Sentences with phrase «potter volumes the day»

I've noted it for the past couple of years: no longer can I sit for hours with a single book before me — barely recognizable is my teenage self who marathoned through Harry Potter volumes the day they arrived at my door — and the convenient packaging of 25 minute episodes of my favorite TV - shows has so shaped me that even sitting through a two hour long movie is at times difficult.

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There is something of a boom going on these days in Melville studies, with Kelley's book and at least half a dozen other major academic monographs appearing from university presses, and with two new full - length biographies published last year: Laurie Robertson - Lorant's relatively unimportant but informative Melville: A Biography (Potter, 752 pages,, $ 40) and the first volume of the endlessly detailed Herman Melville (Johns Hopkins University Press, 941 pages,, $ 39.95) by Hershel Parker, the grand old man of Melville studies.