![]() ![]() Conscious Style Guide was named by Poynter as one of the top tools for journalists in 2018 and is recommended by BuzzFeed, The Chicago Manual of Style, The Society of Professional Journalists, and NASA, among others. Acclaim for her writing includes a 2021 California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship grant, a Lambda Literary Fellowship, a grant from Table 4 Writers Foundation, and selection of her flash fiction by the Los Angeles Public Library for its permanent collection and Short Story Portal.Īfter Karen founded Conscious Style Guide and The Conscious Language Newsletter to spread mindful language, she won the ACES Robinson Prize in 2017 for furthering the craft of professional editing. Karen Yin is the author of WHOLE WHALE, SO NOT GHOUL, DOUG THE PUG AND THE KINDNESS CREW, the short story "My Kinda Sorta Badass Move" (BOUNDLESS anthology), and a forthcoming nonfiction book on conscious language. ![]()
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![]() ![]() We are also able to delve into their past. ![]() She takes the story forward from where the teacher left off, and we are able to see what transpires from the perspective of different characters. ![]() When I was wondering what was going to happen next, Kanae Minato does the Rashomon thing, and tells the story from different points of view. If a simple reader like me can see this, then as a writer, she can see this much in advance. It looked like the author had written herself into a corner. There was only so much you can do, when things are mostly done and dusted. I wondered what the author was going to do in the next 200 pages. ![]() Who doesn’t love this kind of revenge thriller? But after I read the first part of the book, which stretches to around 50 pages, I realized that the story was mostly done and dusted. I love a good old-fashioned revenge thriller, in which the good character plans a long, deep revenge on the bad guys and pulls it off. When I started reading the book, I thought it would be a revenge thriller. What happens after that forms the rest of the story. But the teacher discovers that two of the students killed her daughter. The verdict of the police is that she had drowned. One day her young daughter is found dead in the swimming pool behind the school. The main character in the story is a teacher in middle school. The plot was very appealing and so I picked it up. I discovered ‘ Confessions‘ by Kanae Minato by accident. ![]() ![]() ![]() As this water drips and flows within the cavity of the cave it leaves a very small amount of dissolved rock on the cavern ceiling, walls and floor, gradually creating the cave formations known as speleothems. Ground water, acquiring a small amount of carbonic acid from the air and vegetation on the surface, dissolves the Dolomite rock as it works its way into the caverns. Ancient earthquakes created cracks in the Dolomite rock, as the inland sea gradually receded the water enlarged the cracks to form the caverns. This occurred in an inland sea, which covered the area at that time. Shells and skeletons of ancient marine life mixed with sand, clay, and other material to form the Copper Ridge Dolomite rock. The caverns began forming about 300 million years ago. The cave opens several times throughout the year for public tours. ![]() ![]() The creek then tumbles down a 25-foot waterfall into a chasm.Ĭherokee Caverns is not open on a daily basis. In the sink, a small babbling creek twists and turns until it reaches the opening which is about 10 feet by 4 feet. The entrance to the earthen shelter is at the end of a sink immediately off the road. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, he can’t resist his wife’s pleas, and so he begins to untangle his side of the story, revealing for the first time his most intimate feelings and thoughts, retelling both the good and bad moments, and sharing a few shocking confessions of his own from the time when they first met. As much as Layken relishes their new life together, she finds herself wanting to know everything there is to know about her husband, even though Will makes it clear he prefers to keep the painful memories of the past where they belong. Layken and Will’s love has managed to withstand the toughest of circumstances, and the young lovers, now married, are beginning to feel safe and secure in their union. ![]() ![]() From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover’s bestselling Slammed series comes to its gripping conclusion. ![]() ![]() The writer spent many hours negotiating the details of his grave. The odyssey that Vidal’s remains took before their interment was no less dramatic. ![]() When Buckley died, Vidal cheered, “RIP WFB-in hell.” Vidal outlived Buckley by four years, but never forgave the man who called him a “queer” in a 1968 televised debate. Buckley, Jr., in a new play by Alexandra Petri, called “Inherit the Windbag.” The play is in virtual rehearsals right now, at Washington, D.C.,’s Mosaic Theatre Company, but when a stage version opens, likely next spring, the groundskeeper at Rock Creek Cemetery would be well advised to keep an eye on Section E, Lot 293 ½, where Vidal’s ashes are buried. Eight years after his death, he is scheduled to cast shade on his nemesis, William F. ![]() The prickly writer, who thrived on making enemies, may soon be spewing venom from six feet under. “Never offend an enemy in a small way,” Gore Vidal once wrote. ![]() ![]() Set on the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Second World War, the novel tells the story of a love affair between the daughter of a local doctor and an Italian