I love the snow, but hate to shovel it.
There is a wonderful sense of adventure when you are setting off on a journey even if you are just going home. For me you never know what’s going to happen, who you are going to see, or what you wi…
Gail Brodholt’s Metroland (via here)
Ealing based gallery showcasing Gail Brodholt artist prints for sale. For Arts Sake specialise in prints by Gail Brodholt and other artists.
There is a wonderful sense of adventure when you are setting off on a journey even if you are just going home. For me you never know what’s going to happen, who you are going to see, or what you wi…
Gail Carriger provides behind the scenes extras and links to research used creating her nonfiction book, The Heroine's Journey.
Different people have different ways of dealing with loss. The artist who goes online by the nickname Stormy Gail, for example, tries to cope by creating comics. Her untitled series features a crushed but not yet entirely defeated skeleton, and its everyday struggles.
A blockbuster exhibition of printmakers' original works on the theme of London opens this autumn
In interview with the printmaker Gail Brodholt, whose fascination lies with observing travellers and commuters and speculating on what their tales might be.
A voyeuristic New York photo project makes its way to Paris.
Welcome! Greetings and a warm welcome to you. I’m so glad you stopped by! You desperately want peace and happiness in your life, but can't seem to find
144 pages : 26 cm
Meet Gail Anderson, the award-winning, salt-and-pepper-shaker-collecting, typography-obsessed designer changing the way we learn and teach design.
We chart who has clocked up the most time on set.
Check Out These Pet Haircuts That, for Better or Worse, Completely Transformed Their Look Bad haircuts, we’ve all had them. But did you know that pets can also have bad hair days? For your entertainment, we’ve brought together our favorite pet haircuts. From dogs with mullets, mohawks, and emo bangs to pet salon trips that …
Author Gail Carriger's Essay on how to make a perfect cup of tea, based on Hearsay, Family Tradition, and Opinionated Preferences.
Different people have different ways of dealing with loss. The artist who goes online by the nickname Stormy Gail, for example, tries to cope by creating comics. Her untitled series features a crushed but not yet entirely defeated skeleton, and its everyday struggles.
100 Reasons Why Reading is Important, How you can get into a Reading Habit, If you're curious about the importance of reading, you’ll find out many reasons why it is important to read. Plus, reading to kids, reading challenges, and Great Books to Read
Looking for books like Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman? If you liked Eleanor Oliphant then you'll love these 10 heartwarming reads featuring quirky characters. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Even though menopause is a totally natural process, it can also be very nerve-wracking and frustrating. Not only is it tricky to find reliable information about how to go through menopause naturally, but many times
From the people that have only seen the movie, to the super fans that have seen it all around the world — we love Les Mis! Maybe you've even been it in? But one thing is for sure, we all have a "heart full of love" for this musical.
A woman was at her hairdresser’s getting her hair styled for a trip to Rome with her husband. She mentioned the trip to the hairdresser, who responded: ”Rome? Why would anyone want to go there? It’s crowded and dirty. You’re crazy to go to Rome. So, how are you getting there?” “We’re...
About Transformational Speaking You can change the world—one audience at a time! Today’s challenging times call for passionate visionaries who are authentic and articulate communicators. Speaking coach and consultant Gail Larsen presents a proven program that liberates the “speaker within” and transforms even the reluctant orator into an agent of change. While most books on public speaking focus on polishing your presentation and overcoming fear, Larsen’s holistic blend of spirit and logic goes far beyond the standard format, making TRANSFORMATIONAL SPEAKING a must-read for even the most seasoned speechmakers. With her uniquely inspirational approach, Larsen reaches out to those who want to make a genuine difference in our world by changing minds through touching hearts. TRANSFORMATIONAL SPEAKING offers insightful advice on everything from defining your message and refining your delivery, to managing the dynamics of a room, handling logistics like a pro, and building a connection with an audience of any size. Larsen has helped business executives and entrepreneurs, community and social change leaders, and healers and life coaches become active movers and shakers through the power of effective communication.
