Sentences with phrase «memoir does»

My little memoir does have a type of dist thru LSI / Ingram which has helped it sell (without much help from me lately) over the 200 needed to announce «indie success,» but the biggest success is the fun I'm having and the thrill of having strangers seek me out to say how they loved the book.

If graphic novels can offer the intellectual and social engagement that traditional books can, what do they offer that a standard novel or memoir does not?

In that revolutionary address he unified geometry and physics into a single set of axioms by symbolic logic.2 While the memoir does not comment theologically, it does propose a theory of intersection points, or interpoints, which in its mathematical abstraction suggests a lucid and stimulating model for projecting Whitehead's understanding of God's relation to space.

What this memoir does make clear, however, is that the central years of John Tietjen's professional life were absorbed by this struggle, that he genuinely felt himself called by God to play the role he did, and that this conviction cost him a great deal of ease which might otherwise have been his.

When it comes to his latest directorial effort, an adaptation of cartoonist John Callahan «s memoir Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, the movie is undoubtedly remarkable, but it's due to the performances Van Sant pulls from his actors rather than the film as a whole.

Luke Pasqualino took home the Breakthrough award, historical play King Charles III won the Theatre prize, neurosurgeon Henry Marsh was honoured with the Literature award for his memoir Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery.

The mix is important, which is why on a given day you might find us featuring stories ranging from an addictive short thriller by James Patterson to the stirring personal memoir Don't Bet on It from self - published author Joel Drucker.

In addition to his illustrated memoir We Did Porn (Tin House Books), two books of his art work have been published — Pictures of Girls (DAP) and Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow (Tin House Books).

The judge's instruction to the jury that the transcript was an aide memoir did not overcome the resulting prejudice to the appellant resulting from the jury having only one side of the picture during their deliberations.

Not exact matches

Later, when he wrote his own book, Chris told me that he intentionally omitted these episodes from his memoir because he didn't want to leave me hanging.

In adapting Belfort's memoir for the big screen, Scorsese and DiCaprio didn't set out to create a celebration of the convicted criminal.

His memoir, My Grandfather's Son, you may recall, was a bitter, intemperate affair, a story of a man whose remarkable professional success had done little to temper the anger he clearly still feels toward many people, in and out of Washington, whose paths he crossed.

Comey is doing publicity for his new memoir, A Higher Loyalty, which includes explosive details about the runup to his firing as FBI director by Trump.

Jeffries: In Patrisse Cullors» memoir, When They Call You a Terrorist, she says the narrative around accountability is that harm to Black people is our own doing, whereas harm to White people results in a collective sympathy.

Jackson's memoir and other recent books don't just deliver the hard facts on football - induced brain and body damage.

I have always been thankful that I was gone before those days arrived, but I note here for the record that — while a student — I did not find much to approve in Tietjen's leadership, and even the bittersweet experience of reading his memoir has not changed my mind on that question.

In one of the notes he wrote to the memoir prepared by his mother Agnes, Fr Holloway tells the story being stopped from doing a doctorate by his tutor at seminary.

This perspective brings urgency to her memoir - essay, Do You Hear What I Hear?

Hornbacker has now written a book about being bipolar (Madness: A Bipolar Life), a book about having anorexia (Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.)-RRB-, a book that... I don't know... this one was last year, and you REALLY would've thought that this one should have summed the whole thing up (Sane: Mental Illness, Addiction, and the 12 Steps), and now this.

Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances: against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.

(Can't give you the details as I'm writing a memoir and don't wish to give the good bits away in case it gets published) Even though I have doubted all the other stuff along the years — promises etc that didn't come to pass, despite my diligent prayer and obedience, I still cry out to «something out there» because I am spirit in a human body, and know that I am on a journey that has to mean more than simply this earthly plain.

But McCarthy's best work does not appear in these volumes, and readers would do well to seek out her essays, her correspondence with Hannah Arendt, and Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, a justly celebrated memoir.

When I wrote my memoir, it was the single most therapeutic thing I'd ever done.

