Jason ramshaw (7 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What if your childhood was not random What if it was training \*\* A Perfectly Normal Childhood is a funny, sharply observed memoir in thirty-three short essays about Catholic school, family arguments, neighborhood schemes, teenage logic, and adults behaving with complete confidence and limited evidence. Jason Ramshaw built a haunted house in his parents' basement and charged admission. He published a neighborhood newspaper nobody requested. He organized the Neighborhood Olympics, competed in them, and won. Years later, these stopped looking like isolated stories and started looking like the early installation of an operating system. The essays move quickly, but the pattern arrives slowly: the habits we call personality often began as childhood survival, performance, ambition, or simple misinterpretation. Funny without becoming weightless and honest without becoming sentimental, this is a memoir for anyone who has looked back at an ordinary childhood and thought: Wait. Was everyone improvising Book One of the Still Noticing trilogy: the evidence before the pattern and the pattern before the verdict.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What I Learned (Nothing, But Here's What I Noticed) Book Four in the Still Noticing seriesHe wrote three books about noticing everything. The childhood patterns. The adult echoes. The diagnosis that gave it a name but not an off switch. Then someone - possibly him - suggested he write a fourth book about what he actually learned.So he sat down and tried.He tried to learn a lesson about starting things. At ten, he charged neighborhood kids admission to a haunted house built from garbage bags and wire hangers. At forty, he mailed a physical book to a publisher who specifically asked him not to. The lesson was supposed to be 'know when to stop.' He has not stopped.He tried to learn a lesson about being right. He was right about the spelling bee. He was right about the armrest. He was right about the aquarium line. It has helped him exactly zero times socially.He tried to learn a lesson about effort. He wrapped a gift in seven pages of newspaper. The lesson should have been 'do less.' He will not be doing less.He tried to learn a lesson about fatherhood. His thirteen-year-old daughter skipped a ninety-minute line by doing something that never once occurred to him: asking. The operating system transferred. Then it upgraded without his permission.Thirteen chapters. Thirteen attempted lessons. Thirteen failures.Every chapter starts with a premise and ends with an observation. Every observation pretends to be progress. It isn't. It's very detailed remembering - the same very detailed remembering he's been doing for four books and forty years.What I Learned is the book that was never supposed to exist. Jason Ramshaw - the man who built a haunted house with an office chair and a price of admission, who catalogued every room he ever walked into, who was eventually diagnosed as 'generalized' (a category he would like to appeal) - goes back through his own evidence looking for the lesson.He doesn't find it. But he finds something better: the admission that the pattern was never a skill. It was a coping mechanism. And the only honest thing left to do was write it down one more time and see if anyone else recognized it.For fans of David Sedaris, Sloane Crosley, and Nora Ephron. For anyone who has ever read a room too early, noticed too much, and been told to relax by someone who has never once scanned a seating chart before sitting down.There are no lessons. But there is, at this point, a pretty good bit.…

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.