If you are looking to get the most bang for your buck (i.e., understanding for the effort), I suggest that you read Parts 1 and 2, and the beginning of Part 3 (through the Summary and Table of Principles) which will give you nearly the whole picture. One day I’d like to write a Part 4 on my investment principles. Since my management principles are simply my most fundamental life principles applied to management, reading Part 2 will help you to better understand Part 3, but it’s not required-you can go directly to Part 3 to see what my management principles are and how Bridgewater has been run. Part 3, explains my management principles as they are being lived out at Bridgewater. Part 2 explains my most fundamental life principles that apply to everything I do. Part 1 is about the purpose and importance of having principles in general, having nothing to do with mine. Abstract: What follows are three distinct parts that can be read either independently or as a connected whole.
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Jones - as I think that the social pressure on girls and women, to just be nice (all the time! no matter what!) are still very strong. I like stories about little girls that aren't sweet - think Ramona, Clementine, or Junie B. All in all, although I came away with some concerns, I wasn't as disturbed as my friend. The irrepressible Bean, who has something of a penchant for trouble (especially if it involves teasing her older sister, Nancy), discovers that just because her new neighbor wears a skirt, and has her nose stuck perpetually in a book, doesn't mean that she's boring while Ivy, intent on becoming a witch - if studying can bring it about, it will happen! - learns that Bean is anything but the sweet paragon held up to her.I was curious to see what I would make of this story, after reading a friend's negative review, which compared the character of Bean unfavorably with Beverly Cleary's Ramona, so when I found myself stuck in the city the other day with nothing to read, and happened upon a book-sale, I snapped up the first few volumes of the series. Although each is encouraged to play with the other by their respective mothers - who foolishly trot out the old "she seems like such a nice girl" line - they resist, until circumstances intervene, in the form of Bean on the run from the consequences of her latest stunt, and they are thrown together. The eponymous Ivy and Bean discover that sometimes appearances can be deceiving in this amusing first entry in Annie Barrows' series of easy chapter-books for the primary school set. There are similarities to Butcher's series, but they are not overwhelming and do not detract from the book in the least.Īlex is quite different from Harry. Benedict Jacka is on to something with this one and I can honestly say I liked just about everything about it. Fated can easily stand on it's own and boasts some exceptional characters and world building. However, I did go into it with an open mind and wasn't expecting Alex to be just like Harry. Butcher's endorsement of this novel was one of the reasons I wanted to read it. Readers who are expecting this one to be exactly like Jim Butcher's series will be surprised at both the similarities and the differences.Īs many of you know I am a huge fan of Jim Butcher and especially the Dresden Files series. Jacka's novel is riveting and grips the reader from the first page to the last. It has a smooth pace and multi-faceted characters. The world building in this one is exceptional. Fated is the first book in the Alex Verus series and introduces readers to a mage, who is hiding in plain sight. And thanks to his abilities, Alex can predict that by taking the job, his odds of survival are about to go from slim to none.īenedict Jacka gives readers an Urban Fantasy alternative to the Dresden Files. But when Alex is approached by multiple factions to crack open a relic from a long-ago mage war, he knows that whatever's inside must be beyond powerful. They visit a voodoo queen in New Orleans who tells them a story about three magical stones and a spell that can make the wielder invincible. He blackmails Kayla to help him rescue his kidnapped mother. He's able to teleport to any place that he has seen a picture of. She is eager to add some money to the family pot and to build up a hidden reserve in case they have to run again.She is caught by a young man named David who has a power of his own. Kayla was born being able to use telekinesis and she has honed her skills by becoming a great shoplifter. Kayla's mother told her they ran because her father had killed her older sister Amanda and her mother was afraid that he would kill Kayla next. After a time of flight, homelessness, and uncertainty, they found their way to Santa Barbara. Kayla and her mother fled from her father when she was eight. CHASING POWER was an excellent story with a wonderful main character. When they arrive at a door in the earth marked “Woodchuck’s House,” Hen scoffs at the idea of life in a hole, but the ever positive Blue notes that the home seems cozy. Blue cheerfully asks, “What’s all the fuss?” and insists that the animals pile into the back so they can all confront the newcomer together. Toad at the wheel, Blue parks and listens to several barnyard animals relate the ways that the newcomer is different from each of them. Little Blue Truck and his amphibious sidekick persuade the local animals that they need not fear a newly arrived animal on the local scene.