Doubled!
1) Rain Makes Applesauce
2) A Wrinkle In Time
3) The Diary of Anne Frank
4) Roots
5) The Outsiders
6) Flowers for Algernon
7) Traps, Friedrich Dürrenmatt
8) Far from the Madding Crowd
9) Heat & Dust, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
10) An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
11) A Hazard of New Fortunes, William Dean Howells
12) The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
13) To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
14) Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
When I was a kid I used to read the books my mother (and grandmother) were reading before they returned them to the library.
Does this list bring back memories for anyone else other than me?
https://www.ranker.com/list/best-selling-novels-of-the-1970_s/bestselling-books
A list of the best selling novels in the US during the 1970's as reported by Publishers Weekly. This list ranges from 1970 through 1979. All types of novels have been included and each of them has made it into the top ten. With the introduction of the Nook, Kindle, and iPad with iBooks, reading...
There is a sentiment going around that we should allow hate speech on social platforms so we know who are the racists, bigots, and idiots.
Beware. This may sound good but the problem not addressed is that those with millions of followers are viewed as leaders and authorities. They empower other racists, bigots and idiots to ACT on this hate. They grow and nurture hate.
Keep this in mind as we will hear more framing around this as an excuse for why allowing hate on social media is a good thing.
Speaking of #7filmstoknowme,
if you like quirky, feel good, root for the underdog movies, be sure to watch
Brian and Charles
Brian and Charles: Directed by Jim Archer. With David Earl, Chris Hayward, Louise Brealey, Jamie Michie. After a particularly harsh winter Brian goes into a deep depression; completely isolated and with no one to talk to, Brian does what any sane person would do when faced with such a melancholic situation. He builds a robot.
Don't get your exit interviews in resignation letters.
Madame Pele at the Mauna Loa eruption.
Photo Credit: Ryan Weatherford, Facebook
US Voluntary Employee Turnover Rates peaked in the spring this year at 38.3%.
In 2018 during that same time period voluntary turnover was 29.1% -- which at the time we thought was high.
Traditionally in the past voluntary turnover in the US would hover at around 15%.
I'm going to have to read the actual case but at the moment I'm leaning more toward the, "No, you can't take LSD on the job" side.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/startup-ceo-fired-lsd-claims-210551029.html
Since to know me is to know that I make my own rules I have a dozen instead of 7.
Airplane
Amelie
Blue Valentine
Cinema Paradiso
Last Seduction
Life is Beautiful
Love, Actually
Office Space
Paper Moon
Purple Rose of Cairo
There's Something About Mary
Vicky Christina Barcelona