Sentences with phrase «funny kind of book»

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At any rate, for a bad joke to be the good news is the kind of absurdly hopeful reversal (as in Jesus» wittier parables) that we find often in this surprisingly funny book.

I have to start this comment with a kind of funny, 100 % true story: one night several months ago I had a dream that I had just had a baby and was terrified because I had gone my entire pregnancy without reading any books!

On a strip of cheap motels, gun stores, tourist traps, and various other establishments, this motel houses all kinds, from the tourists looking for something cheap (or, in one of the movie's funniest scenes, booking the wrong hotel) to the working class who have basically turned it into permanent lodging.

Funny, charming, and heartbreaking, A Map of Home is the kind of book Tristram Shandy or Huck Finn would have narrated had they been born Egyptian - Palestinian and female in the 1970s.

My favorite type of book is the kind that is both hysterically funny and somehow still deals with big questions and big answers in a way that takes nothing from their importance.

Thank you for the info Vinny, now I think I see, You'd like a blog about marketing from lil» ol' me, Promote only when you are in a happy mood, And never promote your books by being far too rude, Try to make your posts interesting, clever and funny, And try not to part with a large amount of money, Now I feel there is one thing I should stress, Never go and give your cash to a vanity press, Blog, tweet and update your Facebook status as often as you can, Make contact with other authors and befriend your only fan, Be courteous, considerate and always be kind, And you will slowly find, You'll get people interested and make them all see, Especially when you give your book away for free, Sit back, relax and be rather nice, And always think about the price, People will not part with their cash unless the price is low, Particularly for an author they do not even know, Always remember to write purely for fun, Never think that your profit will be a huge great sum, And pray for exposure to the lord above, Because self - publishing is a labour of love,

Also, a dag is usually seen as someone kind of funny and friendly and jovial, and I also think that fits my books.»

It was funny and amazing and the kind of thing that only happens in movies or books.

But in tomorrow's edition of BookPageXTRA (our bi-monthly e-newsletter), we've devoted our full attention to this particular kind of book — fast - paced, entertaining, often funny stories that will inspire thousands of people to pull out their wallets at the bookstore then run home to start turning the pages.

Funny, when I shell out my hard - earned cash for a book, that's exactly the kind of thing I want between the pages.

Her new book The Girls» Guide to Love and Supper Clubs [2] is a charming, sophisticatedly funny [3] novel that will have fans of Jennifer Weiner and foodies of all kinds begging for more — it's Julia Child meets Emily Giffin!

Just glowing remarks, a lot of praise without explanation, a lot of reviews for a newly published book with a high sales rank... these kinds of things are like putting a neon sign on your product page: What's funny about this picture?

JP: That's actually fantastic and I think it's quite funny in a way because your book, The Indie Author Guide, is about how to do self publishing and it's been picked up by a traditional publisher, which is kind of ironic in a way but they're obviously recognising that people are going to do this now, and that people want that information.

Lorrie Moore's characters are always interesting and believable, and she peppers her profoundly moving story with great humor and in so doing has created my favorite kind of book, one that is both funny and poignant and provokes thought.

I have a book that I keep of funny shit I hear or comments I hear that are kind of interesting -LRB-...).

It's kind of funny that caterpillars are so cute and charming; images of them adorn baby clothes and star in children's books... yet some of them are downright deadly!

It's funny, because they sound like the kind of books science fiction writers like perhaps yourself read before they start writing their books.

Some of his forecasts for the RE market are kind of funny as he wrote the book right before the housing bubble burst, but the general ideas are excellent and he writes at a very accessible level.