![]() Citing recent research in cognitive psychology, the authors take our beliefs about learning and turn them upside down. This phenomenon is explained in our summer 2015 book pick, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning. Remember college, when you’d crack open your textbook, pop the top off your brand-new highlighter, then start smearing that sucker across line after line of text, making the important stuff stand out so you could reread it and reread it some more? Lots of people call that “studying,” but it turns out it doesn’t really work so well. Listen to my interview with Make It Stick author Peter Brown ( transcript): ![]() This page contains Amazon Affiliate links if you purchase from Amazon after going through these links, Cult of Pedagogy receives a small commission at no extra cost to you. ![]() Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learningīy Peter C. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Louise Brooks Society supports Net Neutrality.Diary of a Lost Girl (Louise Brooks edition) on sale.Nevertheless, I would suggest that the books' main character - a blonde named Marion Marsh - brings Brooks' map cap spirit to mind. The actress does not make an appearance in this book, nor is she mentioned. Throughout, various silent films and actors are referenced.īrownlow mentioned the book to me while we were talking about literary homages and allusions to Louise Brooks. Eventually, the couple makes their way to Hollywood, where they encounter a very different film industry and individuals from their long ago past. The story moves forward as the couple comes to terms with the ghosts/personalities who have taken them over. ![]() Set in San Francisco in the early 1970's, the story involves a young married couple whose bodies are taken over by two long-dead silent film stars. Anyone who likes silent film will like this novel. The story starts a little slow, but picks up and finishes with a flourish. A few years ago, upon Kevin Brownlow's recommendation, I read Jack Finney's 1973 novel, Marion's Wall. ![]() ![]() He also illustrated several classics including Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Treasure Island, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Dr. A prolific and well-regarded illustrator, Peake provided extraordinary images for all his own works, including the children’s book Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (1939), and his novels Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950), Mr Pye (1953) and Titus Alone (1959). Having served as a war artist for the Ministry of Information, he moved to the island of Sark and lived in an artist’s colony with his family. Joining the Royal Artillery in 1940, Peake received a special dispensation to continue writing his first novel, Titus Groan. He returned to England at the age of twelve, and later trained at the Royal Academy of Arts. Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was born to Christian missionaries in the Kiang-Hsi Province of China. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is currently working on her second book to come out through Simon & Schuster. Jen tours as a stand-up but is based in Los Angeles. I Can Barely Take Care of Myself Tales from a Happy Life Without Kids By: Jen Kirkman Narrated by: Jen Kirkman. Discover more authors you’ll love listening to on Audible. Jen has appeared on: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Conan, John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show, The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, and the Cartoon Network’s Home Movies.Įntertainment Weekly said in 2012, “If you like Louis CK, check out Jen Kirkman’s hyper self-analytical humor.” Jen has a weekly podcast, “I Seem Fun: The Diary of Jen Kirkman”, which is often in the top 100 in comedy on iTunes. Browse Jen Kirkman’s best-selling audiobooks and newest titles. Jen is also well known for her role as the narrator in a few episodes of the cult-hit series “Drunk History” which aired on Comedy Central and HBO. ![]() Jen’s latest stand-up album Hail to the Freaks (released March 2011) hit #13 on the Billboard Charts. She also was one of the stars of the hit-spin-off ‘mockumentary’ show After Lately. ![]() Jen is currently a writer and regular round table guest on Chelsea Lately. ![]() Jen Kirkman is a stand-up comedian and the author of the book, “I Can Barely Take Care of Myself,” which became an instant New York Times Bestseller when it was released in April 2013. ![]() ![]() ![]() Harry Allard (1928-2017) was the author of many hilarious books for children, including several Miss Nelson and Stupid Family titles, all illustrated by James Marshall. And she's never been more hilarious than now!