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#1 I had been to Iowa City once before in June to find a place to live. I was looking for two apartments then, one for myself and one for Lucy Grealy, who I had gone to college with. I got a note from Lucy not long after receiving my acceptance letter from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She said that initially she was sorry because she had wanted to be the only student from...
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Get the Summary of Renee Engeln's “Beauty Sick” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Today's young women face a bewildering set of contradictions when it comes to beauty. They don't want to be Barbie dolls but, like generations of women before them, are told they must look like them. They're angry about the media's treatment of women but hungrily consume the very outlets that belittle...
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Get the Summary of Warren Berger's ‘The Book of Beautiful Questions’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: When confronted with almost any demanding situation, the act of questioning can help guide us to smart decisions. By asking questions, we can analyze, learn, and move forward in the face of uncertainty. But "questionologist" Warren Berger says that the questions must be the right...
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#1 I was enraptured by my son, Nic, when he was born in July 1982. I willingly forsook sleep, soothed his crying, and sang him lullabies. I was among the first generation of self-conscious parents.
#2 We visit Train Town in nearby Sonoma, where Nic conducts a steam locomotive past miniature barns and windmills. We travel to Yosemite National Park and the Monterey Bay...
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#1 The author explains that the disciples had gone fishing, and when they caught nothing, Jesus asked them to bring some of the fish they had caught. When they brought the fish, Jesus asked them to have breakfast.
#2 The disciples had pulled another all-nighter. They were skunked again. And again, Jesus gave them a hint that it was him by letting the nets burst....
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#1 We all have a fear of how things really are. We seem to resist the fact that everything around us is in flux, and we want to find a secure and dependable life. But this is impossible, and we must accept and relax into the uncertainty of life.
#2 We are always trying to grab at pleasure and avoid pain, but we never quite achieve the state of unwavering satisfaction...
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#1 The zills are a pair of finger cymbals that are placed on the middle finger and thumb. They hold infinite possibilities, and they will come together, move apart, and come together again. They ring with an inexplicably deep familiarity for me.
#2 I feel certain about my husband, Prince. I believe he was my lover in a previous life, and I believe we were destined to...
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#1 David was a man with a broken heart and a broken spirit. He was hurting, but still hoping. This is not the easiest thing to read at 3:00 a. m., but it is one of the most important things you will ever read. Each of us will go through seasons of hurting and hope. We will hope, and then we will be disappointed. We will hope, and then we will be afraid. We will hope,...
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Book Preview: #1 I took my dog to the vet, who found that he had a violent cough. The vet decided to do an X-ray to see if something was stuck in his windpipe. The nurse gave him a shot to knock him out, because he was not a good boy and did not want to behave.
#2 I had always wanted to believe in something like dogs bringing out the best in us, but I couldn't picture it with an old,...
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#1 The sculpture depicts a story from Roman mythology. One version goes like this: Pluto offends Venus, the goddess of love, and is punished by being transformed into a love-like madness. Proserpine, the daughter of the goddess Ceres, is nearby picking flowers.
#2 The sculpture of Proserpine is alive. Her body is strong, and she torques it forcefully against the god,...
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Book Preview: #1 The crowdfunding model was used in art as far back as the 18th century. In 1783, Mozart attempted to perform three new pieces of piano concertos at a concert hall in Vienna, but he failed to collect enough funding.
#2 The crowdfunding model is different from the classic practices of the past in three aspects. First, the internet makes the campaigns dramatically more...
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#1 The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more they seem to feel pressured to look a certain way. Many women feel that their collective progress has stalled.
#2 The backlash against the ideology of beauty is so violent because it is the last remaining of the old feminine ideologies that still has the power to control those women whom second...
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#1 I was with my brother when we were surrounded by six to eight wrestlers. I did not understand what was happening, but I knew we were in trouble. I tried to follow Bill, but the banditry of Murphy Homes made them legendary.
#2 I had to see the wrestlers live. But that meant going through my father, who only cared about his work. He worked seven days a week. I thought...
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Get the Summary of Warren Berger's A More Beautiful Question in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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In this fascinating exploration of the surprising power of questioning, innovation expert Warren Berger reveals that powerhouse businesses like Google, Nike, and Netflix, as well as hot Silicon Valley startups like Pandora and Airbnb, are fueled by the ability to ask fundamental, game-changing...
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Book Preview: #1 I met Marco at the restaurant where we both worked. I was a waitress to make the money that did not seem to be materializing from my acting and modeling careers. Two years out of college, I had quit my job as an analyst at a hedge fund and decided to become a full-time actor.
#2 At the end of the training, we went to a local dive bar two blocks away. I sat next to...
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Get the Summary of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the...
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#1 I was seven and a half when I moved to Washington, DC. My family had changed homes three times within a four-mile radius, and we had moved to a new house every time. I was completely absorbed in playing with my My Little Pony figurines, until I felt a presence next to me.
#2 I knew about guardian angels from TV shows. They are always visions in white gowns with expansive...
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Get the Summary of Suzanne O'Sullivan's ‘The Sleeping Beauties’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: In ‘The Sleeping Beauties’, Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan-an award-winning Irish neurologist-investigates psychosomatic disorders, traveling the world to visit communities suffering from these so-called mystery illnesses. From a derelict post-Soviet mining town in Kazakhstan to the Mosquito...
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#1 I went to bed believing I was in control of my life, but I woke up realizing how little I actually was in control of anything. I went to bed with more grievances than I could count, but I woke up with more gratitude than I could measure.
#2 I was a boomer, born in the last qualifying year of 1946 to 1964, and thus the inheritor of a brand of overconfidence and defiance...
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#1 Benjamin Robert Haydon, a self-important little man, was a good friend, a terrific dinner party companion, and a brilliant conversationalist. But he was also a painter who failed to live up to his vocation. His work was quite marvelous in its badness.
#2 Keats was a short, handsome, decent man who, despite being a poet, failed to live up to his vocation.
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