Title:
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Ready Player One
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Author:
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Ernest Cline
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Genre:
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Science Fiction/Future
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Synopsis:
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In a future lived primarily online due to the state of the
real world, people compete to win an inheritance left behind by one of the
creators of their online environment. To win the contestants must follow
clues left behind by the pop culture obsessed creator and they are competing
not only against each other but by an army of corporate employees who would
use the power afforded them by winning to ruin the virtual world for
everyone.
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Verdict:
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An absolutely fantastic read. The high quality of world
building for both the real world and the virtual one make this a richly
detailed and engaging book. The characters flaws and strengths feel organic
and the pop culture references and nods to people of today are excellent fun.
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Pages:
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372
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Read:
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September 2015
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28 September 2015
#178. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
13 September 2015
#177. Mindfulness For Health: A Practical Guide To Relieving Pain, Reducing Stress And Restoring Wellbeing by Vidymala Burch and Danny Penman
Title:
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Mindfulness For Health: A Practical Guide To Relieving
Pain, Reducing Stress and Restoring Wellbeing
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Author:
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Vidymala Burch and Danny Penman
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Genre:
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Meditation/Self-help/Health
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Synopsis:
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A guide to using meditation/mindfulness to reduce the
level of discomfort experienced as a result of chronic pain of all sorts.
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Verdict:
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The anecdotes and advice resonated with some of my worst
experiences and was helpful in helping me get my head around some stress
management techniques.
It differentiates between primary pain (the pain caused by
your condition/injury) and secondary pain (a pain that is created by your
physical and mental reaction to the primary pain), and concentrates on
guiding the reader in ways to reduce secondary pain which may in turn have an
effect on the level of primary pain.
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Pages:
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233
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Read:
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September 2015
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