This Ordinary Life
This Ordinary Life

Author: Jennifer Walkup

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-01-02

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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Sometimes hope is the most extraordinary gift of all. High-school radio host Jasmine Torres's life is full of family dysfunction, but if she can score the internship of her dreams with a New York City radio station, she knows she can turn things around. That is, until her brother Danny's latest seizure forces her to miss the interview, and she's back to the endless loop of missing school for his doctor appointments, picking up the pieces of her mother's booze-soaked life, and stressing about Danny's future. Then she meets Wes. He's the perfect combination of smart, cute, and funny. He also happens to have epilepsy like her brother. Wes is living a normal life despite his medical issues, which gives Jasmine hope for Danny. But memories of her cheating ex-boyfriend keep Jasmine from going on a real date with Wes, no matter how many times he asks her. Jasmine can't control everything, not who wins the internship, not her mother's addiction, not her brother's health, not even where her heart will lead her. She wishes she could just have an ordinary life, but Jasmine may just discover that what she already has is pretty extraordinary after all.

Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life

Author: Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0307420655

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A memoir in bite-size chunks from the author of the viral Modern Love column “You May Want to Marry My Husband.” “[Rosenthal] shines her generous light of humanity on the seemingly humdrum moments of life and shows how delightfully precious they actually are.” —The Chicago Sun-Times How do you conjure a life? Give the truest account of what you saw, felt, learned, loved, strived for? For Amy Krouse Rosenthal, the surprising answer came in the form of an encyclopedia. In Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life she has ingeniously adapted this centuries-old format for conveying knowledge into a poignant, wise, often funny, fully realized memoir. Using mostly short entries organized from A to Z, many of which are cross-referenced, Rosenthal captures in wonderful and episodic detail the moments, observations, and emotions that comprise a contemporary life. Start anywhere—preferably at the beginning—and see how one young woman’s alphabetized existence can open up and define the world in new and unexpected ways. An ordinary life, perhaps, but an extraordinary book.

Ordinary Life
Ordinary Life

Author: Elizabeth Berg

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 158836142X

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “An extraordinary short story collection that deserves our closest attention.”—Detroit Free Press “Elizabeth Berg’s gift as a storyteller lies most powerfully in her ability to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, the remarkable in the everyday.”—The Boston Globe In this superb collection of short stories, Elizabeth Berg takes us into pivotal moments in the lives of women, when memories and events come together to create a sense of coherence, understanding, and change. In “Ordinary Life,” Mavis McPherson locks herself in the bathroom for a week, shutting out her husband and the realities of their life together—and no, she isn't contemplating a divorce. She just needs some time to think, take stock of her life, and to arrive, finally, at a surprising conclusion. In “White Dwarf” and “Martin's Letter to Nan,” the secrets of a marriage are revealed with sensitivity and “brilliant insights about the human condition” (Detroit Free Press) that have become trademark of Berg's writing. The Charlotte Observer has said, “Berg captures the way women think as well as any writer.” Those qualities of wisdom and perception are everywhere present in Ordinary Life.

A World Lost
A World Lost

Author: Wendell Berry

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2010-08

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1458796086

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Brilliantly detailed characters and subtle social observations distinguish Berry's unassuming but powerful fifth novel. The T.S. Eliot Award-winning poet, essayist and novelist writes with the authority of a man steeped in the culture of a time an...

No Ordinary Life
No Ordinary Life

Author: Suzanne Redfearn

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2016-02-02

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1455533890

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Suzanne Redfearn delivers another gripping page-turner in her latest novel, a story about a young mother's fight to protect her children from the dangerous world of Hollywood. Faye Martin never expected her husband to abandon her and their three children . . . or that she'd have to struggle every day to make ends meet. So when her four-year-old daughter is discovered through a YouTube video and offered a starring role on a television series, it seems like her prayers have been answered. But when the reality of their new life settles in, Faye realizes that fame and fortune don't come without a price. In a world where everyone is an actor and every move is scrutinized by millions, it's impossible to know whom to trust, and Faye finds herself utterly alone in her struggle to save her family. Emotionally riveting and insightful, NO ORDINARY LIFE is an unforgettable novel about the preciousness of childhood and the difficult choices a mother needs to make in order to protect this fragile time in her children's lives.

