Sentences with phrase «hours of giving her the book»

Within hours of giving her the book, she called to thank me for sharing the book with her that she was thoroughly enjoying the book and impressed by the excellent writing.

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The platform gives travelers the option to book a flight seven days in advance or up to an hour ahead of time.

When McConlogue leaves to go to work, Leo spends 3 - 4 hours on his own, practicing writing code and reading one of the three javascript books McConlogue gave him alongside a Samsung Chromebook.

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Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, the book that popularized the idea that mastery in a given field takes at least 10,000 hours of practice, had just come out, as had Geoff Colvin's Talent is Overrated and Daniel Coyle's The Talent Code, both of which emphasized the role of dedicated practice (and discounted natural - born talent) in excellence.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

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In his pursuit of 30 wins, McLain zoomed about in Lear jets, played Hammond organs, swigged Pepsi - Colas, schmoozed with Steve Allen, Bob Hope, Ed Sullivan, Joey Bishop, Glen Campbell and the Smothers Brothers, changed his hair color, appeared on the covers of TIME and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, recorded an album, gave organ lessons out of his home to two dozen students at $ 3.50 an hour and got himself booked in advance into the Riviera in Vegas, the Detroit Auto Show, Disneyland and a hundred other places to play electric keyboard with his band come winter.

Books After the Darkest Hour the Sun Will Shine Again: A Parent's Guide to Coping with the Loss of a Child (Elizabeth Mehren, 1997) Anna: A Daughter's Life (William Loizeaux, 1993) Always Precious in Our Memory; Reflections After Miscarriage, Stillbirth or Neonatal Death (Christine O. Lafser, 2003) Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby (Deborah L. Davis, 1996) Give Sorrow Words: A Father's Passage through Grief (Tom Crider, 1996)

If you have the book, «The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems», Tracy gives an outline of how to move from a 3 - 4 hour schedule, beginning with the first interval of the day.

If you're going to be spending two hours per day tied to the pump, you need to be able to do other things at the same time, whether that's giving your baby a bottle of milk, driving, working on your laptop, reading a book, or playing with your phone.

You should definitely give multi-sensory books a try as they can catch your children's attention and provide hours of fun.

«You can punish them by restricting them from watching televisions or giving them books to read for a certain number of hours instead of caning them,» she said.

It takes 10,000 hours of dedicated practice for a person to become a world - class talent in a given field, or so said writer Malcolm Gladwell in a 2008 book.

What this is doing is it's freeing up a little bit of time for me to finish the new book, and it's also making sure that you've seen the most important, most impactful, most useful content because I believe really deeply with Bulletproof Radio that given that we're pushing 50 million downloads, the number of hours that are consumed just listening to Bulletproof Radio is more than 100 human lifetimes.

You can book an appointment with your dermatologist to have them give you a shot of the corticosteroid and within 24 - 48 hours, you can kiss the acne goodbye.

I'm going to skip all of the science that I found in books like this (my favourite book on the subject), and this (my second favourite book on the subject), and give you the cliffs notes of the 30 + hours of private study that I did to find out exactly what foods lead to higher testosterone levels.

This weekend we'll be celebrating my mama, finally trying to clear out the storage room (errr, I mean, nursery), and as an almost - mom myself, I've vowed to give myself at least an hour of «me time» at some point this weekend (cue the good book and a plate of cookies.)

This will give you a good 2 hours of extra gameplay, 4 - 5 of you want to do all of the box of secrets and find the hidden books.

Spider - Man is a fun movie, much in the spirit of the comic book's early days, that amazingly is able to give Spider - Man's origin, as well as that of the Green Goblin, while also introducing many characters like J. Jonah Jameson, Mary Jane, Aunt May, Uncle Ben, and Harry Osborn, enough to seem familiar, and then set up the exciting showdown all in the span of a modest two hours.

The Half Blood Prince is a hugely significant book in the series, and whilst it is tempting to lament some things not given enough time or emphasis in the film as they are in the novel — like Greyback the vile werewolf, the abominable Bellatrix, old stalwarts of the Order of the Phoenix and Ron's Quidditch insecurities (although the main Quidditch scene is satisfying, particularly the final save by Ron)-- one must remember a conceptually vast 500 + page novel is being distilled into a two and a half hour film.

Given the size of the final «Harry Potter» book — 759 pages, in my family's well - read hardcover — it was clear that any filmmaker could either cut it severely, in hopes of squeezing it into a three - hour finale, or make a strictly faithful adaptation and split into two parts.

Merit pay might work if it was given to students — and only student — who cooperated with teachers and turned in all of their classwork and homework done correctly to boost learning, and increased their literacy skills by voluntarily turning off TV, video games and not texting and replacing all that crap by reading at least one book a week for enjoyment outside of school hours.

«Airline passengers deserve to be treated fairly when they fly, and that means knowing the full price of their trip, including charges for checking baggage, as well as being given the opportunity to cancel a reservation without penalty for 24 hours after booking,» said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

And yet, 48 hours ago I had the honor of giving the closing remarks at the end of our first annual Digital Book World Conference.

