Author: hanyuworm

Jhumpa Lahiri, nickname of Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri, ( born July 11, 1967, London, England ), English-born american novelist and short-story writer whose works illuminate the immigrant experience, in particular that of East Indians. Reading: Jhumpa Lahiri | Biography, Books, & Facts Lahiri was born to Bengali parents from Calcutta ( immediately Kolkata ) —her father a university librarian and her mother a schoolteacher—who moved to London and then to the United States, settling in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, when she was young. Her parents however remained committed to their East amerind culture and determined to rear their children with know…

Actual rating: 2.5 “Darrow. Come here. Come.” He grabs my shoulder and pulls me in. “Others may have failed. But you’ll be different, Darrow. I feel it in my bones.” I’m sorry, was I supposed to feel something?I suppose boredom is a feeling. Not a single tear was shed. Not for a single instance was a single emotion heightened. It was by no means a bad book, but the message got lost in the telling, and there is just. So. Much. Telling. The writing is fantastic, but the plot just didn’t work for me. I was bored out of my…

Deep Work by Cal Newport, published January 2016 Cal Newport might change your animation. In my sheath, he shifted how I should think about my career after I read sol good They Can ’ t Ignore You. I read the book while I was changing fields — leaving the Army to become a writer — after finding it on Derek Sivers ’ book notes site. It was perfect clock. I knew Deep Work would be just angstrom good, if not better. And it was. [ signboard up for my words in your inbox right here ] Reading: 5 Practices from…

Thirty years. I looked out at their little faces. In thirty years they’d all be in their early forties. They would bear the brunt of it all. And it wouldn’t be easy. These kids were going to grow up in an idyllic world and be thrown into an apocalyptic nightmare. They were the generation that would experience the Sixth Extinction Event. ————————————– Knock-knock-knock.No, that’s not creepy at all. Being in a spaceship twelve light-years from home and having someone knock on the door is totally normal. At least Mark Watney was in the same solar system. At least Mark Watney…

And have brought humanness to the edge of oblivion : because they think they are white. —James Baldwin Reading: Letter to My Son Son, last Sunday the server of a popular newsworthiness show asked me what it meant to lose my body. The host was broadcasting from Washington, D.C., and I was seated in a distant studio on the Far West Side of Manhattan. A satellite closed the miles between us, but no machinery could close the opening between her worldly concern and the world for which I had been summoned to speak. When the host asked me about my…

In her monthly column, YA of Yore, Frankie Thomas takes a second front at the books that defined a generation . How do I convey the overflowing excess of books in the nineties ? They had their own aisle in every supermarket and spilled complete into the check lane so you could impulse-buy them along with gingiva and nail clippers. Their pages were whitish and delicate as Pringles, their covers therefore bright they were about despicable, and they became polka-dotted by your fingerprints adenine soon as you touched them. They weighed, and cost, approximately nothing . What were they about…

Happy New Year! HOLIDAY HOURS Reading: Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary and Garden Arts This week, Mrs. Dalloway ‘s will close at 3pm on December 31 and re-open at 10am Monday, January 3 . AUTHOR DROP-INS AT MRS DALLOWAY’S not surprisingly, one of our most consistent sell books over the past year and half has been Berkeley Walks, so we were very pleased to welcome co-authors JANET BYRON and BOB JOHNSON to the storehouse. They autographed copies of the expanded and update version of their “ revealing rambles ” – 21 walks showcasing Berkeley ‘s neighborhoods, shopping districts, and academic areas .…

When Time magazine put Colson Whitehead on its cover a year ago, it referred to him plainly as “ America ’ s Storyteller ”. It was an acknowledgment, not merely of the extraordinary success of his 2016 novel, The Underground Railroad, which won both the National koran prize and the Pulitzer prize for literature, but of his wide cultural impact. Like Toni Morrison ’ s novel Beloved, The Underground Railroad is a work of historic fabrication that resonates powerfully across the years, shedding light on the roots of America ’ s contemporary discontents. survive year Whitehead followed it up with…

After her conserve, Col. Archibald Christie, asked for a divorce, Agatha Christie cryptically disappeared for closely two weeks. On December 4, 1926, her cable car was found abandoned on a wayside. It was reported that she committed suicide. Detectives turned to her manuscripts for clues. finally, Christie was found alive at a resort hotel in Yorkshire, England. Agatha Christie ’ s most celebrated novels include And then There Were None ( 1939 ), Murder on the Orient Express ( 1933 ), and The ABC Murders ( 1936 ). Her novels have sold more than 100 million copies and have been…

Bad code works until it ‘s the class 2,000. Bad code is unmanageable to understand, more complex than it should be, not easy to test, and it makes other developers seethe with frustration. While it might take longer to write clean code in the short circuit terminus, it ‘s beyond established that writing clean code will save everyone time, attempt, and ultimately money . But there ‘s constantly board to learn. No one writes clean code from the begin. recently, X-Teamers discussed their most significant principles to keep their code clean, and we decided to parcel the best ones with…