Sentences with phrase «books in a few hours»

Being present: whether doing a library reading, or simply sitting at a table in a hospital lobby (don't uagh — I sold 23 books in a few hours to people to bring upstairs as gifts, all signed by the author!)

Not exact matches

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

On a warm spring afternoon, Phil Knight found the time to meet up with me at the Le Germain Hotel in downtown Toronto while in Canada for just a few hours promoting his book Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike.

Whether it's coaching a kids» sports team like the CEO of Insureon, playing a regular game of pickup soccer like celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson, or extending a standing invitation to your friends for a Sunday evening supper like Huckabee, all the successful people profiled in the book plot out their weekends in advance (though not every minute; just a few «anchor events,» as Vanderkam dubs them) and make active use of the hours they have.

One study in a retirement community, where the median age was 72, indicated that residents watched television an average of six hours a day; this statistic compared with two hours of radio listening, 45 minutes of newspaper reading, one - half hour of magazine reading and a few minutes of book reading.

I know few artists that visit a state with a mere 500K people, but hey, a 4 - 5 hour drive is doable for us!!!! (Now if only I can keep my friend from pre-ordering the book before her birthday in September....)

Sometimes it's handy, more often than not, it's a bummer when I am loving a new book and then it's finished in just a few hours.

I am also hoping to put together another book proposal for Princeton in the next few months, but we'll see about that, there are only so many hours in the day.

, I'm getting enough sleep... and by enough I mean a few hours book ended by babies crying and g - tube alarms going off in the middle of the night.

Fortunately, Grandma was thinking on her feet and booked us a trip at Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine, Texas - just a few short hours away.

I read this book cover to cover in a few hours and had been pumping for 12 months at the time — and I still learned a lot of new things.

A baby's sleep schedule can be so challenging that you may feel you'll use just about any trick in the book to get a few peaceful hours of rest.

So incredible, that of the 1,600 reviews posted on the book's Amazon page in just a few hours, the company soon deleted 900 it suspected of being bogus: written by people who said they loved or hated the book, but had neither purchased nor likely even read it.

In his book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past, A. Roger Ekirch explains that historically humans slept in two shifts: one for a few hours when the sun went down, and another from the early hours of the morning until dawIn his book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past, A. Roger Ekirch explains that historically humans slept in two shifts: one for a few hours when the sun went down, and another from the early hours of the morning until dawin Times Past, A. Roger Ekirch explains that historically humans slept in two shifts: one for a few hours when the sun went down, and another from the early hours of the morning until dawin two shifts: one for a few hours when the sun went down, and another from the early hours of the morning until dawn.

3rd Space is a spacious cool outdoor place tucked in from the back of the Tai Ping Shan Street where you can just get a cup of coffee and chill (read a book and work on your laptop for a few hours).

With only a few hours in Paris, we decided to book tickets for a tour bus / guide to get a warm introduction to the city.

With only a few hours in Paris, we decided to book tickets for a tour bus / guide to get a warm introduction to the...

But there are only so many hours in a day and I am trying to squeeze out a few hours each week to write my book so going forward, I will be posting on Mondays and Thursdays only.

All great authors know that a killer first line is almost more important than the first few pages, and authors put in hours of work just to get Following is a list of the 100 best first lines from novels, as decided by the American Book Review, a nonprofit journal published at the Unit

Ahead of the first full trailer going online in a few hours, the first photos are out from Andy Serkis» «Mowgli,» the upcoming new adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's «The Jungle Book» for Warner Bros..

In Tom Stoppard «s spectacularly good script (I suspect the quality of which has been overlooked because so few film critics have actually read the book), it has a jumping off point that more than any previous take, digs into the themes of the novel — the many forms that love takes, artificial metropolitan life vs. simple pastoral life — and allows the peripheral characters their moment in the sun, while still keeping the running time at around a brisk two hourIn Tom Stoppard «s spectacularly good script (I suspect the quality of which has been overlooked because so few film critics have actually read the book), it has a jumping off point that more than any previous take, digs into the themes of the novel — the many forms that love takes, artificial metropolitan life vs. simple pastoral life — and allows the peripheral characters their moment in the sun, while still keeping the running time at around a brisk two hourin the sun, while still keeping the running time at around a brisk two hours.

The few hours it takes to read this book will be returned in time saved worrying about how to respond to students who you know could achieve more.

He also wrapped up the writing on his second book in the series — something that consumed far fewer hours this time around.

In the book, we note that charter school teachers report working longer hours, receiving fewer benefits, and are more likely to cite frustration as a reason for leaving.

I remember, vividly, when I spent hours in Borders or B&N, and always left with more than a few books in arms.

They are merely the electronic age's most convenient way to read that book you always wanted to lose yourself in for a few hours.

Let's be clear about this, by «bestseller» we don't mean a book that hits the top of the free downloads list or a book that reaches the # 1 spot in a category for a few hours or maybe, even a couple of days.

And after you've roasted in the sun for a few hours, what better way to celebrate than with a few good books that focus on America from all different angles?

Within a few hours a Twitter user by the name of Allison Stieger visited Amazon Books and found a book she was interested in, Alice Hoffman's The Marriage of Opposites.

