Sentences with phrase «books as a teenager»

Comedian Chris Gethard (The Chris Gethard Show) joins Ryan and Tucker to talk about why he loves X-Factor and what it was like to have his letter printed in a comic book as a teenager.

The American cartoon artist and satirist R. Crumb, 72, began making handmade comic books as a teenager.

As someone who admits he skipped school as much as he could get away with when he was younger and never read a book as a teenager, Hitzer was hesitant.

Not exact matches

To date, the startup — co-founded with COO Igor Bratnikov, a fellow émigré Raygorodskaya met as a teenager at a Russian - language afterschool math program — has booked more than $ 1 billion in partner ticket sales and now generates over $ 100 million in annual revenue.

(Musk slipped at least one reference to the book into the software of the Tesla Model S.) As a teenager, Vance writes in his biography, Musk formulated a mission statement for himself: «The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment.»

One final comment: This is a book for adults even though St Therese read it as a young teenager.

The book tells the story of a group of Holocaust survivors, who, as teenagers, lost virtually everything they had during the War, but rebuilt their lives and went on to serve society in extraordinary ways.

We may not be surprised to learn that only 10 percent of teenagers can name all five of the world's major religions, or that 66 percent can not name the Qur» an as the sacred book of Islam.

The appearance of the book is appealing and uses language that is straightforward enough to be read by / with older children and teenagers, for whom it would serve as a useful starting point for discussion.

As with younger children, you will find a wide variety of Internet resources devoted to literature and books which teenagers might enjoy.

Sarah's book about the experience, Fed Up With Lunch, contains a «Guide to Quiet Revolution,» which parents, teachers, kids and teenagers, as well as community members can use as a road map to make health and wellness a priority in neighborhood schools.

Baby care books sell by the billions, but books on raising teenagers lag far behind, as if we know what we need to know already!

The book concludes with «Mrs. Q's Guide to Quiet Revolution: An Action and Resource Guide» which provides advice for different stakeholders — parents, teachers, kids, teenagers, chefs and nutritionists — as well as a Resources Guide to point would - be school food reformers toward helpful organizations, blogs and reading material.

This book is appropriate for parents whose children are over the age of two, and the new expanded 3rd edition now includes chapters related to teenagers and active alerts as adults.

This book is a particular favourite of mine because, as a teenager, I keenly followed Robert Kennedy's quixotic run for the presidency, and this account encapsulated the frenetic and sometimes chaotic campaign that ended in the traumatic murder of Kennedy, when he had just won the primary election in the largest state in the Union, California, and in one of the most rural, South Dakota.

Lars Bromley, in contrast, got his first exposure to the struggles of the outside world through the books he was reading as a teenager.

Tara Stiles revealed a traumatic incident that happened to her as a teenager in her new book, Make Your Own Rules Diet.

That's why I chose to reveal a traumatic incident that happened to me as a teenager in my new book, Make Your Own Rules Diet.

My husband is a chiropractor so we have been little by little changing the way we eat — I have noticed when I eat better, my skin gets better - ish, (was on Accutane as a teenager) but was wanting to learn exactly what seems to be in your book!

For Shopaholics (as in Sophie Kinsellas books, which I used to get for Christmas when I was a teenager) Christmas is always a good opportunity to upgrade the closet without straining the wallet.

As a teenager I could happily spend entire days lost in a book and I feel so sad to have grown out of that habit.

musical and artistic — I play percussion in a band — been a glassblower on and off for 17 years — I love gardening and the grateful dead — I am writing a book about my experience touring with the band in the late 80s and playing drums in drum circles across the country as a teenager — I live...

This rib - tickling spoof of comic book adventures stars Drake Bell as a teenager who is bitten by a radioactive dragonfly and attains super powers.

Orlando Bloom began reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy as a teenager before abandoning the books in favor of sports and girls.

Based on the best - selling books by Jay Asher, 13 Reasons Why follows teenager Clay Jensen as he returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch.

Based on the book Derby Girl by Shauna Cross, the film stars Ellen Page as a Texas teenager named Bliss Cavendar who rebels against her beauty pageant - obsessed mother by joining a female roller derby league.

