Reasons to Be Cheerful

Reasons to Be Cheerful PDF Author: Nina Stibbe
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0316309354
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
From "the reliably hilarious" (Entertainment Weekly) author of Love, Nina: a brilliantly funny and heartbreaking story of growing up and finding the independence you might not actually want . . . Teenager Lizzie Vogel has a new job as a dental assistant. This is not as glamorous as it sounds. At least it means mostly getting away from her alcoholic, nymphomaniacal, novel-writing mother. But, if Lizzie thinks being independent means sex with her boyfriend (he prefers bird-watching), strict boundaries (her boss keeps using her loo) or self-respect (surely only actual athletes get fungal foot infections?) she's still got a lot more growing up to do. The winner of the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, Reasons to Be Cheerful is a novel that lives up to its title, confirming Nina Stibbe's status as one of the most original and delightful writers at work today.

Bouncing Forward

Bouncing Forward PDF Author: Michaela Haas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501115138
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
"The first book of its kind in the new science of posttraumatic growth: A cutting-edge look at how trauma survivors find healing and new resilience,"--Amazon.com.

Paradise Lodge

Paradise Lodge PDF Author: Nina Stibbe
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316309338
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277

Book Description
A delightful story of growing up, getting old, and every step in between, from the acclaimed author of Man at the Helm and Love, Nina. After succeeding in her quest to help her unconventional mother find a new "man at the helm," fifteen-year-old Lizzie Vogel simply wants to be a normal teenager. Just when it looks as if things have settled down, her mother goes and has another baby. On top of that, Lizzie's best friend has deserted her for the punk craze, which Lizzie finds too exhausting to commit to herself. But Lizzie soon gets more commitment than she bargained for when she takes a job as a junior nurse at Paradise Lodge, a ramshackle refuge for the elderly that has seen better days. It's no place for a teenager, much less one with as little experience emptying a bedpan as Lizzie. What begins as away to avoid school and earn some spending money (for the finer things in life, like real coffee and beer shampoo) quickly turns into the education of a lifetime. Lizzie encounters a colorful cast of eccentric characters -- including a nurse determined to turn one of the patients into a husband (and a retirement plan); an efficient but clueless nun trying to modernize the place; and Lizzie's unlikely first love -- who become her surrogate family. When Paradise Lodge faces a crisis in the form of a rival nursing home with enough amenities to make even the comatose jealous, Lizzie must find a way to save her job before she loses the only place she's ever felt she belongs. A hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-age tale, Paradise Lodge proves that it's never too early -- or too late -- to grow up.

Arboretum

Arboretum PDF Author: David Byrne
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1786899515
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
For over thirty years, besides making music, David Byrne has focused his unique genius upon forms as diverse as the archaeology of music as we know it, architectural photography and the uses of PowerPoint. Now he presents his most personal work to date, a collection of drawings exploring the form of the tree diagram. Arboretum is an eclectic blend of science, automatic writing, self-analysis and satire. A journey through irrational logic - the application of scientific rigour and form to irrational premises, proceeding from careful nonsense to unexpected sense. The tree diagram is a form that might reveal more about yourself than you dreamed possible.

Ian Dury & the Blockheads

Ian Dury & the Blockheads PDF Author: Jim Drury
Publisher: Sanctuary Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
The band who coined the phrase Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick in the 1980s, The Blockheads were the musical force behind the articulate and though provoking lyrics of the enigmatic shaman - Ian Dury. Sadly he is no longer with us, but Dury's band have continued gigging. This title sits the original line up down and discuss with them the back catalogue of hits they enjoyed, as well as their memories of the great man.

Reasons to Be Cheerful

Reasons to Be Cheerful PDF Author: Nina Stibbe
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316309354
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
The hilarious and moving story of one young woman's adventures in adulthood Eighteen-year-old Lizzie Vogel lands a job in a local dentist's office after answering a classified ad for a "mature lady with a strong interest in dental issues." The job comes with an apartment of her own, as well as an eccentric boss, a high-strung coworker, and the occasional call to perform light dentistry herself. It also provides Lizzie with an introduction to Andy Nicolello, young man of her dreams: handsome, kind, slightly indifferent. Lizzie seizes her chance to find love and soon begins calling him her boyfriend even though they have never so much as kissed or sat next to each other on the sofa. Navigating the new waters of adult life (conquering homesickness, learning to drive, hosting a dinner party, making bold-or tragic, depending on the viewer-fashion choices), Lizzie arrives at an unexpected, and unexpectedly moving, destination. Painfully funny, sharply observed, and deeply empathetic, Reasons to Be Cheerful is a novel that lives up to its title, confirming Nina Stibbe's status as one of the most original and delightful writers at work today.

Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part One

Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part One PDF Author: Toni Kent
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781494340544
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description
A selection of the best essays from the relentlessly optimistic writer, Toni Kent. Tired of the corporate merry-go-round, Toni broke free of her big business chains to pursue a long held dream of becoming a freelance writer and a happier human being. She created her blog 'Reasons to be Cheerful' as a means of charting her journey from stressed out 'executive' to freelancer via topics as wide-ranging as Facebook being a pet-lovers paradise, trying to avoid gadgets despite working in the tech industry, the perils of control underwear and the horror felt by her husband at having to pretend to be a uterus during a particularly earnest NCT meeting. If you've ever fallen over at a wedding, accidentally set fire to your kitchen in the pursuit of culinary excellence, paused Sunday lunch to wipe a smelly bottom and returned to eating without batting an eyelid, or sung your heart out in a field then this book is for you.

Reasons to be Cheerful

Reasons to be Cheerful PDF Author: Alex Hallatt
Publisher: Moontoon Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
We are living in challenging times and it can seem that the world is a terrible place. It's not. There is so much to love around us and so many reasons to be cheerful. Syndicated cartoonist, Alex Hallatt, has collected the best of them for this book. Read it to find 101 reasons to be cheerful and feel good about the world.
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