{"id":191,"date":"2020-10-13T14:36:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2020-10-13T14:36:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:36:33","slug":"books-with-milelong-titles-on-my-tbr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readwithstefani.com\/mk\/books-with-milelong-titles-on-my-tbr\/","title":{"rendered":"Books with Milelong Titles on my TBR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here’s a list of books I want to read, some of them with super long titles for today’s Top Ten Tuesday. It seems like it’s mostly non-fiction books. I like to think this a good list, including varying interests of mine. I’m incredibly proud of my non-fiction selection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Getting It Write: Common Sense Copywriting for your Business by Marilyn Messik<\/a>*<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Wouldn\u2019t it be wonderful if a book on Writing for your Business could guide you, gently but firmly down the path to security, success and the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Unfortunately, life\u2019s no fairy-tale, so I wouldn\u2019t lay bets on the pot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fact is, there\u2019s never an approach to anything that suits everyone and writing\u2019s no exception. What works splendidly for someone else, might not tick your boxes. Which is why, in this book, you\u2019ll find no absolute rights, wrongs or rules, just plenty of options, opinions and suggestions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In Nocturnes<\/em>, Kazuo Ishiguro explores the ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the \u2018hush-hush floor\u2019 of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gentle, intimate and witty, this quintet is marked by a haunting theme: the struggle to keep alive a sense of life\u2019s romance, even as one gets older, relationships flounder and youthful hope recedes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs: The Nobel Lecture by Kazuo Ishiguro<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2017,\u00a0My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs<\/em>\u00a0is the lecture of the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro. A generous and hugely insightful biographical sketch, it explores his relationship with Japan, reflections on his own novels and an insight into some of his inspirations, from the worlds of writing, music and film. Ending with a rallying call for the ongoing importance of literature in the world, it is a characteristically thoughtful and moving piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

They were the Princess Dianas of their day\u2014perhaps the most photographed and talked about young royals of the early twentieth century. The four captivating Russian Grand Duchesses\u2014Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Romanov\u2014were much admired for their happy dispositions, their looks, the clothes they wore and their privileged lifestyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years, the story of the four Romanov sisters and their tragic end in a basement at Ekaterinburg in 1918 has clouded our view of them, leading to a mass of sentimental and idealized hagiography. With this treasure trove of diaries and letters from the grand duchesses to their friends and family, we learn that they were intelligent, sensitive and perceptive witnesses to the dark turmoil within their immediate family and the ominous approach of the Russian Revolution, the nightmare that would sweep their world away, and them along with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don\u2019t Know by Malcolm Gladwell<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn’t true?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While tackling these questions, Malcolm Gladwell was not solely writing a book for the page. He was also producing for the ear. In the audiobook version of Talking to Strangers, you’ll hear the voices of people he interviewed–scientists, criminologists, military psychologists. Court transcripts are brought to life with re-enactments. You actually hear the contentious arrest of Sandra Bland by the side of the road in Texas. As Gladwell revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, and the suicide of Sylvia Plath, you hear directly from many of the players in these real-life tragedies. There’s even a theme song – Janelle Monae’s “Hell You Talmbout.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Highly Sensitive Person’s Guide to Dealing with Toxic People: How to Reclaim Your Power from Narcissists and Other Manipulators by Shahida Arabi<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Reclaim your power from narcissists, manipulators, and other toxic people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re a highly sensitive person, or identify as an \u201cempath,\u201d you may feel easily overwhelmed by the world around you, suffer from \u201cpeople-pleasing,\u201d experience extreme anxiety or stress in times of conflict, or even take on the emotions of others. Due to your naturally giving nature, you may also be a target for narcissists and self-centered individuals who seek to exploit others for their own gain. So, how can you protect yourself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

‘A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and\u00a0Lord Jim<\/em>. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel,\u00a0Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World<\/em>\u00a0is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami’s international following. Tracking one man’s descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, Murakami unites East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land by\u00a0No\u00e9 \u00c1lvarez<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Growing up in Yakima, Washington, No\u00e9 \u00c1lvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who \u201cslouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives.\u201d A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, \u00c1lvarez struggled to fit in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At nineteen, he learned about a Native American\/First Nations movement called the Peace and Dignity Journeys, epic marathons meant to renew cultural connections across North America. He dropped out of school and joined a group of Den\u00e9, Secw\u00e9pemc, Gitxsan, Dakelh, Apache, Tohono O\u2019odham, Seri, Pur\u00e9pecha, and Maya runners, all fleeing difficult beginnings. Telling their stories alongside his own, \u00c1lvarez writes about a four-month-long journey from Canada to Guatemala that pushed him to his limits. He writes not only of overcoming hunger, thirst, and fear\u2015dangers included stone-throwing motorists and a mountain lion\u2015but also of asserting Indigenous and working-class humanity in a capitalist society where oil extraction, deforestation, and substance abuse wreck communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay’s\u00a0This is Going to Hurt<\/em>\u00a0provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know – and more than a few things you didn’t – about life on and off the hospital ward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth-Stephens Davidowitz, Steven Pinker<\/a> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Everybody Lies offers fascinating, surprising, and sometimes laugh-out-loud insights into everything from economics to ethics to sports to race to sex, gender and more, all drawn from the world of big data. What percentage of white voters didn\u2019t vote for Barack Obama because he\u2019s black? Does where you go to school effect how successful you are in life? Do parents secretly favor boy children over girls? Do violent films affect the crime rate? Can you beat the stock market? How regularly do we lie about our sex lives and who\u2019s more self-conscious about sex, men or women?

*books marked with (*) are NetGalley ARCs <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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