacy and connection¡ªa novel to awaken the senses, one that vividly conjures the essence of what it means to be alive.]]> 192 Han Kang 0593595270 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.54 2011 Greek Lessons
author: Han Kang
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]]> Breakfast at Tiffany's 35224144 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irresponsibly 'top banana in the shock department', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction.

This edition also contains three stories: 'House of Flowers', 'A Diamond Guitar' and 'A Christmas Memory'.]]> 157 Truman Capote 0141182792 Jess ?? 2 3.66 1958 Breakfast at Tiffany's
author: Truman Capote
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average rating: 3.66
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]]> Outline 40176913
Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on the flight out and his tales of fast boats and failed marriages, the storytellers talk of their loves and ambitions and pains, their anxieties, their perceptions and daily lives. In the stifling heat and noise of the city the sequence of voice begins to weave a complex human tapestry. The more they talk the more elliptical their listener becomes, as she shapes and directs their accounts until certain themes begin to emerge: the experience of loss, the nature of family life, the difficulty of intimacy and the mystery of creativity itself.

Outline is a novel about writing and talking, about self-effacement and self-expression, about the desire to create and the human art of self-portraiture in which that desire finds its universal form.]]> 249 Rachel Cusk 0571346766 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.75 2014 Outline
author: Rachel Cusk
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]]> Parade 195790675
Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings are a great success.

In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. Her attacker flees, but not before turning around to contemplate her victim, like an artist stepping back from a canvas.

When a mother dies, her children confront her the stories she told; the roles she assigned to them; the ways she withheld her love. Her death is a kind of freedom.

An artist takes on a series of pseudonyms to conceal his work from his mother and father. His brother does the opposite. They share the same parents, but they¡¯ve inherited different things.

Parade is a story that confronts and demolishes the conventions of storytelling. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot to tell a true story¡ªabout art, family, morality, gender, and how we compose ourselves. Rachel Cusk is a writer and visionary like no other, who turns language upside down to show us our world as it really is.]]> 198 Rachel Cusk 0374610045 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.55 2024 Parade
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]]> <![CDATA[The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise]]> 195845136 A garden contains secrets, we all know buried elements that might put on strange growth or germinate in unexpected places. The garden that I chose had walls, but like every garden it was interconnected, wide open to the world . . .¡¯

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work drew her into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with gardens. Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton¡¯s Paradise Lost to John Clare¡¯s enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth.

But the story of the garden doesn¡¯t always enact larger patterns of privilege and exclusion. It¡¯s also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams. From the improbable queer utopia conjured by Derek Jarman on the beach at Dungeness to the fertile vision of a common Eden propagated by William Morris, new modes of living can and have been attempted amidst the flower beds, experiments that could prove vital in the coming era of climate change.

The result is a beautiful and exacting account of the abundant pleasures and possibilities of not as a place to hide from the world but as a site of encounter and discovery, bee-loud and pollen-laden.]]> 336 Olivia Laing 1529066689 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.05 2024 The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
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]]> Rashoumon 22320989 Ry¨±nosuke Akutagawa Jess ?? 0 3.97 1915 Rashoumon
author: Ry¨±nosuke Akutagawa
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average rating: 3.97
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]]> All's Well 59366193 All¡¯s Well That Ends Well, the play that promised and cost her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers.

That¡¯s when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda¡¯s past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get what¡¯s coming to them, and the invisible doubted pain that¡¯s kept her from the spotlight is made known.]]> 384 Mona Awad 1982169672 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.78 2021 All's Well
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]]> Blue Graffiti 171669110
Living in the home he inherited from his mother and abandoned by his father, painter and construction worker, Cash, has never known anything beyond the fields of Johnston, WI¡ªnever particularly wanted to, either. Why would he when his friends are there, his work is there, his history is there. He loves Johnston. But when an emerald-eyed stranger named Rose blows into town one summer evening in his favorite local bar, everything changes. It's love at first sight. For Cash, anyway.

What follows is an intimate reflection on the love, faith, and tragedy that courses through the blood of America¡¯s backbone. Cash and his closest friends find themselves vital threads in the fabric of their community, the memory of those forgotten, and partners in a new enterprise: adventure.

A bluesey ode to the Beat generation for the modern era, Blue Graffiti is Wisconsin-raised writer Calahan Skogman's poetic debut imbued with an essential freedom, romance, and longing for a bygone era.]]> 301 Calahan Skogman 1951213955 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.80 2024 Blue Graffiti
author: Calahan Skogman
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]]> The Seven Year Slip 62926938 An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate¡­only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics.

Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it.

So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical, but her aunt always told her that you needed at least one big dream to keep going. And for the last year, that plan has gone off without a hitch. Mostly. The love part is hard because she doesn¡¯t want to get too close to anyone¡ªshe isn¡¯t sure her heart can take it.

And then she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt¡¯s apartment. A man with kind eyes and a Southern drawl and a taste for lemon pies. The kind of man that, before it all, she would¡¯ve fallen head-over-heels for. And she might again.

Except, he exists in the past. Seven years ago, to be exact. And she, quite literally, lives seven years in his future.

Her aunt always said the apartment was a pinch in time, a place where moments blended together like watercolors. And Clementine knows that if she lets her heart fall, she¡¯ll be doomed.

After all, love is never a matter of time¡ªbut a matter of timing.]]> 336 Ashley Poston Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.18 2023 The Seven Year Slip
author: Ashley Poston
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]]> <![CDATA[White Nights (Little Clothbound Classics)]]> 62026012 Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.

Regarded as one of world literature's foremost novelists, Fyodor Dostoevsky's short stories are also some of the best ever written. 'White Nights' tells of love and loss on the streets of St. Petersburg, 'A Nasty Business' presents the hilarious tale of a general dropping in on the wedding of a subordinate, while 'The Meek One' is an existentialist tale of marriage and tragedy.]]> 240 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0241619785 Jess ?? 5
This whole story seems to be set in a dreamscape, with our protagonist defining himself as a dreamer in more occasions than one.
Our lonely main character takes us with him over the course of a few nights he spends with a young woman he meets. He swears to not fall in love, but soon enough that promise is broken, how could it not?

¡°Forgive me if I say the wrong thing again... But the fact is: I can't stay away tomorrow. I'm a dreamer; I have so little actual life that I regard moments like this one as rare indeed and I can't help repeating them in my dreams. I will dream about you all night, all week, all year. I will come here tomorrow without fail, here to this very spot, at this precise time, and be happy as I recall the events of today. I cherish this place. I have two or three such places in Petersburg already. Once I even began weeping over my memories, like you ... Who knows, perhaps you too were weeping over your memories ten minutes or so back ... I'm sorry, I forgot myself again; perhaps you were once particularly happy here.¡±

Even knowing he¡¯s not her chosen, he still wishes her the best, and isn¡¯t that the purest form of love? He goes as far as to want to deliver a letter to her promised spouse.

He seems to be a spectator of life, until she comes along.

¡°Life story! But how do you know I have one? I haven't
got a life story ...
'So how have you lived without a life story?' she interposed, laughing.
Without a story of any kind, that's how; as the saying goes, I've kept myself to myself, I mean completely on my own, utterly alone-you understand what that means?'
'But what do you mean¡ªalone? You've never seen anybody ever?'
Oh no, I see them to set eyes on, but I'm alone just the same.¡±

¡°Meanwhile you hear the human crowd thundering and eddying around you in a living whirlwind, you hear and see people living-living in reality, you see that for them life is not something forbidden, their life does not fly asunder like dreams, like visions; it perpetually renews itself, is forever young, and no one hour is like any other; meanwhile how dreary and monotonously commonplace is this faint-hearted fantasy, the slave of a shadow, an idea, a slave of the first cloud that suddenly obscures the sun and afflicts with misery the heart of the true Petersburger who so cherishes his sun-and what fantasy can there possibly be in misery? You sense that it will at length grow weary, that it is exhausting itself in constant tension, this inexhaustible fantasy, because after all one matures, outgrows one's former ideals: they are shattered into dust and fragments; and if you have no other life, it behoves you to construct one from those same fragments.
Meanwhile, the soul demands and seeks out something quite other! And the dreamer vainly rakes through his old longings like ashes, seeking in those ashes at least a few sparks that might be fanned into a fire to warm his chilled heart and resurrect anew in him that which was formerly so sweet, that which touched his soul¡±]]> 4.13 1848 White Nights (Little Clothbound Classics)
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I absolutely loved this. This was my first Dostoyevsky and what a wonderful first book to start with.