Agatha is one of Sophronia’s friends. She shares are room with Sidheag and, at first, is a little overcome by Sidheag’s brashness and Sophronia’s boldness. But she is perceptive enough to realize when someone has a good heart. The other three begin look after her as if she were a kind of pet. Secretly, […]
An honest and practical handbook that reveals important insights into relationships between men and women and work, Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman, is a must-read for every woman who wants to leverage her power in the workplace. Women make up almost half of today's labor force, but in corporate America they don't share half of the power. Only four of the Fortune 500 company CEOs are women, and it's only been in the last few years that even half of the Fortune 500 companies have more than one female officer. A major reason for this? Most women were never taught how to play the game of business. Throughout her career in the super-competitive, male-dominated media industry, Gail Evans, one of the country's most powerful executives, has met innumerable women who tell her that they feel lost in the workplace, almost as if they were playing a game without knowing the directions. In this book, she reveals the secrets to the playbook of success and teaches women at all levels of the organization--from assistant to vice president--how to play the game of business to their advantage. Men know the rules because they wrote them, but women often feel shut out of the process because they don't know when to speak up, when to ask for responsibility, what to say at an interview, and a lot of other key moves that can make or break a career. Sharing with humor and candor her years of lessons from corporate life, Gail Evans gives readers practical tools for making the right decisions at work. Among the rules you will learn are: • How to Keep Score at Work • When to Take a Risk • How to Deal with the Imposter Syndrome • Ten Vocabulary Words That Mean Different Things to Men and Women • Why Men Can be Ugly, and You Can't • When to Quit Your Job "I want to let you women in on a secret I've learned through my years in the corporate world: There is a set of unwritten rules in business and, while you may not choose to follow all of them, if you don't know what they are, you might as well be playing the game with both hands tied behind your back." --Gail Evans
One evening a family brings their frail, elderly mother to a nursing home and leaves her, hoping she will be well cared for. The next morning, the nurses bathe her, feed her a tasty breakfast and set her in a chair at a window overlooking a lovely flower garden. She seems like she’s doing fine,...
Nobody's perfect, and even the least toxic people in the world have probably exhibited toxic behavior at one point or another. I know I have. That said, there is a big difference between occasionally exhibiting toxic behavior and regularly adopting…
Unlock the ultimate decluttering tips tailored for seniors. Say goodbye to clutter and reclaim your space and peace of mind.
Inexpensive ways for seniors to have fun.
Mom are always looking for a unique first name that will be orignal and fit perfectly. Let's remember the names that used to be popular years ago.
Hail to the chief.
Notes From Your BooksellerHilarious and profound is a rare — and delightful — combination in a novel. This charming, big-hearted debut features a wonderful, plain-spoken and death-obsessed heroine named Gilda who readers will root for as she navigates accidental employment, mistaken identity (she can explain!), and finding your voice is a wonderful comfort read that will appeal to fans of Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman. In this “fun, page-turner of a novel” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that’s perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, a morbidly anxious young woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and soon finds herself obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death. Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she’s there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace. In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her crumbling apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace’s old friend. She can’t bear to ignore the kindly old woman who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can’t bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace’s death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence. With a “kindhearted heroine we all need right now” (Courtney Maum, New York Times bestselling author), Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a crackling and “delightfully weird reminder that we will one day turn to dust and that yes, this is depressing, but it’s also what makes life beautiful” (Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl). Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781982167363 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Washington Square Press Publication Date: 06-28-2022 Pages: 256 Product Dimensions: 8.20(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.80(d)About the Author Emily R. Austin was born in Ontario, Canada, and received a writing grant from the Canadian Council for the Arts in 2020. She studied English literature and library science at Western University. She currently lives in Ottawa. Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is her first novel.Reading Group Guide Reading Group Guide This reading group guide for Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead includes an introduction, discussion questions, ideas for enhancing your book club, and a Q&A with author Emily Austin. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book. Introduction In this darkly funny and utterly profound debut, Gilda, a twentysomething atheist lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. She accidentally stumbles into a job as a receptionist for a Catholic church, and in between trying to memorize the lines to mass, hiding the fact that she has a girlfriend, and watching the dirty-dish tower in her apartment grow ever higher, Gilda becomes obsessed with her work predecessor’s mysterious death. Full of delightfully awkward predicaments and pitch-perfect observations about the human condition, this novel is for anyone who searches for meaning in a chaotic world where they feel like an outsider, watching the daily rituals of life unfold as if through binoculars. Topics & Questions for Discussion 1. Gilda takes a job at a Catholic church despite being a lesbian atheist, which seems distinctly antithetical, and part of the fun is watching this situation unfold. Do you think Gilda’s attempts to hide who she is at work have a detrimental effect on her? Or is Gilda used to hiding things about herself? 2. Gilda’s parents both seem to be unable to face difficult realities. How do you think her parent’s—and, in particular, her dad’s—reactions to her behavior as a child affected her as she grew up? How do you think they affect both Gilda and Eli now that they’re adults? 