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Choices 86,400 a Day
by
Lauren Alexander (Goodreads Author)
All of us make choices every second . . . 86,400 times a day. CHOICES 86,400 a day is a provocative and novel exploration of engagement in a particular moment in time. CHOICES challenges the reader to do something counterintuitive and revolutionary in today's outcome-oriented culture: Intend the choices you make. Operating on autopilot, our choices are made by default. The...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
November 14th 2011
by Createspace
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EDITORIAL REVIEW:
Refinements and distillations on the theme of awareness.
...epigrammatic....provocative...mordant....with the capacity to arrest….
An often-sparkling show of what in life can be gathered and given an aphoristic squeeze by keeping your eyes and mind open.
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"The World's Toughest Book Critics"
Refinements and distillations on the theme of awareness.
...epigrammatic....provocative...mordant....with the capacity to arrest….
An often-sparkling show of what in life can be gathered and given an aphoristic squeeze by keeping your eyes and mind open.
--KIRKUS REVIEWS
"The World's Toughest Book Critics"
Good fiction should open us to new ideas and ways of approaching life as seen through another’s words, and great fiction also demonstrates how to exploit language in an artfully constructed story. I think Shakespeare and Faulkner are considered great writers by achieving such high levels in these regards.
Although works of non-fiction should be held to similar high standards, seldom is it found.
Alexander’s book, Choices, 86,400 a day, illustrates that it can be done.
Words of wisdom sometimes ca...more
Although works of non-fiction should be held to similar high standards, seldom is it found.
Alexander’s book, Choices, 86,400 a day, illustrates that it can be done.
Words of wisdom sometimes ca...more
I highly recommend this book for everyone of all ages--readers and non-readers. A page-turner with observations that get right to the point No fluff. A new breed of a food-for-thought kind of book. A book to read and re-read.
There's something to take with you every time you open this book. I open it at least once a day and take a random jewel to think about.
Wow! Alexander has a way with words. What she writes and how she writes--phenomenal. I'll keep this book at my fingertips.
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Lauren Alexander, the author of CHOICES 86,400 a day and THE CHINABERRY TREE, graduated magna cum laude from the University of Illinois with High Distinction in the English Honors Program before earning a law degree at the University of Mississippi School of Law. Following law practice and a federal court clerkship, she returned to her literary roots. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi with her husb...more
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