As a teenager reading the book I wasn't interested in Jessie's childhood trauma but now as an adult I see how it led her to a man like Gerald in the first placAs a teenager reading the book I wasn't interested in Jessie's childhood trauma but now as an adult I see how it led her to a man like Gerald in the first placas an adult I see how it led her to a man like Gerald in the first place.

OK, the not so good stuff: I am beginning to despise 3 - D (it adds nothing, while diminishing the brightness of colors); Jotunheim (land of the Frost Giants) is plain, gray and boring; Natalie Portman, fresh off an Oscar is just terrible as an astro - physicist with a teenager - style crush on Thor; Tom Hiddleston as Loki is one of the weakest villains I have ever seen in a super - hero / comic book movie; Rene Russo must not have read the script prior to accepting her role — she has about 3 lines and is totally wasted.

And while the subject matter of children and young teenagers fighting one another to the death may lead some parents to think twice about bringing their own kids to the picture, the movie is sure to top the box office as well as produce sequels (two books remain to be adapted) in the future.

But that doesn't take away the fun of the way Waititi and his team of veteran comic - book - adaptation writers expand Hulk's vocabulary and personality, reinventing him as a petulant, ill - tempered teenager.

Unfolding on a long, hot July night in 1967 Detroit, it depicts what is known as the Algiers Motel Incident (the title of a well - known book by John Hersey about that night), in which three unarmed black teenagers were shot and killed by a group of law enforcement officers.

The film tells the story of average teenager Dave Lizewski, a comic - book fanboy who decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real - life superhero.

Oddly, for a gory R - rated thriller, the producers of this film adaptation (Roger Corman is one of them) decide to changed the adult male protagonist from the book into a young teenager, playing quite often as a family film when not in terror mode.

The endearing and amusing Aaron Johnson stars as Dave Lizewski, a teenager who spends his days being bullied around by other kids at his high school, hanging out with his buddies at his neighbourhood comic book shop, jerking off to thoughts of his big - titted English teacher (Deborah Twiss) and secretly longing for pretty classmate Katie (Lyndsy Fonseca).

[22] In 1997, Llewellyn's Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School & Get a Real Life and Education was published as a practical guide for teenagers (and parents) who were fed up with traditional learning where students remained hidden inside classrooms and text books.

As a teenager he read in one of those books socially akward boys read in hopes of learning to relate to females that this is a sign that one human being desire another.

She also worked as a children's librarian and bookseller, and remembers still the satisfaction of putting just the right book into a child's (or teenager's) hands.

Chosen from the many adult books published during 1999, the following titles have been earmarked as top choices for teenagers» personal reading by the Books for Youth editorial staff and contributing reviebooks published during 1999, the following titles have been earmarked as top choices for teenagers» personal reading by the Books for Youth editorial staff and contributing revieBooks for Youth editorial staff and contributing reviewers.

Jemisin said the genre was «cemented» as her favorite when she read books by Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guin as a young teenager.

Did cases such as the shooting of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson play into your decision to write this book?

It showed that the younger demographic of consumers in the 18 -29-year-old range — arguably some of those same teenagers and college students who may have been reluctant digital readers at the beginning of the e-reader device surge — are three times more likely than any other age range of adults to use an online source such as social media or retailers» online storefronts to browse and discover new books to read.

Or as Schrank jokingly referred to it, an elegant coffee table book if teenagers had coffee tables.

As a teenager, I was sick of books, sick of writing.

I think the book that had the most impact on me as a teenager was «The Wall» by John Hersey.

Anderson has created a complex yet highly readable narrative, a beautifully written book with wonderfully inventive plot twists that will appeal to adult readers as well as inquisitive teenagers.

What were your favorite books to read as a child and teenager?

I chatted with them about the books they were obsessed with as teenagers, embarrassing moments, character BFFs and more.

From collections directed at small children to anthologies for teenagers, publishers have begun to focus on young readers of poetry as a very real segment of the book - buying population.

Despite the fact that I am not, as a rule, a fan of magical realism, I totally loved this book about a gay, nerdy, teenager who — while struggling to define himself - is serially abducted by aliens.

That romance maintained its popularity well into the sixties is evidenced by something that none other than S. E. Hinton wrote in the New York Times Book Review as late as 1967: «The world is changing, yet the authors of books for teenagers are still 15 years behind the times.