Sentences with phrase «know about a novel»

They used to say everyone has a novel in them; well, I don't know about a novel, but I know for sure that everyone has a great story to tell!

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: Dessen's hordes of fans probably already know about this novel and are lying in wait, lurking behind the corner of your circulation desk as we speak.

Nathan Bransford tells you everything you need to know about novel word counts.

Not exact matches

In delivering a business pitch about a novel invention, be sure to bolster your presentation with facts and know your audience.

These companies may be growing or about to be going, but the founders are spending every day just like you facing the same kinds of challenges, coming up with new and novel solutions, and suffering all the ups and downs of the startup process that we know and love so well.

Starting as novel curiosity that only a few on the vanguard even knew about (let alone implemented), to hype that everyone talked about.

That said, I'm always hopeful that people know that my novels are about questions from me, not from New Life Church.

He was doing a book tour, and we were hanging out and talking about his graphic novels, and I had told him that I was interesting in maybe collaborating with him on something if he had any pages he didn't know what to do with to send them over to me, and I would try to write some songs or something.

Great swaths of the novel are devoted to listing out everything Wade knows about one movie or another, one game or another, or one song or another.

Jeremy, you could write a novel, without any thing illicit being said or done, as Lewis did, about a man who found ways to talk about Jesus (Gods Grace you know what I mean) over and against the forces surrounding him.

To people like the present reviewer, who were lectured by scholars who discouraged this practice in favour of getting to know the text of a work, for example the Republic of Plato, without bothering about the background, the approach of most of the papers in this volume is novel and challenging.

The novel's greatest service to our current conversation is its ability to humanize Muhammad to millions of people who may know little or nothing about him.

Tom Wolfe may deny that his novel is about Duke, but having spent 20 years there I know a few things about the school.

There can be no doubt that the author of these words also had in mind the purpose of a novel, perhaps one that would help break the spell of current assumptions in order to surprise us with the complicated truth about ourselves — with more dreams than we have dared to dream in what passes for our philosophy.

The novel is about men imprisoned, men who live together yet apart, who must learn the lessons women seem to know already because they are lessons about living in community, about nurturing and about accepting pain and humiliation as part of life.

We have, he says — probably in direct reaction to Wittgenstein in his Tractatus (a book that appeared just a few years earlier and that Whitehead certainly knew about)-- we have to «rationalize mysticism»: not by causal reasons, but «by the introduction of novel verbal characterizations, rationally coordinated» (Modes 174).

If homebirth was so safe, hospital birth would never have come into being; anyone who's read novels set before modern obstetrics, anyone who's spent ten minutes reading nonfiction about any historical period or paid attention in history class, knows that pregnancy / birth was a * major * cause of death for young women.

From what we know about brain development, it is quite possible that continued exposure to this type of stimuli, especially if it occurs in different types of circumstances will gradually generalize to a more permanent reaction style to new and novel things they encounter.

I wrote a novel - length, teary - eyed email to about 12 mom friends in desperation because I did NOT want to cosleep and didn't know what to do.

Therefore, this study makes a novel and valuable contribution to what was previously known about the safety of home birth.

I love historical novels (Walter Scott and Leon Uris too) as I find them a great introduction to events I know less about.

For now, though, synthetic biologists know next to nothing about how to design a genetic code for an entirely novel organism.

«Knowing how cells respond to mechanical cues in the living embryo and how they physically sculpt tissues and organs in the 3D space will transform the way we think about developmental processes,» said Otger Campàs, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UCSB and senior author on the paper that reports this novel technique in Nature Methods.

Little is known, however, about the metabolic pathways that drive the growth of individual glioblastoma subtypes — knowledge that is crucial for developing novel and effective targeted therapies that might improve treatment for these lethal tumors.

They know the closest relatives of the novel H1N1 virus intimately, and their studies are offering critical clues to its genetic origins as well as sobering insights about how it may evolve.

In early 2012, Emmanuelle Charpentier, a little - known French microbiologist who would soon meet worldwide fame, contacted her old friend Rodger Novak to tell him about her recent studies at Umeå University in Sweden of the mechanisms behind a novel bacterial immune system.

Despite being the most influential science writer in the world, Asimov is best known for his fiction, particularly his «Foundation» novels, written during the 1950s, and his novels about «positronic robots».