This whole story seems to be set in a dreamscape, with our protagonist defining himself as a dreamer in more occasions than one.
Our lonely main character takes us with him over the course of a few nights he spends with a young woman he meets. He swears to not fall in love, but soon enough that promise is broken, how could it not?

¡°Forgive me if I say the wrong thing again... But the fact is: I can't stay away tomorrow. I'm a dreamer; I have so little actual life that I regard moments like this one as rare indeed and I can't help repeating them in my dreams. I will dream about you all night, all week, all year. I will come here tomorrow without fail, here to this very spot, at this precise time, and be happy as I recall the events of today. I cherish this place. I have two or three such places in Petersburg already. Once I even began weeping over my memories, like you ... Who knows, perhaps you too were weeping over your memories ten minutes or so back ... I'm sorry, I forgot myself again; perhaps you were once particularly happy here.¡±

Even knowing he¡¯s not her chosen, he still wishes her the best, and isn¡¯t that the purest form of love? He goes as far as to want to deliver a letter to her promised spouse.

He seems to be a spectator of life, until she comes along.

¡°Life story! But how do you know I have one? I haven't
got a life story ...
'So how have you lived without a life story?' she interposed, laughing.
Without a story of any kind, that's how; as the saying goes, I've kept myself to myself, I mean completely on my own, utterly alone-you understand what that means?'
'But what do you mean¡ªalone? You've never seen anybody ever?'
Oh no, I see them to set eyes on, but I'm alone just the same.¡±

¡°Meanwhile you hear the human crowd thundering and eddying around you in a living whirlwind, you hear and see people living-living in reality, you see that for them life is not something forbidden, their life does not fly asunder like dreams, like visions; it perpetually renews itself, is forever young, and no one hour is like any other; meanwhile how dreary and monotonously commonplace is this faint-hearted fantasy, the slave of a shadow, an idea, a slave of the first cloud that suddenly obscures the sun and afflicts with misery the heart of the true Petersburger who so cherishes his sun-and what fantasy can there possibly be in misery? You sense that it will at length grow weary, that it is exhausting itself in constant tension, this inexhaustible fantasy, because after all one matures, outgrows one's former ideals: they are shattered into dust and fragments; and if you have no other life, it behoves you to construct one from those same fragments.
Meanwhile, the soul demands and seeks out something quite other! And the dreamer vainly rakes through his old longings like ashes, seeking in those ashes at least a few sparks that might be fanned into a fire to warm his chilled heart and resurrect anew in him that which was formerly so sweet, that which touched his soul¡±
]]> Notes from Underground 49455 Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In complete retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man¡¯s essentially irrational nature.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.]]> 136 Fyodor Dostoevsky 067973452X Jess ?? 0 4.21 1864 Notes from Underground
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
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average rating: 4.21
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The og hater. Only Dostoevsky could make such a text engaging, his writing is brilliant and sucks you in even if the main protagonist is.. highly unlikable
]]> <![CDATA[Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3)]]> 60224365 The latest novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, following four new customers in a little Tokyo caf¨¦ where customers can travel back in time.

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a caf¨¦ that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.

From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the Cafe?comes another story of four new customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Caf¨¦ Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer. Among some familiar faces from Kawaguchi's previous novels, readers will also be introduced to a daughter, a comedian, a sister, and a lover, each with something they wish they had said differently.

With his signature heartwarming characters and immersive storytelling, Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?]]> 220 Toshikazu Kawaguchi 0369722698 Jess ?? 3
It might be my least favorite of the series so far, but still good.

A little note of some quotes I liked:

¡°He realized that no matter how difficult life seemed, it could be completely turned around by a single epiphany.¡±

"Inside every person is an inherent capability to make it through any kind of difficulty. Everyone has that energy. But sometimes when that energy flows via our anxiety valve, the flow can be restricted. The greater that anxiety, the greater the strength needed to open the valve and release the energy.
That strength is empowered by hope. You could say that hope is the power to believe in the future."

¡°Reiji was now realizing how important the ordinary life that we take for granted is and how much happiness can be experienced from having someone you care about by your side. Things that you put off saying until tomorrow are sometimes never said.¡±]]> 3.90 2018 Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3)
author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
name: Jess ??
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2018
rating: 3
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3.5 ??

It might be my least favorite of the series so far, but still good.

A little note of some quotes I liked:

¡°He realized that no matter how difficult life seemed, it could be completely turned around by a single epiphany.¡±

"Inside every person is an inherent capability to make it through any kind of difficulty. Everyone has that energy. But sometimes when that energy flows via our anxiety valve, the flow can be restricted. The greater that anxiety, the greater the strength needed to open the valve and release the energy.
That strength is empowered by hope. You could say that hope is the power to believe in the future."

¡°Reiji was now realizing how important the ordinary life that we take for granted is and how much happiness can be experienced from having someone you care about by your side. Things that you put off saying until tomorrow are sometimes never said.¡±
]]> <![CDATA[Tales from the Caf¨¦ (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)]]> 54373691 In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a caf¨¦ which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time...

From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new customers each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Cafe Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer.

Among some faces that will be familiar to readers of Kawaguchi's previous novel, we will be introduced to:

The man who goes back to see his best friend who died 22 years ago
The son who was unable to attend his own mother¡¯s funeral
The man who travelled to see the girl who he could not marry
The old detective who never gave his wife that gift...

This beautiful, simple tale tells the story of people who must face up to their past, in order to move on with their lives. Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?]]> 192 Toshikazu Kawaguchi 1529050863 Jess ?? 5
¡°People tend to feel happy when spring arrives, especially after a cold winter.
When spring begins, however, cannot be pinpointed to one particular moment.
There is no one day that clearly marks when winter ends and spring begins. Spring hides inside winter. We notice it emerging with our eyes, our skin and other senses. We find it in new buds, a comfortable breeze and the warmth of the sun. It exists alongside winter.¡±]]> 3.98 2017 Tales from the Caf¨¦ (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)
author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
name: Jess ??
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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Beautiful beautiful beautiful. This series got better.

¡°People tend to feel happy when spring arrives, especially after a cold winter.
When spring begins, however, cannot be pinpointed to one particular moment.
There is no one day that clearly marks when winter ends and spring begins. Spring hides inside winter. We notice it emerging with our eyes, our skin and other senses. We find it in new buds, a comfortable breeze and the warmth of the sun. It exists alongside winter.¡±
]]> Breasts and Eggs 57034991
Eight years later, we meet Natsuko again. She is now a writer and find herself on a journey back to her native city, returning to memories of that summer and her family¡¯s past as she faces her own uncertain future.]]> 430 Mieko Kawakami 152907441X Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.89 2019 Breasts and Eggs
author: Mieko Kawakami
name: Jess ??
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]]> <![CDATA[L'amica geniale (L'amica geniale #1)]]> 12913570 327 Elena Ferrante Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.25 2011 L'amica geniale (L'amica geniale #1)
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]]> A Book of Days 60587120 Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smith¡¯s singular aesthetic¡ªinspired by her wildly popular Instagram.

In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message ¡°Hello Everybody!¡± Known for shooting with her beloved Land Camera 250, Smith started posting images from her phone including portraits of her kids, her radiator, her boots, and her Abyssinian cat, Cairo. Followers felt an immediate affinity with these miniature windows into Smith¡¯s world, photographs of her daily coffee, the books she¡¯s reading, the graves of beloved heroes¡ªWilliam Blake, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Simone Weil, Albert Camus. Over time, a coherent story of a life devoted to art took shape, and more than a million followers responded to Smith¡¯s unique aesthetic in images that chart her passions, devotions, obsessions, and whims. Original to this book are vintage photographs: anniversary pearls, a mother¡¯s keychain, and a husband¡¯s Mosrite guitar. Here, too, are photos from Smith¡¯s archives of life on and off the road, train stations, obscure caf¨¦s, a notebook always nearby. In wide-ranging yet intimate daily notations, Smith shares dispatches from her travels around the world.

