Sentences with phrase «back hitting the books»

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That means it's time to go back and hit the books!

Marie Kondo released her book The Life - Changing Magic of Tidying Up back in 2014 and it really hit home.

Time to settle in for the semester and really hit the books... But don't let food take the back burner.

Vaughn's plan is to go back to his room to get his weekly haircut, hit the books and then join his teammates at 8 to watch the North Carolina - Duke game on ESPN2.

Every sport book today is computerized, Back in my day money always moved the line if a player was respected, and if the squares tossed enough money on a game most books would move the line a little, However the big books would just sit and even take layoffs from the small stores, They knew even if the squares got hot in the end the juice would eat em up.Gone are the days when Billy Walters and his crew would move the line 3 and 4 points, I'm talking sides not totals, Forget about what they did to the horseshoe with totals in the NBA, Back then you could catch small non computerized stores with bad lines to begin with, imagine a three point move and the small store or corner bookie is off on the line a few points to begin with, I could catch some game with 6 and seven point advantages, with computers today if you can catch a half or one point advantage your lucky.Even if you know the group moving the line most of these store move the lines on air, when I say air they just watch the screen from D.B. And move the line before they even get hit, Hell even the big stores have the sharps on small limits per call.

Then they drove back to the hotel and assembled again in the St. Louis Room, where Bell began hitting them with the questions he had dug out of his black book on the plane.

After books were hit by UNDERS in 2014 - 15, would they continue to set high totals, or scale back?

Over the last week there still hasn't been any drastic line movement across the entire betting market; however, we've triggered 4 new Sharp Money moves on the Seahawks +1 meaning that individual offshore books are getting hit with Seattle money to move their line back to a pick»em from +1.

Former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke has hit back at Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, former minister of finance, over claims in her latest book.

However, the «Greed Book» will centre on the failures of the NDC administration dating as far back as 2009, quoting the governing party's 2008 manifesto and hitting it with claims of corruption in the Mahama administration painting a hopeless situation and blaming it on so - called unprecedented corruption in the current administration.

Written by a controversial atheist - neuroscientist named Sam Harris (no relation to the guy from the book above)-- the author provides a mash up of personal storytelling to back up his heavy hitting — science - backed — arguments about why spirituality isn't all fluff.

I read it back when you first posted it, and went out and bought the New Atkins book (the original Atkins book wasn't available at my B&N and I wanted it RIGHT AWAY), then I got hit by a bad stomach virus and lost all the water weight I would have lost during the induction phase.

It's August and time to hit the books and head back to school for many of us!

In a truly touching display of get - back - on - that - horse perseverance, the Hollywood actor has finally scored a hit superhero series, soldiering past the three previous indications that America had little interest in seeing him play a comic - book...

So any pretense of insight into the battle of the sexes and any real connection to stand - up comic turned self - appointed relationships expert Steve Harvey's book, «Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man,» is long forgotten in «Think Like a Man, Too,» the sequel to the surprise hit of two springs back.

The ensemble comedy Think Like a Man, inspired by Steve Harvey's best - selling book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, was a huge hit, naturally leading to a sequel that will be bringing all of the couples back for...

Matthew Vaughn is no stranger to bringing fun and wild comic - book style films to life and one his best has to be The Kingsman: The Secret Service which hit us with a bang back -LSB-...]

Back in the spring, James Franco hit Cannes with «As I Lay Dying,» an experimental drama and adaptation of William Faulkner's book that utilized all kinds of split - screen to surprisingly decent effect, even if the movie as a whole didn't amount to much more than a curiosity.

In the book, Jack goes into the bathroom and haltingly stabs the boy to death: «I finally grab his hair and pull his head back with it and he's crying, still arching his back up, trying to twist free, bleeding all over the tub from shallow wounds, and Mary is screaming in the living room and I ram the knife deep into his throat, hacking it open, and his eyes go wide with realization and a huge geyser of hot blood hits me in the face.»

Previously, communications from Silent Hill had gone a bit, er, silent, with Silent Hill: Book of Memories hitting PlayStation Vita back in 2012.

While adaptations of Nick Hornby's books haven't always been guaranteed hits at the box office, his work has generated enough success that filmmakers keep coming back to them.

Messud's book, unusually for a title in development, hit shelves way back in 2007.

