And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
50.00 ₾And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman (Michael Joseph) — a grandfather in a hospital, his grandson beside him, a maze on a piece of paper between them that is getting smaller as the grandfather gets older. A meditation on loss, love, and the specific grief of watching a parent’s mind diminish — barely a hundred pages, some almost blank, close to perfect. Brief enough to read in a single sitting; moving enough to stay for years. Published by Michael Joseph.
Anxious People
46.00 ₾Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (Michael Joseph) — a building is held hostage by a man with a gun, and the eight people inside — with their histories, failures, secrets, and unexpected connections — form the subject of a police investigation that is also a meditation on the walls people build around themselves and call protection. Backman’s most formally inventive novel: a comedy about tragedy built with the precision of a Swiss watch. Published by Michael Joseph.
Us Against You
46.00 ₾Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (Michael Joseph) — the sequel to Beartown continues the story of the town divided by violence and its aftermath, now with the additional pressure of a rival hockey team and the escalating conflict between communities that mirrors and amplifies the personal conflicts at the novel’s centre. Backman writes about sport with a precision and a seriousness that few literary novelists bring to it. Published by Michael Joseph.
Beartown
46.00 ₾Beartown by Fredrik Backman (Michael Joseph) — a small hockey town’s entire identity is built around its junior team’s chance at a national championship. When a young woman accuses the star player of rape, the town divides along lines of loyalty, silence, and complicity that reveal exactly what a community’s values actually are when tested against its interests. Backman’s most ambitious novel — a book about how communities decide who matters and who doesn’t. Published by Michael Joseph.
Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
46.00 ₾Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman (Penguin) — a beautifully written meditation on fatherhood that is simultaneously a love letter to his son, an honest account of his own inadequacies, and a collection of genuinely useful wisdom. Brief, warm, and very funny — the ideal gift for any new father. Backman at his most personal and most accessible. Published by Penguin.
The Deal of a Lifetime
50.00 ₾The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman (Penguin) — a masterful novella in which a dying CEO tells his estranged son a story about a boy in a hospital and the deal he traded away without knowing its cost. Backman’s emotional ambush is perfectly timed — brief enough to read in one sitting, deep enough to stay with you for a long time. Published by Penguin.
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Chances are there wasn't collaboration, communication, and checkpoints, there wasn't a process agreed upon or specified with the granularity required. It's content strategy gone awry right from the start. Forswearing the use of Lorem Ipsum wouldn't have helped, won't help now. It's like saying you're a bad designer, use less bold text, don't use italics in every other paragraph. True enough, but that's not all that it takes to get things back on track.
The villagers are out there with a vengeance to get that Frankenstein
You made all the required mock ups for commissioned layout, got all the approvals, built a tested code base or had them built, you decided on a content management system, got a license for it or adapted:
- The toppings you may chose for that TV dinner pizza slice when you forgot to shop for foods, the paint you may slap on your face to impress the new boss is your business.
- But what about your daily bread? Design comps, layouts, wireframes—will your clients accept that you go about things the facile way?
- Authorities in our business will tell in no uncertain terms that Lorem Ipsum is that huge, huge no no to forswear forever.
- Not so fast, I'd say, there are some redeeming factors in favor of greeking text, as its use is merely the symptom of a worse problem to take into consideration.
- Websites in professional use templating systems.
- Commercial publishing platforms and content management systems ensure that you can show different text, different data using the same template.
- When it's about controlling hundreds of articles, product pages for web shops, or user profiles in social networks, all of them potentially with different sizes, formats, rules for differing elements things can break, designs agreed upon can have unintended consequences and look much different than expected.
This is quite a problem to solve, but just doing without greeking text won't fix it. Using test items of real content and data in designs will help, but there's no guarantee that every oddity will be found and corrected. Do you want to be sure? Then a prototype or beta site with real content published from the real CMS is needed—but you’re not going that far until you go through an initial design cycle.
