Why? Farrah is the girl that moons over John. Though in this story she was taught slowly to embrace her nerd-dom and nickname, I've always thought of her as Farrah. Otherwise, it was fine.įarrah has two names: Farrah, for one of Charlie's angels, and Digit, for her ability in math. What bothered me the most was how Farrah began saying the L-word when she and John had only met days ago. The run away, hide, repeat thing got a bit repetitive, though it was necessary as towards the end of the story I found out about the importance of it. While I could've done more with the math, not only to keep things interesting but also to build on Farrah's character as a math genius. As for her chaperone? He's a super hot agent that she just can't get enough of.Ī Girl Named Digit was certainly interesting, and incorporated something really cool - the Fibonacci sequence. Before she knows it, she's forced under the FBI's protection, with an eco-terrorist organization hot on her heels. To a normal person, it's just a jumble of random numbers to Farrah, they're a sequence, a pattern, a code to crack. She's trying to live a normal teenager's life, and it's working out great - until some numbers begin to show up randomly on TV. Farrah, or rather, Digit is a math prodigy.
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It’s hard to copy a behavior or buying pattern if you don’t know what it is. People need to show in public that they’re doing/buying/supporting something so that others can see that. The old “monkey see, monkey do” works wonders here. (Think about sunrises at 3.a.m in the polar circle vs. Some emotions, like awe, increase shareability while some emotions, like sadness, decrease shareability. Your product or idea needs to have an emotional tone to be shared by people. When people care about something, they share it. The more triggers (cues) you can insert into the everyday environment, the more people will talk about your product (like autumn and pumpkin lattes’). Triggers serve as reminders for people to talk about our ideas and products. The point of using this principle is to make the idea or product have visible signals of the person being cool, knowledgeable, and smart (like Apple’s logo). Because of that, they will share the information, product, or an idea that makes them appear like that to other people. People want to appear cool, knowledgeable, and smart. What causes certain products, ideas, and behaviors to be talked about more? The book explains that it’s about six principles that make an idea, product, or behavior contagious: social currency, triggers, emotion, public, practical value, and stories.Ĭontagious talks about six principles that make an idea, product, or behavior contagious. Book Title: Contagious: Why Things Catch On Book Summary Author: Jonah Berger Date of Reading: February 2017 Rating: 8/10 To find a way out of the Mafia’s clutches, Clifford must make friendships and alliances in the most unlikely of places, and hopefully escape with his life intact. His envious arch-rival will do anything to take Clifford down a peg and earn back the favor of the mob, even if it means paying the ultimate price. After accepting jobs from an unrelenting local Mafia boss, Clifford is promoted from PI to hitman… without the option to refuse. The synopsis of this award-winning action novel is: Private investigator and military veteran Clifford Dee finds himself in deep trouble. Synopsis of ‘Clifford’s War: The Bluegrass Battleground’ He even co-owns a small candle company with his wife. Denison enjoys other creative outlets like photography and making candles. Denison would write very short and creative, two paragraph stories or short poems in station logs, work logs and trouble tickets purely for others amusement. With story-telling always on his mind, J. He joined the Army after graduating high school which started his career as a Network Engineer. Denison Reed was born in New Jersey, and he lives in Virginia with his wife, children and their cats Spencer and Guster.Įver since he was a child, he enjoyed creating short stories and poems. Denison Reed chatted about his book “Clifford’s War: The Bluegrass Battleground.” Photo Credit: Jennifer Jamesīestselling author J. Lately, though, I have a little more self-control. Every labor day, the Jorgensens-they own Jorgensens’ Ice Cream-set up a little ice cream stand right in their yard, which means you can spend the entire Labor Day picnic making yourself ice cream sundaes if that’s what you want to do, and for years when I wasn’t playing softball or chasing the Jorgensen kids or trying to keep up with my brothers, I’d sit myself at that little booth making one sundae after another until it was time to head home for evening milking, and then a couple miles into the drive I’d bring that whole sundae experience back up, right there on the side of whatever road we happened to make it to. abridged edition, the Extended Special Edition, and an uncorrected proof of the abridged edition of ‘Tune In’ by Mark Lewisohn. “British copies are being distributed nationally throughout the U.S. The new Extended Special Edition release of the book is identical to the original ESE – two bound volumes packaged a specially designed slipcase. “I’m delighted that the fullest version of ‘Tune In’ – the everything-I-wrote edition – is finally being made fully available in North America,” Lewisohn said of the “author’s cut” in a note from his home office outside London. 