Sentences with phrase «memoir make»

An inventive suspense novel, a moving debut about growing up in the modern South and an award - winning memoir make for great group discussion this month.

She's a first - rate education thinker, too, and the 16 «core educational values and practices» that conclude her memoir make up a time - tested and sagacious formula for running great schools — and the list includes those exacting norms and lofty expectations.

So how does the six - word memoir make sense in a history class?

By this time, however, as his memoir makes clear, he was more inclined towards the right - wing of the Labour Party.

The idea of basing it on the memoir made all the sense in the world to me, so it's the primary text that serves the film.

The plain - spoken language of this memoir makes it all the more moving, while Lowery's detail - rich memories of her community, their shared purpose, and her own experiences make it particularly accessible to young readers.

A video Q&A in which Roger Rosenblatt discusses his memoir Making Toast, about the period in his life when he and his wife moved in to their son - in - law's house to help care for their three small grandchildren after the sudden and unexpected death of their daughter:

Gail Godwin discusses her novel Queen of the Underworld, and her memoir The Making of a Writer, both published in early 2006.

In a very funny memoir made decidedly funnier by its reader, Tina Fey relates sketches and memories of her time at SNL and Second City as well as the difficulties of balancing career and motherhood.

Not exact matches

First Lady Melania Trump dismissed Ivana Trump's comments joking that she really held the position of First Lady, as the former insinuated in a statement that her husband's ex-wife only made the comments to sell her new memoir.

«They discussed how to make me look snappier — color my hair, change my style of dressing, and, I suspect, get me to lose some weight,» she wrote in her memoir.

Some weightier recommendations are sure to make you smarter and better informed, but will that tome on disease eradication efforts or memoir of a dying doctor bring a smile to your lips?

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.

Not only this book a lively and honest memoir of Lane's experiences with church, but along the way, she makes a compelling case for the virtues that make thriving church communities to which we want to belong.

Published in 1844 and recounting a journey in the Middle East made a decade before, it is a masterpiece of the wry and elliptically self - mocking English travel memoir; only Eric Newby improved on the model in any respect.

In his new memoir Porcelain, the 51 - year - old recounts his humble beginnings as a homeless vegan desperate to «make it» as a DJ in New York City between 1989 and 1999.

In her memoir, she writes at length about what happened in her family and in her backyard, and even about Satan himself, as she tries to make sense of her experience.

Rubio's attendance in the church was little - known and made a splash when details of a forthcoming memoir were reported Thursday by the Miami Herald and the website BuzzFeed.

It reads more like poetry than spiritual memoir genre (which makes sense since Wiman is a poet).

Even so bare an outline of Mantel's life, drawn from her 2003 memoir, Giving Up the Ghost, makes clear the connections between Mantel's biographical backstory and the goings - on at Henry VIII's court.

While others have written extensively about his theological and philosophical legacy I would like to record my own memoir of the man and the priest and make a tribute to the pastoral legacy that he has left behind.

You make this point in different ways at various points in the memoir, and I find it both unbearably sad and, simultaneously, a fact that should elicit from us admiration, praise, and thanks.

'» The topics of friendship and work recur throughout the memoir, and they often make it come alive.

His wife, a distinguished thinker in her own right, has written this admiring memoir, taking the story up to 1940, on the basis of Dietrich's notes made shortly before he died.

She's currently working on a memoir that chronicles her unconventional upbringing, her mother's descent into mental illness, and her attempts to make sense of it all when she discovers Jesus in her 20s.

What makes a memoir worth reading isn't so much the story the author tells, but how she tells it.

As Scott McClellan revealed in his new tell - all memoir about serving as press secretary in the White House, the Bush administration has consistently implemented a policy of «you're either for us or you're against us» when it comes to making foreign policy decisions.

So inspired - loved your memoir and look forward to learning how to make some spectacular new dishes.

In a charming memoir that introduces the recipes, Mama Dip fondly recalls growing up in rural NC and recounts the story of a strong woman determined to make her own way in the larger world.

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

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.

But before I left I'd made note of an article about Amy Friedman, a journalist who fell in love with an inmate — a murderer and former drug dealer — and who recently wrote a memoir about -LSB-...]

The stories that make up early LLL lore can be found in a number of publications, including LLL Founder Marian Tompson's memoir, Passionate Journey — My Unexpected Life.

I hope my memoir will make him proud.

Lu Hanessian is author of the acclaimed memoir Let the Baby Drive: Navigating the Road of New Motherhood (St. Martin's Press, 2004), veteran TV journalist and former NBC anchor of Real Life, Discovery Health Channel host of Make Room for Baby, weekly newspaper parenting columnist, national speaker, and workshop facilitator.

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.

I felt relieved that the memoir I've written about my experience is still unpublished, making it easier to safeguard all that I still have.

With all the fuss over the harshness of Amy Chua's unrelenting «tiger mother» parenting style — the discussion, which was sparked by a Wall Street Journal excerpt of Chua's new memoir about motherhood, made its way onto the cover of TIME this week — few have commented on one simple fact.

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.

In her new memoir, former Planned Parenthood chief Cecile Richards says Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were, during the 2016 transition, so eager to be recognized as shrewd political dealmakers that they made an offer that felt like a «bribe» — an increase in federal funding for her organization in exchange for its agreement to stop providing abortions.

With the release of his memoir this week and a set of high - profile media interviews to publicize it, Comey — whose firing by Trump made him a hero to the president's critics — has veered onto risky terrain, shedding the trappings of a high - minded referee and looking instead like a combatant in the country's partisan battles.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is no longer receiving income from a 2014 memoir released, his 2017 tax returns made available on Tuesday show.

Straw's memoir ends with his role as an active backbencher and his thoughts on making government more accountable and Parliament more relevant.

On the other hand, it can be argued that Quinn is not especially concerned with Thompson, and has in fact been thinking just as much about the soon - to - be candidacy of Anthony Weiner, as demonstrated by her Sharing Tour and upcoming memoir, seemingly tailor - made to trump Weiner's own Oprahtic tale of personal redemption.

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.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo earned $ 376,667 from his memoir «All Thing Possible» released last year, burnishing his $ 553,371 income last year, according to his tax returns made public on Wednesday.

Cuomo, as is custom for statewide elected officials, made public his taxes today, showing he earned $ 218,100 last year and is no longer receiving income from the proceeds of his 2014 memoir, «All Things Possible.»

The Hollywood Reporter says that the film - making company Focus Features «has picked up» the rights to Sam Millar's memoir, On The Brinks.

Reviewing the memoir for Total Politics, Tory MP Keith Simpson stated: «Ken is rightly proud of many of his achievements and makes no apology for consuming wine and cigars at inappropriate and politically incorrect moments.»

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2017 income fell after set payments from his memoir ended, netting him less for the year than New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, according to tax returns the two made public Tuesday.