One tiny criticism - while one has to suspend disbelieve to a degree in order to enjoy any book of this type (e.g. the hero getting into half a dozen or more life threatening situations in 48 hours and keeping on fighting despite multiple injuries that would have flattened a mere mortal), there were a few somewhat glaring plot glitches.

The overcast skies and occasional showers made it a perfect reading weekend here in Nashville, and I managed to spend a few hours with the galleys of the forthcoming A.S. Byatt novel I blogged about a couple of weeks ago, The Children's Book.

That means there are 16,809 books selling better than you in the last hour and a few million selling worse.

Update: I was told there was a bug in the system for a few hours and most countries can buy the Kindle books again.

Once I've gone back into the system and approved the proof (after receiving it in the mail and checking it), the book goes live within a few hours.

Though my reviewers and I have managed to accumulate almost 700 reviews these past few years, they're barely even the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the books we buy and enjoy (not enough hours in the day!).

Service providers like Overdrive and NetLibrary have arisen to make it possible for libraries to «lend» e-books in a way that is very similar to the way they lend hardcopy books: you get access to the e-book for the library's lending period (perhaps a couple of weeks, or for a reference work, a few hours), and then it «disappears» from your device and becomes available to another library member.

Some of our clients here at Book Cover Cafe have incredibly successful events selling between $ 700 — $ 1500 worth of books in a matter of a few hours.

In fact, Google Books was pulled from the store entirely for a few hours before the company submitted an updated version of its app with the store link removed.

Perhaps I would make more money if I did less research, if I spent fewer hours lost in books at the library, or taking research trips to interesting places.

A few hours of in depth research online for radio shows, podcasts and vlogs that cover topics related to the types of books you write should reveal several potential candidates for further exploration.

Some of my books are in very small categories, and I have seen the badge show up briefly on the book's page (as I mentioned about Death in Zion in the blog above), but it disappeared within a few hours, even though the book stayed at # 1 on its list.

In the end, I found the battery on the XP sufficient (anything that lasts 12 hours without needing a recharge is winner in my book) for my needs and after seeing it keep trucking along for the first few days with XP, I stopped worrying about it needing a recharge and even stopped carrying the USB plug in bag (yeah, I carry one, isn't that normal?In the end, I found the battery on the XP sufficient (anything that lasts 12 hours without needing a recharge is winner in my book) for my needs and after seeing it keep trucking along for the first few days with XP, I stopped worrying about it needing a recharge and even stopped carrying the USB plug in bag (yeah, I carry one, isn't that normal?in my book) for my needs and after seeing it keep trucking along for the first few days with XP, I stopped worrying about it needing a recharge and even stopped carrying the USB plug in bag (yeah, I carry one, isn't that normal?in bag (yeah, I carry one, isn't that normal?).

In his previous book, «The 4 - Hour Workweek: Escape 9 - 5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich» (his subtitles are awesome), which was on the hardcover advice best - seller list for more than 75 weeks, he delivered tips like (I'm exaggerating only slightly): hire an overseas virtual assistant for a few bucks an hour and use the extra time to ski in the AndeIn his previous book, «The 4 - Hour Workweek: Escape 9 - 5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich» (his subtitles are awesome), which was on the hardcover advice best - seller list for more than 75 weeks, he delivered tips like (I'm exaggerating only slightly): hire an overseas virtual assistant for a few bucks an hour and use the extra time to ski in the AnHour Workweek: Escape 9 - 5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich» (his subtitles are awesome), which was on the hardcover advice best - seller list for more than 75 weeks, he delivered tips like (I'm exaggerating only slightly): hire an overseas virtual assistant for a few bucks an hour and use the extra time to ski in the Anhour and use the extra time to ski in the Andein the Andes.

This version of the book also includes what I call the «big list» of all of the free Kindle titles, categorized by genre, in the Amazon Kindle store — that should keep you busy for a few hours!

Now perhaps I'm missing something, maybe there really are hordes of parsimonious consumers spending hours wandering around high street book stores, scanning barcodes and checking the prices against Amazon in the hope of saving themselves a few quid.

The world is indeed filled with crap books that people write in a few hours just trying to make a quick buck.

Your book description changes should be live on Amazon in a few hours.

The book went to number 3 in a few hours.

* Access all your contacts and calendar entries wherever you are, as the Xperia ™ X1 can automatically sync with your PC making sure you never miss a birthday, anniversary or meeting * Search or book a holiday in your lunch hour by going online via a travel panel * Add your local supermarket website and do your weekly food shop in just a few taps on the bus on the way home * Read the latest restaurants reviews, look up cinema listings, call a friend or reply to personal email on the move using the full QWERTY keyboard * Find that bar, restaurant or hotel using Assisted GPS and Goggle Maps ™ for mobile when you're on vacation or a business trip

Spend a few hours in / r / Fitness and its related sub-reddits (/ r / leangains, / r / paleo) and you'll come up with dozens of ideas for a book (example: The Butter and Bacon Diet: Losing Weight With Keto, inspired by / r / keto).