Sentences with phrase «love of a good novel»

It's such a close knit community, and it feels like every attendee is there for the love of a good novel.

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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.

They would react to Tolstoy's statement with disbelief — to choose a novel that entertains and fosters a love for life over a treatise that solves every social (or, better, religious) question of humankind!

In The Philosopher's Pupil (1983) a man's life is changed by his vision of a flying saucer; a key episode in The Good Apprentice turns on what appears to be the effects of a love potion; a young girl in The Green Knight exerts an involuntary telekinesis over the stones that she has collected in her room; in the same novel the goodness of a man named Peter Mir (Mir meaning, in Russian, both «world» and «peace,» as several characters note) seems to be contagious, bringing sweet dreams and love to those with whom he comes in contact.

Where, at the beginning of the novel, marriage has already occurred, love may well be sought outside marriage; the rendering of a love that both issues in marriage and develops and matures within it is much less usual... The more recent convention that «love» is the precondition not of marriage but of» sex» is a natural development of tradition rather than a reaction against it.»

In Allan Gurganus's novel Plays Well with Others, his main character describes taking care of one friend after another as they succumbed to AIDS — describes the almost hydraulic outpouring of love it took to tend them.

I love reading novels as well as cooking and doing a lot of house works.

I'm that semi weird - say what I'm thinking - love what I'm doing - stand up for what's right - crazy dirt bike riding - wake boarding - dune chaser - yoga lover - weight lifting - novel writing - pool loving - painter (not very well - lol)- single mom to an amazing son (I still have plenty of time off) well...

am good looking woman that like to be trusted in all ways, striaght forward and hate lies, looking for that special man to spend my life with, tired of heart brake and need true love, one to love and be love, like to read novels and go to beach, like honesty and trust, I am a person who looks beyond what may be the obvious.

Book and Brew provides regular reviews of literary fiction books, plus writing tips and general bookish love for those who spend most of their time in the company of a good novel.

I love dancing, bowling, cooking and reading novels I do have allots of interest though am intelligent, loyal, affectionate, romantic, good listener and responsible.

My name is Jenny, I work as a nurse but graduated from school last years, I am simple and cool, I love boating, reading novels and cooking all sorts of food, I am good in some out door games like hockey, basket ball, lawn tennis and Golf.

Tom I am a fun loving man of fifty - three years of age, I haven't been very good with women, I just want a longing and lasting relationship with a woman woom also has a desire to read romantic vampire novels.

Its hard to talk about oneself, but here goes... I love to cook desserts, read historical novels, paint watercolours (not very well but I'm trying), I do some volunteer work, for a couple of different organisations during the year.

One woman's life of love and larceny is recounted in this soapy drama based on the best - selling novel by Sidney Sheldon.

Based on the novel by Teri Woods, this crime drama follows the story of an up - and - coming drug dealer forced to choose between love and money after meeting an intriguing young woman from Philadelphia, who suddenly makes him long to escape the streets for a better life.

Based on Nicholas Sparks's best - selling novel, director Luis Mandoki's romantic drama explores the possibility of love amid heartache.

A chewy, handsomely staged novel of a movie, Sorry Angel (whose much better French title translates to Pleasure, Love, and Run Fast) contains moments of piercing intelligence and heartbreaking beauty.

If this story of a love affair in 17th - century Amsterdam — scripted by Tom Stoppard from a best - selling novel — doesn't score Harvey some more gold for his overburdened shelf, perhaps the Life of Pi - like Lion, starring Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel, will.

Noruwei no mon (Norwegian Wood, Tran Anh Hung, 2010) * Based on the best - selling 1987 novel of Haruki Murikami, Norwegian Wood reflects the inner journey of 19 - year - old Toru Watanabe (Ken» ichi Matsuyama), a journey that embodies the pain of love and loss, the tantalising embrace of death, the end of dreams, and the beginning of adult responsibility.

A dreamlike wandering through the streets of Istanbul, Grant Gee's film recounts the tale of doomed love from Orhan Pamuk's best - selling novel The Museum of Innocence.

Based on the Philip Roth novel of the same name, Indignation tells the story of a very smart young man who has the dubious good fortune of being socially progressive, in love, and possessed of all the self - confidence in the world.

Though Chalamet shared love scenes with three different screen partners — Hammer, Esther Garrel, and, as fans of the novel know well, a peach — the actor is quick to brush off any awkwardness around these encounters.

Based on the acclaimed novel by David Nicholls, One Day is a tale, spanning some 20 years, of enduring love and friendship through the best and worst of times for two people on separate...

Because he wasn't quite like my John Self — something that's always going to be a problem in dramatisations of well - loved novels, especially well - loved novels as character - centric as Money, Martin Amis's brilliant and hilarious portrait of greed and anarchic self - destruction.