3. Do you think it surprises Gilda when she hears Jeff crying after the death of a teenager from the congregation? How does witnessing someone else’s grief affect Gilda, who is constantly anxious about peoples’ deaths? 4. In what ways does working in the church subvert Gilda’s (and perhaps our own) expectations of what the experience will be like for her? 5. What do Gilda’s experiences with the health care system reveal to us about how acute anxiety is managed (or mismanaged) by health care professionals? How could her visits have been handled differently? 6. Gilda believes that Eleanor is trying to steal her identity when they first start messaging on a dating app. Does this allow Gilda to act differently—and more candidly—with Eleanor than with her previous matches? Why do you think this is the case? 7. Gilda’s anxieties throughout the novel can often be debilitating. They leave her unable to do dishes or shower, they cause her to obsess over things she can’t control (like the missing cat), and they often cause her to break into tears or have panic attacks at inconvenient times. What is it like for the reader to experience life through Gilda’s eyes? How did that affect you? Was it eye-opening or deeply familiar for you? Do you share her fears and, if so, to what extent? 8. As we see, Gilda often says yes to offers—the job at the church, the date with Giuseppe, etc.—when they are presented to her. Why do you think she does this? 9. How does Gilda’s worldview contrast with Giuseppe’s opinion that you can do anything you’d like in life as long as you believe that you can? 10. Gilda often hides what she’s thinking, like just how much she’s preoccupied with death, etc. How do these small omissions snowball into bigger ones? At what point does personal information about your own anxieties become necessary to share so that you can live as authentically as possible? 11. Gilda’s focus on death and the chaotic realities of existence can make societal conventions (such as what’s considered a sin) seem small in comparison. How does this contrast of existential dread shine a light on the rules and conventions that so many of us abide by? In your opinion, does it make them seem more trivial and nonsensical? Or does the acknowledgement of death help give meaning to existence? 12. In some ways, Gilda is very preoccupied with existence and the meaninglessness of our temporary lives, and in other ways, she cares deeply the details that shape the lives of humans and animals. How do these seemingly opposite notions seem to coexist or push against each other in her mind? 13. Barney tells Gilda that the characteristics of psychopaths are having been bullied as a child, committing petty crimes, and being chronically unemployed, which we know are all criteria that fit Gilda. What do you think it means to her to hear that she fits the profile? Do you think we paint with too broad a brush when we talk about people with mental illnesses? 14. Why do you think Gilda is fixated on hands—her own and other people’s? Why does she think so much about how they are the same hands throughout people’s whole lives? Enhance Your Book Club 1. This book has been compared to the show Fleabag. Watch both seasons of Fleabag (or choose select episodes) and discuss how the portrayals of the two young women—Gilda and Fleabag—are both similar to and different from one another. 2. In the latter half of the novel, both Barney and Gilda try to solve Grace’s apparent murder. Do the members of your book club have a fascination with true crime? If so, discuss what documentaries/docuseries, books, or podcasts you’ve seen/read/listened to. Have you ever played an amateur sleuth, whether in your own life or in trying to solve more famous crimes? 3. If this book were made into a film, TV series, or play, who would your dream cast for the characters in the book be? A Conversation with Emily Austin Q: This book is so beautifully written that we feel like we’re experiencing Gilda’s reality while we read it. If you don’t mind sharing, how much of this perspective (anxieties, existential dread, thinking about death, and caring deeply about others’ happiness) do you share with our main character versus how much of it did you draw from your imagination or research? A: Thank you! I do have an anxiety disorder and struggles with depression, and there are some thoughts represented in this book that belong to both Gilda and me. There are also areas where we differ, though. I have close friends and family who I also drew from. One of my sisters used to wake my mom up to cry about how she would die one day, for example. Q: In that same vein, what other portrayals of anxiety and depression did you pull from—in books, movies, tv shows, etc.—in order to create Gilda’s character? A: I went to therapy while writing this book and was given some material from my psychologist about anxiety and how it manifests. Gilda not feeling the pain in her broken arm was a symptom I remember reading in that material. I also listened to a lot of music by Phoebe Bridgers and Muna while writing this. I think I drew from that sometimes too. Q: Pets like the cat and rabbit come up multiple times throughout the book. Why did you choose to weave the story of the rabbit throughout Gilda’s present story line? A: A pet dying is often the first experience a person has with death, and it made sense to me that Gilda would struggle to ever get over that first experience. Q: A large part of the book tak
Gail-Agnes Musikavanhu's adrenaline-packed joyride of a debut is an ode to Gen Z and chaotic teensperfect for fans of Grace D. Li, Ebony Ladelle, and Baby Driver. Best friends Loli Crawford and Ryan Pope have earned their nickname, the Bonnie and Clyde of Woolridge High. From illegal snack swapping in kindergarten to reckless car surfing in high school, they have been causing trouble in their uptight California town forever. But everyone knows that the mischief starts with Loli; when it comes to chasing thrills, drama, and adventure, no one is on her level. At least until Loli throws the wildest party Woolridge High has ever seen and meets X, a strange, unidentified boy in the coat closet, who challenges her to a game she cant refuseone that promises to put her love of danger to the ultimate test. Loli and X begin an anonymous correspondence, exchanging increasingly risky missions. Lolis fun has always been free and easy, but things spin out of control as she attempts to one-up Xs every move. As Loli risks losing everythingincluding her oldest friendshell face the most dangerous thing of all: falling for someone she shouldnt. | Author: Gail-Agnes Musikavanhu | Publisher: Soho Teen | Publication Date: Jun 06, 2023 | Number of Pages: 384 pages | Language: English | Binding: Hardcover | ISBN-10: 1641294205 | ISBN-13: 9781641294201
Quai Anatole-France. Paris VIIe - Gail Albert Halaban American, b. 1970 Photographs, archival pigment print