A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos except when it informs the greater tale being told. Quite often, it is the memoirs that feature an excess of pathos More
This multigenerational tale travels from China to New York in search of the true meaning of good fortuneIt’s often said that good luck is the result of good planning: you make your own. But is our luck in life ever entirely under our control? And how much luck, and planning, might be enough? Real Americans, Rachel Khong’s second novel, strikes directly at the heart of these questions. Its Chinese-American characters are brought into contact with fabulous wealth – a prototypical stroke of luck....
"The Sims had really kind of seeded that desire for homeownership in me at a young age," said Elle Hunt, a journalist based in the U.K. "And I'd spent the interim 20 years walking away from that dream a bit."
Life on Wearside in 1974 gets our attention here. From schools to shipyards and sport to shopping, we have included it all in this poignant look back in time. Woolworths is all lit up in Fawcett Street, and Deptford shipyard workers are smiling in the sun. The Marsden tug is hard at work and Ryhope School was preparing to put on its version of Tommy the rock opera. Over at Hillview Infants, the new starters were settling in and at Roker Park, Joe Bolton and Bobby Kerr were celebrating a goal....
Part of the A39 is set to be closed until May while 'urgent' investigation work is completed
The Idaho Army National Guard’s State Aviation Group and the Boise Fire Department’s Swiftwater/Dive Team remain ready for the call of real-world rescues with new training scenarios by adding the element of water during hoist rescue exercises on April 18 and 19 at a local pond in Boise. Firefighters practiced hoist rescues from the water using the State Aviation Group's UH-60 Black Hawk and the UH-72A Lakota helicopters. The training enables the Swiftwater/Dive Rescue Team to become familiar...
The Iowa City Shelter House Emergency Shelter is set to renovate the single adult dormitories, bathrooms, and stairwells to improve the safety of guests and staff. The Johnson County Board of Supervisors approved a request by Shelter House to reopen the Winter Shelter for the duration of the project to continue uninterrupted emergency shelter services.
Pride of Place, a group established by Business in the Community and made up of leaders from the public, private and voluntary sectors, is partnering with Sheffield City Council’s See it Be it in Sheffield campaign. The aim is to increase employer engagement in schools, colleges and other educational settings across the city to help raise the attainment, aspirations and work-readiness of local young people. Over 60 businesses came together at Meadowhead Secondary School this week to hear...
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In his new Peacock series Orlando Bloom: To the Edge, the actor Orlando Bloom scales a 400-foot crag, freedives 100 feet on one breath, and jumps out of a plane at 13,000 feet to try wingsuiting for the first time. His wellness practices, as he tells GQ, have involved a similar amount of gutsiness: getting dosed with frog poison, embarking on a fast that involves eating bentonite clay. More than 20 years after Bloom was first introduced to audiences worldwide as the platinum blond elf Legolas in...
Alua Arthur helps people plan for death. A big part of her work is helping them reconcile the lives they lived with the lives they might have wanted. Her memoir is called Briefly Perfectly Human.