As Kurt Vonnegut says one way or another in all of his strange and
wonderful novels (perhaps cynically or perhaps seriously): purposeless things are abhorent to the human species; and if the human species suspects that it is itself purposeless, it becomes conspicuously suicidal.
It is not often that one comes across
a wonderful novel which features themes like infant feeding and Neonatal care.
I for one am enormously looking forward to Lynne Ramsay's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's
wonderful novel on this exact subject: «We Need To Talk About Kevin».
While former Schools Minister David Laws counselled that the «whims of here - today, gone tomorrow» politicians should not decide the direction of the school curriculum, Gibb argued «access to
these wonderful novels shouldn't be the preserve of the few».
«The struggles that have made Burma, India, and Malaya the places they are today are illuminated in
this wonderful novel by a master storyteller.»
- Kirkus «Truly enthralling - the spirit of The Versions of Us has lingered with me... I simply adored
this wonderful novel.»
It took two rounds of voting and several discussions, but we've finally distilled the long list of
wonderful novels published in 2009 into a list of 10.
The «New Money» and the «Old Money» crowd come together in
this wonderful novel where you can feel the heat, smell the cigarette smoke and hear the jazz band as you sip your first cocktail (Sharon R).
Simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking,
this wonderful novel tapped every single feeling possible.
But I have watched really, really talented storytellers produce dull and off - putting blurbs that actually turn buyers away from
their wonderful novels.
It's a great opportunity to pick up eight
wonderful novels for winter reading, support independent writers who want to take you on an fantastic journey, and discover new writers with great stories along the way.
My friend Ransom Stephens»
wonderful novel The God Patent is being (re --RRB- released today.
Perhaps it's the fault of Hollywood or romantic literature that we think love can only happen to the young, which is why I think MPLS is such
a wonderful novel.
There have clearly been dozens of
wonderful novels written by Africans about Africa.
«We know there are writers out there producing
wonderful novels and memoirs, and we know there are readers of literary fiction and non-fiction who would welcome guidance through the digital labyrinth,» stated author Clare Smith in a press release on the launch of Blackfriars.
Solace of the Road is
a wonderful novel from one of the UK's most talented new writers for teenagers.
I'd always wished she'd written more, which is part of the reason I enjoyed Geraldine Brooks»
wonderful novel, March, so much.
Animated by Vapnyar's beguiling grace and vividness - with a narrative richness reflecting the great tradition of Russian realism to which she is a natural heir - Memoirs of a Muse is an altogether
wonderful novel.
This is a simply
wonderful novel, perfectly suitable for 10th graders.
«THWARTED QUEEN is
a wonderful novel to introduce Cecily Neville and historical biographical fiction to young female readers.»
Even though you might be writing
wonderful novels or how - to guides, you never know how these things might hurt you in the future.
Poignant, touching, and full of the kind of wisdom that can only come straight out of the heartland, Dayna Dunbar's The Saints and Sinners of Okay County is
a wonderful novel of a woman who confronts pain in order to reclaim her belief in herself, lay her past to rest, and bring order back to a life that has veered too far off track.
It's
a wonderful novel of memory, hope, loss of hope and endurance that enables the reader a new perspective on human tenacity.
Jessica then took all of this information and my ideas and crafted three
wonderful novels set in a world that I know well.
William Goldman, author of The Princess Bride (among many other
wonderful novels and screenplays) always catches the reader by surprise.
«I see on the shelf all these wonderful,
wonderful novels — books that I've read that I absolutely loved that are no longer available,» the revered librarian told me during an interview last week in Seattle.
Actually, I feel very proud and happy for being able to read and review so many
wonderful novels, and I wouldn't have the heart to sell them ever.
To those (like me) who are still publishing with the major houses: I've read
wonderful novels in the past few years that failed to find a home.
This is
a wonderful novel, the quintessential expression of what a novel is about.
I've put in the work, I've written
the wonderful novels, I've gotten the reviews.
