5/23/2023 0 Comments 32 candles by ernessa t carter![]() In fact, Davie Jones is every woman, with her insecurities, jealousies, and things she’d sometimes like to forget. I came to realize that Davie really was like me in so many ways. But you know what? I absolutely loved this book, and I completely mean it when I say I COULD NOT put it down. I’m a middle class, white girl from New York with two of the best parents in the world. She’s a poor, black Southern girl with an abusive mother. My Thoughts: Ya know, foolishly and unnecessarily, I wasn’t sure about this book. Their relationship is passionate and wonderful, until Davie’s past comes back to haunt her, with the threat of destroying the new life she’s created for herself, especially the love she and James share. Everything is different for Davie now – until she runs into James again, years later, and he falls desperately in love with her, not remembering or recognizing her at all. ![]() There, she reinvents herself into a cool and successful lounge singer at a ritzy nightclub. But one thing gives her hope: Sixteen Candles, and her dream that one day, she too will have her very own “Molly Ringwald Ending.” She clings to this hope until a cruel joke pushes her to the edge, and she runs away to L.A. She’s teased relentlessly at school, given the nickname, Monkey Night, and desperately in love with the handsome, popular, and rich, James Farrell who doesn’t know she exists. ![]() ![]() On top of that, she’s poor, and living with her abusive single mother in Mississippi. ![]()
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The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday offers great lessons on how to overcome challenges in every aspect of your life. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Pixar book creativity inc![]() ![]() ![]() It is, at heart, a book about how to build and sustain a creative culture-but it is also, as Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull writes, “an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible.”įor nearly twenty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner twenty-seven Academy Awards. is a book for managers who want to lead their employees to new heights, a manual for anyone who strives for originality, and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation Studios-into the story meetings, the postmortems, and the “Braintrust” sessions where art is born. ![]() The 368-page book, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, was co-written with journalist Amy Wallace and will be published next April by Random House.įrom the description, it sounds like the book will be part-business management and part personal memoir, and a valuable title anyone who wishes to understand how Pixar functions as a company:Ĭreativity, Inc. 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