In vivo MRI - derived measurements of human cerebral cortex thickness are providing novel insights into normal and abnormal neuroanatomy, but little is known about their reliability.

These ants, also known as pavement ants can be found almost everywhere and their foraging habits may bring about novel designs in robotics.

We don't know a great deal about how this class of agents are broken down in the environment due to their relatively novel nature and so taking these steps until the specific areas can be checked and any contaminated areas cleaned is appropriate.

Let me preface what I'm about to say by letting you all know that between Serial, Making a Murderer and the mystery novels I've been listening to on Audible during long runs, I am on a total true crime kick.

Arginine you already know about; silicon on the other hand, is a relatively new and novel sports performance ingredient that while normally difficult to absorb from your diet, can strengthen and provide flexibility to your arterial walls, which may help to increase blood flow.

It's a true story about well - known man in the fashion industry who became a paraplegic and learned to communicate and write a novel with the blink of his eye.

I know, there's nothing novel about stripes for Fourth of July weekend, and especially red stripes, but for me this swingy, flowy dress stands out in the crowd.

Because as anyone who's ever read her novels knows all too well, she was a pro when it comes to teaching us about the true workings of society.

But if you don't know much about the film going on — it's based on a novel by Michael Faber — you'll be quickly lost.

Based on the little - known novel «Wild Pork and Watercress» by Kiwi author Barry Crump, «Hunt for the Wilderpeople» is an incredibly charming story about family and acceptance that tugs at the heart strings when it's not busy making you laugh.

He knew little about Bat - history and had mainly gained exposure to the series through Frank Miller's amazing mid-1980s graphic novel series The Dark Knight Returns.

In the novel, Kathy informs the reader: «I knew why I had gotten drunk last night, was smoking so much again, and why I was sleeping with Lester Burdon: losing my father's house had been the final shove in a long drift to the edge, and I thought about calling Connie Walsh [her lawyer] again, just tell her to sue the county for as much as she could get.

Films Reviewed this Week: The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Planet 51, The Blind Side and Precious: Based on the Novel «Push» by Sapphire and Not to Be Confused with the Psychic Warrior Movie That Came Out Earlier This Year That No One Really Remembers Because Sapphire Doesn't Know Squat About Psychic Warriors

Out in a Blu - ray and DVD combo pack tomorrow, Scott McGehee and David Siegel direct What Maisie Knew, a perceptive adaptation of Henry James» 1897 novel about a child stuck in the middle of a custody battle between divorced parents in London.

Jane Austin's novel goes «Bollywood» in this screen adaptation about an East Indian woman, Lalita Bakshi (Aishwarya Rai), who knows she's too good for the likes of Will Darcy (Martin Henderson), a North American with obvious prejudices about her country and culture.

She is also an aspiring author, her tales about Oz known and appreciated by the children of small - town Kansas (this is apparently an alternate universe where Baum's novels have not been published).

Based on a novel by Durian Sukegawa, Sweet Bean (known also as An and Sweet Red Bean Paste) is a delicate, enchanting, layered Japanese drama about so much more than food.

It's something where, if it's a novel or if it's a short story, you need to know what it is you're trying to distill about it.

You know you're a real fan of «Psycho,» Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film adaptation of Robert Bloch's 1959 novel, if your first reaction to hearing about A&E's new series, «Bates Motel,» which premieres on March 18, was to grumble, «They've already done a TV show called «Bates Motel.»»

«God's Pocket» will be directed by John Slattery, who you know as «Mad Men»» s silver fox Roger Sterling but who is making the move to directing (having helmed several excellent episodes of the series in which he stars), adapting a Pete Dexter novel about Mickey (Hoffman), whose attempts to move on after the suspicious, and not unwelcome, death of his unstable stepson are frustrated by a local reporter with a hunch.

Kris, though I'm not expecting anything from Oscar and since things have slowed down I don't feel like I'm wasting your time, do you know what the latest news is about the adaptation of the Hunter Thompson novel Rum Diary with Johnny Depp.

Actually, this romance novel adaptation about a country singer (Alex Roe) returning to the jilted ex (Jessica Rothe) who's raising the daughter (Abby Ryder Fortson) he never knew they had doesn't seem like it'll end with anyone dead or turned into a ghost.

«Jeffrey Westhoff on «The Boy Who Knew Too Much»»: The veteran Chicago film critic chats with Indie Outlook about his excellent debut novel.