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and well researched the big thing is fascinating thought provoking and eye opening i wanted to read this book because i have my own project and within the pages i found not only a lot to chew on metaphorically speaking of course but plenty to spark my own drive she also provides a new perspective on a lot like the idea of being lazy it would be hard to finish this book and not feel ready to take on the world or at least your big thing korkki advises asking yourself three main questions in relation to your creative goal do you have the talent ability skills to do this big thing or the motivation to learn and practice them do you have the commitment and drive to work on the big thing at least somewhat steadily is it worth the sacrifice you will have to make in time and money to complete it maybe something else is more important if you have something in your life that you could answer yes to on these questions the big thing may be just want you need the big thing releases today in hardcover from harper isbn 9780062384300 and as an unabridged audiobook isbn 9781504735629 narrated by sandy rustin from harpercollins and blackstone audio my review today kicks off the tlc book tour for the big thing check the schedule to see how other bloggers are reacting to korkki s insights into your big creative project disclosure i do some contractual work for one of the owners of tlc blog tours my work with them does not obligate me to a specific kind of review the reviews are still my own opinions and reflect only my thoughts on the novels if you care to read more you can find more information on my disclosure page posted by jen forbus 20 comments labels 2016 blog tour nonfiction phyllis korkki review review copy tlc book tours email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday july 13 2016 after alice gregory maguire g ood gads she s posting today i m so so sorry for my silence of late friends i ve been a bit swamped with work some professional development classes my nephew s baseball season and a big announcement i ll have coming soon i hope you re all having a great july so far and finding lots of wonderful things to read before i post my review today i just wanted to share a couple links with you first is the july nerdy special list there s quite a few great books coming out in july i had a hard time picking my title for this month but i did finally narrow it down there may or may not have been a coin flip involved and secondly i had my first review accepted by the christian science monitor that one is for ben winters the underground airlines you can read it here o k on to today s review first line were there a god in charge of story i mean one cut to old testament specifics some hybrid of zeus and father christmas such a creature such a deity might be looking down upon a day opening in oxford england a bit past the half way mark of the nineteenth century those familiar with gregory maguire s the wicked years series work will likely not be surprised to hear me say that his stunning gift with words and story telling made after alice a delightfully charming incredibly creative deeply insightful fantasy that should stand the test of time just as its inspiration alice s adventures in wonderland has after alice is the story of alice s friend ada who is headed to see alice just moments after the spirited young girl falls down the rabbit hole ada accidents upon the same gateway to wonderland and finds herself spiraling down as well ada s descent into the wacky world of the mad hatter cheshire cat white knight or night and queen of hearts frees her from the physical disabilities she endured at home so she sets out on a magical adventure to find alice meanwhile back among the boring realities of home alice s sister lydia and ada s governess miss armstrong are trying to find the missing girls maguire s innate ability to build fantastic plots around the barely mentioned characters of epic fairy tales plots that compliment and never contradict or alter the original stories is awe inspiring but he goes beyond that in after alice the whimsical language echoes louis carroll s but still maintains a distinctness to maguire s style his playful approach to the world of words transfers to readers a youthful exuberance and giddiness while reading beyond the door the lawn was shorn and rolled to pythagorean precision the clouds were perfect neither too many nor histrionic as she watched hungrily the cumuli began sliding down the side of the world and changing places with the lawn this proved disconcerting like a picture in a book turned upside down why there was the ace of spaces digging a hole in the lawn sky and stuffing rosa rugosa root first into the green fringed heaven hovering over a blue eternal sky sea it was amusing to see the ace of spades sprinkle water upward then while he s entertaining his reader with poetic imagery and playfulness he sneaks in social issues issues that seem to transcend time like the glacial slowness of change the law says one thing and custom another replied mr winter what the assemblies legislate and what happens on the back roads of small towns are not always in agreement put another way history takes a long time to happen in this instance they re referencing the abolition of slavery in the united states during the nineteenth century but that statement jumps off the page as glaringly true today for things like race gender and sexual orientation equality and maguire s insights aren t confined to social issues he taps into human complexities as well as for dreams they are powered by urgent desire even if that desire is only to escape the quotidian ada who lived with a sense of disappointment and failure thanks to her misshapen form suffered from a flat dream life one that seemed poorly differentiated from her waking hours as a stolid child her dreams were of static things almost still lifes a lump of cheddar on a board a goat roped to a tinker s cart a curving road this enchanting fun spin on the classic tale of alice s wild adventures is as surprising as it is entertaining there are captivating curiosities with every page turn so settle yourself in for a fall down the rabbit hole into the marvelous world of gregory maguire s wonderland after alice is now available in trade paperback from william morrow isbn 9780060859749 you can still get a copy in hardcover isbn 9780060548957 and there s an unabridged audiobook isbn 9780062562272 narrated by katherine kellgren from harperaudio my review today is part of the tlc book tour for after alice check the schedule to see how other bloggers are reacting to their tumble down the rabbit hole with ada disclosure i do some contractual work for one of the owners of tlc blog tours my work with them does not obligate me to a specific kind of review the reviews are still my own opinions and reflect only my thoughts on the novels if you care to read more you can find more information on my disclosure page posted by jen forbus 5 comments labels 2016 blog tour fantasy gregory maguire review review copy tlc book tours email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday june 27 2016 the price of prosperity todd g buchholz first line i am a little kid in the backyard swatting mosquitoes off my legs and waiting for dad to flip a burger onto my paper plate todd buchholz s book the price of prosperity why rich nations fail and how to renew them is his argument for why wealthy