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![]() How Are You Peeling? illustrates emotions. Play With Your Food is a romp through a garden of cute critters. His fragile creations are pictured in several books. "I shop on the way to the photographers studio," he says. Im just nudging it to something it resembles."įreymann works improvisationally: his sculptures are usually determined by serendipitous finds in the produce aisle. The characters come out of the vegetable or fruit. "The colors and forms are so wonderful that they give you everything you need. Using an X-acto knife, he deftly transforms garden-variety produce into emotive faces and amusing animals that he enhances with peppercorn or black-eyed pea eyes, beet-juice mouths, or corn-kernel teeth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Freymann tried a few animals and "discovered I was good at cutting food." These whimsical sculptures fashioned wholly from fruits and vegetables are the handiwork of Saxton Freymann, a New York artist.įreymann, now dubbed the Calder of Cabbages and the Rodin of Rutabagas, had embarked on a "quiet career" as a painter until 1997 when he answered publisher Joost Elffers call for someone who could carve food beyond the rose-radish table garnish. Theyre all part of an exotic menagerie that may change forever the way you look at produce. Pea pod caterpillars, bok choy buffalo, pear bears, melon tortoises, banana octopuses. ![]() ![]() ![]() Having not really sank my teeth into any science-fiction novels as of late, I decided to rectify that by diving (see what I did there …) straight into the Hell Diver series. But there’s something down there that’s far worse than the mutated creatures discovered on dives in the past-something that threatens the fragile future of humanity. When one of the remaining airships is damaged in an electrical storm, a Hell Diver team is deployed to a hostile zone called Hades. ![]() The only thing keeping the two surviving lifeboats in the sky are Hell Divers: men and women who risk their lives by diving to the surface to scavenge for parts the ships desperately need. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to earth long ago. More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search for a habitable area to call home. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, we latch on to the easiest and most obvious stimulus, often at the cost of common sense. Once in a cognitive tunnel, we lose our ability to direct our focus. They do, however, need to be socially sensitive and ensure everyone feels heard. On the best teams, for instance, leaders encouraged people to speak up teammates felt like they could expose their vulnerabilities to one another people said they could suggest ideas without fear of retribution the culture discouraged people from making harsh judgments.įor psychological safety to emerge among a group, teammates don’t have to be friends. ![]()
![]() Īlso see Haidt's main website: JonathanHaidt. įor a longer bio, see wikipedia entry here. In 2019 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was chosen by Prospect magazine as one of the world's " Top 50 Thinkers. He has written more than 100 academic articles. What is new today is the premise that students are fragile, write Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt in The Coddling of the American Mind. ![]() ![]() Haidt is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, and of The New York Times bestsellers The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, and The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (co-authored with Greg Lukianoff). Haidt has co-founded a variety of organizations and collaborations that apply moral and social psychology toward that end, including, , and. ![]() His goal is to help people understand each other, live and work near each other, and even learn from each other despite their moral differences. ![]() Haidt’s research examines the intuitive foundations of morality, and how morality varies across cultures––including the cultures of progressive, conservatives, and libertarians. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, and taught for 16 years in the department of psychology at the University of Virginia Jonathan Haidt (pronounced “height”) is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the two alternate realities run their course, Maybe in Another Life raises questions about fate and love: Is anything meant to be? How much in our life is determined by chance? And perhaps, most compellingly: Is there such a thing as a soul mate? Quickly, these parallel universes develop into radically different stories with large-scale consequences for Hannah, as well as the people around her. ![]() ![]() In concurrent storylines, Hannah lives out the effects of each decision. What happens if she leaves with Gabby? What happens if she leaves with Ethan? A moment later, Ethan offers to give her a ride later if she wants to stay. Just after midnight, Gabby asks Hannah if she’s ready to go. Shortly after getting back to town, Hannah goes out to a bar one night with her friend Gabby and meets up with her high school boyfriend, Ethan. On the heels of leaving yet another city, Hannah moves back to her hometown of Los Angeles and takes up residence in her best friend Gabby’s guestroom. ![]() She has lived in six different cities and held countless meaningless jobs since graduating college. From the bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.