1 – Tune In” by noted Fab Four historian Mark Lewisohn will at long last be available in the United States and Canada on November 7. The complete, uncut and unabridged Extended Special Edition of “The Beatles: All These Years, Vol. Simon has an unprecedented amount of magical power, and is thus dubbed "The Chosen One", the prophesied Greatest Mage. Raised among the "Normals" (humans without magickal powers) Simon was discovered as a child by his mentor The Mage, who is the headmaster of Watford, and the leader of the magickal world. Simon Snow is an 18 year old orphaned magician returning to Watford School of Magicks for his eighth and final year. However, Rowell has said that Carry On is a novel written by herself, and should not be seen as Cath’s fictional work “ Carry On Simon”, which features in Fangirl. Carry On, Simon is the name of the novel-within-a-novel-based-on-a-book-series that Cath is writing in Fangirl. "Simon Snow" is the name of the fictional series of novels that the protagonist in Fangirl (Cath) is a die-hard fan of. The novel is a spinoff from Rowell's novel Fangirl. The novel is told through several narrative voices, including that of Simon, his roommate/enemy Baz, his best friend Penelope, and his ex-girlfriend Agatha. The story follows the final year of magical schooling for Simon Snow, the "Chosen One" of the Magical world, prophesied to defeat the Insidious Humdrum, an evil force that has been wreaking havoc on the World of Mages for years. Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow is the third young adult novel written by Rainbow Rowell, published in 2015. Now adapted into graphic novel form with new artwork by Ray Friesen. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. Pratchett is a very smart man, a gifted writer, and understands as well as any philosopher the power of storytelling and the problems humans face in making sense of their lives and the world. Read more and fast: for the Great God Om, Brutha the novice is the Chosen One - or at least the only One available. In such a competitive environment, it's certainly not helpful to be reduced to appearing in the form of a tortoise, a manifestation far below god-like status in anyone's book. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods, of every shape and size, and all elbowing for space at the top. And the Word was: 'Hey, you!' This is the Discworld, after all, and religion is a controversial business. 'Just because you can't explain it, doesn't mean it's a miracle.' In the beginning was the Word. "Just because you can't explain it, doesn't mean it's a miracle." In the beginning was the Word. Description for Small Gods: A Discworld Graphic Novel Hardcover. But the gods are keeping more than one secret, and Daphne will be forced to decide how far she is willing to go to save those she loves-and whose side she’s on in a war that is prophesized to be the downfall of her people.Ĭlaire M. As the kingdoms of Greece clash on the shores of Troy and the gods choose sides, Daphne must use her wits, her training, and her precarious relationship with Apollo to find a way to keep her queen safe, stop the war, and uncover the true reason the gods led her to Troy. In the midst of a treaty summit among the monarchs of Greece, Daphne and Helen uncover a plot of betrayal-and soon, a battle begins that leads to all-out war. When their command finally comes, it is deceptively simple: secure herself a spot as one of Queen Helen’s guards.Ī war is coming, and all of Sparta must be prepared. The sequel to Daughter of Sparta thrusts warrior Daphne and her love interest, the Olympian god Apollo, into the middle of the Trojan War in this epic YA fantasy reimagining of Greek mythology.Ī year after saving the powers of Olympus by defeating Nyx, the Goddess of Darkness, Daphne is haunted by still-looming threats, her complicated feelings for the god Apollo, and the promise she made to the Olympian gods that she would help them again when they called upon her. The writer/director’s seventh Competition film follows a teacher doing a mandatory stint at a small village in Eastern Anatolia. Turkey’s Ceylan won the Palme d’Or for Winter Sleep in 2014, and played in Cannes Competition with Distant in 2003, Climates in 2006, Three Monkeys in 2008, Once Upon A Time In Anatolia in 2011 and The Wild Pear Tree in 2018 - winning the grand prix twice and the director prize once. Competition About Dry Grasses (Tur-Fr-Ger-Swe-Qat) This year’s Cannes Film Festival Competition line-up includes new titles from Jessica Hausner, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Todd Haynes and Jonathan Glazer, while the Out of Competition section features the new Indiana Jones film and the latest from Martin Scorsese. Infraestructuras urbanas albern y valenti eduar y guillemay. If the jackets were replaced, it would be hard to imagine a more important collection of Valenti Angelo titles, with wonderful personal inscriptions to his family, some to his elderly parents in his native Italian. Poppers Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater - Hello the Boat by Phyllis Crawford - Leader By Destiny: George Washington. Cuantas veces mudan de dientes los nios, Sopa de brocoli receita, Abogado omar salazar. Plus two copies of American Artist magazine with Angelo covers and one illuminated print.Īll first editions, of the 36, 27 of them are inscribed to either his mother and father, his mother, his brother or his niece in the year of publication, 3 are signed only and 6 are unsigned. |