It became an engaging conversation on what stress looks like in our bodies, how to feel and learn from our feelings, and why we deeply need one another. We invited the extraordinary TED speaker and human-relationship expert Emily Nagoski and her twin sister and co-author Amelia to share key learnings from Burnout and discuss how we can better care for ourselves and each other. The question of how to do that is beautifully and rigorously described in the Nagoski sisters’ new book, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. To cope, we can either reduce the demand or increase our resources. Stress put simply is when the demands upon us are greater than our resources. It’s a powerful universal human experience that all are touched by across our lives, but in different ways, at different moments. How do I handle this? What happens if I can’t? What happens if I don’t? How can I live with this? How do I move forward?Įmpathy Lab has spent years researching and working with stress. Stress triggers all kinds of questions and responses in a human being, some more helpful than others.
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Knowing the events occurring in the fairytale, this sibling duo thinks they’re doing the right thing by stopping Snow White’s stepmother from poisoning her… But alas they have changed the whole story! Now, how is the prince going to save her? Perhaps there is more to Snow White than we thought… Abby and her brother Jonah have found a magical mirror in their basement that can transport them from their mundane world to a fairytale one.įor their first trip, they have landed in a forest leading to the house of Snow White, where she resides with her workaholic companions. This was a charming feminist retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs for middle graders (or anyone who enjoys a story well told). Genres & Themes: Middle Grade, Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retelling, Magic, Adventure, Family, Humor Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” -Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich AsiansĪmy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughtersįour mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. “ The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. Other planets are mentioned, such as Viritrilbia (Mercury), Glundandra (Jupiter), Lurga (Saturn) and Neruval (either Uranus or Neptune). The action in the books takes place on three planets - Thulcandra or Earth Malacandra or Mars and Perelandra or Venus. They are more occasionally referred to as the Planetary Trilogy or the Interplanetary Trilogy A philologist named Elwin Ransom is the hero of the first two novels and an important character in the third. Lewis wrote the series before the better known The Chronicles of Narnia, and there is some overlap in some of the material. "Space Trilogy" and "Cosmic Trilogy" are unofficial names for the series, with the first two novels being planetary romances, and all three mixing space travel with Mediaeval cosmology and Christian theology. Lewis, consisting of (in chronological order) Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength. The Space Trilogy or Cosmic Trilogy is a series of science fiction novels by the Irish writer C.S. As for other characters, I enjoyed the contribution they all made to the book there weren’t any left over or redundant characters which I found to be very good. Stella was great, I thought, and I loved her character development. I really enjoyed her persona in this book. She was brave and clever and unafraid in the face of death, and basically a great heroine. Kyla (that’s the name I’ll use for her here) is proper, full-out badass in this book, and she had so much at stake, lost so much, and was still awesome. The first book was okay and got me gripped, the second one was my least favourite of them all, but this book was by far the best. This was my favourite book of the whole trilogy, and it is one I want to reread in the future because I genuinely enjoyed it. So when it’d been a couple of months, I knew I’d only be able to do a vague review, so I just didn’t do one. 2) These are easy books to forget! I got lost in character names and the plot. 1) I’m lazy and procrastinate book reviews all the time and didn’t get around to it. So this is a review of the last in the Slated trilogy and is the only review I’ve done of them, for two reasons. But the truth Kyla seeks is more shocking than she imagined as the Slated trilogy concludes. When forbidden memories of a violent past began to surface, so did doubts: could she trust those to care for, like Ben? Helped by friends in MIA, she goes undercover, searching for her past and evading authorities who want her dead. Kyla was Slated: her mind was wiped clean by the government. |