Sentences with phrase «from romance novels»

Often, she will take up vernacular and structures from romance novels, fundraisers, and advertisements.

Working with an editor who has a preference from romance novels was as important to me as their professional backgrounds, which is why I was so happy Reedsy permitted me to search for editors with specific keywords.

More than ever, people need regular doses of the kind of hope, optimism and happy endings that they get from romance novels.

Wendell's newest book is called Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels, and it is part - love letter to the genre, part - friendly self - help guide and part - joyful poking fun at the tropes of romance.

:: 2-23-2011:: Dr. Debra is quoted in Women's Day magazine in a article titled «7 Life Lessons from Romance Novels».

The Voldemort of the book business not only controls an estimated 60 percent of e-book sales and a significant chunk of print book sales, it has now become a publisher, establishing imprints for everything from romance novels to children's picture books and putting out more than 100 books of its own in 2011.

My picks for the week are on topics from romance novels to Harry Potter...

Here are the top 20 sites where you can find a wide variety of completely free books, anything from romance novels to computer technology manuals.

An oft - repeated medical term for a female body part and strong sexual slang words are used in the script along with the discussion of sexual aids and a lusty passage from a romance novel.

However you decide to spend your time in Jamaica, the sheer grandeur and variety of landscapes at Rio Chico will have you feeling like an epic character from a romance novel in no time.

Not exact matches

And what historical evangelical theology is communicated by paintings of cottages printed on mousepads, and T - shirts that print Scripture pulled from context across an American flag or keychains, or romance novels minus the sex?

For although Austen can be legitimately claimed as the formal forerunner of the vulgar romance fiction now clogging whole sections of the world's bookstores, her own novels far transcend the very genre she is supposed to have inaugurated ¯ and precisely because of the moral vision that came from her upbringing and which has now, it would seem, all but disappeared in the wake of Sitcom World.

It is also what some critics call an «encyclopedic novel,» at once a fictional distillation of a civilization — in this case, that of medieval Britain, or at least a vision of it — complete with the arcana of various subjects (in this case, medieval warfare, falconry, heraldry, hagiography, psalters, scholasticism, and so on) that you expect from Pynchon and DeLillo, and the highly individual vision of a writer who is using Malory's vast romance as a springboard for his own imagination.

It sounds like a cheap romance novel, but this line is actually lifted from quite a different type of prose: a neuroscience study.

That even after a series of novel data seems to be absent from his life, he can examine the importance of how you define online dating romance.

Let's say we tell our friend from the above example that we're going to an air show this weekend and then going to read a romance novel at our favorite park.

Adapted from Elfriede Jelinek's novel, Der Klavierspielerin, Haneke's rendering is a kind of anti-melodrama, taking the conventions of the doomed romance familiar from Bovary and showing them up for their contradictory nature: histrionic and subdued, grotesque and utterly banal.

Young hearts run free on opposite sides of the Atlantic in John Crowley's handsome romance, adapted for the screen by Nick Hornby from Colm Toibin's novel of the same name.

The challenges in adapting a novel about the romance between two people where one of them is dead from the outset is obvious, but the film never skirts this fact, instead embracing it and using flashbacks and Justin's memories as a recurring them to show the evolving love affair between him and Tessa.

«The Longest Ride» is the tenth film adapted from a novel written by romance king Nicholas Sparks.

From the already talked about ten minute sex scene (leading to an NC - 17 rating), to allegations from the crew over reportedly tough working conditions, to graphic novel author Julie Maroh «s opinions on the adaptation of her work, the conversation around Abdellatif Kechiche «s romance has been equally about these issues as it has been about how great the movieFrom the already talked about ten minute sex scene (leading to an NC - 17 rating), to allegations from the crew over reportedly tough working conditions, to graphic novel author Julie Maroh «s opinions on the adaptation of her work, the conversation around Abdellatif Kechiche «s romance has been equally about these issues as it has been about how great the moviefrom the crew over reportedly tough working conditions, to graphic novel author Julie Maroh «s opinions on the adaptation of her work, the conversation around Abdellatif Kechiche «s romance has been equally about these issues as it has been about how great the movie is.

She made a break - out performance in the film adaptation of Nicolas Spark's romance novel «The Notebook» and stole the show from Lindsay Lohan in the teen angst comedy «Mean Girls.»

That supporting cast delivers the right mix of personalities, from the sass of Craig Robinson (Walk Hard), to the sexpot appeal of porn goddess Traci Lords (Novel Romance), but they don't always translate into laughs.

It reduces the novel from one of romance and melodrama to one of social argument, which is far less interesting.

Dench is remarkable is her role (surely in the running for an Oscar nom) as the seemingly simple woman who reads romance novels, gets excited about salad bars, is thrilled with mints on her pillow, and has lived a lifetime with a hole in her heart created by having her young son ripped from her world.