With over 365 photographs taking you through a single year, A Book of Days is a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet, writer, and performer. Hopeful, elegiac, playful¡ªand complete with an introduction by Smith that explores her documentary process¡ªA Book of Days is a timeless offering for deeply uncertain times, an inspirational map of an artist¡¯s life.]]> 400 Patti Smith Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.24 A Book of Days
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]]> 'Salem's Lot 17288638
#1 BESTSELLER ? Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem¡¯s Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book.

But when two young boys venture into the woods, and only one returns alive, Mears begins to realize that something sinister is at work.

In fact, his hometown is under siege from forces of darkness far beyond his imagination. And only he, with a small group of allies, can hope to contain the evil that is growing within the borders of this small New England town.

With this, his second novel, Stephen King established himself as an indisputable master of American horror, able to transform the old conceits of the genre into something fresh and all the more frightening for taking place in a familiar, idyllic locale.]]> 653 Stephen King Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.11 1975 'Salem's Lot
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]]> <![CDATA[Before We Say Goodbye (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #4)]]> 66269953 The fourth novel in the internationally bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, following a new group of customers in a magical time-traveling Tokyo caf¨¦.

The regulars at Caf¨¦ Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with the whimsical ability it grants them to take a trip into the past¡ªas well as the strict rules involved, including that each traveler must return to the present in the time it takes for their coffee to get cold. In Toshikazu Kawaguchi¡¯s previous novels, patrons have been reunited with old flames, made amends with estranged family and visited loved ones. Now readers will once again be introduced to a new set of visitors.

The Husband with Something Important Left to Say

The Woman Who Couldn¡¯t Bid Her Dog Farewell

The Woman Who Couldn¡¯t Answer a Proposal

The Daughter Who Drove Her Father Away

In Last Chance to Say Goodbye, which is translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot and features signature heartwarming characters and wistful storytelling, Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: What would you change if you could travel back in time?]]> 173 Toshikazu Kawaguchi 0369747305 Jess ?? 4 3.94 2021 Before We Say Goodbye (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop]]> 133938826 should feel successful¡ªbut all she feels is drained. Haunted by an abandoned dream, she takes a leap of faith and leaves her old life behind. Quitting her job and divorcing her husband, Yeongju moves to a quiet residential neighborhood outside the city and opens the Hyunam-dong Bookshop.

The transition isn¡¯t easy. For months, all Yeongju can do is cry. But as the long hours in the shop stretch on, she begins to reflect on what makes a good bookseller and a meaningful store. She throws herself into reading voraciously, hosting author events, and crafting her own philosophy on bookselling. Gradually, Yeongju finds her footing in her new surroundings.

Surrounded by friends, writers, and the books that bind them, Yeongju begins to write a new chapter in her life. The Hyunam-dong Bookshop evolves into a warm, welcoming haven for lost souls¡ªa place to rest, heal, and remember that it¡¯s never too late to scrap the plot and start over.]]> 307 Hwang Bo-Reum Jess ?? 0 currently-reading 3.94 2022 Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
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]]> <![CDATA[Perfume: The Story of a Murderer]]> 343 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion¡ªhis sense of smell¡ªleads to murder.

In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift¡ªan absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"¡ªthe scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.]]> 263 Patrick S¨¹skind Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.05 1985 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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]]> Bright Dead Things 24945396
A book of bravado and introspection, of 21st century feminist swagger and harrowing terror and loss, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact¡ªtracing in intimate detail the various ways the speaker¡¯s sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky, loses a dear parent, ages past the capriciousness of youth, and falls in love. Lim¨®n has often been a poet who wears her heart on her sleeve, but in these extraordinary poems that heart becomes a ¡°huge beating genius machine¡± striving to embrace and understand the fullness of the present moment. ¡°I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying,¡± the poet writes. Building on the legacies of forebears such as Frank O¡¯Hara, Sharon Olds, and Mark Doty, Lim¨®n¡¯s work is consistently generous and accessible¡ªthough every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt, and lived.]]> 105 Ada Limon 1571314717 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.21 2015 Bright Dead Things
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]]> <![CDATA[Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict into Connection]]> 195037191 World-renowned relationships experts, Dr John Gottman and Dr Julie Schwartz Gottman, bring decades of their ground-breaking research on the science of love to the urgent and timely topic of conflict.

Conflict is the number one reason that couples seek help and resources. Fight Right will teach you how to avoid the five critical mistakes that couples often make during conflict, and instead, teach you how to 'fight right' and use conflict as an opportunity for greater intimacy, deeper connection, and lasting love.

Using decades of research, compelling case studies and a new international study, the Gottmans prove that even couples who are truly struggling in conflict and have really lost their way are able to recover and find their way back to each other. For those couples in crisis, or those who want to change their relationship dynamic, Fight Right is the go-to guide to understanding how to fight better, offering urgent and perennial lessons for healthy conflict.

'Foundational to finding the love that most of us are searching for' Steven Bartlett, Diary of a CEO podcast

'Couples today really need clear, compassionate, and science-based guidance in this arena, and as the world's leading love experts, the Gottmans are the trusted voice to guide them' Jay Shetty, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Think Like a Monk ]]> 341 John M. Gottman 0241598397 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.67 2024 Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict into Connection
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]]> <![CDATA[Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)]]> 61431922 Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders...

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general¡ªalso known as her tough-as-talons mother¡ªhas ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

But when you¡¯re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don¡¯t bond to ¡°fragile¡± humans. They incinerate them.

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother¡¯s daughter¡ªlike Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

She¡¯ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.

Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.

Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda¡ªbecause once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die]]> 665 Rebecca Yarros 1649374046 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.56 2023 Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
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]]> Bunny (Bunny, #1) 53285047 We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other Bunny, and seem to move and speak as one.

But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled Smut Salon, and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus Workshop where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library]]> 305 Mona Awad 0525559752 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.43 2019 Bunny (Bunny, #1)
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]]> The Secret Garden 210288
Left to herself there is little to do apart from explore the huge, gloomy house and its surrounding until, one sunny morning, she stumbles across a secret garden, hidden behind ivy-clad walls. For the first time in her sad short life she has found something to care for and determines to restore the garden to its former glory. As the garden begins to bloom and is magically transformed no one is left untouched...]]> 276 Frances Hodgson Burnett 0140621539 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.01 1911 The Secret Garden
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]]> Where Reasons End 40147915
"Li has converted the messy and devastating stuff of life into a remarkable work of art.¡±¡ª The?Wall Street Journal

WINNER OF THE PEN/JEAN STEIN AWARD ? LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD ? NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Parul Seghal, The New York Times ? NPR ? The Guardian ? The Paris Review

The narrator of Where Reasons End writes, ¡° I had but one delusion, which I held on to with all my We once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I¡¯m doing it over again, this time by words .¡±

Yiyun Li meets life¡¯s deepest sorrows as she imagines a conversation between a mother and child in a timeless world. Composed in the months after she lost a child to suicide, Where Reasons End trespasses into the space between life and death as mother and child talk, free from old images and narratives. Deeply moving, these conversations portray the love and complexity of a relationship.

Written with originality, precision, and poise, Where Reasons End is suffused with intimacy, inescapable pain, and fierce love.]]> 170 Yiyun Li 198481737X Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.77 2019 Where Reasons End
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]]> <![CDATA[A Little History of Philosophy (Little Histories)]]> 11527504
In forty brief chapters, Nigel Warburton guides us on a chronological tour of the major ideas in the history of philosophy. He provides interesting and often quirky stories of the lives and deaths of thought-provoking philosophers from Socrates, who chose to die by hemlock poisoning rather than live on without the freedom to think for himself, to Peter Singer, who asks the disquieting philosophical and ethical questions that haunt our own times.

Warburton not only makes philosophy accessible, he offers inspiration to think, argue, reason, and ask in the tradition of Socrates. A Little History of Philosophy presents the grand sweep of humanity's search for philosophical understanding and invites all to join in the discussion.]]> 252 Nigel Warburton 0300152086 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.12 2011 A Little History of Philosophy (Little Histories)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone]]> 25667449
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between works and lives -- from Edward Hopper's Nighthawks to Andy Warhol's Time Capsules, from Henry Darger's hoarding to the depredations of the AIDS crisis -- Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.]]> 336 Olivia Laing 1250039576 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.91 2016 The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
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]]> <![CDATA[Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You]]> 26046333 *** The #1 New York Times Bestseller ***

Whether we¡¯re 20, 40, 60 or older, many of us are still looking for an answer to that perennial question, ¡®What do you want to be when you grow up?¡¯ In Designing Your Life, Silicon Valley design innovators Bill Burnett and Dave Evans use their expertise to help you work out what you want ¨C and how to get it.

