Welcome to my downside up life! My name is Ariana and I want to explain what it's like to have pathological demand avoidance from my perspective. I'll try and show you why I am the way I am from inside my own head and why I often feel like I have to control the things around me by avoiding demands as much as I can.
Harry Thompson Pořadí knih (chronologicky)
Harry Thompson byl britský autor, který se proslavil svým pronikavým psaním do oblasti komedie, biografie a románu. Jeho práce v rozhlasové a televizní produkci mu umožnila formovat a podporovat celou generaci komediálních talentů, čímž významně ovlivnil britskou komediální scénu. Thompsonův románový debut byl dlouze nominován na Bookerovu cenu a vyznačoval se historickým tématem a hlubokým zkoumáním lidské povahy. Kromě toho se věnoval psaní biografií významných postav a jeho cestovatelské vyprávění o kriketovém týmu na cestě kolem světa odhaluje jeho všestranný literární talent a smysl pro dobrodružství.
A fascinating and witty account of the life of Tintin, his creator, and the phenomenon that they became.
Penguins Stopped Play
- 256 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe. Except - hold on a minute - that's not a simple idea at all. And when you throw in incompetent airline officials, amorous Argentine Colonels' wives, cunning Bajan drug dealers, gay Australian waiters, overzealous American anti-terrorist police, idiot Welshmen dressed as Santa Claus, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and whole armies of pitch-invading Antarctic penguins, you quickly arrive at a whole lot more than you bargained for. Harry Thompson's hilarious book tells the story of one of those great idiotic enterprises that only an Englishman could have dreamed up, and only a bunch of Englishmen could possibly have wished to carry out.
This Thing of Darkness
A Story of Adventure, Tragedy and a Voyage That Changed the World
- 626 stránek
- 22 hodin čtení
1828 - Brilliant young naval officer Robert FitzRoy is given the captaincy of HMS Beagle, surveying the wilds of Tierra del Fuego, aged just twenty-three. He takes a passenger: a young trainee cleric and amateur geologist named Charles Darwin. This is the story of a deep friendship between two men, and the twin obsessions that tore it apart, leading one to triumph and the other to disaster...