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The Neverending Reading List: Book XVIII

Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World by Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir

Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir is an independent scholar who currently works at the National Library of Norway in Oslo, Norway. She has taught at Yale University, USA, and held research posts at Harvard University, USA, and in Reykjavik. Her research focuses on Vikings, Old Norse-Icelandic sagas, mythology and poetry, medieval manuscripts and gender.

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Authoritative and provocative, bang up-to-date, yet steeped in historical knowledge, JKF's 'Valkyrie' is indispensable for all Viking enthusiasts. Her lively style, profound knowledge and brilliant insights signal a stunning new voice in the debate about Vikings." - Carolyne Larrington, Professor of Medieval European Literature, University of Oxford, UK

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dihwarrior-blog · 5 years

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Review of the Goodreads app for school.

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isidoraworks · 7 years

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Dos livros relevantes. #dystopian #zeitgeist #books #livros #nuncahalivrosamais #themaninthehighcastle #philipkdick #kurtvonnegut #neverendingreadinglist #bookdepository

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myheartanchorsthesea · 9 years

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#readingislife #books #neverendingreadinglist #literallysomanybooks

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monriatitans · 2 years

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The Neverending Reading List: Book XIII

13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success by Amy Morin

Don't waste time feeling sorry for yourself

Don't give away your power

Don't shy away from change

Don't focus on things you can't control

Don't worry about pleasing everyone

Don't fear taking calculated risks

Don't dwell on the past

Don't make the same mistakes over and over

Don't resent other people's success

Don't give up after the first failure

Don't fear alone time

Don't feel the world owes you anything

Don't expect immediate results

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AMY MORIN is a licensed clinical social worker, college psychology instructor, and psychotherapist. Amy serves as Verywell's Parenting Teens Expert and Child Discipline Expert, and is a regular contributor to Forbes, Inc., and Psychology Today. She is the only person in the psychology industry who is talking about mental strength on a global level. She lives in Enfield, Maine.

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monriatitans · 2 years

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The Neverending Reading List: Book XII

The Rise of Chaos: Genesis: Volume 1 by Aeyla Reed Illustrated by Rean_kidd

"I WON'T LET OUR HISTORY FADE AWAY LIKE WE WERE NEVER HERE. I REFUSE TO BE FORGOTTEN!"

AXIO, humanity's last bastion against evil, is in a civil war following a military coup. Theodin Vanixi, the Regent-Lord, lays dead at the hands of assassins. The Vanixian Republic has all but collapsed, it's surviving members retreating into the untamed wilds.

Amid these calamitous events, Airis Vanixi, a righteous Paladin, struggles with her position as the commander of an all but annihilated empire. In the far reaches of a devastated land she unites the broken survivors, and charges them with a seemingly insurmountable task: take the flight to horrific, nightmarish monsters occupying a former fortress-city and secure a foothold in this desolate world.

Among the champions are Julius Adaemus, a battle-hardened Guardian; Hailey Brooks, a powerful spellcaster; Luke Mitchell, a deadly Rogue; Mei Devins, a sharp-eyed Ranger; Alistaire Alcott's and Soren Jameson, skilled Warriors and an inseparable duo.

Are they fated to rise from the ashes and retake their homeland?

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Aeyla Reed: @aeylav Rean_kidd: @Puritsu_Ken

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monriatitans · 2 years

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The Neverending Reading List: Book V

On Writing and Worldbuilding: Volume I by Timothy Hickson

Exclusive Content How I Plan a Novel: The Backwards Planning Method

On Writing Prologues The First Chapter The Exposition Problem Foreshadowing Villain Motivation Hero-Villain Relationships Final Battles The Chosen One Hard Magic System Soft Magic Systems Magic Systems and Storytelling

On Worldbuilding Polytheistic Religions Hidden Magical Worlds How Empires Rise How Empires Work How Empires Fall

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monriatitans · 11 hours

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The Neverending Reading List: Book LVI

"100 Plants That Heal: The Illustrated Herbarium of Medicinal Plants" Text by Gérard Debuigne & François Couplan

Discover 100 common medicinal plants and how to use them for healing and self-care with this sumptuously illustrate guide.

Thanks to exceptional photographs showing detailed views of all parts of the fresh plants, you will quickly learn to recognise them. Discover their fascinating history, active components and therapeutic properties, and learn how to prepare safe and effective herbal medicines and remedies at home. This journey into plant-based wellbeing is guided by a respected ethnobotanist and doctor of phototherapy, meaning you can grow your knowledge of this natural science with complete confidence. Whether you are a nature lover, a green witch or a herbalist, this magnificent book will satisfy all your curiosities about healing plants and become your essential guide to herbalism.

