Sentences with phrase «love about fiction»

One of the things I love about fiction is how it has the potential to turn the reader's feelings and belief upside down.

And I can't help thinking that serials distill the essence of what we love about fiction in the first place — the way it mimics life but more beautifully, more instructively.

Not exact matches

This is what I love so much about storytelling, especially fantasy and science fiction: When the ordinary is depicted in an unfamiliar world, the contrast helps it stand out, helps us grasp it and learn to value it again.

If you are a believer, or just love a good book, check out my historical fiction novel about the Magi and the Nativity: http://www.epiphany-site.com.

Guillem Anglada - Escude, is a Queen Mary University of London astronomer and lead the group that discovered Proxima b. Anglada - Escude is not shy about his love of science fiction and its influence on his own astronomical exploration.

Whether you are curious about writing, love to journal, have been working on a secret memoir, or have a specific fiction, poetry, or other projects in mind, this retreat will give you ample space to commit time, energy and focus to your writing practice.

A few more fun facts about me — I'm a former Chicago TV News anchor and reporter; My husband and I will be married 12 years this July; I have an adorable 11 - year - old Pug named Bella; I am the second of five siblings; my favorite fitness regime includes running, biking and weight training; and I love historical fiction!

I love write original fiction, good tv shows about interestjng things and movies as well.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

I still love the power of fiction, and I've written pieces about movies in the past year that I'm proud of, like this one on David Lynch and this one on the intersection of movies and video games.

In her episode of Adventures in Moviegoing, the award - winning novelist spoke with programmer Michael Sragow about films she loves, including ones that have influenced her approach to crime fiction.

The morning after the movie's TIFF premiere, RT sat down with Stan to talk about his Five Favorite Films and love of complex characters, along with the challenges involved in playing Harding's infamous ex-husband and doing this stranger - than - fiction true story justice.

Curtis, who is only 56, said science - fiction project About Time felt like «a summing up» for a career which has taken in the legendary TV comedy Blackadder, writing work on 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral and 1999's Notting Hill, as well as the directing of 2003's Love Actually.

This is not a film easy to love or even like, but it's also one that makes a substantial impression on you with its lack of artifice and the light it shines on tragic figures about whom modern fiction rarely considers and modern society hardly notices.

Here's a part I particularly love (bold is mine) that is really illuminating about historical fiction:

Yet Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have still managed to carve out their own little niche in the market with this film, a daring fusion of grindhouse genre fiction with indie romance that somehow uses those seemingly opposed elements to transcend and forge a tale about the power and uniting force of love, no matter how star - crossed and unlikely its subjects may be.

Someone even a short film about a support group for people who love «Carol» a little bit too much (the short is obviously fiction, because in real life of course it is not possible to love «Carol» too much).

It's a war movie disguised as a movie about young love disguised as a science - fiction film, and if that makes your head spin that's probably the idea.

Then again, turn the dial too far towards «romance», and you are in the realms of the «epic love story», and pretty much out the other end of sci - fi: The Time Traveller's Wife, Richard Curtis's About Time, The Lake House, Kate & Leopold — they are essentially date movies with a light sprinkling of speculative fiction.

Though the former is a science fiction series about friendship and other dimensions in a small Indiana town, the latter is the love story between a mute woman and an amphibious sea creature kept in a government lab.

But there is something deeply powerful about hearing a classroom of your peers read life into a text by reading it with passion and understanding and inflection and... Instead of thinking when you're reading silently, «I wonder if anyone cares about this book,» seeing that every other kid in the class loves this book, wants to bring it to life, enjoys it, is relishing the fiction and the words in the story.

There were so many great questions that I would love to think about and explore more so I am sure I will be referring back to this little book not only as fiction but as a reference of sorts.

Here's what they have to say: What it's about: The story follows the life of an acclaimed young writer, Joan Ashby, as she falls in love, marries and raises two sons - all the while struggling to find a space in her busy life for her passion: writing fiction (Nancy L).

I would love to know more about the real Christina and how much of the book is fiction.

Speaking of the interwebs, Charity loves to talk about YA fiction, TV, and State v. Sefori.

About the Book Title: Legacy of Luck Author: Christy Nicholas Genre: Historical Fiction Irish Traveler Éamonn loves gambling, women, and drinking, not necessarily in that order.

Whether you write about love, mystery, steamy romance, paranormal or science fiction, Wattpad shares your story to its massive avid community — all for free!

With honesty, wit, and a wild first - person narrative, this novel breaks boundaries in YA fiction as it tells about college freshman Ellie and her search for art, love, sex, and meaning.

Writing fiction allows me to explore humanity, and that's one of the things I love most about it.

I write memoir, but as for fiction writers and blogging, I am always interested in knowing more about the authors I love.

One of the things I love about reading and writing Flash fiction is that a story can turn or pirouette in one sentence from a standard narrative to something that floats off the page and impacts the r...

From # 1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heartwarming story about childhood friends, broken lives, and a long ago promise that just might offer the hope of love for today.Dubbed the «Queen of Christian Fiction» by Time magazine, # 1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Karen Kingsbury is arguably America's favorite inspirational novelist with a dozen bestsellers to her credit.

The unnamed narrator in Zadie Smith's Swing Time, our second fiction shortlist title, tells the entwined, if sometimes divergent, stories of herself and her childhood best friend, two «brown girls» growing up in London enthralled by dance, in a shrewdly funny, socially astute novel about the quest for meaning, creativity, and love.

See, this is something I love talking about, because historical fiction that shows off the research involved rather dismays me.

We caught up with French and chatted about her love of crime fiction, why everyone should read To Kill a Mockingbird and more in a 7 questions interview.

Calling all historical fiction fans — especially those who love learning about real women who continue to inspire in the present day.

If you like contemporary YA fiction à la Jenny Han, I suggest you read a new debut about family and first love: My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick.

Everybody loves a good book about the end of the world, and the rise in popularity in recent years in dystopian YA fiction is proof.

I love to read historical fiction and learn about the time period amidst the story.

As an avid reader myself, all those infinite possibilities for getting lost in «something else» is what I love most about books, and especially about romance fiction, which is so rich in variety and so strong in emotion.

It's recommended for those interested in the early years of the space race, as well as anyone looking for fine literary fiction about love and loss.

I recommend this book to people that love non fiction books and would like to read about bow people lives and experience shaped themselves to be a better person.

As a lover of historical fiction I would have loved more about the orphan trains and Violet's life.

FICTION An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Oprah loves this book about a love triangle after a wrongly accused prison conviction.

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Comment: There have been many non-fiction books written recently about autism, including titles such as The Boy Who Loved Windows; there have also been many fiction books, most notably The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night - Time.

Obsession with work, the economy and plain old love take center stage in this month's science fiction and fantasy selections.While preparing for a documentary about his life in The Atlantis Code, linguist Thomas Lourds is shown a strange artifact featuring a language that even he, the foremost authority on ancient languages, can not identify.

In this anthology, nine of the brightest voices in independent Christian fiction offer novelettes about individuals at the crossroads, and the opportunities they have to respond with Christian love in all its forms.

From the USA Today bestselling author of Final Exit comes an unforgettable work of women's fiction about love, marriage, friendship, loss, romance, rock & roll, and a woman's search for herself.One man became her husband.He had the face of an angel, and a voice that could tear your heart to shreds and leave it bleeding.

** This high - quality fan fiction fantasy diary book is for kids, teens, and nerdy grown - ups who love to read epic stories about their favorite game!The very first diary of Skeleton Steve himself!!