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Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"My interest in this book is with the problem of boredom, in particular how we are conditioned to both recognize and respond to it. Ultimately, I am interested in what is the optimal way to engage with this unpleasant and ubiquitous mood state. In spite of pedagogical "innovations," boredom is particularly acute in schools. Students overwhelmingly report being bored in school, especially in the higher grades (National Survey, 2019). Given the extent...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Explains the connection between boredom and original thinking, exploring how we can harness boredom's hidden benefits to become our most productive and creative selves without totally abandoning our gadgets in the process. Grounding the book in the neuroscience and cognitive psychology of 'mind wandering' - what our brains do when we're doing nothing at all - Manoush includes practical steps you can take to ease the nonstop busyness and enhance your...
9) Ray
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Ray has spent his whole life as a light bulb in a lonely closet. But he's about to go on a big adventure!"--
10) Such a good boy
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Buzz is a very good boy, who lives in a fancy house, eats well, and has equally well-behaved (boring) friends--but sometimes he would really like to break free, run fast, dig holes, and play with the other dogs.
11) Monkey Walk
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"At the zoo with her family, a girl mopes around until she is asked to help rescue the zoo's penguins from boredom"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Expanding the world of his classic-in-the-making debut novel Early Work, Andrew Martin's Cool for America is a hilarious collection of overlapping stories that explores the dark zone between artistic ambition and its achievement."--Publisher's description.
14) The Odyssey
Author
Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Ingrid works on a gargantuan cruise ship where she spends her days reorganizing the gift shop shelves and waiting for long-term guests to drop dead in the aisles. On her days off, she disembarks from the ship, wasting the hours aimlessly following tourists around, drinking the local alcohol, and buying clothes she never intends to wear. It's not a bad life. At least it distracts her from thinking about the other life--the other person--she left behind...
Author
Series
Doodle Cat volume 3
Publisher
Scribble
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Doodle Cat is bored, until he finds something to capture his imagination.
17) Worry: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world about to suffer great change -- a Seinfeldian novel of existentialism and sisterhood. It's March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold-anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed -- has been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought she'd marry when her younger...
Author
Publisher
Usborne Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"I'm BORED!" wails a little girl after her screen time is cut short. "That's great!" her dad says with a grin. "Being bored comes right before having a Really Good Idea." After an initial protest, the little girl dives into her imagination, and takes the reader with her on a whirlwind ride of pure fun. A cardboard box becomes a magical train, the washing machine inspires an imaginary trip into space, a scribbly doodle becomes a hungry spaghetti monster,...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Juventud
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Sara and her friend Blue set out in a boat to find the land where no one is ever bored. A storm breaks their craft in two and Sara ends up inside a whale's belly! Blue comes up with an ingenious way to save them and get them to their destination.
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