Instead of wasting HOURS of time researching, digging through search results for book blogs, authors fill out a short form with us and we get their books into the hands of reviewers who actually give a rat's rear end about reading and reviewing their book.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow autGiven all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow autgiven away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

While I understand the administrative reasons that gave rise to the separation, the end result was hurt feelings for authors, and — far more importantly — confusion, hassle, and hours - long waits in line for the readers who had come to this event to get signed copies of books from their most beloved authors.

For avid book readers who read for long hours at a time, they would prefer an e-reader that gives them the feel of a book on an electronic background without a non-reflective display.

In terms of hours - of - enjoyment per dollar, a $ 10 book can give me days, if not weeks, of pleasure.

This series is my homage to Austen, my thanks for the hours of pleasure her books have given me.

Widely acclaimed for his groundbreaking crime novels Booked to Die and The Bookman's Wake, award - winning author John Dunning triumphantly returns with a riveting new thriller that takes us back to the summer of 1942, when radio was in its prime, when daylight saving time gave way to «wartime,» when stations like WHAR on the New Jersey coast struggled to create programming that entertained and inspired a nation in its dark hour.

Spending 50 hours on a multi-author Facebook event or giving away the second book in your series in the front pages of your free first book may seem absolutely crazy.

It would take hours of work and maybe even hundreds of dollars to collect these graphics on your own, but even after we have done the work for you, we are giving away the mega pack to anyone who registers for the Clean Reads Holiday Book Sale that we're gearing up for over at BooklyBooks.com!

START YOUR FIRST BUSINESS TODAY WITH THE HELP OF THIS GUIDEStart a Business Has Never Been Easier Than Today... But With So Many Opportunities, How Do You Avoid the DUDS from the REAL THING?Well in this bundle, I'm going to give you 2 proven business models that anyone can start.NO EXPERIENCE AND HUGE CAPITAL REQUIRED.What you'll get in this bundle: RECIPE E-BOOK PUBLISHING - The entire process of making money via kindle publishing in 15 minutes or less - How to create your cookbooks and recipes in 2 hours or less - Where to get royalty free images - How to choose a profitable niche - How to ALMOST never do anything and still make money - How to promote your books... the best way... for FREOF THIS GUIDEStart a Business Has Never Been Easier Than Today... But With So Many Opportunities, How Do You Avoid the DUDS from the REAL THING?Well in this bundle, I'm going to give you 2 proven business models that anyone can start.NO EXPERIENCE AND HUGE CAPITAL REQUIRED.What you'll get in this bundle: RECIPE E-BOOK PUBLISHING - The entire process of making money via kindle publishing in 15 minutes or less - How to create your cookbooks and recipes in 2 hours or less - Where to get royalty free images - How to choose a profitable niche - How to ALMOST never do anything and still make money - How to promote your books... the best way... for FREof making money via kindle publishing in 15 minutes or less - How to create your cookbooks and recipes in 2 hours or less - Where to get royalty free images - How to choose a profitable niche - How to ALMOST never do anything and still make money - How to promote your books... the best way... for FREE!

Some book «experts» would say that to effectively market a non-fiction book, I need to drive to book stores and do readings, give speeches about my topic at Chambers of Commerce, or «tweet» 14 hours a day.

I was just given a hand - me - down kindle (never owned an ebook reader before) and after hours of searching for the just - right book to take on vacation, I was a little shocked that it wasn't available on kindle (and being a recent best seller).

That being the case, the Asus Transformer Book T100HA remains our Editors» Choice for budget detachable - hybrid tablets given its 4 GB of memory, ability to stand in its keyboard dock while reversed, still - impressive 13 hour battery life, USB - C, and dual - band Wi - Fi for the same price.

You have put many hours of hard work into your book, and this is why DiggyPOD uses state of the art digital equipment to give you the quality that your hard work deserves.

It says as every book is different, it does one hour of work first before giving a formal estimate.

More importantly, these jobs don't require huge publishers with lots of money: authors can hire editors and cover designers by the hour or for flat rates, without giving up the majority of their books» revenue forever!

-LSB-...] 50 hours on a multi-author Facebook event or giving away the second book in your series in the front pages of your free first book may seem absolutely crazy.

That's not too bad in our book, although an extra couple of hours wouldn't go amiss given just how well some of the current Intel processors can last out for.

The included 1 year of FreeTime Unlimited gives your kids access to hundreds of hours of fun and educational content, including ad - free radio stations and playlists, Audible books, and a growing list of premium kids skills.

«I had an idea for a book and Fern, in a single hour, gave me a customized plan to develop the idea and sell it both through bookstores and also directly to customers through a variety of channels.

We can not guarantee availability if you give us merely 24 hours notice of your need to book a stay.

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We stayed at the Novotel Birmingham Airport for one night before our early flight - the hotel looked very nice the room was average but when we went to the restaurant for our evening meal what a disaster - we had booked - the starter arrived on time but we waited an hour for main course then complained to our waitress - she said she had asked 3 times for our mains - so asked again - then a manager asked what was wrong - after 1 1/2 hours they arrived - my fish and chips was disgusting - batter so greasy so I tried to take batter off but there was barely 1/2 inch of fish underneath - I told the waitress it was disgusting so she gave us a free drink voucher!

Bookings cancelled within 24 hours of arrival or no - show or early departure no refund will be given.

You will be given an access code number to key into the pad that operates on a twenty four hour basis for your security and privacy once your holiday booking is confirmed and your time of arrival is set.