Sentences with phrase «fiction book like»

There is no other end - times fiction book like this.

Not exact matches

That jibes with what Stewart suggests, that certain kinds of books — genre stuff like fan fiction or romance — work better digitally, but print is still a more desirable way to digest the really good meaty writing.

I really like speculative science fiction, and the book is close enough to now to have some reality to it — it's about environmental disasters.

19th century, archaeological finds (e.g. earth and timber fortifications and towns, the use of a plaster - like cement, ancient roads, metal points and implements, copper breastplates, head - plates, textiles, pearls, native North American inscriptions, North American elephant remains etc.) is not interpreted by mainstream academia as proving the historicity or divinity of the Book of Mormon.This evidence is viewed by mainstream scholars as a work of fiction that parallels others within the 19th century «Mound - builder» genre that were pervasive at the time.

Like all of his books after Black Robe (his only attempt at historical fiction), it takes the form of a thriller, with a seductively relentless pace reminiscent of Simenon at his best.

Everyone has personal favorites, and I would like to close with a few of the books I have enjoyed with my children: Noel Streatfield's books about families with dancing children, including Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes; Cotton in My Sack and Indian Captive, books of historical fiction by Lois Lenski; the hilarious picture book Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman; the gentle moral tale of Rose, «who didn't work any harder than she had to»; Seven Loaves of Bread, by Ferida Wolf; and the accurate depictions of family life in both Joanna Harrison's When Mom Turned into a Monster and Jean van Leeuwen's delightful Oliver and Amanda Pig stories.

Thankfully, the bestsellers today are not «Left Behind» and similar pulp fiction garbage, they are books like «The God Delusion» by Richard Dawkins.

I like her Christmas series, starting with «The Christmas Shoes» (the series is fiction) and probably my favorite book is her «Sheltering Trees» (Hardcover with enclosed CD), which is not fiction.

One stirring, romantic historical fiction and the other, fantasy / sci - fi - just like your book.

I did enjoy the book and the movie Fountianhead but it was a work of fiction and not a way I would like to live my life.

books i read The Sky Beneath My Feet by Lisa Samson:: I'm pretty hard to please when it comes to «Christian» fiction (as in: I don't really like it) but Lisa Samson is consistently my favourite in this much - maligned...

Like other Willis novels, this book uses a science fiction premise to season a screwball comedy.

Like his earlier fiction, the book mounts a frontal attack on the ways people order their existence in the hope of giving it meaning.

Lewis» Space Trilogy, consisting of the books Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength is a very good allagory on Christianity from a more «adult» viewpoint, without the obvious appeal to the young reader, even though they read like science fiction stories.

Just throw it away, treat it as it is, a work of fiction, like ANY other book written about Zeus, Apollo, Thor, Odin, or any other «god».

I hear a «whispering hope» when the erudite Reynolds Price writes openly about his vision of Jesus during his cancer ordeal, or when thousands buy his translation of three of the Gospels; when books of interviews with writers — like Susan Ketchin's The Christ - Haunted Landscape or Dale Brown's Of Fiction and Faith — seep into the academy.

I remember seeing an interview with a Baptist fiction writer of great renown - John Grisham, I think - and he was asked something like why there was so little sex in his books.

I remember seeing an interview with a Baptist fiction writer of great renown - John Grisham, I think - and he was asked something like why there was so little socks in his books.

She owns up to her mistakes (promoting a book as a memoir when it was fiction), acts silly (a cross-country road trip with her best friend Gayle), cries when her dog dies or she hears a heartbreaking story, gets behind causes she believes in (a girls school in South Africa), and acts like a student and not just a teacher (organizing a 10 - week online class to discuss Eckhart Tolle's book, «A New Earth.»)

I'm on the second book, and though it is YA fiction, it's well written and a lovely distraction, if you like a little fantasy... Here's hoping for an hour to myself, even if it is in a dark closet, and a time to shower, Whenever that may be.

She can read fiction and nonfiction books about chimps, including stories about researchers like Jane Goodall.

About this Book: Truth or Truthiness: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction by Learning to Think Like a Data Scientist Howard Wainer Cambridge University Press, 2016

Howard Wainer's new book, Truth or Truthiness: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction by Learning to Think Like a Data Scientist, suggests that geometry's role in the search for truth has been replaced by data science.