Ordinary Lives
Ordinary Lives

Author: Ben Highmore

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-09-13

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 1136905235

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This new study from Ben Highmore looks at the seemingly banal world of objects, work, daily media, and food, and finds there a scintillating array of passionate experience. Through a series of case studies, and building on his previous work on the everyday, Highmore examines our relationship to familiar objects (a favourite chair), repetitive work (housework, typing), media (distracted television viewing and radio listening) and food (specifically the food of multicultural Britain). A chair allows him to consider the history of flat-pack furniture as well as the lively presence of inorganic ‘stuff’ in our daily lives. Distracted television watching and radio listening becomes one of the preconditions for experiencing wonder through the media. Ordinary Lives links the concrete study of routine existence to theoretical reflection on everyday life. The book discusses philosophers such as Jacques Rancière, William James and David Hume and combines them with autobiographical testimonies, historical research and the analysis of popular culture to investigate the minutiae of day-to-day life. Highmore argues that aesthetic experience is embedded in the mundane sensory world of everyday life. He asks the reader to reconsider the negative associations of habit and routine, focusing specifically on the intrinsic ambiguity of habit (habit, we find out, is both rigid and adaptive). Rather than ask ‘what does everyday life mean?’ this book asks ‘what does everyday life feel like and how do our sensual, emotional and temporal experiences interconnect and intersect?’ Ordinary Lives is an accessible, animated and engaging book that is ideally suited to both students and researchers working in cultural studies, media and communication and sociology.

The Mysticism of Ordinary Life
The Mysticism of Ordinary Life

Author: Andrew Prevot

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-01-26

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0192866966

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The Mysticism of Ordinary Life: Theology, Philosophy, and Feminism presents a new vision of Christian mystical theology. It offers critical interpretations of Catholic theologians, postmodern philosophers, and intersectional feminists who draw on mystical traditions to affirm ordinary life. It raises questions about normativity, gender, and race, while arguing that the everyday experience of the grace of divine union can be an empowering source of social transformation. It develops Christian teachings about the Word made flesh, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and the Christian spiritual life, while exploring the mystical significance of philosophical discourses about immanence, alterity, in-betweenness, nothingness, and embodiment. The discussion of Latino/a and Black sources in North America expands the Western mystical canon and opens new horizons for interdisciplinary dialogue. The volume challenges contemporary culture to recognize and draw inspiration from quotidian manifestations of the unknown God of incarnate love. It includes detailed studies of Grace Jantzen, Amy Hollywood, Catherine Keller, Karl Rahner, Adrienne von Speyr, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Michel Henry, Michel de Certeau, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Gloría Anzaldúa, Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Alice Walker, M. Shawn Copeland, and more.

An Ordinary Life?
An Ordinary Life?

Author: Peter Hussain

Publisher:

Published: 2021-06-03

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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This book is a simple life story of an ordinary fella, just making a point of some important experiences during his life. Peter Hussain is a new Author, his story is quite ordinary and boring really. He is not very experienced in the literary world, he's not even much of a reader. In fact he hardly ever reads anything himself, especially without pictures! Apparently, he thinks he has an interesting life story to tell. It involves amongst many things, cycling, his church, guitars, music, cars, art, technical drawing, his three children, his painful marriage break-up, his new wife Rachel, more cycling, holidays, workplace design, office design, plus a little thing he calls his "Walk of Faith". Pete has an Asian/British/German heritage. He's one of the fussiest, most particular fellas around. Although he's not a perfectionist any more, he does still like things to be "just so". That's probably why he likes straight lines, symmetry and check shirts. Apparently this characteristic is now under control. He always aims for the best in life and he always tries his best in everything he does, if that doesn't get a perfect result, he's ok with that now, he can deal with it! One of the most refreshing things Pete has done in his book is to be open and honest about himself. We often see a culture, especially of blokes, closed and even secretive about what they are thinking and going through. Recently, Mental health has been recognised as a crucial part of overall health and well being. Although it is more healthy, it's sometimes really difficult to get a fella to open up and tell you what's really going on inside their head! If you can identify with any of this, this may be the book for you? If you know someone else who may identify with this, it may be the book for them. If you can't identify with any of these headings, maybe you should buy the book anyway? or better yet, buy it for someone you don't like very much and see if they like you more or less after they've read it!

Cultural Change and Ordinary Life
Cultural Change and Ordinary Life

Author: Brian Longhurst

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2007-09-16

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 0335234933

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How important are the media? How is culture changing? How is ordinary life being transformed? How do we belong? This ground-breaking book offers a new approach to the understanding of everyday life, the media and cultural change. It explores the social pattern of ordinary life in the context of recent theories and accounts of social and cultural change. Brian Longhurst argues that our social and cultural lives are becoming increasingly audienced and performed and that activities in everyday life are changing due to the ever-growing importance and salience of the media. These changes involve people forging new ways of belonging, where among other things they seek to distinguish themselves from others. In Cultural Change and Ordinary Life, Longhurst evaluates changes in the media and ordinary life in the context of large-scale cultural change, especially with respect to globalization and hybridisation, fragmentation, spectacle and performance, and enthusing or fan-like activities. He makes the case that analysis of the media has to be brought into a more thorough dialogue with other forms of research that have looked at social processes. Cultural Change and Ordinary Life is key reading for students and researchers of sociology, media studies, cultural studies and mass communication.