Īs Little Blue Truck and Toad meander through colorful, stylized, bucolic countryside, they are stopped by Hen, wings flapping and feathers a-flying: “Someone moved in / down the road- / someone different, / Blue and Toad!” The rest of the story uses similar rhyme and rhythm, but, unfortunately, not all verses scan as easily. Heck, Batting Average on Balls In Play (BABIP) and Pitches per Plate Appearance (P/PA) are not completely off the table at this point. We may even dabble a bit with Ground Ball (GB), Line Drive (LD) and Fly Ball (FB) percentages. Then, there’s others like Contact Rate (Ct%) and Batting Eye (Eye). Of course, we must start with BA and xBA. In the language of fantasy baseball love…that is, advanced analytics…there are numerous letters floating in the acronym soup we can look at to evaluate batting average. Of course, we’re talking about the Batting Average (BA). The category that is a core of fantasy baseball scoring but has outlived its useful life (in this author’s opinion). The category most likely to get sacrificed when you need an injection of power. Today, we’re going to spend a little time on one of the offensive categories that tends to only get marginal in-season attention. The rest of us are chasing stats somewhere…more likely, practically everywhere. How are your teams doing? Need any help? If you say “no, my team is perfect” well, congratulations. Welcome back to another fantastic Friday of fantasy baseball. Medical and mental health care providers, educators, business leaders, and advocates seeking information about transgender concerns can all gain from Green's integrative approach to the topic. With profoundly personal and eminently practical threads, Green clarifies transgender experience for transgender people and their families, friends, and coworkers. This new edition captures the changes of the last two decades, while also imparting a message of self-acceptance and health. Since the first edition's publication, author Jamison Green's writings and advocacy among business and governmental organizations around the world have led to major changes in the fields of law, medicine, and social policy, and his (mostly invisible) work has had significant effects on trans people globally. At least two generations of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people have emerged since Becoming a Visible Man was first published in 2004, but the book remains a beloved resource for trans people and their allies. The author did not have the patience to undertake the arduous task of writing a novel to completion. But that was just one part of the equation. But she couldn’t bring herself to take a serious crack at writing a proper novel. Heath spent her high school and college years writing. It followed a man who fell for a mermaid. She was just seven when she brought her first story to life. Heath was responsible for penning their training manuals. After graduating with a BA in psychology, she spent several years working for the IRS. Heath was still quite young when the family made the move to Texas. Her mother was a British beauty queen that won a Max Factor-sponsored contest that earned her a kiss from Ceasar Romero. Her father, a Texan, was in the air force, stationed at Bovingdon. For example, as the two are traveling, “they steered the bike in the direction the sign indicated, and Mosscap fell into step alongside.” I’m not arguing that the plural pronoun shouldn’t be used, but it fails to add anything except moments of confusion to this particular tale, at least so far. Like the first novel, it’s a quiet story about what it’s like to be human or robot in the future, when humanity has stopped building robots in favor of trying to take care of the natural world they have left after the expansions of an industrial age.ĭex is nonbinary, which has nothing to do with the adventures the character experiences but is often momentarily confusing because readers are guessing whether Dex is doing something alone or with Mosscap. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, by Becky Chambers, is a second short novel about her monk and robot pair, Dex and Mosscap, telling of their adventures after what happens in A Psalm for the Wild-Built. Soon he tells his best friend, Zoey, but the longer he keeps his secret from his baseball teammates, the more he suspects they know something’s up-especially when he stages one big cover-up with terrible consequences.Ī High Five for Glenn Burke is Phil Bildner’s most personal novel yet-a powerful story about the challenge of being true to yourself, especially when not everyone feels you belong on the field. Burke was a gay baseball player in the 1970s-and for Silas, the presentation is his own first baby step toward revealing a truth about himself he's tired of hiding. When sixth grader Silas Wade does a school presentation on former Major Leaguer Glenn Burke, it’s more than just a report about the irrepressible inventor of the high five. A 2021 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Honor BookĪ Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020Ī heartfelt and relatable novel from Phil Bildner, weaving the real history of Los Angeles Dodger and Oakland Athletic Glenn Burke-the first professional baseball player to come out as gay-into the story of a middle-school kid learning to be himself. |