The book reads like the highest class of science fiction.

Whilst the book itself is a work of fiction, The Red Tent by Anita Diamant gives a glimpse into what these gatherings may have looked like.

I love to read and lately, it's like I just can't get enough of young adult fiction books!

Like many kids, I devoured fiction while I was growing up, staying up late to read under my covers with a book light.

I like to have 2 books in rotation at a time, a fiction and one non-fiction so that tends to be the reason for the variety!

Survey participants were asked about the works of fiction they'd most like to see on a date's shelves, and they voted the following ten books the most attractive of all.

I like reading rantasy and science fiction and I have written two, two hundred page books which you can find here and I'm currently in the middle of writing another so if you like what I've done let me know.

I like to have a rest with family and friends on the nature, to read books (classics, science fiction, the literature on psychology and philosophies) to dance and listen to music.

It was one of those clearly science fiction books they marketed as something more «literary» instead, much like Cormac McCarthy's popular The Road.

An extremely loose, glossy adaptation of the relatively obscure 2006 independent studio graphic novel of the same name by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Cowboys & Aliens isn't the first mash - up of Westerns and science fiction (Westworld, Wild Wild West and Back to the Future Part III are other examples), but it is one of the first in a popular burgeoning trend in mixing genres that has seen books like «Pride and Prejudice & Zombies» become popular.

Of course, film ain't fiction, so to speak, and his first book length effort on crime films is like a Webley revolver with a sticky trigger; it works, just not as fluidly or efficiently as one would like.

For such high - concept science fiction, it is disappointing that it all plays out quite sudsy, as if a mash - up like «Pride & Prejudice & Zombies» were done with a Nicholas Sparks book that were mixed up with Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

This is mostly wasted on me due to my irredeemable bias toward fiction films (much like my love of fiction books).

Ever since «Star Wars» rewrote the proverbial rule book, there has been so little room in cinemas for calm, brainy science fiction that anything that isn't space opera seems like a feast — «Arrival» is pretty easy to overrate.

It's also similar to choice - based fiction, like the Choose Your Own Adventure book series that began in the late 1970s.

And even Christabel, who spends most of her time happily glued to her computer — and who is also an avid fiction reader — says she likes the feeling and portability of a paper book.

[Of course, since the Common Core frowns on so - called fiction, our children won't even be learning about how books like 1984 and The Trial foretold the coming of the political environment that is sweeping across our nation.]

JF: It's always hard to categorize books like this, and because it uses a fictional story as its foundation, we've put in the fiction category.

One of the winners of my first book wrote a great review saying he didn't like flash fiction until he read my book.

(Though for authors I recommend focusing not on writing itself as a topic, but on what you write books ABOUT — i.e., I write fantasy fiction, so I post about things like the monster in Netflix» Stranger Things series.)

For a fiction book that's in a competitive market like romance?

Although there are thousands of books that address lofty topics like creativity, plot outlines, and the craft of different types of writing, there are relatively few books devoted to helping authors create a system of time management habits and practices to write their books — regardless of the types of fiction or nonfiction book you want to write.

Speaking of hearts, there's one last reward of reviewing that I'd like to mention: that as an author myself, I know how heartwarming it is to receive an enthusiastic review for my own work, and the arrival of not one but two glowing reviews for my latest book, the collection of very short stories (aka flash fiction) has made my week already — and it's still only Tuesday.

Apart from ALLi I'm a member of many book promo sites, which I never visit until I have something to push... and also a couple like the One Stop Fiction Authors Resource Group and Tom Winton Helping Authors.

For both fiction and non-fiction, Kathleen loves looking beyond the book — while the story is most important, she likes to find other opportunities for her clients to help expand their platform and compliment their books.

Digital publishing made the speed - to - market incredibly fast, and just like other e-short platforms, Byliner was able to get quality non-fiction into the hands of busy readers with minimal delay, along with dedicated fiction works that were written expressly for snippet - like consumption from some of the top names in books.

Dan Chaon's novel Await Your Reply was «a profound and haunting exploration of the shifting, often tenuous, nature of identity... a thrilling example of the best of contemporary literary fiction,» although he's probably best known for his story collections, like National Book Award finalist Among the Missing, in which he» [brought] clarity to the confusion of people's inner motives.»