Sentences with phrase «little about your novels»

Tell us a little about your novels, and please focus a bit on the latest.

Then when people approached my table she would tell them a little about my novel and then direct the person to look at the display right next to me.

Not exact matches

How about updating your bible and remove the BS, figure out where «god» was wrong, suck it up and rewrite it, put a little reality into it and it might become more believable and less like a harry potter novel.

• Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Violins of Saint - Jacques: No one in the twentieth century wrote more magnificent English, or prose of a purer purple; but, while his travel memoirs are now more widely appreciated than ever, his only novel (or novella, really) tends to be overlooked — a deftly constructed, economically proportioned, perfectly satisfying little tale about the small twilight world of a fictional French Caribbean island on its last day.

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.

In his novel High Fidelity, Nick Hornby asks why people worry so much about sexy, violent, and perverse rock songs, and so little about the many more rock songs that luxuriate in beautiful sadness, usually a sadness fueled by love.

Sourdough (by Robin Sloan)-- A cute little fictional novel about a software engineer - turned - baker, thanks to a feisty sourdough starter that she is tasked with caring for.

It is normal to be a little anxious about a first pregnancy: the sensations are new, it might bring up normal concerns about what will your parenting look like, and overall, it is a novel experience that you don't have anything to compare it with as a reference.

«We've previously understood very little about how these bacteria move through and into our organs, tissues, and central nervous system, but our work sheds light on these processes and could form the basis for novel therapeutics that target the bacterium's ability to invade.»

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.

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.

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.

Or, if that's being a little too ambitious, how about a 10 - minute meditation or a bubble bath, or reading three chapters of that great new girly novel before bed?

I'll summarize a little bit about me and avoid writing a painful novel haha - Sarcastic - Motivated - Camping (Beach, Desert, Mountains, you name it!)

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.

Beyond its best little moments, the movie is addressing a serious issue, and it feels awfully churlish to complain that its earnest depictions of soldiers in psychological pain isn't novel enough, or that Koale's performance is a little shakier than Teller's, or that the movie doesn't have much to say about the Iraq War in particular, or that it eventually tries to pass off a lack of resolution as an abbreviated happy ending.

You may not buy the plot of this gripping little movie about a 12 - year - old Brooklyn drug runner who finds a novel way of escaping the crack ghetto.

When: August 15th Why: It's been a while since I read the Lois Lowry novel on which the film is based, but from what little I do remember, it's understandable why some fans have voiced their outrage about this big screen adaptation.

Tom Perrotta's novel of suburban angst comes to life in his own adapted screenplay, which isn't about little children so much as big children trapped in adult lives who want so desperately to relive the freedom and impulsive desires they experienced when they were youths.

Unfortunately, aside from that — and the film's interesting but superficial animated interludes — there's little else terribly novel about director Ian Fitzgibbon's well - made but derivative and at - times gangly film.

«Patrick Melrose,» a despairing yet impressive Showtime adaptation of Edward St. Aubyn's semi-autobiographical novels, is about a lonely little rich boy who is raped by his narcissistic father and ignored by his coldly aloof mother.

It is Bingham who admits both the novel's cleverness and its limitations in an early statement: «If I had to pick between knowing just a little about a lot of folks and knowing everything about a few, I'd opt for the long, wide - angle shot, I think.»

I'm one of those film fans that knows very little about the epic novel it's based on but I'm extremely looking forward to Marc...

The project has been in limbo since 2005 but it seems as though it's back on and having read a little more about the novel, I'm happy to hear it's back because it sounds pretty awesome.

Finally, in case you're unaware, here's a little trivia about Kerouac and Hollywood's flirtations with his renowned novel.

Tom Hanks returns for the third adaptation of Dan Brown's bestselling novels, but apart from the scenery there's little to get excited about.

I'm one of those film fans that knows very little about the epic novel it's based on but I'm extremely looking forward to Marc Forster's adaptation of Max Brooks» WORLD WAR Z.

Jack wastes little energy worrying about the principles of his calling — it's his job, he's good at it and he takes as much pride in his handiwork as a gourmet chef might show for a faultless beef Wellington — and in Booth's novel he actually believes he's providing something of a public service, a critical cog in the gears of history.

«Little Women» (1994) The fifth screen adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel about an East Coast family just after the Civil War.

Every generation deserves a new screen adaptation of «Little Women,» Louisa May Alcott's enduring novel about the four March sisters growing up during the Civil War.

The BFG (PG for action, peril, scary images and rude humor) Steven Spielberg directed this adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved children's novel about the unlikely friendship forged between a little girl (Ruby Barnhill) and the only member of a hostile race of invading giants (Mark Rylance) who won't eat children.

In that way, the film often brings to mind Brooklyn author Jonathan Safran Foer's unbearably contrived 9/11 novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, in which a precocious little boy unlocks a mystery about his father while taking a quirky tour of Manhattan and its varied people.

The phrase «Dickensian squalor» means nothing unless you know a little bit about Charles Dickens and his novels, for example.

Publisher Little, Brown has just announced Maria Semple's next novel, The Flood Girls, which will be «set in an Aspen of dwindling glamour and fortunes, about two sisters, spiraling out of control, who come together with the fierce love that only sisters can claim.»

Her second novel, March, a riff on Little Women, won the Pulitzer for fiction [read our interview with Brooks about March] and her two other novels were also BookPage favorites.

Donna once told me the reason her books take so long to write (her last one, The Little Friend, was published 12 years ago) is that they are about as long as three regular novels.

I am from Little Rock, and the main character in Grisham's novel is from Calico Rock, Arkansas — a small town that's home to about 1,000 people.

Last month I posted about John Grisham's debut children's novel — Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer — and today we have a little more information.

Little, Brown has been keeping details about the novel, other than the official description, top secret — sources say that only a select few have had time with the embargoed manuscript, and all cell phones and recording devices must be left outside the door.

But Hornby knows a little something about screenwriting as well as sitcoms: He adapted Cheryl Strayed's Wild for film, and his novel About a Boy is now the basis for an NBC siabout screenwriting as well as sitcoms: He adapted Cheryl Strayed's Wild for film, and his novel About a Boy is now the basis for an NBC siAbout a Boy is now the basis for an NBC sitcom.

Mary Kay Andrews spoofs the secrets and lies of suburbia Mary Kay Andrews lived the research for Little Bitty Lies, her delicious new comic novel about divorce.

It takes considerably more literary skill to write a beautiful, fascinating novel about one ordinary person to whom very little happens.

A few months ago we posted about Ann Patchett's «Conradian» novel set in the Amazon jungle, and now we have a little more info on this June 2011 release.

«About a quarter of all novels bought in the UK are bought as e-books, so as that digital market grows, we're bound to see a little bit of piracy alongside it.

«Since I have spent the vast majority of my time writing and editing — preparing my novel for its debut — I have had little time to think about or plan for marketing.

About as unlike Hairy London as it's possible to get and still feature here, Kit Reed's Little Sisters of the Apocalypse is a novel that treads the indistinct boundaries between fantasy, science fiction and realism, as befits an author who describes her work as «transgenred».

How about if your Masters Degree holder daughter reads your novel and finds very little to critique?

McDermott offers an exquisite, sly, and profoundly discerning tale about a watershed Long Island summer in the life of lovely 15 - going - on -30-year-old Theresa and her sweet little cousin in a magical yet cunning novel redolent with the enigma of sex, art's mutability, death's shadow, and love's precariousness.

- Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life «A passionate, gripping, brilliantly voiced and scintillatingly intelligent novel about that cancer afflicting modern democratic states - the surveillance of its own people.