![]() ![]() Sometimes it leads a writer away from his story, causing a month's worth of drifting, rambling around, groping. ![]() Often the inability to concentrate demanded eight or ten hours of effort for two good hours of work. John felt he should be a poster boy for ADD. There was no sneaky nonsense, no hidden screens that popped up and wouldn't go away, and at no time in my 35 years as a writer did I ever 'lose' anything because I hit a certain key, failed to hold my mouth right, or sneezed at the wrong moment." "Unlike a computer, a great old manual typewriter was an honest machine. "This may explain my long affection for typewriters," he says. Several years ago he was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD), a malady that could not have been imagined in the glorious 1950s. He left high school in the tenth grade, partly because of an inability to concentrate and absorb lectures. John always wanted to write, but was a poor student. He was raised in Charleston, SC, is married, and has two adult children. John Dunning was born in 1942 in Brooklyn, NY. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Release Date: AugBatman in Brave & the Bold: The Bronze Age. This volume features a brand-new introduction by Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner, as well as highlights from Preacher?s infamous Gone to Texas letters column, a special photo gallery of Preacher collectibles, and other rarities unearthed from the series? archives. Collects Preacher 34-66, Preacher Special: The Story of You-Know-Who, Preacher Special: The Good Old Boys, Preacher Special: One Man’s War, Preacher: Tall in the Saddle, and material from Absolute Preacher Vol. Acclaimed by fans and critics alike, this groundbreaking title shattered conventions and set new standards for American comics during its original run.ĬOLLECTING: Preacher #34-66, Preacher Special: One Man?s War #1, Preacher Special: The Good Old Boys #1, Preacher Special: The Story of You-Know-Who #1, and Preacher Special: Tall in the Saddle #1. A masterpiece of violence, depravity, love, and redemption, writer Garth Ennis and artist Steve Dillon?s Preacher follows the Reverend Jesse Custer on his epic quest to track down an absent God and force Him to answer for the sufferings of His creation. He loses faith in both humanity and God as he witnesses atrocities and improbable calamities during his travels. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the wine flowed Humphrey, who had lived all his life in Oxford and knew all the skeletons in all the cupboards of the city, regaled us with increasingly scandalous stories of town and gown in his wonderfully clear, enthusiastic - and carrying - voice. ![]() The patron had boxed off each table with partitions, which gave the impression - but not the auditory fact - of privacy. Our friendship was cemented a few weeks later when we had dinner at a new restaurant in Summertown, north Oxford. Circumnavigated by the largest tuba I have ever seen, he played Doris, the goddess of wind, with more over-ripe raspberries than a hundred-acre fruit farm. What appeared was Humphrey Carpenter, resplendent in an outrageous frock and an even more outrageous wig and make-up. ![]() "Oh good," enthused a north Oxford lady, straight out of Barbara Pym, who was sitting behind me, "our Bishop's son is going to play for us." Reluctantly dragged to a concert at my children's primary school, I now braced myself for what must surely be the nadir of the evening, some pale ascetic youth performing a pious hymn with rather too studied precision. ![]() ![]() Min works the slowest rejecting pot after pot, even if they have no visible flaws, and making only one pot for the other potters’ five or six. The best potter in the village is Min, and Tree-ear loves to watch him throw pots on the wheel. The village they live in is known for its celadon pottery (pottery with a greenish/gray glaze). Set in 12th century Korea, Tree-ear is an orphan boy who lives under the bridge with an old crippled man named “Crane-man.” They are extremely poor and mostly scavenge for food, both in the woods and in the village refuse. The tone and themes of the book made me assume it was a much older book. It’s only a few years old, which surprised me. ![]() We both should have it’s a fantastic book, and definitely one of my favorite Newbery’s I’ve read this year. ![]() ![]() ![]() Repent so I can listen to those other two books! ![]() With only 69 ratings, even though they are very good ratings, it is no wonder that Audible has not recorded the other two books in this series. I was especially moved when I first realized that the centurion in this story was the very one mentioned in Matthew and Luke. Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? I'm sure there are other listeners who could critique the narrator better than I, but to me, she did a great job. I don't nitpick the narrator when I listen to a story. What about Susan Lyons’s performance did you like?Įverything. ![]() I think he is a wonderful character on which to base a story about early Christianity and that this is a wonderful story. We can only assume from what little is said about this centurion in Matthew 8:5-10 and Luke 7:6-10 that he was a good man of great faith who had more to do with Christ than we are told in those short verses. Audible needs to record the other two books.īoth Leah and the Centurion. What made the experience of listening to The Centurion’s Wife the most enjoyable? More people should listen to this Excellent book. ![]() ![]() Literature and young author's conference speaker and workshop leader at schools and libraries. Participant in "Writer in the Classroom" program, Borough of North York, Ontario, Canada. E-mail- ĬAREER: Montcrest School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, teacher of children with learning difficulties, beginning 1980 currently full-time writer. Agent-Transatlantic Literary Agency, 72 Glengowan Rd., Toronto, Ontario M4N 1G4, Canada. Politics: "Independent (but usually Democrat)." Religion: Jewish.