Their phenomenally successful Life Design course has been tried and tested by thousands of people, from students to mid-career professionals to retirees contemplating a whole new future. Now in book form for the first time, their simple method will teach you how to use basic design tools to create a life that will work for you.

Using real-life stories and proven techniques like reframing, prototyping and mind-mapping, you will learn how to build your way forwards, step-by-positive-step, to a life that¡¯s better by a design of your own making.

Because a well-designed life means a life well-lived.]]> 240 Bill Burnett 1784740241 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.85 2016 Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You
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]]> Educated 35133922
Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent.

Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it.]]> 352 Tara Westover 0399590501 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.46 2018 Educated
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]]> <![CDATA[The Collected Works of William Shakespeare: PergamonMedia]]> 29532186 ? The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
? Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
? The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
? Macbeth
? Hamlet
? Shakespearean TragedyA. C. Bradley
? Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare and E. Nesbit
? Othello
? The Tempest
? Romeo and Juliet
? A Midsummer Night's Dream
? The Tragedy of King Lear
? The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
? Shakespeare's Sonnets
? The Merchant of Venice
? The Taming of the Shrew
? The Tragedy of Macbeth
? A Midsummer Night's Dream
? As You Like It
? A Life of Sir Sidney Lee
? Tales from ShakespeareCharles Lamb and Mary Lamb
? King Richard III
? Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will
? Shakespeare's Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
? The Tempest
? Much Ado about Nothing
? Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
? Henry V
? Julius Caesar
? What Is Man? and Other Essays
? Representative Men: Seven LecturesRalph Waldo Emerson
? Hamlet
? Much Ado about Nothing
? Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The TragediesSamuel Johnson
? Shakespeare's Comedy of The Tempest
? Antony and Cleopatra
? Tales from ShakespeareCharles Lamb and Mary Lamb
? The Tempest
? The Winter's Tale
? Measure for Measure
? King Lear
? Romeo and Juliet
? Venus and Adonis
? Othello, the Moor of Venice
? The Tragedy of Coriolanus
? The Comedy of Errors
? King Lear
? The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius C?sar
? The Rape of Lucrece
? The Merchant of Venice
? The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
? Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will
? Tales from ShakespeareCharles Lamb and Mary Lamb
? The Dark Lady of the SonnetsBernard Shaw
? The Sonnets
? Macbeth
? etc.]]> 8246 William Shakespeare Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.36 1623 The Collected Works of William Shakespeare: PergamonMedia
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]]> <![CDATA[Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind]]> 23692271 512 Yuval Noah Harari Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.34 2011 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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]]> <![CDATA[The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1)]]> 36204075 SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER?

New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz has yet again brilliantly reinvented the classic crime novel, this time writing a fictional version of himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes.

One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper ¨C the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service.

Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home.

Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who¡¯s as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes. He chooses Anthony Horowitz.

Drawn in against his will, Horowitz soon finds himself a the center of a story he cannot control. Hawthorne is brusque, temperamental and annoying but even so his latest case with its many twists and turns proves irresistible. The writer and the detective form an unusual partnership. At the same time, it soon becomes clear that Hawthorne is hiding some dark secrets of his own.

A masterful and tricky mystery that springs many surprises, The Word is Murder is Anthony Horowitz at his very best.]]> 400 Anthony Horowitz 0062676784 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.89 2017 The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ]]> 870848
Emotional intelligence includes self-awareness and impulse control, persistence, zeal and motivation, empathy and social deftness. These are the qualities that mark people who excel: whose relationships flourish, who are stars in the workplace.

With new insights into the brain architecture underlying emotion and rationality, Goleman shows precisely how emotional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthened in all of us. And because emotional lessons a child learns actually sculpt the brain's circuitry, Goleman provides detailed guidance as to how parents and schools can benefit from this.]]> 352 Daniel Goleman 0747528306 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.93 1995 Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
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]]> Ways of Seeing 2784 John Berger¡¯s Classic Text on Art

Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times a critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.

"Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics . . . He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation" ¡ªPeter Fuller, Arts Review

"The influence of the series and the book . . . was enormous . . . It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace" ¡ªGeoff Dyer in Ways of Telling.]]> 176 John Berger 0140135154 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.93 1972 Ways of Seeing
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]]> No Longer Human 194746 No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title).

Donald Keene, who translated this and Dazai's first novel, The Setting Sun, has said of the author's work: "His world ¡­ suggests Chekhov or possibly postwar France, ¡­ but there is a Japanese sensibility in the choice and presentation of the material. A Dazai novel is at once immediately intelligible in Western terms and quite unlike any Western book." His writing is in some ways reminiscent of Rimbaud, while he himself has often been called a forerunner of Yukio Mishima.

Cover painting by Noe Nojechowiz, from the collection of John and Barbara Duncan; design by Gertrude Huston]]> 176 Osamu Dazai Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.99 1948 No Longer Human
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]]> The Virgin Suicides 38651886 The National Bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot

With a New Introduction

First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.]]> 243 Jeffrey Eugenides 1250303540 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.73 1993 The Virgin Suicides
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]]> The Stranger 49552 The Stranger has long been considered a classic of twentieth-century literature. Le Monde ranks it as number one on its "100 Books of the Century" list. Through this story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."]]> 123 Albert Camus Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.04 1942 The Stranger
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]]> If We Were Villains 30319086
As one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingenue, extra. But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the plays spill dangerously over into life, and one of them is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless.]]> 354 M.L. Rio 125009528X Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.11 2017 If We Were Villains
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]]> A Little Life 39100683
In rich and resplendent prose, Yanagihara has fashioned a tragic and transcendent hymn to brotherly love, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance.

Source: penguinrandomhouse.com]]> 951 Hanya Yanagihara 0385539266 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.29 2015 A Little Life
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]]> <![CDATA[On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous]]> 41880609 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born ¡ª a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam ¡ª and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one's own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.

With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.]]> 246 Ocean Vuong 0525562028 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.05 2019 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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]]> The Practice of Not Thinking 54737796
What if we could learn to look instead of see, listen instead of hear, feel instead of touch? Former monk Ryunosuke Koike shows how, by incorporating simple Zen practices into our daily lives, we can reconnect with our five senses and live in a more peaceful, positive way.

When we focus on our senses and learn to re-train our brains and our bodies, we start to eliminate the distracting noise of our minds and the negative thoughts that create anxiety. By following Ryunosuke Koike's practical steps on how to breathe, listen, speak, laugh, love and even sleep in a new way, we can improve our interactions with others, feel less stressed at work and make every day calmer. Only by thinking less, can we appreciate more.]]> 144 Ry¨±nosuke Koike 0141994614 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.41 2013 The Practice of Not Thinking
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)]]> 13356706 THE LORD OF THE RINGS
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One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in The Hobbit. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.

--back cover]]> 407 J.R.R. Tolkien 0547928211 Jess ?? 5 4.44 1954 The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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]]> The Hobbit 13356705
A great modern classic and the prelude to THE LORD OF THE RINGS
? Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon. Bilbo reluctantly joins their quest, unaware that on his journey to the Lonely Mountain he will encounter both a magic ring and a frightening creature known as Gollum.

¡°A glorious account of a magnificent adventure, filled with suspense and seasoned with a quiet humor that is irresistible . . . All those, young or old, who love a fine adventurous tale, beautifully told, will take The Hobbit to their hearts.¡± ¨C New York Times Book Review]]> 300 J.R.R. Tolkien Jess ?? 5 4.34 1937 The Hobbit
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]]> The Beauty of Everyday Things 41753650 316 Soetsu Yanagi Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.50 2017 The Beauty of Everyday Things
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]]> The Beautiful and Damned 4708 The Beautiful and the Damned followed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This Side of Paradise, thus securing his place in the tradition of great American novelists. Embellished with the author's lyrical prose, here is the story of Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife, Gloria. As they await the inheritance of his grandfather's fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice. A devastating look at the nouveau riche, and the New York nightlife, as well as the ruinous effects of wild ambition, The Beautiful and the Damned achieved stature as one of Fitzgerald's most accomplished novels. Its distinction as a classic endures to this day. Pocket Book's Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. Special features include critical perspectives, suggestions for further read, and a unique visual essay composed of period photographs that help bring every word to life.]]> 422 F. Scott Fitzgerald 0743451503 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.74 1922 The Beautiful and Damned
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]]> The Trial 17690 The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.]]> 255 Franz Kafka Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.00 1925 The Trial
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]]> <![CDATA[The Brain in Love: 12 Lessons to Enhance Your Love Life]]> 6416708 You hold the key to stronger relationships, deeper connections, and heightened intimacy.

