Sentences with phrase «last read fiction»
Just as an aside - I last read fiction in paper sometime in early 2009.
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His last novel, Seveneves, a science fiction epic that begins with the destruction of the moon, was on then - U.S. president Barack Obama's reading list last summer.
The Road my Cormac McCarthy Fiction is the lie that tells the truth truer (a quote by Portland novelist, Tom Spanbauer) The Road is a meditative, dark read with a thin thread of light shining from first to last page.
this story was the best work of fiction i have read since robert jordans last novel.
I'm a non-believer... (thank god)... but reading all these comments on this religious nonsense is amazing... I get it when third world illiterates regurgitate the scripture... but for the rest of humanity it's pure science fiction... can't beat it... it's a real money maker... let's take money and tax exemption out of the religious equation especially for the mega churches... and we'll see how long it lasts... anybody got a stop watch...
Finally, if you had read what I have previously said, then you would know that your last sentence was my wish as well, but why confuse fact with fiction?
The last thing I do before bed around 10 p.m. is read — I always have at least one fiction and one nonfiction going and strongly prefer real books to e-books.
This list is a mix of the thrillers, contemporary fiction, & YA novels that I've read in the last few months.
South African - born filmmaker Neill Blomkamp returns for his third science fiction film in the last 6 years, Chappie, a film about a a robot who becomes the first of his kind with Read More →
Helping to embed a genuine, lasting passion and enthusiasm for reading, writing and storytelling is at the heart of what we believe in at Fiction Express.
With the largest response to date, the eighth annual What Kids Are Reading report includes results from over 12 million comprehension quizzes on fiction and non-fiction titles taken by British school children in the last academic year.
Melissa writes emotionally - driven contemporary fiction and suspense with passionate characters that remain with the reader long after they've read the last words.
Listening as readers shared answers to authors» questions in the reverse panel — from humorous confessions of starting with the last page first to heartfelt tributes about why they read Christian fiction.
This changes rapidly at the moment and for the last nine months I've been reading Christian fiction, trying to understand the world I'm entering.
Last year, in 2017, I read very interesting books, both fiction and nonfiction.
Suggested Reading One Thousand and One Nights Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions A. S. Byatt, Little Black Book of Stories Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony Italo Calvino, Italian Folktales Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul; The Black Book Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh Jane Smiley, Ten Days in the Hills
Best known for her work on the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series (read our interview with her on the books here), she's now making her second foray into adult fiction after The Last Summer (of You and Me), your basic first - novel narrative of love and friendship.
Update: A day after putting up this post, while doing more reading about the publishing industry, I ran across another dirt - dishing voice with a similar (but different) last name: Daniel Menaker, who is a «a former Executive Editor - in - Chief of Random House» and «fiction editor for The New Yorker.»
A user might be interested in both science fiction and biographies, but if the last few books she has read are science fiction, the recommendation system will assign a higher value to that topic, leading the user to receive more sci - fi recommendations than biography.
With the largest response to date, the eighth annual What Kids Are Reading report includes results from over 12 million comprehension quizzes on fiction and non-fiction titles taken by British school children in the last academic year.
And if you want to get the other side of the tale, let me recommend reading Bernard Cornwell's historical fiction series that starts with The Last Kingdom.
Sara Paretsky, author of the best - selling V. I. Warshawski series and a tireless advocate for books, reading, and libraries, last appeared in Booklist in our May 1, 2015, Mystery Showcase issue with her essay «The DOLLUSSyndrome: Diversity in Crime Fiction.»
Go read my last post explaining how it is possible for writers who work really hard and take a long - term approach to their writing might make a living with short fiction.
Continue reading «Flash Fiction Challenge: The Last Review»
Last Call for General Fiction Book of The Month: «In short, this is a great read: ingenious set - up, exciting plot and strong characters.»
If you're all caught up on the Alex Stone series and... Continue Reading Last Ditch Summer Crime Fiction Escapes»
I've only read maybe a dozen new pieces of historical fiction (none if it historical mystery) in the last couple years, so with a small enough sample set perhaps I lucked out in what I bought from the major publishers.
Last year's programme featured author Q&A s, writing master classes, film screenings, cook book demonstrations, bookshop crawls, literary debates, live readings, poetry parties, fiction prizes, book launches, self - publishing workshops and more.
The system favours authors of fiction, especially novels: short - stories, poems and nonfiction books are generally not read page - by - page from the first to the last, resulting in lower royalties for this authors.
My experience downloading books has been wonderful — I think I've read more fiction in the last three months than I have in the last two years!
I learned a lot about technique from the WU flash fiction contest last year, and I look forward to reading your posts, here in the coming year.
Chick Wendig at terribleminds.com issued one of his Flash Fiction challenges last week, and as I want to make 2017 a year of reading and writing, I decided to participate.
Last week, I asked if you read Christian fiction.
The shortlist for one of the most coveted awards in science fiction was announced last week — the Arthur C. Clarke award for 2013 has an incredible line up of SF names, or, if you read The Guardian, is a great testament to male domination of the science fiction genre.
I spent my last holiday reading five books and two web fiction serials on one, taking notes on the reading experience as I went along.
What Christian fiction have you been reading over the last month?
The last four books I read on my Kindle were from browsing the Amazon store to find something similar to something else I had read and liked.And they were by authors I doubt if any bookstore would have ever heard of — first time writers or non-fiction writers dipping their toe into fiction.
Again, like the last one, «Destroyer of Worlds» which is set in India, I had an Indian lady read it who's a fan of my fiction who lives in Mumbai and she was great.
So, in the last week I've watched movies (from Dario Argento's Deep Red to Wilson Yip's Ip Man), I've been to a secret dinner at Public Fiction in Los Angeles cooked by Peter Harkawik, I've listened to the radio, and looked at and read a book on Franz West.
In addition to the group show Isolated Fictions (which opened last Friday and features works by Deb Sokolow,  Carmen Price,  Jason Dunda,  Amanda Browder,  Nadine Nakanishi,  Rebecca Mir and Nick Butcher), a reading by Adam Levin, a performance evening centered around world - based art, a screening curated by Eric Fleischauer and Jesse McLean, and the third installment of the Now Itâ $ ™ s Dark experimental film and music series are all on the agenda.