![]() Applying the ONE Thing to your work-and in your life-is the simplest and smartest thing you can do to propel yourself toward the success you want. It showed up for me, and if you let it, it will show up for you. The ONE Thing shows up time and again in the lives of the successful because it’s a fundamental truth. ![]() So every day they line up their priorities anew, find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls. ![]() The challenge is that life doesn’t line everything up for us and say, “Here’s where you should start.” Highly successful people know this. In the real world, though, it’s a bit more complicated. You line them up and tip over the first one. Toppling dominoes is pretty straightforward. It’s realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus. Going small is a tighter way to connect what you do with what you want. It’s recognizing that not all things matter equally and finding the things that matter most. Going small is ignoring all the things you could do and doing what you should do. ★★★ Sign up to the Weekly Book Summary Newsletter by CLICKING HERE ★★★ Get any FREE audiobook of your choice by CLICKING HERE ![]()
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![]() ![]() If you’re a fan of either Wheel of Time or Sanderson’s work, or maybe both, I think you have a great chance of loving this debut I certainly did. I do, however, consider Sanderson as one of the greatest fantasy authors of all time. ![]() ![]() ![]() For clarification, I’m not even a fan of Wheel of Time, I have DNFed the series upon finishing the fourth installment, and I’m not sure when I’ll get back to it. For the past three years, I’ve been hearing that if you love The Wheel of Time and Sanderson’s books, you’re going to love this trilogy, and they’re not wrong. Honestly, the only excuse I had for postponing reading this series for so long-even though I shouldn’t-was because of the famous cliffhangers endings of each book in the series that I’ve heard of, and I was waiting for the series to be completed. The Shadow of What Was Lost was recommended to me by my co-blogger, TS, for the first time in January 2017, and I have never gotten around to it until now. Islington took the best part-and cut all the unnecessary bloating-of Wheel of Time, maintained the inspirations he got from Sanderson’s Mistborn, and Islington added his own twists and originality into this highly ambitious debut. 8th November 2016 by Orbit (US) & 10th November 2016 by Orbit (UK). Published: 3rd August 2014 (self-published). Series: The Licanius Trilogy (Book #1 of 3) The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington ![]() ![]() Rell never expected to look at a man this way, and what he sees in Crowley Fredericks is something he didn’t even know he was looking for. So when Rell’s brother brings his roommate home to snowy Susset for the holidays, Rell expects the worst-another uptight, pretentious hipster. Rejected-again-because of his size, Crowley is starting to think that maybe love just isn’t meant for huskier men.Īverell Lang and his twin are so different they might as well not even be related. ![]() He’s dropped a lot of weight since his high school days, but he’s still a big guy, and the painful words and bullying follow him. Porker, Fatty, Tons-of-Fun: Crowley Fredericks has heard it all. Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (December 5, 2014) Elisa_rolle Bowl Full of Cherries by Raine O’Tierney ![]() ![]() ![]() Hence, in addition to Kaplan's own interpretation of history, we are treated to insights and sometimes emotions of other authors. Nearly all the major cities are visited in the journey and along the way we are introduced to many characters who provide life to the sights, sounds, and smells that are encountered.A strength of the book is Kaplan's weaving quotations and/or examples from many different authors. As appropriately subtitled, the book is truly "A Journey Through History." The book (journey) has four main parts: 1) Yugoslavia, 2) Romania, 3) Romania, and 4) Greece. However, upon reading Kaplan's wonderful book, I believe I've been nicely schooled in the basics. I wish I were an expert in the history of the Balkan Peninsula, but I am not. Chapter 35: Epilogue: The Road to Adrianople.Transylvanian Tale: The Pied Piper’s Children Go Back to Hamelin The Land Beyond Dracula’s Castle: The Painted Monasteries of Bucovina Macedonia: “A Hand Thirsting Towards the Realm of the Stars” ![]() Old Serbia and Albania: Balkan “West Bank” Croatia: “Just So They Could Go to Heaven” Chapter 13: Prologue: Saints, Terrorists, Blood, and Holy Water.Chapter 8: Assorted Commentary by Author. