For each book I would probably also need a gimmick or case study (which I can do with non-fiction)... for example in
a book about book reviews, I would do a test launch of one of my own books, and share my secrets and results, under an exciting title like «How I got 300 reviews in under 1 hour from no list from total strangers.»
Not exact matches
«When I think
about how I understand my role as citizen, setting aside being president, and the most important set of understandings that I bring to that position of citizen, the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels,» he recently told The New York
Review of
Books.
One thing you can be sure
about, however, is that if you start receiving negative feedback and ratings from your guests, it'll become harder for you as a host to generate
bookings, as guests who are savvy using the Airbnb service will know to seek out accommodations that have received better
reviews and ratings from past guests.
«When I think
about how I understand my role as citizen... the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels,» Obama told The New York
Review of
Books.
Reviews of five new business
books — two
books about why some products fly and others fail; two business novels; and a new edition of a treasured favorite.
I didn't know much
about Tony Robbins, the self - help guru, when I was asked to
review his new
book on personal finance.
For example, if you know someone who loves to read, send an article or
book review about his or her favorite author.
Founded by former Trulia executives Heather Mirjahangir Fernandez and Daniele Farnedi, Solv is an online service that lets users search for a nearby urgent care facility, access
reviews and information
about the center, and
book same - day appointments.
«The Congressional
Review Act is a pretense for the majority party in Congress to wipe rules off the
books without ever talking
about the merits the agency had in mind when it made the rule final,» Rena Steinzor, a law professor at the University of Maryland, said in an email.
The Literary
Review of Canada is the country's leading forum for discussion and debate
about books, culture, politics and ideas.
I can't do enough to recommend this Ross Douthat blog post
about the David Frum - William Voegeli exchange over at the Claremont
Review of
Books.
Although my
review of The Scattered Voice is critical» which, of course, is the function of all
reviews» on balance I am positive
about the
book.
Regarding Ryan's ruminations on S.M. Hutchens»
review of E.O. Wilson's The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth (warning: I've read neither the
book nor the
review, just Ryan's post
about them), I think Ryan has it right in concluding that in Wilson's account of Christianity «nature has become only a vehicle for supernature.»
Although Garnett reports that the
book will teach you «almost nothing
about Rehnquist's tenure as chief justice,» his sharp
review provides a fascinating introduction to the man's life and legacy.
However, as I also said in the
review, His Eminence states that he was provoked into writing the
book because theologians who talked
about divine attributes tended to treat mercy as a marginal attribute of God, because traditionally it was thought that mercy did not pertain to God's essence.
Reviewing a
book titled The Son of Man written by François Mauriac (a French Roman Catholic who wrote
about the problems of good and evil in human nature and in the world), Flannery O'Connor writes: He proposes in the place of that anguish that Gide called the Catholic's «cramp....
Anyway, this is supposed to be a
review of his
book, and so far, it's all
about me... I told you when I started it was vain...
I first posted my dream (and all the Scriptures that explained it to me) on a Christian
book review site when I wrote a negative
review of «Heaven is for Real,» and was subsequently emailed for a year by Thomas Nelson and Crossbow publishing to write a
book about it.
(I wrote more
about this in my
review of Mark Noll's fascinating
book, «The Civil War as a Theological Crisis.»)
I
reviewed that
book and said good things
about it, but with the knowledge of what was going on behind the scenes in EV.
With the disclosures out of the way, I can proceed to the judgment: There is no better
book about William F. Buckley or National
Review, and it is a good, quick sketch of the conservative movement's last few decades.
In the
book I talk
about The Lasting Supper... a great group of people, many of whom fit that
review's description in so many ways.
A
review of a
book about the rise of Evangelicalism as a separate movement within Protestantism.
In my day job as the editor of The Englewood
Review of
Books, I've staked my life and work on the hope that reading carefully and well will undoubtedly transform us, reforming the ways that we think, talk
about and live within this wondrous web of life that is God's creation.
Neal once entirely rewrote the lead of a
book review of mine for the very good reason that I hadn't been able to make up my mind
about the
book and had written an introductory paragraph that was both equivocal and awkward.
Here is a
review in a national publication of a
book about religion in American public life.
