![]() ![]() (If you prefer to be surprised, skip this part!) There’s only one problem: he can’t forgive her for breaking his heart.įair readers, a note on content, for those who like to know. They have a month to clear his name and convince society they are madly in love…īut when Constance discovers her faux-intended is decidedly more than meets the eye-not to mention adept at shocking forms of wickedness-she finds herself falling for him. When the woman he’s secretly in love with confesses she’s at fault, it isn’t just his life that is shattered: it’s his heart. Julian Haywood, the Earl of Apthorp, is on the cusp of finally proving himself to be the man he’s always wanted to be when his future is destroyed in a single afternoon. He’s supposedly the most boring politician in the House of Lords. Or the fact that he disapproves of everything she holds dear. Never mind that it means spending a month with the dullest man in England. Or, at the very least, stage a whirlwind fake engagement to repair his reputation. When Lady Constance Stonewell accidentally ruins the Earl of Apthorp’s entire future with her gossip column, she does what any honorable young lady must: offer her hand in marriage. ![]()
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Since moving to Yorkshire a few years ago with his wife Kat Sanders, and acquiring their first rescue dog, Tilly (aka Roo) in 2010, a new library of images began to accumulate. ![]() ![]() For the last 15 or so years professional photographer George Stoyle has been taking photos of wildlife and landscapes all around the world both above and below the water. Studio Roo came about as a kind of natural evolution from a mutual love of photography and animals. ![]() ![]() ![]() Proven coping skills for helping your child to overcome adversity and find happiness when they face common emotional issues like bullying, cliques, and loneliness. 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In this book review, we’ll briefly outline the 6 principles to identifying and creating sticky ideas, and explain how to put it together to drive successful marketing strategies. This book is one of those classic pop psychology books. Your ideas need to be sticky and popular. This is a factThe authors highlight that their principles are not a mathematical formula which will guarantee your ideas will stick, but they are proven methods that will increase the likelihood. Made to stick distills years of communication science into an easy-to-remember mnemonic and blueprint for creating sticky ideas. And they’re able to affect people’s opinions and behavior.Īuthors Chip and Dan Heath offer an evidence-led deep-dive into the murky middle section of Malcolm Gladwell’s hit on how hits happen - The Tipping Point - the Stickiness Factor. While other ideas that aren’t as great spread like wildfire. Why do the latter spread so quickly? And why are they so hard to stop? Sticky ideas are easily understood and remembered. ![]() In fact, many of them go unnoticed and are never heard of again. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet Sam knows she'd be truly crazy to leave the protection of the most popular girls in school. Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn't help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off. Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling. The New York Times bestseller everyone is talking about. ![]() ![]() That’s exactly how she said it: “a vital part of your recovery process.” So what can I do? I don’t want to impede my recovery process, and Helen Bunion really is so very concerned about my welfare, so out there it shall get! I think it’s supposed to let me know I have her complete undivided attention-she told me that getting it all “out there” would be a vital part of my recovery process. Anyway, she told me-incidentally her name is Helen Bunion, can you believe that? And she tilts her head to the side when I talk, like a little sparrow. I’m seeing the benefits already, I really am. “I know you think it’s mumbo jumbo, so did I, but believe me you’ll see the benefits,” you urged me in your most concerned voice right after York Way Friday when you were still in full guilt mode. The fact is I’ve been to see a therapist, just as you advised me. ![]() But believe me, nothing is further from the truth. I know you might see this as incendiary, malicious, even creepy. ![]() ![]() ![]() “ Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. 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He basically feels no emotions and continues on with his life as if nothing has happened, because “it doesn’t really matter anyway.” The Stranger opens with the main character and narrator, Meursault, attending his mother’s funeral, and we witness his apathetic and very detached demeanor. ![]() (This review will contain a general plot summary including spoilers because the ending reveals the main theme of the novel) “Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.” My Thoughts ![]() |