The migratory habits of cranes and the mythology that surrounds them, so well served in Richard Powers»
wonderful novel The Echo Maker, acted as a catalyst for Woodruff's new series.
I have also wondered about Lawrence Hill's
wonderful novel The Book of Negroes, how it was retitled as Someone Knows My Name for the U.S. market.
Not exact matches
«Other People's Money» by Justin Cartwright (Bloomsbury, 2011) is to the
novel what the
wonderful «Margin Call» is to film — a fictionalized but convincing account of high finance and the crisis of 2008.
Yes, with hypothermia just a couple of degrees away, with water rising and no help in sight, Clare and Russ manage to forget about his
wonderful wife (the woman he truly loves, the woman who helped him through posttraumatic stress syndrome) and finally give in to three
novels» worth of lusty longing.
The
novel is full, too, of
wonderful throwaway observations about human nature («Lancelot shrugged his shoulders — one of the stupidest things to do when the other party wants to have a fight»).
I decided this would be first recipe I'd make from the cookbook (which I've been reading like a
novel since I got it for Christmas), and like all of your recipes, it was
wonderful and came out exactly as described.
It's so
wonderful, and honestly the first cookbook I was able to sit and read like a
novel.
I'm so glad to hear you have Amy's book too, it is so
wonderful and I'm excited for you to give it a
novel - like read soon.
By: Jillian Lauren Tariku came with me last Sunday to a party celebrating the release of Jim Krusoe's
wonderful new
novel Erased.
There is always the temptation over the Christmas and New Year holiday period to relax with some
wonderful trashy
novel or a book on anything other than politics.
«CBN venture grants and postdoctoral fellowships have provided a
wonderful mechanism for developing
novel research projects and for generating critical preliminary data needed to make our NIH grants competitive,» said CBN Researcher Larry Young, Ph.D., of Emory University.
Basically, the Orloj is a clock with a history line better than a Grisham
novel plot, (see International dating agency gives you the
wonderful opportunity to meet beautiful single women who can take you to a different world altogether by merely
Directed by Richard Loncrane (WIMBLEDON, BRIMSTONE AND TREACLE) and adapted by Charlie Peters from Jill Ciment's
novel, HEROIC MEASURES, the film doesn't break new ground, but is a joy to behold due to the
wonderful chemistry between its two leads.
John Huston's long - cherished adaptation of Herman Melville's
novel has some
wonderful scenes but must be counted as a noble failure.
But I also was very interested in you know all of the sort of filmic incarnations of her work as well... And there's some
wonderful observations and parts of internal monologue — well more internal monologue that Therese has — but observations of Carol that're in the
novel that were really really useful to read.
There is nothing wrong with being self - contained, and writer / director Mona Achache ensures her adaptation of Muriel Barbery's incredibly successful
novel «L'élégance du hérisson» («The Elegance of the Hedgehog») remains simple and understated, letting the
wonderful characters (and the strong performances that bring them to life) speak for themselves.
She can be compelling simply reading a seamy
novel in Nocturnal Animals or, as in the
wonderful Arrival, puzzling over how to decode an alien language while struggling with her own perception of memory and time.
Director Ben Wheatley (of Sightseers, Kill List) certainly knows how to make weird and
wonderful cinema that will divide audiences and he's gone on to make another one with this adaptation, based on the JG Ballard
novel from the 70s.
The screenplay is by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, who wrote the
wonderful «(500) Days of Summer» a few years ago, and based on a
novel by Tim Tharp.
«Tamara Drewe» (Sony), directed by Stephen Frears, has a strange and
wonderful pedigree: an adaptation of the graphic
novel (by Posy Simmonds) inspired by Thomas Hardy's «Far From the Madding Crowd» and whipped up with a light sex comedy froth by screenwriter Moira Buffini and the cast (headed by the Gemma Arterton as the gorgeous heroine with identity issues and Roger Allam as the philandering author who wants to bed her).