Sentences with phrase «book runs almost»

Spike Jonze's adaptation of the beloved children's book runs almost an hour and forty minutes, and sure enough, Max doesn't get supper, imagines a strange world and its inhabitants, and gets to eat at the end.

Not exact matches

«I figured, if Mark Zuckerberg could read one book every two weeks, and he's running [an] almost a trillion - dollar empire, then one thing that little old me could do is read one book every two weeks.»

Some quality issues were simple rookie mistakes, like the time Handy ran a big promotional offer without realizing it was Easter weekend, and almost no cleaners were available, forcing the company to cancel bookings and issue credits en masse.

I read The Truth Book almost in one sitting, waiting desperately for Castro's decision to run away from her abusive family.

I feel ALMOST like going home and snapping a photo of the book I have on my bed side table — Born to Run!

She writes a long - running blog, has published two books, and co-owns (almost) three restaurants in Seattle with her husband, Brandon.

Gordon wrote on many topics: angling techniques («The fly must be placed to an inch as the fish will rarely take it unless it floats over them just right»), the books he read, the effects of drought and floods on fish, the seasons of the year («The silence of the snows is over all the land, and the bright waters of our trout streams run almost black between icy banks») and his belief in the natural fly as a model for the artificial («The insect must be studied and many patterns dressed before one can hope to satisfy the critical eyes of the trout»).

The details of state inspections of nail salons are perhaps most revealing about just how challenging it is to regulate a largely immigrant - run industry in which almost everything is done off the books and employers are often unfamiliar with the intricacies of state labor laws.

Imagine, just a few months before the serious campaigning begins for the run to the White House they are not only confronted with almost daily polls that show one Sarah Palin leading all comers to be their standard bearer next time around, but are bombarded with her constant presence on magazine covers, TV shows, cable news, being Twittered and seeing her book outsell their hero George W's.

Barefoot running is not for everyone, he says, but he justifies it in his book: «I have almost never seen a flat arch in any habitually barefoot person, reinforcing my belief that flat feet are an evolutionary mismatch.»

A friend suggested that I read a book that had helped her, A Mother's Rule of Life, and it literally changed how I ran our household and reduced my stress load almost instantly.

If she can be up ALL day working being a care giver and running errands all day without almost crying then this is good in my books!

Kinda do a muscle up upon to that, jump off that, land soft like a monkey, run off to this big, it's like this big it's almost like this pole that a sign is hanging from and I'll do 3, 4, 5 pull ups on that and then run backwards, or sideways, or skip or bound or hop over to my original starting point and that you know, these are the type of workouts that Darryl Edwards talked about in his book Paleo Fitness you know, or on his website, fitnessexplorer.com.

There's a great running gag (relevant to the plot) involving a string of «No Dogs Allowed» signs, and the film is alternately humorous (love Snoopy at the library, cracking up over a book titled The Bunnies) and heart - tugging (the farewell sequences seemingly run almost as long as those in the final Lord of the Rings flick!).

I don't intend this to be a spoiler, because, you know, the book's been around for almost as long as this movie runs, and Rankin & Bass already adapted it (somehow squeezing Tolkien's slim volume into one 77 - minute animated flick)-- but if you don't read and live under a rock: the dragon dies.

It's almost like a religion: General Motors held aloft the oracle of OnStar and wandered in the Tech - Before - Its - Time desert for decades, preaching the gospel of automatic crash notification — all while the company ran through OnStar leaders who grew disgruntled, left, and wrote tell - all books.

«The marriage of colour inkjet book manufacturing with our proven, single copy print - on - demand (POD) selling model is going to be a first for the UK market, as to date, inkjet colour options have almost exclusively been limited to short run printing,» said David Taylor, Senior Vice President, Content Acquisition International, Ingram Content Group.

Unless you hit the ground running with publicity, your book could be at Buck a Book almost before you've held your book pabook could be at Buck a Book almost before you've held your book paBook almost before you've held your book pabook party.

If you're making a book, and not selling it in the dominant market, you're almost automatically out of the running.

And, Brad Graham, is there — do you think in 20 years we're going — you're going to be running a store that's essentially a showroom for books that are delivered almost entirely electronically?

Many libraries and bookstores run book clubs which are almost always open to the public and welcome drop - ins.

This article first ran as the «Beyond the Book» feature for The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson.

A little known fact is that print runs of 500 books or less, known as «short runs» are almost never printed on large presses with metal plates prepared from film, and it would be a waste of money for most people to do so.

But the overall theme of the report was that Australian book sellers and publishers would need to take steps to counteract the consumers» online and foreign market purchasing, a running theme in the U.S., where the loss of Borders has been blamed almost entirely on the online retail booksellers and consumers» switch to digital.

I got an ereader mostly because I noticed I'd almost stopped buying new books for the simple reason that I'm running out of room for them, but I found it actually more pleasant to read on that than on paper.

Almost get run over by an elephant on your way to a book signing?

Sometime in the future I will run out of books to trade in and eventually I will reduce my buying of printed books to almost nothing.

Find the most prevalent themes and subjects in your novels — ones that run through almost all your books.

Almost any author who is trying to sell books these days has run into the trolls and sock puppets who seem to spend their days leaving nasty or idiotic reviews (for books they obviously haven't read) for no particular purpose except to wield the power they probably don't have in their real lives.

It's been almost five years since the release of the The Darkness, the original game based on Top Cow's long - running series of comic books about a young, demonically - charged Mafia hitman.

The book itself is almost structured like your classic, conventional video game structure, where he has to work his way up the bottom echelon of these monsters to the big boss who's running everything from behind the scenes.

Leslie Hewitt in her photographs runs through permutations on another almost empty interior, but they include a book called Black Protests and the report of the Kerner Commission on civil rights.

BOOK NEW CITY New City has a partnership with local booking agency Almost There for concerts outside of our own Sunday Night Folk series (which runs in the winter and spring).

RENTING NEW CITY: New City has a partnership with local booking agency Almost There for concerts outside of our own Sunday Night Folk series (which runs in the winter and spring).

No matter how casual, her pictures almost always feature rock - solid axial structures... At a time of renewed interest in an era that was formative for Gross — explored in books like Judith Stein's biography of dealer Richard Bellamy, Eye of the Sixties (2016), and the exhibition «Inventing Downtown: Artist - Run Galleries in New York City, 1952 — 1965,» now at New York University's Grey Art Gallery — it's worth looking back at an artist who witnessed much and made vital work, but received very little recognition, due in part to the all - too - common combination of art world trends and sexism.»

A dark pool is a type of private exchange, which are common on Wall Street and are operated by almost every major institutional investor from JP Morgan Chase to Goldman Sachs, where financial assets and instruments are traded and matched by an engine running on a hidden order book.

I just read the book and seems like he has a nice wholesaling system where it almost runs itself while flipping out of state.