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monriatitans · 5 days

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The Neverending Reading List: Book LV

"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

SIXTY YEARS after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today, its message has grown more relevant than ever before. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life. This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury’s masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Nelson Algren, Harold Bloom, Margaret Atwood, and others; rare manuscript pages and sketches from Ray Bradbury’s personal archive; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature.

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RAY BRADBURY (1920-2012) was the author of more than three dozen books, including Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, as well as hundreds of short stories. He wrote for the theater, cinema, and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston’s Moby Dick and the Emmy-Award-winning teleplay The Halloween Tree, and adapted for television sixty-five of his stories for The Ray Bradbury Theater. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and numerous other honors.

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monriatitans · 7 days

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The Neverending Reading List: Book LIV

"They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing" by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein

[Part of the] PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION

WE CONTINUE TO BE THRILLED BY THE RECEPTION OF OUR BOOK, which has now sold over a million copies and is assigned in more than 1,500 (over half) the colleges and universities in the United States. We are also delighted that while the audience for our book in composition courses continues to grow, the book is increasingly being adopted in disciplines across the curriculum, confirming our view that the moves taught in the book are central to every academic discipline. At the same time, we continue to adapt our approach to the specific ways the “they say / I say” moves are deployed in different disciplines. To that end, this edition adds a new chapter on writing about literature to the chapters already in the Second Edition on writing in the sciences and social sciences. In this new chapter, “Entering Conversations about Literature,” we suggest ways in which students and teachers can move beyond the type of essay that analyzes literary works in isolation from the conversations and debates about those works. One of our premises here is that writing about literature, as about any subject, gains in urgency, motivation, and engagement when the writer responds to the work not in a vacuum, but in conversation with other readers and critics. … Even as we revised and added to “They Say/I Say,” our basic goal remains unchanged: to demystify academic writing and reading by identifying the key moves of persuasive argument and representing those moves in forms that students can put into practice. We hope this Third Edition will get us even closer to these goals, equipping students with the writing skills they need to enter the academic world and beyond.

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GERALD GRAFF, a professor of English and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the 2008 President of the Modern Language Association of America, has had a major impact on teachers through such books as Professing Literature: An Institutional History, Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education, and, most recently, Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind. The new Common Core State Standards for K-12 cite his work on the importance of argument literacy for college and career readiness. CATHY BIRKENSTEIN, a lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has published essays on writing, most recently in College English, and, with Gerald, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe, and College Composition and Communication. She and Gerald have given over a hundred lectures and workshops at colleges, conferences, and high schools—and are at present working on a book contending that our currently confusing school and college curriculum needs to be clarified by making the practice of argument the common thread across all disciplines.

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monriatitans · 19 days

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The Neverending Reading List: Book LIII

Thursday, April 11, 2024

“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Other Stories“ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[Part of the] Introduction

The British biographer Hesketh Pearson, writing in 1947, observed that there are only four characters in literature who are known to every barman and dockworker in England, even if they have not read a word of the stories written about them: Romeo, Shylock, Robinson Crusoe, and Sherlock Holmes. He opines that is because each of them is symbolic. Romeo stands for love, Shylock for avarice, Crusoe for adventure, and Holmes for sport. In Conan Doyle: His Life and His Art, Pearson writes: “Few readers think of Holmes as a sportsman, but that is how he figures in the popular imagination; he is a tracker, a hunter-down, a combination of bloodhound, pointer, and bulldog, who runs people to earth as a foxhound does a fox; in fact, a sleuth.” All this is true. In fact, popular culture has often slapped an Inverness cape and a deerstalker hat on a bloodhound, literally turning Holmes into a hound. But it is only half true, because to be “a regular Sherlock Holmes” is not to be a sportsman. It is to be a robot, a thinking machine who can deduce from the smallest bit of information everything about a person. Holmes is also more than just symbolic; he is iconic. Rather than compare him to literary figures like Romeo and Shylock, it is better to say that his place is among legendary British heroes, where he stands in the ranks of Robin Hood and King Arthur.

