![]() ![]() ![]() So, the first step of implementing GTD is to brain dump. Now, if you know brains, they like playing this little game where all this happens for a brief moment only, and after a while, you’re only thinking about potatoes. There are moments when your brain suddenly hits all the right chords and you’re swamped with creative ideas, or better yet, all the things you need to get done. ![]() Now, you must be thinking this looks like a lot of work, and isn’t the GTD method supposed to minimize the work effort? Patience, my beloved reader! It may seem intimidating at first glance, but once you get to understand it better, it’ll work like a charm. The technique comprises 5 steps that bring you closer to getting your life together (well, almost). So, the whole concept of GTD revolves around the systematic organization of your tasks and priorities in a way that they become more manageable and achievable. If you don’t have time to read the whole book (many of us don’t), I’ve broken down the method elaborately for you to understand why GTD works the way it does, and all the popular GTD apps that can help you implement it to master the skill of getting things done. Image Source – GTD in 15 Minutes by Hamberg ![]()
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![]() ![]() The New York Trilogy, published through 19, collected together in 1987, is Paul Auster’s first and most famous work of fiction. Lest you think it’s just my serious reading that’s antiquated: When I want a throw-away book I inevitably reach for something from the 70s at the latest.Ībout a year ago I decided to make a concerted effort to read things that were up to date and of the notes I took only those for The New York Trilogy seem worth replicating and re-editing here (the original dates from August 12th, 2011). ![]() Observers of this blog may have noticed my rather strong predilection for the modernist movement and it’s true that the number of contemporary works I’ve read is pitiful: Two (or possibly four) from Paul Auster and one each from a handful of others. “Modern” being a term to encompass roughly the last 30 years worth of publications. Let me start by explaining my own ignorance of the modern literary scene. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, most people then still lived within the narrow confines of their farmstead, village or town. ![]() But Hansen – a professor at Yale University, and previously the author of histories of China and the Silk Road – gathers a wealth of cutting-edge research into a modestly-sized work studded with mind-expanding gems. Not every reader will accept that banner message or the generously stretched definition of “globalisation” that it sometimes presumes. Hence her headline claim that, at this time, “globalisation began”. She maintains that, around the year 1000, new trans-oceanic contacts between peoples ensured that “for the first time an object or a message could have travelled across the entire world”. Her book, however, takes a familiar argument much further. “They lived in a globalised world, pure and simple,” Valerie Hansen insists. It hardly counts as news, perhaps, that the Chinese elites of a thousand years ago stood at the wealthy heart of an international trading and information system that spanned distant continents. ![]() ![]() ![]() It includes summary discussions of Sappho's biography and the history of her texts, an essay on the formal character of her work and its tradition, and notes on the poems. The translation is particularly intent on bringing over into English Sappho's formal mastery along with her sense. This new edition of The Poetry of Sappho translates all the surviving texts of Sappho that make consecutive poetic sense, including the newly discovered "Brothers Ode," "Cypris fragment," and other papyrus texts published in 2014. ![]() "Graceful, fluent, lucid while respectful of mystery: Jim Powell's unsurpassed embodiment of Sappho in English has all the conviction of art."-Robert Pinsky Powell has shored her fragments against ruins to give us a garland in which the flowers, though tattered, have not faded."-Bernard Knox, The New Republic The resulting book is a brilliant success. Powell has tried to reproduce the effect. Jim Powell is fully aware of the dangers, and speaks of the 'fluidity, ease, grace, and melodic variety' of Sappho's measures. Such poetry confronts the translator with a formidable challenge. "The Sapphic impression of emotion poured out in unpremeditated speech is the product of sophisticated art.
![]() She is a pillar, an icon, and an inspiration. "Tamora Pierce's books shaped me not only as a young writer but also as a young woman. ![]() Here, Pierce gives fans exactly what they want-a smart, savvy heroine making a name for herself on the mean streets of Tortall's Lower City-while offering plenty to appeal to new readers as well! The Beka Cooper Trilogy introduces an amazing young woman who is the ancestor to one of Tamora Pierce's most popular characters: George Cooper. Beka must decide whom she can trust with her country's future. Soon they are wading deep into a world of power, corruption, and betrayal that threatens the Tortall royal family. And when the pair is joined by a wide-eyed young mage who seems too green to be on a case of such importance, it becomes clear that threats lurk around every corner. He informs Beka that she and her scent hound, Achoo, are the best team for the job, but he won't tell her anything else. After suffering a terrible loss, Beka is grateful when Lord Gershom calls on her with a top-secret Hunt. ![]() ![]() Sometimes a distraction arrives at just the right time. The more secret the Hunt, the more dangerous the mission. In the final book in the Beka Cooper Trilogy, Beka uses her unique magic and street smarts to crack the case that will change an empire! ![]() A New York Times bestseller from the fantasy author who is legend herself: TAMORA PIERCE. