4/5: Há muitos anos atrás, os robôs criaram consciência e se afastaram dos humanos em Panga que passou a ter as sociedades humanas vivendo nas cidades e regiões próximas num esforço de renaturalização, e os robôs vivendo nas áreas mais selvagens. Dex é um monge do chá, que oferece uma caneca e um ombro para as pessoas conversarem e desabafarem. Mas algo o inquieta e quando ele decide se aventurar fora da zona urbana acaba fazendo o primeiro contato entre humanos e robôs desde a ...| www.goodreads.com
1493 quotes from The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment: ‘Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary ...| www.goodreads.com
3514 quotes from Marcus Aurelius: 'You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.', 'Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.', and 'The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.'| www.goodreads.com
918 quotes from Joseph Campbell: 'Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.', 'We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.', and 'The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.'| www.goodreads.com
In this science fiction novella trilogy, a charming grifter faces off against a government agent, crossing wits, trying to come out on top…and maybe fall...| www.goodreads.com
Connection is why we're here. We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.| www.goodreads.com
614 quotes from Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action: ‘People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do...| www.goodreads.com
2/5: Adam Kay’s account of medical training, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, is one of those books that resonated with me pretty hard — his memories of medical meatgrinder which you more or less survive on stubbornness, altruism and sheer exhausted determination (Kay is a British NHS gynecologist who is no longer practicing). Write what you know is what usually works, and Kay follows this here, creating this fictional mystery story set in a British hospital, snar...| www.goodreads.com
A wise old owl lived in an oak;The more he saw the less he spoke;The less he spoke the more he heard:Why can't we all be like that bird?| www.goodreads.com
The most common metaphor for careers is a ladder, but this concept no longer applies to most workers. As of 2010, the average American had eleven jobs fr...| www.goodreads.com
3/5: Quando o Lorde Henry conhece o jovem Dorian Gray, ele está posando para uma pintura de Basil Hallward. Ao se impressionar com a beleza daquele jovem, Henry se torna uma influência nefasta, levando-o a se tornar uma pessoa que coloca o prazer e a diversão acima de tudo, independentemente de machucar as pessoas. E ao concluir o retrato, Dorian faz o desejo de não envelhecer e sim que o retrato faça isso por ele. E é atendido. O Retrato de Dorian Gray é um fascinante estudo de person...| www.goodreads.com
4/5: This setting for this novel is Devon England and focuses on four generations of Fairchild women. Lillian is a famed mystery author living in an amazing old mansion which overlooks the sea. She is the mother of Poppy, grandmother to Poppy's daughter Zoe and great grandmother to Isabel. The story is told from all four women's point of view. It's interesting to read their chapters and see their perspectives, unique from one another based on different experiences. Lillian reveals she wanted ...| www.goodreads.com
4/5: When I read this description on the jacket of the book I was instantly hooked before I started it: “Her sister has been dead for fifteen years when she sees her on the TV news… Josie Bianci was killed years ago on a train during a terrorist attack. Gone forever. It’s what her sister, Kit, an ER doctor in Santa Cruz, has always believed. Yet all it takes is a few heart-wrenching seconds to upend Kit’s world. Live coverage of a club fire in Auckland has captured the image of a woma...| www.goodreads.com
1 free copy available. Giveaway dates from Jul 09-Jul 16, 2024. In celebration of its release, we're giving away a copy of R.B. Lemberg's return to their...| www.goodreads.com
4/5: “Sometimes future demands sacrifice.” Having read a string of quite unsatisfying novellas recently, I was about to start doubting the genre. But then Adrian Tchaikovsky as always swoops in and seemingly effortlessly shows how it’s done, how a sharply and skillfully written novella can be perfect for its length, with all the worlbuilding and character development and interesting well-paced plot happening at the same time and in the same space. Tchaikovsky doesn’t fall into the com...| www.goodreads.com
2/5: The idea of this world seemed interesting — who doesn’t like wormhole travel complications? Even if the premise of human navigators that belong to specific clans using their “Shadows” coming from their vitality to help navigate the ships to avoid the horrors living in the wormhole space is a bit odd, I’ve loved the books that were much stranger (Gideon the Ninth, for instance). “Most people didn’t appreciate being told all of the truth, and Nhi couldn’t always understand ...| www.goodreads.com
4/5: “I am learning that it is important to stop sometimes, and just have a drink and a gossip with friends, even as corpses start to pile up around you. Which they have been doing a lot recently. It's a balancing act, of course, but, by and large, the corpses will still be there in the morning, and you mustn't let it spoil your Domino's.” Adorable, sweet and funny as only a murder mystery story featuring spies, drug dealers and stolen diamonds and solved by a septuagenarian pensioner qua...| www.goodreads.com
3/5: “The sun is up, the skies are blue, and murder is in the air.” It’s the ultimate cupcake of a murder(s) mystery solved by a septuagenarian quartet in an upscale retirement village aided by a plucky detective, with no pretense of being “real”. It’s both adorable and lovely and funny — and yet has a touch of bittersweet that comes with the knowledge that time is going by but there’s still so much of life to want to live, but loss and loneliness and pain of ageing are never ...| www.goodreads.com