įor the first time ever, Miss Nelson Is Missing!, Miss Nelson Is Back, and Miss Nelson Has a Field Day are available in one volume. This comical, collectable treasury of stories is a must-have for teachers and their mischievous students everywhere. Allard and James Marshall, Miss Nelson's alter ego illuminates the folly of misbehavior through amazing feats of disguise. In the intervening generations since the publication of Miss Nelson Is Missing!, millions of children have been fascinated by the legend of Miss Swamp. A diabolical creation from the minds of Harry G. Smedley School and whipped Miss Nelson's terrible, rude, worst-class-in-the-whole-school students into shape. ![]() More than forty years ago Viola Swamp slinked into Room 207 at Horace B. ![]() ![]() Side note ~ "The one time we had sex was honestly the best sex I've ever had" ~ umm, seriously? you're like 17 and I can't recall, but perhaps this was your first time, so sure it's prob the best you've had if it's the only you've had. Overall, a quick read that wrapped the series up perfectly. For most of the book he's really immature and makes multiple derogatory comments though, so that really turned me off. He sees that Six is unhappy and really wants to rectify this and I love how he did so. Told solely in Daniel's POV regarding how Six gave their baby up for adoption without him knowing. (BTW ~ they really need to be read in this order in case you weren't aware.) I think I waited too long to read this last part because I am at a different mind space now. Featuring ~ single 1st person POV, teenagers, teen pregnancy, adoption, under 100 pagesīack in 2020 when I read Hopeless, Losing Hope, Finding Cinderella and All Your Perfects I really enjoyed them and 4~5 starred em all. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like others of his time such as Henry James, Aldous Huxley and T.S. He concludes after analyzing Poe’s poetry that Poe’s works completely lack in “intellectual content”. Poe has long passed casually with me and with my friends as a bad writer accidentally and temporarily popular the fact of the matter is, of course, that he has been pretty effectually established as a great writer while we have been sleeping. In his essay entitled “Edgar Allan Poe: A Curse in the History of American Obscurantism” he states: ![]() In his three volume critical work, In Defense of Reason, he analyzes the works of Poe and others. Winters, a professor at Stanford University during the first half of the twentieth century and a poet himself, held Poe in complete disdain. For example, the American critic of Poe, Yvor Winters, claimed that Poe’s poetry “is devoid of subject matter” and viewed him as a hack and a phony who was out to simply make money and sell horror. ![]() Many critics have dismissed his poems as amateur, self indulgent and morbid. Unlike other famous poets, critics have passionately argued for almost two centuries about the literary value of his works. An Exploration of Genius in the Poems of Edgar Allen PoeĮdgar Allen Poe’s poetry is an anomaly among American writers. ![]() ![]() Cherryh has won four Hugos and is one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed authors in the science fiction and fantasy field. OL60590W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 97.71 Pages 438 Ppi 643 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0740807331 Currently resident in Spokane, Washington, C.J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction. ![]() Urn:lcp:downbelowstation00caro:lcpdf:88bb627c-d69c-46aa-b503-f13de737a4a7 Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:02:08 Boxid IA172801 Boxid_2 CH119701 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Date-raw FebruDonorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier ![]() ![]() Reunited is the heart-pounding conclusion to the Reawakened series.Īuthor Guest Post with Colleen Houck: Magical Creatures in the Reawakened Series On the journey, she will transform into the being she is destined to become. Hassan, Lily departs on her final voyage through the cosmos and across the plains of Egypt. And if that isn’t bad enough, she must now harness this power of three and become Wasret: a goddess destined to defeat the evil god Seth once and for all. Her body is now part human, part lion, and part fairy. Her sun prince, her travels to Egypt, and her journey to the Afterlife are all distant memories.īut Lily is not the girl she once was. ![]() Reunited, the latest book in Colleen Houk’s Reawakened series is coming out on August 8th! I couldn’t be more excited for the book, and I’m thrilled to have Colleen on the blog today to give us all the details about the magical creatures that can be found in this captivating series!įind it: Amazon, Barnes&Noble, iBooks, TBD, GoodreadsĪfter surviving her otherworldly adventure, Lily wakes up on her nana’s farm having forgotten everything. ![]() ![]() But it’s not Jamie." Davis noted that Gabaldon didn't say that Claire was safe from tragedy. "And I can’t say there isn’t any tragedy. "I'm now in the final phases, so I know what it is," she said. She also hinted at a tragedy in the story.ĭuring a conversation with the show's producer Maril Davis, Gabaldon opened up about the writing process. In January 2021, she posted an interaction between Claire and Fanny.Īnd in May, she teased a moment where Jamie speaks to the titular bees. In October, she shared a conversation between Claire and John Quincy about bees. In September, she uploaded another update, posting an excerpt about names and virtues.Īnd in February, she posted more lines about a shopping trip of Jamie's, and an intriguing conversation that happened during his time in Salisbury. With that post, Gabaldon also confirmed that the book was still not quite ready yet. ![]() The second was about William and his life in Savannah. ![]() The first specifically focused on Jamie's faith. And in August, she shared two additional sets of lines. ![]() |