![]() ![]() A function of over-promising and under-delivering in a world obsessed with deliverables and results. ![]() How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell caught my attention as someone who is anxious about not doing enough, while feeling I’ve overcommitted to too many things. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. By shining a critical light on the ways in which our identities have become entangled with our occupations and advocating modes of reclaiming the power of our own curiosity, this book will be ideal for all those who feel off-kilter in the attention-seeking economy, writes Christine Sweeney. In a frenetic world obsessed with deliverables and results, Jenny Od ell makes the case for How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, arguing not for passivity, wilful ignorance or sloth, but rather for the potential we create by refusing productivity and redirecting our attention to active modes of listening and contemplation. ![]()
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![]() Sam captivates me still but not in a romantic way (his passiveness on certain issues irritates me now), but rather in a tragic way, as more about his horrendous ordeal with his parents is revealed in this book. Now I find Grace a bit one-dimensional (and this is coming from someone who shares a lot of personality traits with her, such as being uber-responsible, type A personality, etc). When I was younger I identified a lot with Grace, and I swooned over the romance between her and Sam. Years later, I find myself still enjoying the series but for different reasons. Maggie Stiefvater’s werewolf series drew me in instantly with the romance, the tragedy, and the emo-tastic, yellow eyed Sam. I was fresh off of my Twilight binge reading and looking for something that dabbled in similar concepts. I first read the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy back in high school, and I remember instantly being smitten. And Isabelle, who already lost her brother to the wolves. Add into the mix a new wolf named Cole, whose own past has the potential to destroy the whole pack. and figuring out a way to survive into the future. For Sam, this means grappling with his werewolf past. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping a very dangerous secret about her own well-being. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, in Linger, they must fight to be together. Goodreads Synopsis: I n Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "By turns wrenching and comical, self-indulgent and self-aware, Prozac Nation possesses the raw candor of Joan Didion's essays, the irritating emotional exhibitionism of Sylvia Plath's Bell Jar and the wry, dark humor of a Bob Dylan song," wrote New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani. Wurtzel was decades younger that Styron and Kaysen and far more explicit in her descriptions of razor blades that sliced up her legs at age 11, sex acts that left her with chapped lips, and a "black wave" of depression that led to a suicide attempt. ![]() |