Īt the age of twenty-nine, Hannah Martin still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. Two different paths – with stunningly different results. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So I'll be honest, this volume at first felt kind of disjointed and all over the place. Solid and emotional although the end was way too telegraphed.Ī member of the Pride, yep the villains from the first volume, comes back to try and gain power again. The villains were interesting and unexpected allowing for some interesting interactions. Adding new characters and pieces was great giving a new flavour to the group. Everyone is fully developed and real and the dynamic is just as good. ![]() Solid.Ĭharacters: Strong and great banter. The end was telegraphed so it did lose some of the emotional impact. The dialog was strong and the little character moments made the story more than it was. I did not expect that villain and it made it interesting and put a twist to the expected tale. The first story is absolutely a delight and the rest of the tale was what you expected and what we did not. The world building was solid and unexpected and set the stage for some nice little character moments in the overall story. World: The art for this arc was better than the rest so far, we are moving more and more towards Kamala Khan Alphona art with the beautiful facial expressions and visual storytelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This novel includes the 2nd epilogue, a peek at the story after the story. could this imperfect man be perfect for her You will always be a Bridgerton, and we behave with honor and honesty, not because it is expected of us, but because that is what we are, The man I spent. the rest of the world simply fell away, and she couldn't help but wonder. Her perfect husband wouldn't be so moody and ill-mannered, and while Phillip was certainly handsome, he was a large brute of a man, rough and rugged, and totally unlike the London gentlemen vying for her hand. and before she knew it, she was in a hired carriage in the middle of the night, on her way to meet the man she hoped might be her perfect match. From 1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Eloise Bridgerton, in the fifth of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. and more.ĭid he think she was mad Eloise Bridgerton couldn't marry a man she had never met! But then she started thinking. ![]() The beautiful woman on his doorstep was anything but quiet, and when she stopped talking long enough to close her mouth, all he wanted to do was kiss her. Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he'd proposed, figuring that she'd be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. She wrote him a letter.and he stole her heart. From New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the fifth novel in the beloved Regency-set world of her charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet Lizzie attempts, even achieves, something heroic by the novel’s end. of Speculation, Lizzie is a keen, often hilarious observer, fiercely intelligent but utterly ignored and relatively powerless. As she grows “edgy and restless,” she listens to podcasts and lectures about glaciers, and to the seemingly trivial worries of Uber drivers and competitive mothers she meditates with Buddhists before watching TV shows about extreme shopping and drug addicts ambushed by their families. Lizzie, a librarian “not young or pretty enough to matter,” moves through a stunned city during and after an election. ![]() She allows us to see the world anew, as a place where we can-and must-encounter both discord and poetry. of Speculation, Offill captures both the “terrible music” and the “quiet radiance” of contemporary life. “Their radiance was faint and fainter still beneath the terrible music.” In Weather, as in her groundbreaking novel Dept. “All around us things tried to announce their true nature,” observes Lizzie, the heroine of Jenny Offill’s new novel, Weather. ![]() ![]() ![]() All in all I enjoyed the story, butat times it seem a little too contrived, which I think took away from the underlying importance of the message.Ī NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK | NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MIAMI HERALD AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle So, that aside, I thought Loving Day was an engaging read that makes you think about race – especially mixed race – and how race impacts not only your public, but also your personal sense of identity. However, the Germantown of today is certainly different than it was when Johnson lived here and it is changing as we speak. While I very much appreciate his perspective on the neighborhood, I do feel that it painted an undeservedly dismal picture of living here. ![]() Johnson grew up in Germantown and he refers to Loving Day as semi-autobiographical. I was, however, a little disappointed with Loving Day. ![]() I was not disappointed in the walk! I had no idea so much artistic expression existed around the corner from me. ![]() Loving Day ended up inspiring me to take a walking tour around Germantown to view the many murals that reflect the neighborhood’s rich culture and history. Loving Day: A Novel by Mat Johnson was one of those books that I just had to read because it is set in my very own neighborhood, Philadelphia’s’ Northwest section known as Germantown. ![]() |