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Post by shades on Feb 14, 2016 12:27:33 GMT
I often watch TED Talks, so I'll post links in this thread. To get started... Harry Baker: A love poem for lonely prime numbers on.ted.com/c0yz7
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Post by jolovespiggies on Feb 14, 2016 17:15:07 GMT
That is brilliant love, what a clever play on, I was going to say words, but numbers also.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by 3piggles on Feb 14, 2016 21:44:24 GMT
Love it
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TED Talks
Feb 26, 2016 14:25:12 GMT
via mobile
Post by shades on Feb 26, 2016 14:25:12 GMT
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Post by 3piggles on Feb 26, 2016 16:27:50 GMT
Lol Love it I will never think of 4 a.m. the same way again He did an excellent job of humorously showing how conspiracies are formed
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Post by jolovespiggies on Feb 27, 2016 20:44:06 GMT
Very good indeed.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by Bean on Mar 11, 2016 9:58:32 GMT
Funny!
Incidentally the book that's just been chosen for my book group is written by a woman apparently well-known for her TED talks on the power of vulnerability, Brene Brown. It looks like a snooze of a book to be honest - I'd much rather have a good novel to get stuck into!
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 11, 2016 13:41:23 GMT
I'm curious about your new book. Novels have characters, plots within plots, and build a story chapter by chapter. Self-help books tend to have about 10 worthwhile points to make, which could all be made in a pamphlet, yet the author can stretch it to 300 pages of endlessly repeating oneself. One written genre where the Cliff Notes really would be better
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Post by jolovespiggies on Mar 11, 2016 20:05:04 GMT
Ha ha, that is all so very true. You cannot beat a book with a good story but with the self help ones, it does seem like a lot of waffle most of the time.
Hugs Jo cc
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 13, 2016 15:01:30 GMT
Then there is the sleeper of them all, great for helping with even the worst insomnia, technical manuals
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Post by jolovespiggies on Mar 13, 2016 21:19:13 GMT
Haha Piggles, how true love LOL!!
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by Bean on Mar 14, 2016 9:21:59 GMT
This is the book - Daring Greatly. I gave it about 10 minutes yesterday and even that managed to get me annoyed. It just irritates me when someone is evangelical about how everyone would benefit from what they've learned - they don't seem to appreciate that not everyone is wired the same and benefits from the same things. Anyway I'll give it more of a go, but I've a feeling she's going to get on my wick!
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 14, 2016 18:44:57 GMT
I love the description and quotes. Based on that, we'd all feel foolish if we didn't read the book. Great marketing by her editor, but not a real description of the book. I hope it gets better, or your next book group meeting is going to be really interesting!
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Post by jolovespiggies on Mar 14, 2016 21:42:49 GMT
You are right Bean love, some people are so tunnel visioned that they only see one type of person and think we are all the same. How often do you have your book meeting Piggles hun?
Hugs JO xx
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Post by Bean on Mar 15, 2016 9:28:02 GMT
It's usually every 4-6 weeks depending on the length of the book and when people are free.
The best meets are usually ones where the book has been awful and people want to rant, or there are polarised opinions on whether it was any good - if everyone's loved it, the book discussion part is often over quite quickly!
Not many people pick self-help/ self-discovery type books (thank goodness) - actually it's just this one person who has chosen one before in all our history!
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 15, 2016 15:16:05 GMT
How did everyone like the last self-help book that person chose? I'm just wondering if that person is going to be two for two, or if the last one was really good.
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Post by Bean on Mar 16, 2016 9:27:50 GMT
No the last one was definitely not really good! It was basically a book to help people who had fallen out of love with their partners, so given it wasn't relevant to most people there (and perhaps not something others would necessarily choose to discuss at book group even if it were?!) it wasn't too enlightening. But we had a good discussion about it all the same!
The irony was the person who chose it didn't even end up reading it (although she did later separate from her partner). She's great though and I do love that we end up reading all sorts of stuff we'd never normally choose to go near with a barge pole!
We're very non-judgmental about people not reading the books too, so if someone doesn't fancy the book but still wants to come along and drink wine, eat cake and see their friends, there's no problem at all! The only thing we do get annoyed by is if someone's read half the book and wants to finish it without spoilers, so asks us to have our discussion without mentioning anything that happened in the second half of the book?!
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Post by 3piggles on Mar 16, 2016 14:34:01 GMT
There should be a disclaimer with the group that discussions will include spoilers, so anyone who hasn't read the book should stay home that day That's the problem I have following The Murdoch Murders on Facebook. It started airing on Canadian TV about 5 episodes before it started airing on US TV, so the Facebook page is geared to Canadians. I read the basics, but not the comments, as the comments give away too much of what happened.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Mar 16, 2016 21:28:09 GMT
Sorry Bean love, it is you of course who attends the book club. It sounds as if the meetings can get quite heated LOL!
Hugs JO xx
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Post by Bean on Apr 1, 2016 14:06:25 GMT
It's always fun when we have a good debate or someone gets on their soapbox! Everyone's lovely so we haven't had any fall outs yet!
I finished the book, and you were right about how she could have got the message across in a pamphlet, 3piggles. Far too much waffle and overthinking - it drained me reading it. There was a good basic message about how we should all stop judging and be kinder, both to each other and (most importantly) ourselves in life. But everything else was a bit of a snooze!
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