![]() ![]() ![]() Our visual perceptions are not a window onto reality, Hoffman shows us, but instead are interfaces constructed by natural selection. 'Is reality virtual? It's a question made even more interesting by this book' Barbara Kiser, Natureĭo we see the world as it truly is? In The Case Against Reality, pioneering cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman says no? we see what we need in order to survive. His startling argument has implications for philosophy, science, and how we understand the world around us' Steven Pinker 'One of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation of cognitive scientists. SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHYSICS WORLD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 ![]()
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![]() After all, fathead minnows develop a mucous-secreting pad on their heads, used to rub clean a spot under a rock suitable for eggs to be laid. Though perhaps they were a sign of what was to enter my life. ![]() I set out to study the evolution of animal communication, starting with chemical signals and their role in the reproductive behaviour of fathead minnows ( Pimephales promelas ). I didn’t set out to write Esen-alit-Quar, Esen for short, Es in a hurry or between dear friends. What these things had in common? Two authors, each going where they hadn’t before, both to discover it was the best direction of all. It concerned a character who was, well, a blob of well-intentioned blue goo, liable to explode under stress. Twenty years ago, when my host, John Scalzi, started this amazing blog of his, my second novel was published by DAW Books. They all have a role in her novel, Search Image. ![]() ![]() Czerneda tackles the subjects of time, memory, intelligence, friendship. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are many encounters that lead to singing and dancing, which create an impression of entrancing performativity. The episodic storyline draws on Yoruba folktales and uses English in non-traditional ways, invoking a sustained spoken rhythm. Along the way, our hero encounters adventures wonderful, bizarre, horrific and – in case the premise and first lines haven’t made it clear – funny. ![]() The story is a quest narrative that follows its first-person protagonist on his journey into other villages and maybe other worlds, inhabited by creatures living and dead, in pursuit of his deceased palm-wine tapster. I had no other work than to drink palm-wine in my life.” So begins Amos Tutuola’s famed The Palm-Wine Drinkard, which came out in 1952 and is widely feted as the first West African novel in English published internationally. “I was a palm-wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age. Scholar of literary & cultural studies, editor of poco.lit. ![]() ![]() OL1888842W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 90.67 Pages 270 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0380731991 FINALIST FOR THE GILLER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZEBold and lyrical, sensual and highly charged, Cereus Blooms at Night is the beautifully written, sensational first novel by Shani Mootoo, one of Canada’s most exciting literary voices. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:31:44 Boxid IA170801 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Vancouver Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed. ![]() ![]() ![]() August uses her focus on solving the mystery of Jane to hide behind and it takes her entire found family unit to help build the confidence she needs to step out from behind that. August and Jane spend time circling around the growing love between them, afraid of what it means. So much of the story is about the fear of letting someone love you, of being brave enough to think you won’t let them down. She’s literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her. August’s subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there’s one big problem: Jane doesn’t just look like an old school punk rocker. August, a young recent NYC transplant with a complicated history, falls head over heels for a woman she keeps running into on the Q train, Jane. One Last Stop is the story of August and Jane. Once announced I put One Last Stop on my to read list having faith in the author, if not exactly the premise. Upon its completion I knew McQuiston was an author to add to my must reads list – they were writing the kind of queer romance I was looking for in the world. I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.Įarly last year I read and loved Casey McQuiston’s debut Red, White, & Royal Bluelike many a Cannonballer before me. ![]() ![]() It is fall and pumpkins dot the neighborhood and we have enjoyed our first cold front. This book was a perfect match with my reading mood. She is also keenly aware of Wes, the new guy in school who is also a grower, though his area is corn. The story is not dreary but is full of humor.