Everyone wants to know how to improve his or her love life, but so few of us understand the integral role the brain plays in attraction, keeping us excited about our partner, and helping us feel a strong connection. Based on Dr. Daniel Amen¡¯s cutting-edge neuroscience research, The Brain in Love shares twelve lessons that help you enhance your love life through understanding and improving brain function. Filled with practical suggestions and information on how to have lasting and more fulfilling relationships, The Brain in Love reveals:

? How emotional and physical intimacy can help prevent heart disease, improve memory, stave off cancer, and boost your immune system

? How the differences between men¡¯s and women¡¯s brains affect our perceptions and interest in sex

? The science behind why breakups hurt so much, and what you can do to ease the pain

? Surefire techniques to fix common problems¨Cdepression, PMS, ADD¨Cthat contribute to conflicts

? How to make yourself unforgettable to your partner

The Brain in Love explains everything there is to know about the brain in love and lust, guiding you to the emotional and physical intimacy you need.]]> 288 Daniel G. Amen 0307587894 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.74 2008 The Brain in Love: 12 Lessons to Enhance Your Love Life
author: Daniel G. Amen
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]]> I Know This Much Is True 5162 912 Wally Lamb 0006513239 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.08 1998 I Know This Much Is True
author: Wally Lamb
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average rating: 4.08
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]]> The Poems of Nakahara Chuya 439360
Since the Second World War Nakahara¡¯s stature has risen, and his poetry is now ranked among the finest Japanese verse of the 20th century. Influenced by both Symbolism and Dada, he created lyrics renowned for their songlike eloquence, their personal imagery and their poignant charm.

This selection of poems from throughout Nakahara¡¯s creative life includes collected and uncollected work and draws on recent scholarship to give a full account of this extraordinary figure.]]> 146 Ch¨±ya Nakahara 0852442556 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.28 1993 The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
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average rating: 4.28
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]]> Crime and Punishment 28348 564 Fyodor Dostoevsky Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.32 1866 Crime and Punishment
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book published: 1866
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]]> War and Peace 28010569
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants to soldiers and Napoleon himself. In War and Peace, Tolstoy entwines grand themes - conflict and love, birth and death, free will and faith - with unforgettable scenes of nineteenth-century Russia, to create a magnificent epic of human life in all its imperfection and grandeur.

Anthony Briggs's superb translation combines stirring, accessible prose with fidelity to Tolstoy's original, while Orlando Figes's afterword discusses the novel's vast scope and depiction of Russian identity. This edition also contains appendices, notes, a list of prominent characters and maps.]]> 1440 Leo Tolstoy 0241265541 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.38 1869 War and Peace
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average rating: 4.38
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]]> <![CDATA[Something Bad is Going to Happen]]> 174916084 297 Jessie Stephens Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.81 2023 Something Bad is Going to Happen
author: Jessie Stephens
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average rating: 3.81
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]]> Tokyo Express 38588764 Con questo noir dal fascino ossessivo, tutto incentrato su orari e nomi di treni ¨C un congegno perfetto che ruota intorno a una manciata di minuti ¨C, Matsumoto ha firmato un¡¯indagine impossibile, ma anche un libro allusivo, che sa con sottigliezza far parlare il Giappone.]]> 175 Seich¨­ Matsumoto 8845932443 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.66 1958 Tokyo Express
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]]> <![CDATA[The Full Moon Coffee Shop (The Full Moon Coffee Shop, #1)]]> 202468425 Translated from the Japanese bestseller, this charming and magical novel, inspired by the myth of cats returning favors to those who care for them, reminds us that it¡¯s never too late to follow our stars.

In Japan cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they¡¯ll one day return the favor. And if you are kind to the right cat, you might just find yourself invited to a mysterious coffee shop under a glittering Kyoto moon. This particular coffee shop is like no other. It has no fixed location, no fixed hours, and seemingly appears at random to adrift young people at crucial junctions in their lives.

It¡¯s also run by talking cats.

While customers at the Full Moon Coffee Shop partake in cakes, coffees, and teas, the cats also consult them on their star charts, offer cryptic wisdom, and let them know where their lives have veered off course¡ªbecause every person who visits the shop has been feeling more than a little lost. And for a down-on-her-luck screenwriter, a romantically stuck movie director, a hopeful hairstylist, and a technologically challenged website designer, the feline guides will set them back on their fated paths. After all, there is a reason the shop appeared to each of them¡­]]> 240 Mai Mochizuki 0593726820 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.61 2020 The Full Moon Coffee Shop (The Full Moon Coffee Shop, #1)
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]]> The Audrey Hepburn Treasures 34597 192 Ellen Erwin 0743289862 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.57 2006 The Audrey Hepburn Treasures
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]]> <![CDATA[Audrey at Home: Memories of My Mother's Kitchen]]> 22608110 256 Luca Dotti 0062284711 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.24 2015 Audrey at Home: Memories of My Mother's Kitchen
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]]> <![CDATA[Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II]]> 41219594 Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany¡¯s. Several biographies have chronicled her stardom, but none has covered her intense experiences through five years of Nazi occupation in the Netherlands. According to her son, Luca Dotti, ¡°The war made my mother who she was.¡± Audrey Hepburn¡¯s war included participation in the Dutch Resistance, working as a doctor¡¯s assistant during the ¡°Bridge Too Far¡± battle of Arnhem, the brutal execution of her uncle, and the ordeal of the Hunger Winter of 1944. She also had to contend with the fact that her father was a Nazi agent and her mother was pro-Nazi for the first two years of the occupation. But the war years also brought triumphs as Audrey became Arnhem¡¯s most famous young ballerina. Audrey¡¯s own reminiscences, new interviews with people who knew her in the war, wartime diaries, and research in classified Dutch archives shed light on the riveting, untold story of Audrey Hepburn under fire in World War II.]]> 373 Robert Matzen 1732273537 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.82 2019 Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
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]]> <![CDATA[Audrey and Givenchy: A Fashion Love Affair]]> 26195967
Legendary screen star Aubrey Hepburn and designer Hubert de Givenchy were a brilliant meeting of fashion-forward minds. Over the course of their forty-year friendship and professional partnership, both became fashion icons whose collaborations influenced trends for generations to come -- the words "Audrey style" still conjure images of ballet flats, little black dresses, bateau necklines, capri pants, and countless stunning fashions.


With gorgeous photography throughout, Audrey and Givenchy is a celebration of the duo's collaborations both onscreen and off, featuring fashion profiles on such classic films as Sabrina , Breakfast at Tiffany's , Charade , How to Steal a Million , and Funny Face , as well as their greatest off-screen fashion hits for awards shows and events.]]> 176 Cindy de la Hoz 0762460172 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.13 2016 Audrey and Givenchy: A Fashion Love Affair
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]]> <![CDATA[How to be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life]]> 168561
¡°Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book and remembering¡ªbecause you can¡¯t take it all in at once.¡±¡ªAudrey Hepburn

On many occasions, Audrey Hepburn was approached to pen her autobiography, the definitive book of Audrey, yet she never agreed. A beloved icon who found success as an actress, a mother, and a humanitarian, Audrey Hepburn perfected the art of gracious living.

More philosophy than biography, How to Be Lovely revisits the many interviews Audrey gave over the years, allowing us to hear her voice directly on universal topics of concern to women the world careers, love lives, motherhood and relationships. Enhanced by rarely seen photographs, behind-the-scenes stories, and insights from the friends who knew her well, How to Be Lovely uncovers the real Audrey, in her own words.]]> 208 Melissa Hellstern 0525948236 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.01 2004 How to be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life
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]]> <![CDATA[Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman]]> 7057039 Breakfast at Tiffany's, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. reveals little-known facts about the cinema classic: Truman Capote desperately wanted Marilyn Monroe for the leading role; director Blake Edwards filmed multiple endings; Hepburn herself felt very conflicted about balancing the roles of mother and movie star. With a colorful cast of characters including Truman Capote, Edith Head, Givenchy, "Moon River" composer Henry Mancini, and, of course, Hepburn herself, Wasson immerses us in the America of the late fifties before Woodstock and birth control, when a not-so-virginal girl by the name of Holly Golightly raised eyebrows across the country, changing fashion, film, and sex for good. Indeed, cultural touchstones like Sex and the City owe a debt of gratitude to Breakfast at Tiffany's.