Back at the end of May, comic book writer Mark Millar revealed that he still held ambitions of bringing his proposed Hit Girl movie to the screen, and now Kick - Ass director Matthew Vaughn has confirmed that development is underway on a solo spinoff for the young assassin, which he hopes will then pave the way -LSB-...]

Back at the end of May, comic book writer Mark Millar revealed that he still held ambitions of bringing his proposed Hit Girl movie to the screen, and now Kick - Ass director Matthew Vaughn has confirmed that development is underway on a solo spinoff for the young assassin, which he hopes will then pave the way for Kick - Ass 3.

Apparently her viral hit «All About Them Books» in 2015 didn't get her elementary students to bring their overdue books back, so she tried again this year with Justin Bieber's «Sorry.&rBooks» in 2015 didn't get her elementary students to bring their overdue books back, so she tried again this year with Justin Bieber's «Sorry.&rbooks back, so she tried again this year with Justin Bieber's «Sorry.»

Once we hit our funding goal and I can stop hassling everybody all the time to buy our book — and I can just go back to being a writer, which is all I ever wanted to be — then that will be success.

Hitting someone in the head with a Kindle does not pack the same wallop as it does if you bop them with a good old fashioned hard back book.

The good thing is, if you hit enough home runs as a self - published author, or if one of your books explodes, traditional publishing is still there, they'll back up a truck full of money to your door.

If nothing else, the next time somebody hits you with the Big Five's awesome power to curate important books and direct our culture from Central Command, you can smack them right back with Snooki and Justin Beiber.

Debra hit on my biggest reason for still preferring paperbacks... the ability to flip back to previous pages easily (without having to memorize the book to do it... because you have to memorize something for the Kindle to find it... oh wait... that's the Ctrl / F thing in Word, sorry).

I've mentioned multiple times that I'm trying to get both Justice & Lies, the third book, and Hit List, the fourth one, done at once so I can publish them back - to - back.

A book that is not brand new, that's where you get your first hit of sales, but really, where you make your money is those consistent sales, those customers that come back for the next book and the next book, or read the back list of an author they've suddenly fallen in love with.

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If you are planning for your book to hit a home run to make your money back, you aren't being very real.

She branched out into a second pen name writing YA Fantasy, hit the USA Today bestseller list multiple times with each pen name (and without the backing of a publisher), sold over 300,000 copies of her books worldwide, and is now making a good living as a midlist author.

Because if a book didn't hit in the first 3 or 6 or 12 months, it wasn't going to pay back its investment... because it would become literally unavailable on the shelf.

Get some reviews back to make sure your book doesn't need any additional work, then hit those sites that post regardless of review rating.

But, once your book hits an editor's desk, there is no solid timeline in which to hear back.

Back when they first offered the ability to give books away for free for a few days, tons of indie books from unknown authors would hit the top of Amazons list and knock off well known authors whose books were being purchased for $ $.

Back in February I hit # 29 in the Nook charts with one of my titles, selling over 400 books in a single day; admittedly I didn't get much money for it because it's a 99c novel that I use to get people interested in my writing.

While most self - published books manage to earn back the author's original investment, a few break out and hit the big time.

The difference — back then, if you didn't hit, you ended up with a basement full of boxed books you couldn't sell instead of being 2,996,254 out of three million on the Amazon list.

When the book went back to regular price after 2 days, it shot up the charts and that's when it hit # 47 in the overall store, selling over 1,000 copies in a single day.

I write books under other names in other genres and for one of my series my second book hit the best seller chart in its category with absolutely no promotion except that it was mentioned in the back of book 1 in the series.

1 good article like that could get thousands of hits a month, and drive traffic back to your main site, where they'd see the other 4 we posted... after hooking their interest, your optin offer or sales copy would convince them to follow or buy the book.

The Heavenly Father hit the brakes; and I placed the book idea «on the back burner»!

Hachette Book Group hit back at Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday, rebuffing the retailer's suggestion that the two jointly compensate authors affected by a dispute between the companies.

Really, really observant readers may remember that, back in February of this year, I mentioned today's featured book, Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein (which, as you can see here, was a big «ol hit at BEA).

It also ensures that your books stay yours: once you've purchased a book no one from the bookstore can come to your house later and demand the book back or hit a remote kill switch and do the same.

The icon bar at the bottom of the screen is so tiny it's almost impossible to hit the right icon, meaning that I sometimes went straight to the book I had been reading before starting the app instead of going back to the app's menu screen.