ĪDDRESSES: Home-292 Horsham Ave., Willowdale, Ontario M2R 1G4, Canada. Education: City University of New York, B.A., 1970 Ferkauf Graduate School, Yeshiva University, M.Sc., 1971. (Bill) Wishinsky (a family doctor), 1971 children: David, Suzanne. PERSONAL: Surname is pronounced "wish- in-ski" born July 14, 1948, in Munich, West Germany (now Germany) daughter of Herman (originally a pastry chef became a sculptor) and Mala (a homemaker) Reches married Solomon W. ![]() ![]() ![]() "This is dark-edged, well-realised science fiction that tackles issues such as free will and identity, reflected both in Adam-2 and in Linden, who is non-binary and referred to by the pronouns ze/hir." - James Lovegrove, Financial TimesĪlastair is a children's author and puzzle creator. "One of the best middle grade books I've read this year … Action, tension, a marvellous mix of characters, and incredibly thought-provoking while being huge fun to read." - Jennifer Killick, author of Crater Lake Surrounded by enemies who want to use him, and allies who mistrust him, Adam must decide who - and what - he really is.įrom the author of the highly-acclaimed Orion Lost, Adam-2 is an exciting and hugely gripping science fiction thriller - perfect for fans of Eoin Colfer, Anthony Horowitz, and Philip Reeve. Hunted by both sides, Adam discovers that he holds the key to the war, and the power to end it - to destroy one side and save the other. The robot Adam-2 has been locked in the basement of a lost building for over two hundred years - until one day he is discovered by two children, and emerges into a world ruined by a civil war between humans and advanced intelligence. With incredible twists and turns and an action-packed story, this is a thrilling, unputdownable adventure. ![]() ![]() They reminded me of the people who shaped my own thinking. The tried and true sayings and the words of wisdom resonated on a deeper level for me. ![]() If you loved hearing the colloquialisms, metaphors, similes, and "ways" of the adults who empowered you as a child, then you will love this book. I loved how this book transported me to a time and place from my own childhood where the words of adults didn't always make sense -until given the opportunity to observe those words in action. This narrator has a wonderful way of making you feel like you are a part of the story -rather than someone who is just being read to.ĭid you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry? Have you listened to any of the narrators’s other performances before? How does this one compare? His fearlessness is admirable and his sense of determination even more so. "If you don't like how it is, then fix it!" How many times have we heard that, only to begrudgingly choose to live with the situation rather than change it? When Early offers the advice to Jack we begin to understand how Early's view of the world is influenced, not by what he can't control, -but rather by the things he can. What was one of the most memorable moments of Navigating Early? ![]() Great word choice and delightful characters! ![]() Would you consider the audio edition of Navigating Early to be better than the print version? Strong Imagery and Amazing Colloquialisms! ![]() ![]() ![]() He shows us how in a thrilling journey that ranges from Silicon Valley dissidents, to a favela in Rio where attention vanished, to an office in New Zealand that found a remarkable way to restore our attention.Crucially, he learned how - as individuals, and as a society - we can get our focus back, if we are determined to fight for it. Johann discovered there are twelve deep cases of this crisis, all of which have robbed some of our attention. This has been done to all of us by powerful external forces. We think our inability to focus is a personal failing - a flaw in each one of us. ![]() ![]() He interviewed the leading experts in the world on attention, and learned that everything we think about this subject is wrong. Everyone should read it' PHILIPPA PERRY 'A beautifully researched and argued exploration of the breakdown of humankind's ability to pay attention' STEPHEN FRY _ Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And, most importantly, how do we get it back? For Stolen Focus, internationally bestselling author Johann Hari went on a three-year journey to uncover the reasons why our teenagers now focus on one task for only 65 seconds, and why office workers on average manage only three minutes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Other authors have done better with similar material. What they find leads to the direct involvement of the American president, as well as a cardinal who’s “the highest-ranking member of the Catholic Church in the United States.” The implausible plot suffers from a lack of characterization and suspense. Meanwhile, psychologist Martha Chan is dragooned by the military to join a team of experts including a biologist, a climatologist, and an astrophysicist to determine what flattened part of the nearby forest and crushed all living things in that area. Then eight-year-old Sophie starts bleeding, curses her 16-year-old sibling, and turns violent. When a sudden, horribly painful noise disrupts the girls while they are hunting rabbits, their parents lock them in a cellar for protection. Sisters Tennant and Sophie Riggin live with their parents in a survivalist community near Oregon’s Mount Hood. Bestseller Patterson and Barker follow 2020’s The Coast-to-Coast Murders with a tired variation on a familiar themea baffling phenomenon devastates a community, triggering a massive government response to contain the truth and limit the loss of life. Bestseller Patterson and Barker follow 2020’s The Coast-to-Coast Murders with a tired variation on a familiar theme-a baffling phenomenon devastates a community, triggering a massive government response to contain the truth and limit the loss of life. ![]() |