In this meticulously researched gem of a book, Wasson delivers us from the penthouses of the Upper East Side to the pools of Beverly Hills, presenting Breakfast at Tiffany's as we have never seen it before¡ªthrough the eyes of those who made it. Written with delicious prose and considerable wit, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. shines new light on a beloved film and its incomparable star.]]> 231 Sam Wasson 0061774154 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.69 2010 Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
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]]> <![CDATA[Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit]]> 168560
She dazzled millions as Gigi. Eliza Doolittle. Holly Golightly. But to her most adoring fan, Audrey Hepburn was best known for her role as ¡°Mummy.¡±

In this heartfelt tribute to his mother, Sean Hepburn Ferrer offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the life of one of Hollywood's brightest stars. Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit is a stunning compilation of nearly 300 photographs, many straight from the family album and never before published; archival documents, personal correspondence, and mementos; even paintings and illustrations from the actress herself.

Sean tells Audrey Hepburn's remarkable story, from her childhood in war-torn Holland to the height of her fame to her autumn years far from the camera and the crush of the paparazzi. Sean introduces us to someone whose grace, charm, and beauty were matched only by her insecurity about her appearance and talent, and who used her hard-won recognition as a means to help children less fortunate than her own. With this unique biography, Sean celebrates his mother's history and humanity¡ªand continues her charitable work by donating proceeds from this book to the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund.]]> 256 Sean Hepburn Ferrer 0671024795 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.29 2003 Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit
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]]> Audrey Hepburn 168564 The New York Times Book Review) that truly captures the woman who captured our hearts...

With the insights of family and friends who never before spoke to a Hepburn biographer-and never-before-published photographs-Paris has created an in-depth portrait of the actress, from her childhood in Nazi-occupied Europe, through her legendary career, and into her UN ambassadorship.]]> 496 Barry Paris 0425182126 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.05 1996 Audrey Hepburn
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels]]> 24368076 For the first time, all five books in the Patrick Melrose series are collected in a single edition:

NEVER MIND

BAD NEWS

SOME HOPE

MOTHER'S MILK

AT LAST

Acclaimed for their searing wit and their deep humanity, this magnificent cycle of novels - in which Patrick Melrose battles to survive the savageries of his childhood and lead a self-determined life - is one of the major achievements in English fiction.

]]> 689 Edward St. Aubyn 1250069629 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.11 2012 The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels
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]]> <![CDATA[Critica portatile al visual design. Da Gutenberg ai social network]]> 21567528
D¨¹rer era un visual designer come Steve Jobs? Perch¨¦ Eva Longoria, di Desperate Housewives, apprezza Photoshop come regalo di Natale? Scopo del catalogo Ikea ¨¨ informare o incantare? Walter Benjamin ha sbagliato previsioni? E il visual designer ¨¨ un pericoloso rivoluzionario, un puro esperto di grafica o un progettista di futuro? Mentre scrive la nuova guida a un mestiere che ha cinquecento anni alle spalle, e tutto il futuro davanti, Falcinelli mette ogni lettore di fronte ai due nodi fondamentali di oggi: la consapevolezza e la °ù±ð²õ±è´Ç²Ô²õ²¹²ú¾±±ô¾±³Ù¨¤. Un manuale per chi non vuole limitarsi a riconoscere e usare le forme, ma capire chi davvero sta parlando. Quasi cinquant'anni dopo Il medium ¨¨ il massaggio di McLuhan e Fiore, un racconto pieno di fascino e buonumore che aggiorna la mappa di un mondo sempre pi¨´ governato dalle immagini.

Con 344 illustrazioni a due colori nel testo.]]> 321 Riccardo Falcinelli 8806217712 Jess ?? 0 to-read, design 4.26 2014 Critica portatile al visual design. Da Gutenberg ai social network
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]]> <![CDATA[Cromorama: Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo]]> 36266532
Intrecciando storie su storie, e con l'aiuto di 400 illustrazioni, Falcinelli narra come si ¨¨ formato lo sguardo moderno, attingendo all'intero universo delle immagini: non solo la pittura, ma anche la letteratura, il cinema, i fumetti e soprattutto gli oggetti quotidiani, che per la prima volta ci fa vedere in maniera nuova e inconsueta. Tutte le societ¨¤ hanno costruito sistemi simbolici in cui il colore aveva un ruolo centrale: pensiamo al nero del lutto, al rosso del comunismo o all'azzurro del manto della Madonna. Ci¨° che di straordinario ¨¨ accaduto nel mondo moderno ¨¨ che la tecnologia e il mercato hanno cambiato il modo in cui guardiamo le cose, abituandoci a nuove percezioni. Visto su uno smartphone, un affresco risulta luminoso come una foto digitale. Le tinte cariche e brillanti dello schermo sono ormai il parametro con cui valutiamo la purezza di ogni fenomeno cromatico. Chi ha conosciuto il colore della televisione, insomma, non pu¨° pi¨´ vedere il mondo con gli occhi del passato. Magari non ne siamo consapevoli, ma abbiamo in mente il giallo dei Simpson anche di fronte a un quadro del Rinascimento. Cromorama ci racconta come oggi il colore sia diventato un filtro con cui pensiamo la realt¨¤.]]> 472 Riccardo Falcinelli 8806235931 Jess ?? 0 to-read, design 4.46 2017 Cromorama: Come il colore ha cambiato il nostro sguardo
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]]> <![CDATA[Figure: Come funzionano le immagini dal Rinascimento a Instagram]]> 55366004 Cromorama, in questo nuovo libro, Riccardo Falcinelli ci accompagna nella bottega di pittori, fotografi, registi, da Raffaello a Stanley Kubrick, rivoluzionando il nostro modo di guardare. Con 500 immagini a colori.

Spesso, davanti a un quadro, tendiamo a domandarci che cosa significhi, o quali fossero gli intenti del pittore, o come si collochi nell'epoca in cui ¨¨ stato realizzato: ma cos¨ª la storia dell'arte rischia di essere una spiegazione solo di storia, anzich¨¦ di arte. Riccardo Falcinelli adotta un paradigma completamente diverso. Invece di cercare il ?significato? delle immagini, entra nel loro ingranaggio, le tratta non come simboli da decifrare, bens¨ª come meccanismi da smontare, ci spiega in che modo sono state progettate e costruite, e perch¨¦. Scritto con piglio affabulatorio e avvincente, che conferma Falcinelli come uno dei migliori saggisti italiani, Figure ¨¨ un libro per chi vuole capire le immagini, ma anche per chi vuole inventarle.]]> 512 Riccardo Falcinelli 8806243888 Jess ?? 0 to-read, design 4.55 2020 Figure: Come funzionano le immagini dal Rinascimento a Instagram
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]]> Detail in Typography 2318174 61 Jost Hochuli 0907259340 Jess ?? 0 to-read, design 4.37 2005 Detail in Typography
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]]> The Little Prince 157993
Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince, presented here in a stunning new translation with carefully restored artwork. The definitive edition of a worldwide classic, it will capture the hearts of readers of all ages.]]> 96 Antoine de Saint-Exup¨¦ry 0152023984 Jess ?? 0 4.32 1943 The Little Prince
author: Antoine de Saint-Exup¨¦ry
name: Jess ??
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1943
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]]> The End of Loneliness 40265079 From internationally bestselling author Benedict Wells, a sweeping novel of love and loss, and of the lives we never get to live.

Jules Moreau¡¯s childhood is shattered after the sudden death of his parents. Enrolled in boarding school where he and his siblings, Marty and Liz, are forced to live apart, the once vivacious and fearless Jules retreats inward, preferring to live within his memories--until he meets Alva, a kindred soul caught in her own grief. Fifteen years pass and the siblings remain strangers to one another, bound by tragedy and struggling to recover the family they once were. Jules, still adrift, is anchored only by his desires to be a writer and to reunite with Alva, who turned her back on their friendship on the precipice of it becoming more, but just as it seems they can make amends for time wasted, invisible forces--whether fate or chance--intervene.

