Sentences with phrase «around reading books»

I lazed around reading books on the balcony and he'd bring me sandwiches and Diet Cokes at regular intervals.

Sometimes they make up silly games or spend time just lazing around reading books or watching movies.

The Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report ™ is a biennial, national survey of children ages 6 — 17 and their parents as well as parents of kids» ages 0 - 5, in the U.S. exploring attitudes and behaviors around reading books for fun.

Kindle fanatics like to talk about the Kindle's e-ink screen, fine - tuned for reading, but they're also the type of people who have time to sit around reading books for more than 20 - 30 minutes at a time.

My parents were fine with the idea of a gap year, but they weren't about to let me loll around reading books and absorbing culture, which is what I really wanted to do.

We asked English and French - speaking Canadian parents and children about their attitudes and behaviours around reading books for fun.

The future is in nudging the number of use cases gently higher to allow for more innovation and utility around reading books.

The Kids & Family Reading Report 5th Edition explored attitudes and behaviours around reading books for pleasure.

Before I had children I had this idea that they would all be perfectly presented, immaculately clean and sit around reading books and doing puzzles.

«My plans mostly revolve around reading books, hanging out, and listening to music,» he said, noting that he'd promised himself to take a year off.

It is possible that a beta will never get back to you: maybe they have never gotten around reading your book in the end, or they have read it but decided not to write anything.

But not being able to walk around reading a book is a huge disappointment.

The Resort is the perfect place to unwind either by just laying around reading a book or with a fast game of tennis on the all weather tennis court just 20 metres away from your door.

Not exact matches

«School libraries around the country are being shuttered,» Soeiro, a school librarian in Cambridge, wrote on the Horn Book's Family Reading blog.

[With it,] she went from a child who couldn't hold a single letter in her head to someone who was able to read words and sentences and chapter books and able to effectively communicate with people around her.

Kottke recently shared a list of the books he and Jobs read around their time at Reed — ones that inspired Jobs's travels across the globe as well as his professional pursuits.

«Find a way to read around your schedule and your life situation,» says Foroux, who suggests you could read on the train, while waiting at the doctor's office, while breastfeeding your baby (I can personally testify you can get through quite a lot of books this way), or during breaks at work.

A CRY OF DE-STRESS: Speaking of time, few things are as stressful as staring at a towering stack of books and journals you know you'll never get around to reading.

Out of all the books I have read around entrepreneurship, business, and leadership success, this has hands down had the most impact on the growth of myself, our business, and the development my own leadership skills as our team has grown from a startup to a global company with offices in London, Singapore, and New York.»

You could listen to music, do breathing exercises, read a book, play with your kids or pet or go for a walk around your block.

As recently as 2005, 90 % of sales for its metal roll forming business came from the U.S. Around that time, company founder Joe Repovs read Thomas Friedman's book on globalization, The World is Flat, and became convinced that Samco had to look beyond North America.

It's almost like, depending on what you're reading or what you collect — whether it's a series of Harry Potter books or a series of Vogue magazines — it creates this sense of community around this history and legacy, and one built on the next.

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-- Take the books you're reading and drop their names or author names in http://www.ubersuggest.org — look for subtopics around the books or authors that people are looking for and look for content gaps there.

«I might lose whatever credibility I have with readers if I suggested flat out that a book centered around the subject of oil, written by an economist, was a page - turner, but I am willing to say with conviction that Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller, by former CIBC Chief Economist Jeff Rubin, is a fantastically compelling read.

One of the traditions during the Christmas holidays is to read Charles Dickens» famous book «A Christmas Carol,» or to watch one of the many film productions about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge who turned his life around and became a generous soul on Christmas Day.

For those of you who've followed me on twitter @sfemerick or read my blog or book, The Most Powerful Brand on Earth, you know I believe the most successful brand advocates are those who gain visibility and trust by sharing their expertise, and the most successful brands are those who build systems around these experts to align and scale impact for the brand.

I started reading books when my interest in finance started, around the end of 2015.

please read the books that we have around us and then use your brain to chose the truth as everyone can not be truth but truth should be only one....

There are millions of Muslims around the world who read the same book, eat, pray, and mind their own business.

I read whole books, whole chapters, etc... and I weigh my «beliefs» against the good or bad effects they have on the people around me.

Or even if you spend a lot of time around people who read Harry Potter books, you're likely to start reading them too!

Burris's girlfriend carries around a thick book of pop occultism, and reads aloud about Satan's dominion while Burris shoots up.

While you're sitting around, eating hotdogs and watching fireworks, it's always worth setting aside time to read — especially for books that help you grow.

Then I read Donald MIller's book «Blue Like Jazz» and it flipped my trajectionary around from trying to know and debate a perfect arguement and win people over through theological submission, to wow, God not only Loves me, but He likes me?

See: Read a book, watch a bird hop around on a branch Touch: Craft, fold laundry, bake cookies Taste: Eat a meal without checking my phone, eat one of those cookies I baked Hear: Listen to music while staring out the window or at the ceiling (not at my phone) Smell: Hang out by the oven where my cookies are baking, light a candle

There are a few churches doing this around the country, but I only read about them in books, and on blogs, and have never actually visited one or seen how it works.

I knew when I was reading the unfinished manuscript of «The Purpose Driven Life» that I was holding a treasure in my hands, but I was clueless as to how deeply the book would strike a nerve in the souls of millions of people around the globe.

(In comparison: I live a long way away, I've read some books, been around a bit, and I inflicted and had inflicted on me some poor patterns.

As one does need to jump around in the book — from office to season collects, canticles, Psalter and New Testament readings — ribbons to mark one's place would have been helpful.

Once when the family was packing up to go home from summer vacation Father found me reading a book with my unpacked things all around.

I appreciated your validation around that time with calling her an arsehole and on reading your book having my questioning validated.

After carefully reading the Quran and examining it based on his many years of study, a leading American theologian has concluded that via the holy book God is speaking to all human beings around the world, a voice that, in his astonishing book, he said he tried to transmit to readers and students, as well to himself, to deepen his understanding.

That is, if you call time spent reading one single book and / or praying instead of living, learning to live with and embrace those who are different than you, the people you alienated due to hateful rhetoric, and having stronger relationships with others around you without the Jesus myth getting in the way, «nothing.»

Pastor D, we find, attends the meetings, and then complains privately about them, because if they were not around to distract him, he would be compelled to face an evening with his family, or to make needed calls on parishioners, or to read a book.

Maybe the Holy Spirit is at work around the world to bring multiple authors and pastors and theologians to similar ideas about similar things all at once, and so when I read something in someone else's book that sounds a lot like something I have written, but they don't give me credit, it is not that they «borrowed» from me, but because both of us were listening to what the Spirit has been whispering to minds all over the world.

I put it in my stack of books which must be read when I get around to studying hell (Hopefully later this year.)

I've not gotten around to reading Christ Minimized yet, but it's on my theoretical book list.

In a few weeks, several of us around the blogosphere are going to read and blog about a book which is creating an earthquake in the way people read and understand the Book of Revelatbook which is creating an earthquake in the way people read and understand the Book of RevelatBook of Revelation.

We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.