soldier. It was also shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year. His fourth novel, Corelli's Mandolin, was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Best Book). ![]() In 1993, he was selected as one of the 20 'Best of Young British Novelists 2' promotion in Granta magazine. He also taught English in Colombia, an experience which determined the style and setting of his first three novels, The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts (1990), Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord (1991) and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman (1992), each of which was heavily influenced by South American literature, particularly 'magic realism'. ![]() After graduating from the Victoria University of Manchester, he took a postgraduate certificate in Education at Leicester Polytechnic and obtained his MA at the University of London.īefore writing full-time, he held many varied jobs including landscape gardener, motorcycle messenger and car mechanic. ![]() He joined the army at 18 but left after spending four months at Sandhurst. ![]() Novelist Louis de Bernières was born in London in 1954. ![]() ![]() ![]() At that point, Kurzweil believes, a genuine synthesis of the strengths of human and machine intelligence becomes possible: pattern recognition and inference on the human side, large memory with instant recall and easy data-sharing on the machine side. By the end of the 2020s, computers will pass the Turing Test, simulating a living person well enough to fool an interrogator. By then, computer hardware should be capable of running accurate software models of human intelligence. This power increase, combined with the predicted growth of nanotechnology-robots the size of red blood cells inserted into the body-will make possible, within two decades, complete scanning of the human brain. By his reckoning, the raw power of information technologies is doubling annually. Kurzweil (The Age of Spiritual Machines, 1999, etc.) spends much time stressing the point that progress in the computer field moves at exponential rates. The Singularity, almost an article of faith in techie circles, is the point at which machine intelligence outstrips human brainpower. ![]() Worried about the Singularity? Fear not-here's the lowdown from an expert. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though Cornelius was the name of a noble Roman family, there is no proof that he was descended from the Roman aristocracy provincial families often took the name of the governor who had given them Roman citizenship. Tacitus was born perhaps in northern Italy (Cisalpine Gaul) or, more probably, in southern Gaul (Gallia Narbonensis, or present southeastern France). ![]() Among his works are the Germania, describing the Germanic tribes, the Historiae ( Histories), concerning the Roman Empire from AD 69 to 96, and the later Annals, dealing with the empire in the period from AD 14 to 68. 120), Roman orator and public official, probably the greatest historian and one of the greatest prose stylists who wrote in the Latin language. Tacitus, in full Publius Cornelius Tacitus, or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, (born AD 56-died c. Is considered to be one of the greatest Roman historians of all time. ![]() ![]() ![]() The detective's ex-nun partner provides (simultaneously) raunchy sex and a strong sense of the spiritual - a phoney attempt (it's claimed) to have the best of all possible worlds from a sensualist/believer such as Burke, or Greene.Īs in earlier Holland books (notably Rain Gods), his universe is surrealistic and minatory. In the novels featuring his troubled private investigator Dave Robicheaux, there is an element that gives Burke naysayers ammunition. While it is now generally considered that Greene's Catholicism is no disincentive for agnostic or atheist readers, there are those who have problems with the religious underpinnings of one of the great American crime novelists, James Lee Burke. ![]() When in one of his periodic moments of doubt he suggested to Evelyn Waugh that he was considering resigning from the Catholic novelist coterie to which the two belonged, Waugh was outraged and insisted Greene carry on writing novels with a religious basis, however uncertain his belief had become. Graham Greene's religious faith was often fragile. ![]() ![]() ![]() I guess the most challenging task in a multi-billion established business, sometimes, is to actually articulate (or understand?) basic concepts from these books. Companies need to innovate their way to a continuous existence and find a reliable methodology to do it consistently. The approach makes sense even it the company has been organized in the most inhospitable way for anybody with a slightest entrepreneurial thought.īut – times are changing, and changing fast. This volume explains how to take the ideas of Lean Startup and make them work within a large company. ![]() The Startup Way is the inspiration (and an instruction) to everybody on the inside of an average enterprise. ![]() When I finally picked up the book, it felt very relevant and had a following within slowly moving enterprises on high levels. ![]() I thought my “skunk works” navigation of political and operational networks within a large organization was dramatically different from a startup approach. At that time I typically worked for large sleepy companies. The book was recommended a few times based on my reading interests, but I did not think it was relevant to me. I enjoyed the previous Eric Ries book, Lean Startup (listened to it at least twice), though I waited a couple of years to start. ![]() |