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That's one of the best things about «Carol,» director Todd Haynes» glittering adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's scandalous 1952 novel «The Price of Salt,» about a furtive love affair between two women.

From acclaimed director Derek Cianfrance, (BLUE VALENTINE, A PLACE BEYOND THE PINES), and based on the extraordinary best - selling novel from M.L Stedman, THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, is a beautiful yet heart - breaking story of love and sacrifice.

Adapting a novel by an Israeli author called only Shez, Yedaya does her best to make this icky relationship psychologically credible, and Turgeman does a fine job of vacillating between disgust, terror, self - hatred, and the desperate need for Dad's love and affection.

Never Let Me Go is a film born of pedigree; director Mark Romanek is a much loved music video director, writer Alex Garland is a dab hand at adapting difficult material (The Beach) as well as intelligent sci - fi (Sunshine), and the source material is the critically acclaimed novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Gayle Forman's best - selling novel, «If I Stay,» comes to life on screen in a powerful film about love and loss that's heartbreaking, moving and full of hope.

Now, another one of the well - loved author's novels is set for adaptation with a cast led by Patrick Wilson, Jessica Biel, Imogen Poots, and Toby Jones.

Announced back in February, the film sees Goldsman tackle Mark Helprin «s much - praised 1983 novel of the same name, which follows an orphan on the run from a criminal gang, who breaks into a New York mansion, only to fall in love with a dying woman, with reincarnation, apocalypse, rainbow bridges and a flying white horse all cropping up as well.

Beautiful to look at, well written by Christopher Hampton and based on the popular novel by Ian McEwan, and extremely well - acted by a superb cast — especially the two leads — Knightley and McAvoy — this film remains not only a haunting story of tragic love but of the terrible consequences of jealousy and regret.

In Tom Stoppard «s spectacularly good script (I suspect the quality of which has been overlooked because so few film critics have actually read the book), it has a jumping off point that more than any previous take, digs into the themes of the novel — the many forms that love takes, artificial metropolitan life vs. simple pastoral life — and allows the peripheral characters their moment in the sun, while still keeping the running time at around a brisk two hours.

Released in 1997, I Know What You Did Last Summer had the heat and cachet of an adaptation of Lois Duncan's teen - friendly novel by Scream screenwriter Kevin Williamson, as well as the mushrooming star appeal of Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Based on Kōbō Abe's novel of the same name, Woman in the Dunes is in one way the best, most insightful and evocative adaptation of T.S. Eliot's «The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock» there ever was, from Eliot's winsome protagonist looking to escape regret into experience to, literally, these lines about entomology as a metaphor for being seen clearly and judged wanting:

Water for Elephants Rated PG - 13 for moments of intense violence and sexual content Available on DVD and Blu - ray After falling in love with the novel by Sara Gruen, I so badly wanted this romance that takes place in a depression - era circus to be legendary, but instead we merely got a good but forgettable love story.

In Todd Haynes» unspeakably beautiful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's semi-autobiographical novel about a 1950s Manhattan shopgirl (Rooney Mara) who is thunderstruck by a mutual infatuation with a well - to - do housewife (Cate Blanchett), the film illustrates — among other things — how falling in love is an act of looking, while being in love is an act of seeing.

Some people played along but many were appalled at the very idea of something as cliched and flimsy as a love triangle defining the young woman they've come to admire so fiercely from Suzanne Collins» best - selling trio of novels, the first adaptation of which makes its way to the screen this weekend amid great fervor and expectation.

And if you think it's odd that Scott and Ramona fall in love over what seems like two days, realize that in the novels it's more like the better part of a year.

She hopes to someday be the author of many Children's novels, and loves any chance to read a good story.

If the author has a possible best seller or at least a great novel, and can obtain a stellar agent, all while continuing to produce more of the same quality writing (Pubs love an investment); Traditional publishing is the way to go.

In a powerful novel that skillfully overlays its tragic love story with pointed social commentary, Rash effortlessly summons the rugged Appalachian landscape as well as the xenophobia of a country in the grip of patriotic fervor.

This wrenching story of grief, love and ghosts captivated our reviewer, who said the book «reads like a suspense novel and will keep you turning pages longer than is good for you.

In Love Is a Canoe, Ben Schrank delivers a smart, funny, romantic, and hugely satisfying novel about the fragility of marriage and the difficulty of repairing the damage when well - intentioned people forget how to be good to each other.

In addition to its original structure, the novel offers candid insights into the effects of status on love... Barnett's willingness to look beyond romance to the mechanics of relationships bodes well for her career as a novelist.»

Several of the stories have ties to his novels, but all stand on their own as they explore love and ambition and good intentions gone bad.

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: New York Times best - selling Smile continues to be one of the most widely loved kid's graphic novels in recent history.

My parents are both gone now (my mother was a well - loved teacher there, as well), and I do wonder what they would think about the release of my first novel.