Modern Romance is nothing terribly novel, and doesn't really seem to have any real point of view, although there are some pithy insights that do emerge from time to time within the modest story.

«Our Souls at Night,» an adaptation of the Kent Haruf novel, will follow a widow and a widowers who find comfort and ultimately romance in each other's company, despite murmurs from the small town's chatty residents.

As the title suggests, the action - horror - romance - comedy mashup drops the characters from Jane Austen's classic novel into a world menaced by the walking dead.

From Richard LaGravenese, writer of acclaimed romance films such as The Bridges of Madison County, The Horse Whisperer, and The Mirror Has Two Faces, this story of forbidden love (based on the novel of the same name) between a witch and a human boasts playful charm and palpable chemistry.

Haynes and the screenplay by Phyllis Nagy (adapted from Patricia Highsmith's 1952 novel The Price of Salt) honestly portray two complex women and the various complications of this delicate and scandalous romance.

And Colette, which emerges from the same production stable as the groundbreaking lesbian romance Carol, focusses on the French author and sexual boundary - pusher, best known for the boarding school Claudine series as well as Gigi, the 1944 novel about a convention - defying young woman who is trained to be a «courtesan».

How Ana Lily Amirpour takes familiar elements from vampire romance and morphs them into something wholly novel is sight unseen.

by Walter Chaw Walking a fine line between nostalgia and regret, irony and earnestness, Philip Noyce's The Quiet American, adapted from the novel by Graham Greene, is a lovely film that captures, like Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, the delicate balance between romance in the immediate foreground and the backdrop of war and politics.

When casting news for the film adaptation of E.L. James» erotic romance novel «Fifty Shades of Grey» broke over the long weekend, reactions were muddled with expressions running from «Finally!»

His poignant coming - of - age romance — adapted by James Ivory from André Aciman's novel — enters Sunday's Academy Awards with four nominations, for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Song.

The film, a heart - wrenching romance adapted from the 2007 novel by André Aciman, follows 17 - year - old Elio as he falls in love with Oliver (Armie Hammer), the older, taller and blonder American student living with his family for the summer.

Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird) against showcases her versatility in this quietly powerful British romance adapted from a novel by Ian McEwan (Atonement).

Adapted from the novel by Irvine Welsh, «Filth» has been directed and written by Jon S. Baird («Cass») and sees an intense star - studded cast convert to screen an compelling story of insanity, romance and deceit.

With «Carol,» that approach stems from the text itself, which Haynes enriches by delivering a mannered, classical romance that replaces the original pulp identity of the novel at the time of its release with a gentle, affecting two - hander as the author surely envisioned it.

Reynolds winds up romancing Arterton's co-accountant Anna Kendrick, after he makes a grave error with Arterton, and while Michael R. Perry's script occasionally feels a little like a talking - animal comedy riff on some of the plot elements in Thomas Harris» novel «Red Dragon,» you might as well steal from the best.

What the script by Elliott and Rossio (Dead Man's Chest, Shrek), who very loosely rework a wholly unrelated pirate novel («On Stranger Tides», naturally) from 1987 by Tim Powers, fills the time up with is a tedious romance between a goodly cleric named Philip (Clafin, United) and a sultry mermaid dubbed Serena (Berges - Frisbey, Meet the Elizabethz), the attempted extraction of one of her mythical tears, and some mumbo jumbo about maps and silver chalices from Ponce de Leon's ship that must be used in just the right way in order to effect the desired outcome at the Fountain.

The film's bookended scenes were the one major change asked for by its director, Todd Haynes, from the screenwriter Phyllis Nagy, who adapted Patricia Highsmith's landmark 1952 lesbian - romance novel The Price of Salt and had tried to get it filmed for many years.

Greg Berlanti's film, adapted from the best - selling young - adult novel «Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,» stars Nick Robinson as a gay 17 - year - old who has yet to come out when another closeted boy from his high school begins an anonymous e-mail romance.

Stuck in the middle of the film is a flight to a tropical island (typical of the Flynn pics, if not the pivotal denouement in MGM's Mutiny on the Bounty) and the hero's involvement with a local girl (a leftover from Polynesian epics such as Hurricane, Bird of Paradise, and prior Dorothy Lamour romances like Aloma of the South Seas)-- surgical additions that may have been present in the original novel, but feel tacked on in a film that runs at a fast globe - trotting pace in its 98 min.

Adapted from an unfinished novel by Irène Némirovsky, a French - Ukrainian Jew who died in Auschwitz before she could complete an epic, five - part portrait of life under the Nazis, Suite understandably concentrates on its most accessible aspect: a forbidden romance that puts both Williams and Schoenaerts at odds with their respective camps, represented on Williams» side by her sternly disapproving mother - in - law (Kristin Scott Thomas).

Then again, the movie is an adaptation of Rebecca Serle «s When You Were Mine, which from the official description sounds rather romance novel - y.

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