Most of us haven't received our
review copies yet, but that didn't stop a few bloggers from issuing their opinions
about the
book this weekend.
Apart from Cafardi's
book or my
review of it, MacRae's letter suggests an important context from which to consider the 2002 sexual crisis on the basis of the statistics he provides
about the New Hampshire state prison population.
You can also find several interviews
about the
book at Religion News Service, Englewood
Review of
Books, and Religion Dispatches.
As I talk to expectant mothers and sexually frustrated couples, and as I wake up each morning worrying
about book sales and
reviews, one theme seems to be recurring: Waiting sucks.
(Scot McKnight posted aseries of
reviews about Walton's
book on his Jesus Creed blog this summer.
Also, if you want me to read and
review your
book, contact me through the contact form on my
About page.
The author
reviews a
book about American's attitude toward the government.
The author
reviews two
books about Pope Pius XII.
I wrote a brief
review about this
book here.
The author of the
book reviewed here believes that the institution of marriage is
about to collapse and there's little that can be done
about it.
In a recent article in the «New York
Review of
Books» on the television and stage adaptations of Hilary Mantel's historical novels «Wolf Hall» and «Bring up the Bodies,» the Irish critic Fintan O'Toole tries to explain the present popularity of a story
about Henry VIII's obscure....
When he was presented with fiftyeight peer -
reviewed publications, nine
books, and several immunology textbook chapters
about the evolution of the immune system, he simply insisted that this was still not sufficient evidence of evolution, and that it was not «good enough.»
And even in a
book review (which he somehow made all
about himself): http://www.redletterchristians.org/narcissistic-yet-well-balanced-world-changer/
If / when an author in the group becomes published, he / she promises to help other members in the group also get published, and in return, they promise to write
about and
review the author's
book so they can sell more copies.
I interviewed him yesterday
about this
book and his theology, and here is my
review of his
book.
Mark Roncace, professor at Wingate University in NC, sent me a
review copy of his newest
book, Raw Revelation: The Bible They Never Tell You
About.
And yet, when the gifted musician / author Jeremy Begbie
reviewed art historian Dan Siedell's
book God in the Gallery in the current issue of Image, Begbie appeared - ever so subtly - to take issue that Dan Siedell, in a
book about art, limited himself to «one particular current within the Nicene river, the Eastern Orthodox tradition... and the council of Niceae (787 CE), the conference which established the orthodoxy of icons.»
In the 1970s and 1980s, his essays and fiction regularly took withering aim at the hypocrisies and absurdities of colonialism, and likewise at apartheid - era life in his native South Africa (this included, incidentally, a thoughtful, if critical,
review of Dispensations, Richard John Neuhaus's own
book about South Africa).
I was talking to these churchmen
about apocalyptic and I did this liberal arts, comparative, secular
review of the
Book of Daniel, the
Book of the Apocalypse, and he was wrong and these people and Montanus, they were wrong, on and on and on and on; four days of listening to these wrong prophecies that described the history of Christian apocalypticism.
The author
reviews a
book by Stanley Hauerwas: When Hauerwas asserts that liberal Christians are those who take «humans, not God, as the center of Christian faith,» or when he says that one of «the most cherished conceits of modernity» is that «humans are the measure of all that is,» he reveals that he has not thought hard enough
about what liberalism and modernity mean to their proponents.
Edgar S. Brightman, who had himself been working for many years on the development of a nontraditional view of God, rejected Hartshorne's panentheism but praised other aspects of his view of God.35 Reinhold Niebuhr wrote a brief but very sympathetic
review, 36 and John Bennett claimed that Hartshorne's was perhaps the best hypothesis
about God available to contemporary theology.37 D. C. Macintosh found the
book «exceptionally penetrating, stimulating, and instructive,» but by accusing Hartshorne of being too rationalistic he touched on what has been one of the major differences between Hartshorne and most other Whiteheadian theologians.38
It is now a commonplace that he probably wrote more on the ontological argument than any other philosopher — a
book, a substantial part of two others, and
about twenty articles, replies,
reviews, and forewords.
The author
reviews several
books giving detailed information
about Mary Magdalene with early historical information concerning her relationship with Jesus and the disciples.
A
review of a
book about the mystery of human suffering, especially as it relates to Christ's suffering.