nations fall he examines economic political and cultural realms that he believes contribute to the undoing of these prosperous countries buchholtz views birthrates global trade debt work ethic and patriotism or lack thereof as the central fissures in the strength of a successful nation as much as i was looking forward to reading this book i was ultimately disappointed as much time and effort as buchholz puts into detailing historic empires and their leaders he fails to address many of the arguments that counter the foundation for his theory in an effort to make economics a bit more entertaining he provides metaphors and examples using current pop culture but many if not most fall miserably short of actually supporting his arguments i was a bit apprehensive when early in the book during his discussion of decreases in birthrates he makes a comparison between numbers of children and numbers of pets we have about 75 5 million children in the united states but 90 million cats 75 million dogs and 170 million freshwater fish together petsmart and petco sell 10 billion in pet goods the largest children s retailer the children s place earns just 1 8 billion in revenues pretty much equivalent to what americans spend on snakes turtles and lizards the impression that is created and i believe intended is wow look how much more we spend on our pets than our children only he s comparing apples to basketballs the last time you walked into a petsmart or a petco what could you buy for an animal there food treats clothes leashes crates etc bedding grooming training toys this is of course an incomplete list and can cover a pet for its entire life children s place sells clothing and maybe some minor accessories for a limited span of a child s existence children require far more time money and resources to raise than any pet that s legal to own in the united states now in the whole scheme of things this comparison is pretty unimportant to the book but the fact that something so banal is full of logic holes puts the reader on alert immediately ultimately buchholz s point is that the wealthy have fewer children than the poor us families earning over 75 000 per year have fewer than fifty five babies per thousand women this is half the birthrate of families earning less than 10 000 he does go on to say that children are messy loud worrisome and expensive but a paragraph later says yet children have always been messy loud and expensive in 1900 the average white woman in america was ringed by three or four whining crying and loving children so what has changed to explain the declining preference for children and why is it so widespread the answer to that question could be a book in itself and in the united states it s not going to change while college educated career minded women are penalized for having children buchholz then goes on to talk about historical cultures whose downfalls followed wealth and subsequent drops in birthrates one example he uses highlights a culture that essentially farmed out their military because they didn t have enough citizens to serve in it and the military was then susceptible to the highest bidder and turned on the country it was supposed to be defending legitimate concern however in the united states the wealthy are the least likely to even serve in our military so if the idea is for the wealthy to have more children i m not sure how this example fits into the scheme of his argument and the elephant in my room while reading this section is lack of discussion about the limited resources of the planet even in our prosperous united states we have areas that struggle with viable water sources we don t want to become one of the nations on earth that don t have room or food or water for the huge families they are having in order to have strong numbers to defeat their enemies if we can t take care of our citizens our enemies are a moot point then of course there s also the damage it does to other elements of the planet that we destroy in order to make room for the growing numbers the planet s population is larger than it s ever been and it s not moving backward despite low birthrates in some countries at one point buchholz seems to be mocking politicians who care about the environment and he says what a shame if an avalanche of our debt buries our grandchildren so deeply that they have to sell off national treasures to make ends meet granted at this point he s talking about government debt but this point so oversimplified the issue of the environment and never even touches global warming it also neglects the point that if we don t do something to counteract things like our abysmal infrastructure and education system both things that continue to erode because we re worried about this debt debt isn t going to matter to our future generations because the country won t exist as it is now now buchholz does proceed and address the value in immigration but his offered solutions for how to deal with the resistance to immigration fall very short and quite honestly left me with a bad taste in my mouth but i would ask this question if other advanced countries impose six months to an entire year of mandatory service on their own citizens would it be so terrible to impose some slight inconvenience on immigrants who apply for citizenship especially an inconvenience that would enhance their knowledge of the country they aspire to join we already impose a test on these people that many natural citizens can t pass but let s add to the expense of the process requiring them to travel around the country and not be working so they can have their passports stamped at historical landmarks museums and libraries and i m still not sure how that helps our xenophobic culture be more accepting of these people who are already proving their dedication to the nation buchholz says he would impose a similar requirement for any u s citizen who applies for a student loan through a federal program again people in need of money are now put at further disadvantage in order to prove they are worthy never mind the towering debt that s burying these young folks already no mention however of big businesses and the wealthy that take advantage of tax breaks and other government funds sadly i found myself going through the entire book this way i typically mark up pages with excerpts i love and word choice or phrasing that moves me in this reading i was marking every passage where i found logic issues or neglect of relevant information and i m not referring to one off exceptions buchholz refers to the average income of people in the united states with our current income chasm the average doesn t refer to a lot of households he says the price system and the invisible hand of the market coordinate all of this no they don t that s why we have unions regulations child labor laws etc and when those regulations have been drawn back we see that greed knocks the invisible hand right off the invisible wrist he refers to the laziness of teenagers and the fact that fewer have summer jobs but there s no evidence he did any research as to why fewer have summer jobs is it possible they are volunteering participating in various kinds of summer camps taking care of younger siblings at home and generations don t simply become lazy on their own to point the finger at this generation and say they have a bad work ethic is to completely ignore the helicopter parent phenomenon and the role that plays in the child s development he refer...