Įllie wishes she could lose 20 pounds while she is doing everything she can to add weight to Max. Ellie's mom is dead and they are both working through life without her. Her father is worried about her obsession with her pumpkin, Max, and that she is missing the normal "fun" of high school as a result. ![]() She is the winner of second place in last year's Rock River Pumpkin Weigh-In and is determined to win first place this year. The Bauer book that my own daughter seems to return to again and again is Squashed. Jenna in Rules of the Road can fit and sell shoes better than anyone else on the planet. In Hope was Here, Hope strives to be a uber professional waitress in the diners where her Aunt Addie cooks. Her novels are about young people who are vulnerable but courageous and find pride and strength in a central focus in their life. ![]() Before the sisterhood's pants started traveling, before princesses started keeping diaries, Joan Bauer was touching hearts with her novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() He misses his wife terribly, she passed on the year before ands everyday he goes to the cemetery, taking his lunch and lawn chair, to spend time by her grave. My thanks to netgalley and Random House for an advance copy of this book.ģ.5 It is hard not to absolutely adore Arthur, an 82 year old gentlemen. ![]() ![]() In the acknowledgements, Berg quotes her editor as saying she needs an Arthur in her life and Berg responds, me, too. It’s all about how we can find our families through happenstance, luck or just next door. I think if you liked any of them, you will also enjoy this book. The book has elements in common with Our Souls at Night, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine or A Man Called Ove. ![]() “She wonders what her funeral would be like.what would her father say? If he were honest, he’d say just four words: I never knew her.” Lucille is Arthur’s elderly neighbor who has never been married.īerg does a wonderful job capturing the pain of bullying. There, he meets Maddy, a 17 year old who is unpopular and doesn’t have much of a family life. Arthur is an 85 year old widow who visits his wife’s cemetery plot every day for lunch. Every now and then I need to take a break from the mysteries and find something that reminds me how sweet life can be. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This list doesn’t include short stories, which are collected in Small Magics anthology or extras, such as free Curran’s stories. But sometimes even trained killers make friends and fall in love, and when the universe tries to kick them in the face, they kick back.īelow you will see the covers for all of the novels and novellas from Kate’s point of view. The magic in her blood makes her a target, and she spent most of her life hiding in plain sight. ![]() Kate likes her sword a little too much and has a hard time controlling her mouth. Monsters prowl the ruined streets, werebears and werehyenas stalk their prey and the Masters of the Dead, necromancers driven by their thirst of knowledge and wealth, pilot blood-crazed vampires with their minds. Magic feeds on technology, gnawing down on skyscrapers until most of them topple and fall, leaving only skeletal husks behind. When magic is down, guns work and spells fail. When magic is up, planes drop out of the sky, cars stall, electricity dies. It comes in waves, without warning, and vanishes as suddenly as it appears. We pushed the technological progress too far, and now magic returned with a vengeance. The world has suffered a magic apocalypse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nevada Barr creates scenes so powerful you can almost feel the intense heat and smell the billowing smoke. After the inferno passes, Anna discovers a crew member didn’t make it-but a knife, not the fire, killed him. Suddenly a thunderstorm whips the remaining embers into a deadly firestorm. As the blaze dwindles and the camp demobilizes, she stays behind with a small crew to rescue an injured man. ![]() Ever since a fire began raging through Lassen Volcanic National Park, Anna has been acting as medic and security officer for the spike camp firefighters. ![]() In this thrilling mystery, her resourceful sleuth, middle-aged park ranger Anna Pigeon, travels to northern California where she joins the forces battling an out-of-control forest fire. Accomplished storyteller Nevada Barr captivates fans with her tightly-woven plots, vibrant descriptions, and believable characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first two stories, although I would have loved to read more of them, still felt complete. ![]() ![]() for the first time it wasn't that I didn't like the story, but rather that I thought the story would have benefited from having a book of it's own. Eloisa James left something to be desired, and quite frankly, I've always felt that way about her. Connie Brockway I have never read, but now I intend to pick up a book or two of hers. Quite frankly I thought it was very well done. I thoroughly enjoyed the idea of this book that three authors would collaborate on one main story. I found it to be a great way to learn about authors I've not read much from, although my main reason for buying it is that Julia Quinn was a part of it. In between each story is a chapter focused on the sister and what she is going to do now that one of the ladies on her list has been snatched up. This book is a story of a house party where all this takes place and each author writes about one of these romances. some of her choices just get snatched up by eligible bachelors before her brother can win them. I would like to note, this book is not an anthology, but rather a "Novel in Three Parts." Each of the stories CAN probably be read separately, but they make up a whole story of a sister trying to play match-maker to her brother. ![]() |