A kaleidoscopic family saga told through the fractured lives of the three Moreau siblings alongside a faltering, recovering love story, The End of Loneliness is a stunning meditation on the power of our memories, of what can be lost and what can never be let go. With inimitable compassion and luminous, affecting prose, Benedict Wells contends with what it means to find a way through life, while never giving up hope you will find someone to go with you.]]> 272 Benedict Wells 0143134000 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.17 2016 The End of Loneliness
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]]> <![CDATA[A Short History of Nearly Everything]]> 21 544 Bill Bryson 076790818X Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.21 2003 A Short History of Nearly Everything
author: Bill Bryson
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average rating: 4.21
book published: 2003
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]]> <![CDATA[The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You]]> 923950
Most of us feel overstimulated every once in a while, but for the HSP, it's a way of life. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Elaine Aron, a clinical psychologist, workshop leader, and an HSP herself, shows you how to identify this trait in yourself and make the most of it in everyday situations. Drawing on her many years of research and hundreds of interviews, she shows how you can better understand yourself and your trait to create a fuller, richer life.]]> 251 Elaine N. Aron 0553062182 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.86 1996 The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
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]]> <![CDATA[An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness]]> 361459 NATIONAL BESTSELLER ? A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives¡ªwith a new preface by the author.

Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients, as her disorder launched her into ruinous spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempted suicide.

Here Jamison examines bipolar illness from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed, revealing both its terrors and the cruel allure that at times prompted her to resist taking medication.]]> 240 Kay Redfield Jamison 0679763309 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.06 1995 An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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]]> Thinking, Fast and Slow 11468377 Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities¡ªand also the faults and biases¡ªof fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation¡ªeach of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.

Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives¡ªand how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you think about thinking.]]> 499 Daniel Kahneman 0374275637 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.17 2011 Thinking, Fast and Slow
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]]> <![CDATA[8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go]]> 62634115 The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Think Like a Monk offers a revelatory guide to every stage of romance, drawing on ancient wisdom and new science.

Nobody sits us down and teaches us how to love. So we¡¯re often thrown into relationships with nothing but romance movies and pop culture to help us muddle through. Until now.

Instead of presenting love as an ethereal concept or a collection of cliches, Jay Shetty lays out specific, actionable steps to help you develop the skills to practice and nurture love better than ever before. He shares insights on how to win or lose together, how to define love, and why you don¡¯t break in a break-up. Inspired by Vedic wisdom and modern science, he tackles the entire relationship cycle, from first dates to moving in together to breaking up and starting over. And he shows us how to avoid falling for false promises and unfulfilling partners.

By living Jay Shetty¡¯s eight rules, we can all love ourselves, our partner, and the world better than we ever thought possible.]]> 352 Jay Shetty 198218308X Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.91 2023 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go
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]]> <![CDATA[Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find¡ªand Keep¡ªLove]]> 9547888 Is there a science to love?

In this groundbreaking book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine and psychologist Rachel S. F. Heller reveal how an understanding of attachment theory-the most advanced relationship science in existence today-can help us find and sustain love. Attachment theory forms the basis for many bestselling books on the parent/child relationship, but there has yet to be an accessible guide to what this fascinating science has to tell us about adult romantic relationships-until now.

Attachment theory owes its inception to British psychologist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby, who in the 1950s examined the tremendous impact that our early relationships with our parents or caregivers has on the people we become. Also central to attachment theory is the discovery that our need to be in a close relationship with one or more individuals is embedded in our genes.

In Attached, Levine and Heller trace how these evolutionary influences continue to shape who we are in our relationships today. According to attachment theory, every person behaves in relationships in one of three distinct ways:

*ANXIOUS people are often preoccupied with their relationships and tend to worry about their partner's ability to love them back.
*AVOIDANT people equate intimacy with a loss of independence and constantly try to minimize closeness.
*SECURE people feel comfortable with intimacy and are usually warm and loving.

Attached guides readers in determining what attachment style they and their mate (or potential mates) follow. It also offers readers a wealth of advice on how to navigate their relationships more wisely given their attachment style and that of their partner. An insightful look at the science behind love, Attached offers readers a road map for building stronger, more fulfilling connections.]]> 304 Amir Levine 1585428485 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.11 2010 Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find¡ªand Keep¡ªLove
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]]> I'm Glad My Mom Died 59364173
Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother¡¯s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called ¡°calorie restriction,¡± eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, ¡°Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn¡¯t tint hers?¡± She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.

In I¡¯m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail¡ªjust as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly , she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (¡°Hi Gale!¡±), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.

Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I¡¯m Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.]]> 320 Jennette McCurdy Jess ?? 5 4.45 2022 I'm Glad My Mom Died
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]]> Elena Knows 56802275 A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individual freedom.

After Rita is found dead in the bell tower of the church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and hypocrisy in our society.]]> 143 Claudia Pi?eiro Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.09 2007 Elena Knows
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]]> The Midnight Library 52578297
When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change.

The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren't always what she imagined they'd be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger.

Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live?]]> 288 Matt Haig 0525559477 Jess ?? 2 3.96 2020 The Midnight Library
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]]> So Sad Today: Personal Essays 25904473 So Sad Today, Broder delves deeper into the existential themes she explores on Twitter, grappling with sex, death, love, low self-esteem, addiction, and the drama of waiting for the universe to text you back. With insights as sharp as her humor, Broder explores¡ªin prose that is both gutsy and beautiful, aggressively colloquial and achingly poetic¡ªquestions most of us are afraid to even acknowledge, let alone answer, in order to discover what it really means to be a person in this modern world.]]> 206 Melissa Broder 1455562726 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.81 2016 So Sad Today: Personal Essays
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]]> Pure Colour 57693639 Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and terrible) things about being alive. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.

Here we are, just living in the first draft of Creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart.

In this first draft of the world, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira¡¯s chest like a portal¡ªto what, she doesn¡¯t know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and his spirit passes into her. Together, they become a leaf on a tree. But photosynthesis gets boring, and being alive is a problem that cannot be solved, even by a leaf. Eventually, Mira must remember the human world she¡¯s left behind, including Annie, and choose whether or not to return.]]> 224 Sheila Heti 0374603944 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.46 2022 Pure Colour
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]]> The Girls at 17 Swann Street 39324901 The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists¡¯ list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried harder, she would be good enough. Perhaps if she just ran for one more mile, lost just one more pound.

Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears ¨C imperfection, failure, loneliness ¨C she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere eighty-eight pounds. Forced to seek treatment, she is admitted as a patient at 17 Swann Street, a peach pink house where pale, fragile women with life-threatening eating disorders live. Women like Emm, the veteran; quiet Valerie; Julia, always hungry. Together, they must fight their diseases and face six meals a day.

Yara Zgheib's poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting, intimate journey of a young woman's struggle to reclaim her life. Every bite causes anxiety. Every flavor induces guilt. And every step Anna takes toward recovery will require strength, endurance, and the support of the girls at 17 Swann Street.]]> 373 Yara Zgheib 1250202442 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.97 2019 The Girls at 17 Swann Street
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]]> Wintergirls 5152478
In her most powerfully moving novel since Speak, award-winning author, Laurie Halse Anderson explores Lia's struggle, her painful path to recovery, and her desperate attempts to hold on to the most important thing of all¡ªhope.]]> 278 Laurie Halse Anderson 067001110X Jess ?? 0 3.96 2009 Wintergirls
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]]> <![CDATA[Sew Your Own Wardrobe: More Than 80 Techniques]]> 53438556 Tailor-make your wardrobe with this essential dressmaking guide.

Discover everything you need to know to design, create, and customize your clothes. Guiding you through every stage of clothes-making in a clear, easy-to-understand way, Sew Your Own Wardrobe shows you how to make timeless wardrobe staples that can be easily adapted to suit your style.

Choose the perfect fabrics for any project, try your hand at a range of machine-sewing techniques, and put your new-found knowledge to use with 13 downloadable patterns that can be adapted to create more than 30 stylish garments.