I really don't know,» he says when asked why his memoir has proved so popular.

I do not give up on the hope that, after some years of penance, a chastened Rembert Weakland might write a reflective memoir, having by then discovered, please God, a measure of the wisdom that was so conspicuously absent from a brilliant career built upon prideful foundations that now, through a combination of tragedy and farce, lie in ruins.

In Hephzibah Anderson's memoir about a self - directed year of chastity, she doesn't actually pursue chastity in the full sense but simply avoids «last base.»

And now I'm a published author with a wonderful husband and a burgeoning speaking career and I'll I can do is hate poor Ann Voskamp for selling more copies of her memoir than I've sold of mine.

Lynch has a life story fit for a memoir, which is exactly what she did this year with Out of Line: A Life of Playing with Fire.

Jess Thomson, who has ghostwritten and co-authored cookbooks with chefs like Renee Erickson and has a food - related memoir upcoming, says she takes her name off not because she's not proud of the work, but rather because she doesn't want to become pigeonholed in that particular category of cooking.

Can we expect to read your memoir this year?I'm almost done with it but not sure when it will be hitting shelves yet.

Barbara Lynch proves that yes, we do in fact need another chef memoir.

In Brees's best - selling memoir, Coming Back Stronger, published last July, he wrote of his marriage to the former Brittany Dudchenko, 34, whom he met in 1999 when both were students at Purdue,»... when I put the ring on Brittany's finger, I said, «For better or for worse, till death do us part.»

Only thing MR Wengers will to sign is his memoir, «Wengers: I Don't make purchases till too late or NEVER»

Amanda Fletcher doesn't have a blog yet, but she's cooking up a hell of a memoir.

I realize this is going to make me sound like the world's lamest person (I swear, I wasn't always like this - I wrote a memoir about it) but I enjoyed the fact that we found ourselves doing things like going grocery shopping together.

I'm so glad I recently read an advance copy of Claire's new memoir After This: When Life is Over Where Do We Go (you can pre-order).

That's what Nobel Prize - winning chemist, Kary Mullis, wrote in his 1998 memoir, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field: «It's a mother spider that first gets you and she wants a hole in you that oozes and expands and doesn't ever heal.

In honesty, I would not write a memoir of my sexual reawakening post-divorce (yes, I had that, too, even though my former husband and I had a happy and active sex life right until the end) because I don't think my kids, at 20 and 23, want to know too much (or anything, really) about my sex life.

Which is an enormously ironic statement, seeing as my memoir is about doing exactly that, albeit in a different context.

In her amazing memoir about moving to France with two picky eaters then watching the European culture transform their whole family, Karen Le Billon explains that many French households have a baby food maker handy, even if they don't have a baby....

They stock things you don't often see — like an illustrated memoir by a yeti, and Native shoes for adults.

In her new memoir, Everything You Ever Wanted (Plume; paperback, $ 16), Lauren's life has done a 180.

Well, I guess my memoir, Some Girls, is done because I'm holding a galley copy in my hand.

I recently skimmed through Little Heathens, a Depression - era memoir, and one of the things that stood out was that, while there was a lot of work to be done, the burden was usually shared making the task much more pleasurable.

Her memoir and first book, You Don't Look Adopted, was published four months ago (though Anne is already an accomplished screenwriter), and I have just recently begun reading it.

In this warm and witty memoir of falling in love and falling pregnant, between stories of heartache, growing up and taking the plunge into parenthood, you'll find all the information and resources you need to help you at each stage of your pregnancy, to make sure you're doing what's best for you and your baby.

This is no «kiss and tell» memoir - she really doesn't have a nasty word to say about anyone.

The Conservative views has not received as much personal memoir of interpretation, although Oliver Letwin's recent Hearts and Minds does deal with some aspects in a very elegant and thoughtful way.

Owen Paterson stunned even hard nosed Tories with his heartless plan to make pensioners do gruelling crop picking on the cheap, David Laws revealed in his memoir.

He has a memoir out, titled So Much To Do.