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monriatitans · 1 month

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The Neverending Reading List: Book LII

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

"The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger" Translated by Montague Summers

For nearly three centuries Malleus Maleficarum (The Witches’ Hammer) was the professional manual for witch hunters. This work by two of the most famous Inquisitors of the age is still a document of the force of that era’s beliefs. Under a Bull of Pope Innocent VIII, Kramer and Sprenger exposed the heresy of those who did not believe in witches and set forth the proper order of the world with devils, witches, and the will of God. Even if you do not believe in witchcraft, the world of 1484 did. Contemporary cases illustrate methods by which witches attempt to control and subvert the world: How and why women roast their first-born male child; the confession of how to raise a tempest by a washwoman suspended “hardly clear of the ground” by her thumbs; methods of making a formal pact with the Devil; how witches deprive men of their vital member; and many others. Methods of destroying and curing witchcraft, such as remedies against incubus and succubus devils, are exemplified and weighted by the authors. Formal rules for initiating a process of justice are set down: how it should be conducted and the method of pronouncing sentence; when to use the trial by the red-hot iron; how the prosecutor should protect himself; how the body is to be shaved and searched for tokens and amulets, including those sewn under the skin. As Summers says, it was the casebook on every magistrate’s desk. Montague Summers has given a very sympathetic translation. His two introductions are filled with examples of witchcraft and the historical importance of Malleus Maleficarum. This famous document should interest the historian, the student of witchcraft and the occult, and the psychologist who is interested in the medieval mind as it was confronted with various forces which could be explained only by witchcraft. Unabridged republication of the 1928 edition. Introduction to the 1948 edition is also included. Translation, notes, and two introductions by Montague Summers. A Bull of Innocent VIII. xlv + 278pp. 6 5/8 x 10. Paperbound.

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monriatitans · 2 months

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The Neverending Reading List: Book L

"The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories" Edited by Ben Marcus

“Minimalism… maximalism… at least three different flavors of Southern Gothic. … There are stories here that won’t let themselves be put down.” – The New York Times

“A collection of entertaining, moving and sometimes shocking fiction, and as such, deserves to be read by everyone.” – Salon

Contributors:

Rick Bass

Padgett Powell

George Saunders

Wells Tower

William Gay

Aimee Bender

David Foster Wallace

Joe Wenderoth

Matthew Derby

Jhumpa Lahiri

Mark Richard

Joanna Scott

A. M. Homes

Anthony Doerr

Lydia Davis

Dawn Raffel

Gary Lutz

Deborah Eisenberg

Christine Schutt

Brian Evenson

Mary Caponegro

Ann Cummins

Sam Lipsyte

Mary Gaitskill

Aleksandar Hemon

Kate Braverman

Stephen Dixon

Diane Williams

Ann Carson

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Ben Marcus is the author of Notable American Women and The Age of Wire and String. His stories have appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Conjunctions, Tin House, and elsewhere. The recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, he is an Associate Professor in the School of the Arts at Columbia University and lives in New York City.

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monriatitans · 1 year

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The Neverending Reading List: Book XXI

Dirty Laundry by Richard Pink & Roxanne Emery

If you have ADHD - or love somebody who does - DIRTY LAUNDRY will change your life, and your relationships.

Do you feel crippling shame because you struggle with cleaning, personal hygiene, or time-keeping?

Do you always feel misunderstood by the people close to you and find that they get frustrated by your behavior?

DIRTY LAUNDRY is an unfiltered look into the chaos of real life with ADHD. It will transform your self-hatred into self-acceptance, with simple tips that actually work for your brain. It will also help to educate partners, parents and friends, to help them move from frustration to patience, understanding—and love.

LEARN HOW TO:

Stop believing you are fundamentally broken

Stop judging yourself by the standards of a neurotypical world

Communicate your struggles to those who love you

Support someone with ADHD in ways that work for them

Be compassionate rather than judgemental... and much more.

From the husband-and-wife-team behind social media phenomenon @ADHD_Love...comes a fearless, often outrageously funny, account of life, learning, and growing with ADHD.

They share the strategies they have used to reduce shame, improve communication, and find happiness in their neurodivergent household.

Filled with heartbreak and humor in equal measure, DIRTY LAUNDRY is an invaluable resource both for neurodivergents and the people who love them.

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monriatitans · 1 year

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The Neverending Reading List: Book XX

"Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot" by Mikki Kendall

Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely discuss meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. All too often, the focus is not on basic survival for the many; instead it is on increasing privilege for the few. Prominent white feminists broadly suffer from their own myopia with regard to how things like race, class, sexual orientation, and ability intersect with gender. How can we stand in solidarity as a movement, Kendall asks, when there is the distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others?

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monriatitans · 1 year

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The Neverending Reading List: Book XIX

"Beginner's Guide to Creating Characters in Blender" by 3dtotalPublishing

Blender is the world's premiere open-source 3D software, created by the best digital artists around the globe; and, as the software is free, all you need to get started is a copy of this book. Inside you will learn the skills required to create incredible characters, even if you are a complete beginner. Step-by-step projects, alongside an expansive introduction written in part by Blender foundation-certified trainer Pierrick Picaut, will walk you through the creation of multiple characters. This book offers all the information you need as you begin your journey into 3D character creation.

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