With step-by-step guides and patterns to make classic dresses, skirts, tops, trousers, and jackets, alongside ideas for refreshing and reinventing your old clothes, Sew Your Own Wardrobe has everything you need to ditch fast fashion and create stunning, original clothes to suit your style.]]> 304 Alison Smith 074402689X Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.09 Sew Your Own Wardrobe: More Than 80 Techniques
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]]> <![CDATA[The Knitting Book: Over 250 Step-by-Step Techniques]]> 43351102 Everything you need to teach yourself how to knit, from casting on to creating your own designs.

This new edition of DK's knitting bible takes you from beginner to expert, with hundreds of step-by-step techniques, more than 120 stitch patterns for a variety of knitting stitches, and 20 knitting projects suitable for all abilities.

Fully illustrated and easy to use, The Knitting Book is a one-stop resource for beginners and a rich source of inspiration for avid knitters who want to progress their skills and try new stitch patterns. Each technique is shown in clear photographic steps and explained with helpful annotations and arrows, from basic casting on to intricate Fair Isle and cable patterns.

A photographic stitch gallery showcases over 120 different stitches to inspire you - try your hand at everything from garter stitch to intarsia, or customize projects with your own stitch choices.

This updated edition features 10 brand-new project patterns, including an arm knitting pattern, as well as 10 projects from the original edition that have been reimagined with new yarns and fresh colours.

Simple, clear, and comprehensive, The Knitting Book is the only book you need to progress your skills and create your own beautiful, unique pieces.]]> 364 Vikki Haffenden 1465482407 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.48 2011 The Knitting Book: Over 250 Step-by-Step Techniques
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dressmaking Book: Over 80 Techniques]]> 53403867 Tailor-make your wardrobe with this essential dressmaking guide.

Discover everything you need to know to design, create, and customize your clothes. Guiding you through every stage of clothes-making in a clear, easy-to-understand way, The Dressmaking Book contains everything you need to make timeless wardrobe staples that can be easily adapted to suit your style.

Choose the perfect fabrics for any project, try your hand at a range of machine-sewing techniques, and put your new-found knowledge to use with 13 downloadable patterns that can be adapted to create more than 30 stylish garments.

With step-by-step guides and patterns to make classic dresses, skirts, tops, trousers, and jackets, alongside ideas for refreshing and reinventing your old clothes, The Dressmaking Book has everything you need to ditch fast fashion and create stunning, original clothes to suit your style.]]> 304 Alison Smith 0241459737 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.23 The Dressmaking Book: Over 80 Techniques
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]]> Pattern Magic 9047345 104 Tomoko Nakamichi 1856697053 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.45 2010 Pattern Magic
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sewing Book: An Encyclopedic Resource of Step-by-Step Techniques]]> 4525084
The Tools section begins with the basic toolkit, opening up into everything you could possibly need - every type of cutting tool and machine foot is shown. This section also includes information on patterns - how to measure, how to use, and how to adjust them. Gallery spreads appear throughout the substantial Techniques section and showcase darts, zips, pleats etc, as well as showing key stitches. Plus, you can bring your acquired and refined skills to fruition as you make some of the 25 home decor and clothing projects at the back of the book. With The Sewing Book on your shelf, you've got every sewing question covered.]]> 400 Alison Smith 0756642809 Jess ?? 0 4.37 2009 The Sewing Book: An Encyclopedic Resource of Step-by-Step Techniques
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]]> <![CDATA[The Paper Magician (The Paper Magician, #1)]]> 20727654
Yet the spells Ceony learns under the strange yet kind Thane turn out to be more marvelous than she could have ever imagined¡ªanimating paper creatures, bringing stories to life via ghostly images, even reading fortunes. But as she discovers these wonders, Ceony also learns of the extraordinary dangers of forbidden magic.

An Excisioner¡ªa practitioner of dark, flesh magic¡ªinvades the cottage and rips Thane¡¯s heart from his chest. To save her teacher¡¯s life, Ceony must face the evil magician and embark on an unbelievable adventure that will take her into the chambers of Thane¡¯s still-beating heart¡ªand reveal the very soul of the man.

From the imaginative mind of debut author Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician is an extraordinary adventure both dark and whimsical that will delight readers of all ages.]]> 222 Charlie N. Holmberg 1477823832 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.61 2014 The Paper Magician (The Paper Magician, #1)
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]]> Milk Fed 54304105 The Pisces and So Sad Today.

Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting¡ªuntil her therapist encourages her to take a ninety-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting.

Early in the detox, Rachel meets Miriam, a zaftig young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her favorite frozen yogurt shop and is intent upon feeding her. Rachel is suddenly and powerfully entranced by Miriam¡ªby her sundaes and her body, her faith and her family¡ªand as the two grow closer, Rachel embarks on a journey marked by mirrors, mysticism, mothers, milk, and honey.

Pairing superlative emotional insight with unabashed vivid fantasy, Broder tells a tale of appetites: physical hunger, sexual desire, spiritual longing, and the ways that we as humans can compartmentalize these so often interdependent instincts. Milk Fed is a tender and riotously funny meditation on love, certitude, and the question of what we are all being fed, from one of our major writers on the psyche¡ªboth sacred and profane.]]> 304 Melissa Broder 1982142499 Jess ?? 0 to-read 3.56 2021 Milk Fed
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]]> A Man Called Ove 18774964
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon, the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him the bitter neighbor from hell, but must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?

Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations.]]> 337 Fredrik Backman 1476738017 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.35 2012 A Man Called Ove
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]]> <![CDATA[The Book of Moods: How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life]]> 53021563 The Happiness Project meets So Sad Today in this "hilariously witty, unflinchingly honest" book from Words of Women founder Lauren Martin, as she contemplates the nature of negative emotions -- and the insights that helped her to take control of her life (Bobbi Brown).
Five years ago, Lauren Martin was sure something was wrong with her. She had a good job in New York, an apartment in Brooklyn, a boyfriend, yet every day she wrestled with feelings of inferiority, anxiety and irritability. It wasn't until a chance encounter with a (charming, successful) stranger who revealed that she also felt these things, that Lauren set out to better understand the hold that these moods had on her, how she could change them, and began to blog about the wisdom she uncovered. It quickly exploded into an international online community of women who felt like she did: lost, depressed, moody, and desirous of change.



Inspired by her audience to press even deeper, The Book of Moods shares Lauren's journey to infuse her life with a sense of peace and stability. With observations that will resonate and inspire, she dives into the universal triggers every woman faces -- whether it's a comment from your mother, the relentless grind at your job, days when you wish the mirror had a Valencia filter, or all of the above. Blending cutting-edge science, timeless philosophy, witty anecdotes and effective forms of self-care, Martin has written a powerful, intimate, and incredibly relatable chronicle of transformation, proving that you really can turn your worst moods into your best life.]]> 288 Lauren Martin 1538733625 Jess ?? 5 3.81 2020 The Book of Moods: How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life
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]]> Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 46041199 A fierce international bestseller that launched Korea¡¯s new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman¡¯s psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny.

Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that person.

In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A thirtysomething-year-old ¡°millennial everywoman,¡± she has recently left her white-collar desk job¡ªin order to care for her newborn daughter full-time¡ªas so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women¡ªalive and even dead, both known and unknown to her. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, her discomfited husband sends her to a male psychiatrist.

In a chilling, eerily truncated third-person voice, Jiyoung¡¯s entire life is recounted to the psychiatrist¡ªa narrative infused with disparate elements of frustration, perseverance, and submission. Born in 1982 and given the most common name for Korean baby girls, Jiyoung quickly becomes the unfavored sister to her princeling little brother. Always, her behavior is policed by the male figures around her¡ªfrom the elementary school teachers who enforce strict uniforms for girls, to the coworkers who install a hidden camera in the women¡¯s restroom and post their photos online. In her father¡¯s eyes, it is Jiyoung¡¯s fault that men harass her late at night; in her husband¡¯s eyes, it is Jiyoung¡¯s duty to forsake her career to take care of him and their child¡ªto put them first.

Jiyoung¡¯s painfully common life is juxtaposed against a backdrop of an advancing Korea, as it abandons ¡°family planning¡± birth control policies and passes new legislation against gender discrimination. But can her doctor flawlessly, completely cure her, or even discover what truly ails her?

Rendered in minimalist yet lacerating prose, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 sits at the center of our global #MeToo movement and announces the arrival of writer of international significance]]> 163 Cho Nam-Joo 1631496700 Jess ?? 0 to-read 4.17 2016 Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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