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To a certain degree, our entire future may depend on learning to listen, listen without assumptions or defenses. We are socialized to see what is wrong, missing, off, to tear down the ideas of others and uplift our own. ![]() Staying focused on our foundational miraculous nature is actually very hard work in our modern culture of deconstruction. In the introduction to her book, brown presents a preferred mode of critique, one that speaks to a spirit of 'calling in' rather than 'calling out.' She writes: I am open to critiques of course, if they are offered in the spirit of collective liberation. Yet one thing connects them: Hunt's and brown's books are both texts of liberatory, feminist hope and, in their best moments, both show ways of organising, in the past and present, that makes this hope concrete. ![]() Hunt's book is a chronological account of the intertwined-indeed, inseparable-histories of abolitionism and feminism in the nineteenth-century United States brown's book is a contemporary collection of her writings on social change, taking the form of poetry, interviews, guidelines, and blog posts, to name a few. New York: Feminist Press, 2017 248pp ISBN 9781558614291Īt first glance, And the Spirit Moved Them (Helen LaKelly Hunt) and Emergent Strategy (adrienne maree brown) could not be more different. Helen LaKelly Hunt, And the Spirit Moved Them: The Lost Radical History of America's First Feminists Adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing WorldsĬhico, CA: AK Press, 2017 280pp ISBN 9781849352604 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is focused on real Fascism in Italy and Germany from c. O元348975W Page_number_confidence 92.73 Pages 346 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1435292197 Paxtons 'Anatomy of Fascism' is, in fact, more than an overview or introduction. IN this survey of fascism, Robert Paxton rejects the concept of the fascist minimum which seeks to understand the fascist phenomenon through a gen- eral but concise definition. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:20:05.740232 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1145421 City New York Donor ![]() ![]() ![]() At the time DnD was designed in the Seventies only two of the tetralogy were published, however, and this isn’t really a book of traditional fantasy in any sense. Gary Gygax adored Vance’s work and the magic system of the RPG draws heavily on the magicians within the Tales. I came to this book circuitously via my quest to read the books that the original DnD game was based on. So a wrong word and I’ll be checking under the car with mirrors on poles for the foreseeable future. The Godfather of modern gritty fantasy and HBO darling, George RR Martin, is a massive fan and put together an anthology in honour of the work. Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun (one of the genre’s standards) draws heavily on it. Being asked to review Jack Vance’s Tales of the Dying Earth is akin to a music journalist been given a Beatles album and asked what do they think? Vance’s seminal work is regarded with reverence in many esteemed quarters. ![]() ![]() ![]() 2017, /naomi-alderman-taps-into-the-deeper-powers-of-women/. “Naomi Alderman Taps into the Deeper Powers of Women.” Literary Hub, 10 Oct. Published in 2016, Aldermans concept is thrilling and one that Rod Serling or Ray Bradbury mightve given props to, using genre to address prejudice, intolerance. “Imagining Violence: ‘The Power of Feminist Fantasy.” The New York Review, 26 Feb. The Power is a ride into dark fantasy by Naomi Alderman that starts off like an E-ticket attraction at Disney Resorts before fizzling out like a bottle rocket from Jerrys Fireworks. Women, Science and Fiction: The Frankenstein Inheritance. “In ‘The Power,’ Women Develop a Weapon That Changes Everything.” NPR, 26 Dec. ![]() 1 st ed., University of Texas Press, 2006. Alien Constructions: Science Fiction and Feminist Thought. “Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: A Contextual Dystopia (‘La Servante Écarlate’ De Margaret Atwood: Une Dystopie Contextuelle).” Science Fiction Studies, vol. “Feminism.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders, edited by Gary Westfahl, vol. Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind. ![]() “What If Women Had the Power?” The Atlantic, 22 Oct. ![]() “The Remarkable Rise of the Feminist Dystopia.” The Atlantic, 4 Oct. “Naomi Alderman on the World at Yielded ‘The Power’.” The New York Times, 29 Jan. “Redefining Women’s Power Through Feminist Science Fiction.” Extrapolation, vol. “The Persistence of Hope in Dystopian Science Fiction.” PMLA, vol. Search in Google Scholarīaccolini, Raffaella. ![]() ![]() ![]() Among this comic’s many strengths, diverse representation in a book about something as joyful as cuteness will delight many readers. Mimi and her family are Black, her neighbors are Latinx, and everyone featured in the story is Black or brown. Grant’s illustrations are frothy and perfectly pastel, and her manga-inspired facial expressions communicate as much as her text. Grant makes her Graphix Chapters debut with this humorous and wholesome. Mimi is absolutely as cute as the title describes. Mimi and the Cutie Catastrophe (Mimi 1) by Shauna J. Furthermore, the text is simple, efficient, and funny, making it perfect for early readers and classroom read-alouds. ![]() ![]() Narratively, this book is crafted for young audiences, following a deliberate repetitive structure: a four-fold problem presented, four attempts at a solution, and finally, an epiphany that solves Mimi’s identity crisis in a satisfying way. : Mimi and the Cutie Catastrophe: A Graphix Chapters Book (Mimi 1) (9781338766660) by Grant, Shauna J. In frustration, she sets out to prove them wrong and learns the true strengths of her assertive self-identity in the process. But her predilections find her typecast, as her mom warns her not to get dirty, her friends doubt her physical strength and intellectual acumen, and cool older kids take digs at her ebullient nature. The titular Mimi is a free-spirited, tutu-sporting young girl with a penchant for pink, purple, expert accessorizing, and delicious (pink and purple!) jelly toast. ![]() K-Gr 2–The catastrophes keep coming, but the cuteness, happily, also never lets up. ![]() |