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A must-have for collectors and loyal fans, this deluxe DVD is featured with a graphic rich cover and a unique replica of comic book-style packaging that bridges the comic book to DVD concept. This DVD invites viewers to delve deep inside the imaginative world of the Marvel Universe. The chart-topping super-team of Joss Whedon ("Marvel's The Avengers") and John Cassaday (Captain America, Planetary) return for more action on home entertainment shelves this summer in "Astonishing X-Men: Torn"! Comic book pages from the third story arc of this acclaimed series by one of Marvel's greatest collaborations between Whedon and Cassaday come alive when Shout! Factory, in association with Marvel Knights Animation, unleash the highly anticipated "Astonishing X-Men: Torn" on DVD August 14, 2012. ![]() ![]() I loved it! The twist behind it all is my favorite since Ender's Game., “Filled with heart-racing action and suspense. Hard to put down from the very first page, this fast-paced novel answers only some of the questions it poses, holding some of the most tantalizing open for the next installment in a series that is anything but ordinary., Variant is a compelling story on so many levels. ![]() An impressive debut with wide appeal, especially for fans of Alexander Gordon Smith's Lockdown and James Dashner's The Maze Runner., Benson's account unfolds in a speedy, unadorned first person. With its clever premise, quick pace, and easy-to-champion characters, Wells? story is a fast, gripping read with a cliffhanger that will leave readers wanting more.' (Publishers Weekly (starred review)), Filled with heart-racing action and suspense. With its clever premise, quick pace, and easy-to-champion characters, Wells' story is a fast, gripping read with a cliffhanger that will leave readers wanting more., 'A chilling, masterful debut. Take Veronica Roth's Divergent, strip out the angst, add a Michael Grant-level storytelling pace, and you have this very satisfying series starter., A chilling, masterful debut. ![]() Good old-fashioned paranoia taken to giddy extremes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Desperate, Laila tries to manipulate Connor, a brooding bad boy from school-but he seems to be the only boy in the Compound immune to her charms. But there are powerful people who don't want this to happen. She wants to change that.Laila, her best friend, has a secret of her own: she can restore Addie's memories. He's a virtual stranger to her, so why does her heart do a funny flip every time she sees him? But after witnessing secrets that were supposed to stay hidden, Trevor quickly seems more suspicious of Addie than interested in her. There she meets the handsome and achingly familiar Trevor. So when Addie's dad invites her to spend her winter break with him in the Norm world, she jumps at the chance. I Like You, By Your SideĪddie has always been able to see the future when faced with a choice, but that doesn't make her present any easier. Related Posts: Pivot Point (Pivot Point #1), The Distance Between Us, On the Fence, The Fill-In Boyfriend, P.S. Genres: Paranormal, Science Fiction, Young Adultįind it on the web: Buy from Amazon // Goodreads Date Completed: August 8, 2014 ![]() ![]() ![]() The letters, spanning twenty years, record a journey of self-discovery and empowerment guided by the light of a few strong women. In an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear, Celie begins writing letters directly to God. ![]() She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon.Ĭelie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. ![]() ![]() They have the same gaunt expression page after page. Surprisingly, almost as if defying expectation, the portraits remain static. The book is illustrated with Cohen’s self-portraits. His work and life led him on travels all over the world, and in his poems there is in evidence, at times, the exhaustion of a life well worn. Take for example: “Her bread is very sweet/she baked it by herself/in an oven on a hill above the sea/an oven that I built…”Ĭohen’s long life (he was 82 when he died in 2016), was peppered with many relationships, women he met and left behind. And there are others too that are reminiscent of his works like “Suzanne Takes you down” from the 60s. In “Moving On”, these lines take the reader down familiar lanes: “I loved your face, I loved your hair/Your T-shirts and your eveningwear/As for the world, the job, the war/I ditched them all to love you more”. Most of the body of work is quintessential Cohen. Love and loss are the two themes that stand out most. ![]() This anthology is a wonderful window into the poet’s last year and is representative of a lot of his previous work. Cohen’s work is instantly recognisable – that easy free flow of emotion, the ins and out of young love and old flames, and that candid fireside chat way of looking at life. ![]() ![]() Adam Cohen, son of lyricist-poet Leonard Cohen has published this final collection of his father’s poems and songs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was intrigued by the ancient beliefs I read about: Mary as the Theotokos, the Ever Virgin, the Queen of Heaven. It was not until I took a few seminary classes and learned more about Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy that I began to question the common, low-church Protestant position on Mary, wavering as it did between ambivalence and suspicion. About Mary herself, I learned nothing aside from what is written plainly in the New Testament. I learned about the importance and implications of the Virgin Birth. Growing up in a devout Evangelical household, these mental images matured only a little during my adolescence. The image that would come to dominate all the rest was that of Olivia Hussey, who portrayed Mary in the 1977 mini-series, “Jesus of Nazareth.” There was the pink-robed Mary in the tiny children’s nativity my mom ordered from Avon. There was the illustrated Mary in my Golden Book. Mary – pictures picked up in the childish ways we begin to learn anything. A collage of images from pop culture made up my earliest understanding of St. ![]() |