The thing is that those who succeed prefer to “go small” – they focus on what matters most and ignore the rest. A balance is the moderate middle between polar extremes; a place between two positions that is considered better than any of them. The ONE Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan is an easy to read but profound book that helped me to focus on keeping the main thing the main thing in all areas of my life. If you’ve been looking for an excuse to visit Iceland, or if you’re curious about attending a crime fiction festival in the future, I highly recommend adding Iceland Noir to your bucket list.

This was a book that stayed glued to my hands, I really was so enthralled with not only the superb writing but the plot. Is the palpable intensity inhabiting the space around the matches authentic or more of a combination of blind faith and almost a placebo effect? Your DNA match may be located anywhere in the world, may be older or younger, may even be a serial killer. When Dexter visits her in Paris, he learns that she has met someone and likes him, and for the first time admits his feelings to her. She has fallen out with the scientist/friend she’s done the discovery with due to past conflict we’re slowly revealed.The book ends with a vivid and lingering memory of what happened after that day together 20 years before: their goodbye kiss after the evening, promise to stay in touch, and goodbye. The book follows Ellie, as well as four other main characters who have either willingly matched or been tricked into matching with The One. watching the trainwreck that I can imagine happening from taking this huge leap of faith, with everyone being told that the results are NEVER wrong no matter how many people realize things are not right.

Matthew wants Ellie to feel the pain he's held on to for years, but furthermore, he wants to humiliate her. This gave the author the idea for a novel in which the date of a major character's death should form the basis for vignettes of the characters' lives, without the events of the other 364 days, and thus avoiding the cliches of birthdays, Valentine's Day or New Year's Eve. She attends his funeral and, after an awkward introduction, meets his mother, Pat, and sister, Chloe. I loved the cleverness and the imagination, the thrills, the chills, the twist and turns, and how thought provoking it was, considering the atmosphere. The writing team for the series is headed by Nicole Taylor, working with Anna Jordan, Vinay Patel and Bijan Sheibani and will be produced by Drama Republic, Universal International Studios and Focus Features.At this juncture, she has just ended an affair with the headmaster of the school she teaches in, and Dexter has fallen in love with another woman, Sylvie, who is pregnant. The series hasn’t been renewed as of yet, but the ending has potential and I’ll be sticking with these characters if there is a season two. Disproportional results come from one activity, so we should give this activity a disproportional amount of time.