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Become Legendary: Pick Up Grit On The Way To Greatness

Become Legendary: Pick Up Grit On The Way To Greatness

*   "To be gritty is to keep putting one foot in front of the other. To be gritty is to hold fast to an interesting and purposeful goal. To be gritty is to invest, day after week after year, in challenging practice. To be gritty is to fall down seven times, and...

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Print Reading vs. Digital Reading: To Read Or Not To Read

Print Reading vs. Digital Reading: To Read Or Not To Read

* Print Reading vs. Digital Reading:   There’s so much scope for distraction when we’re reading on a device with unlimited possibilities to surf. Can we conclusively tell if reading on paper or a device is better? While digital media is convenient and cheaper to...

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Zadie Smith Feels Free in Atlanta

Zadie Smith Feels Free in Atlanta

*   Last night, I went to a Zadie Smith book signing event at the SCADshow theater. This event was part of Zadie's book tour promoting her new essay collection, Feel Free. She was interviewed by television journalist Gail O'Neill on topics like race, her biracial...

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Life Must Go On In Spite Of War

Life Must Go On In Spite Of War

*   How can you pick up a book whose title gives away the ending yet keep reading till you finish it? That’s the beauty of Anuk Arudpragasam’s prose in his novel, The Story Of A Brief Marriage. The book is the life in a day and night of Dinesh who is fleeing the...

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Bibliomania: Beg, Borrow or Buy – II

Bibliomania: Beg, Borrow or Buy – II

*   Continued from Part I   *  * * * *  Our mission with FutureSTRONG Academy – to grow children who respect themselves, their time and their capabilities in a world where distractions are just a click or a swipe away. I see myself as an advocate for...

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Standing up to Amy Schumer

Standing up to Amy Schumer

*   Amy Schumer is a stand-up comedian whose “brave” material mostly consists of musings about her hookups – sexual encounters with relative strangers. And below is my review of her 2016 memoir, The Girl with a Lower Back Tattoo. Since finishing it yesterday...

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The How and The What Of Eating Animals

The How and The What Of Eating Animals

*   "As in any kind of factory, uniformity is essential. Piglets that don't grow fast enough - the runts - are a drain on resources. Picked up by their hind legs, they are swung and then bashed head first onto the concrete floor. This common practice is called...

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Dear Lena: An Open Letter

Dear Lena: An Open Letter

*   I feel sorry that you did not write a mind-blowing autobiography. There was not a single sentence in your book, Not that kind of Girl, where I truly laughed out loud. The irony being that, only if this entire book was fiction, I would have laughed hard at the...

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