Half a Life (memoir) critical favorite in the UK, "Half a Life" was called "one of the best books I have ever read" by Ali Catterall on The BBC, as well as "precise, elegantly written, fresh, wise, and very sad ... indicative not only of a very talented writer, but of a proper human being” by Nick Hornby "Half a Life" was widely excerpted in venues such as "GQ", "This American Life", United Kingdom papers "The Times" and "Daily Mail". "Half a Life" received the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. Half a Life (memoir) Half a Life is a book by
A City by the Light Divided A City by the Light Divided A City by the Light Divided is the fourth studio album by Thursday, released by Island Records on May 2, 2006. Following a number of issues regarding promotion and lack of communication with independent label Victory Records, Thursday announced they had signed to major label Island Records in May 2002. With the signing being made official in September, the group began working on material for their third album in November. Starting in January 2003, recording sessions lasted six months. "War All the Time" was released in September. Following its release, keyboardist Andrew Everding, who