Sentences with phrase «novels in»

There are many other purposes for graphic novels in the classroom, from looking at different cultures and backgrounds to utilizing technology in authentic ways.

We study two novels in class per term and students read a book of their own choice each term.

When: January 23rd Why: Based on the first of four novels in Kyril Bonfiglioli's Charles Mortdecai series, the movie finds Johnny Depp trying his hand at goofball comedy as an Inspector Clouseau - type character with franchise potential.

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We're allowing it because it's being made by HBO (and so has production values through the ceiling), stars a heavyweight Hollywood topline cast of Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon, and is an adaptation of one of the most legendary - and continually important - sci - fi novels in the genre canon.

If you're a fan of the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Award - winning Annihilation, and the other novels in the Southern Reach Trilogy, Authority and Acceptance, then you're sure to love the 14 books below.

I should disclaim, too, that I read (re-read, in some cases) all 24 original Burroughs Tarzan novels in the weeks leading up to the picture's release.

Annhiliation is the first of three novels in the Southern Reach trilogy, all of which will be published this year.

Blossoms was one of the most popular novels in China in 2013 and was written in «modified» Shanghai dialect — that is, in a way that makes the language more understandable to non-natives.

(Matthews wrote two additional Dominika - centered novels in quick succession.)

Adapting mostly from the first of 11 novels in Burroughs» Barsoom series that was written over three decades, Stanton (who co-wrote the script with Pixar co-worker Mark Andrews, with revisions by novelist Michael Chabon) does try to make Carter as adventurous as Burroughs» books were, while also attempting to include allegorical complexity.

Ever since the first film hit it big in 2008, studio executives have been snapping up young adult novels in the hope of hitting the same vein, but, aside from «The Hunger Games» the handful of attempts that have hit theaters so far, like «Beastly» and «I Am Number Four,» mostly disappeared without a trace, and not just because they starred Alex Pettyfer.

The titles are visual novels in the same vein as Ace Attorney and Professor Layton, where the story is broken up by logic puzzles and point - and - click adventure segments.

They debate which is their favourite planet (she makes a good case for Jupiter), we see her sketching and reading fantasy novels in an early Mötley Crüe T - shirt.

When she's not fretting over high school entrance exams (remember, this is the Japanese education system) or trying her hand at amateur songwriting, she devours fantasy novels in rapid succession.

The first season of Netflix's show covers four of the 13 novels in Handler's book series — two episodes for each book.

The rest of it is really too complicated to go into here, but if you were paying attention in your history classes — or if you read any of the novels in the series this movie is taken from — you already know.

They stay true to form with the graphic novels in how they portray a specific stylized form of acting that's reminiscent of the golden age of Hollywood.

Burroughs» Tarzan novels in the first half of the 1900s were wildly popular, but definitely indicative of the time period — specifically in portrayals of gender and race.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Tim Burton's cinematic take on the first of three novels in Ransom Riggs» popular dark YA fantasy series, introduces Jacob (Asa Butterfield in the film), a child who ventures out to find the fabled Miss Peregrine (Eva Green), whom his late grandfather had told him so many enrapturing stories about.

series could become a must - read set of visual novels in the near future as long as the writers don't lose their focus.

The «Americans» actress plays a woman obsessed with Jane Austen novels in the directorial debut from «Napoleon Dynamite» writer Jerusha Hess

And those novels, just like novels in genres like science fiction and mystery, share common elements but vary in quality, depending on how well they're written.

This French comedy fondly lampoons both the popular French spy movies adapted from Jean Bruce's novels in the 1950s and»60s and the colonialist era they were set in.

I am the guy you find reading soft novels in the train or lost in deep thoughts...

I'm a 19 year old writer with several novels in the process of being finalized looking for someone who loves Harry Potter as much as I do

I wrote two novels in my middle school thru high school years, now this blog.

It holds hundreds of novels in its memory.

She is currently hard at work churning out more novels in the Lizzie Hart Mysteries series and in the Java Jive Mysteries series, which includes That Old Black Magic (released on February 4, 2015).

All the available surfaces — the tables, shelves, chairs — are piled with papers, conference proceedings, textbooks and novels in Japanese and English, and other paraphernalia of academic life.

I read most of the Kung Fu novels in secret.

Alan began to write novels in the 1950s and Trewin discovered that his first novel, accepted on the 13th submission, was pulped because of a libel.

I can read novels in French, I've think even read a novel in Spanish.

It was savagely reviewed when first published but is now regarded as one of Trollope's finest novels in which he castigates immortality and dishonesty in politics, fi nance and society.

But I need a few good novels in my stack of books to read!

i would read books at the dinner table, i would sneak novels in between the pages of my textbooks, and i always read in the car...

I always fall into her novels in a way that I have found harder with fiction lately.

We lounged by the pool and read some novels in between dips in the jacuzzi.

The Once and Future King is one of only a handful of first - rate novels in which the metaphysical claims of the Catholic Church are taken at face value.

Having set her novels in a semirealistic universe (as opposed to a more complete subcreation like Narnia or Middle - earth), Rowling needed to make the transmutation of the hero credible psychologically as well as metaphysically, and I am not sure she entirely succeeded.

We turn to good novels in part to exercise our imaginations, and The Life of Pi allows for that in some places.

Cargas: Just to get back to that original question for a moment: You were saying that technology is absent from our novels in the same way that sex was absent from the Victorian novel.

There are many recent novels in English, written by Indians, which reveal new dimensions of Indian religious life and illuminate the historical, philosophical, and religious studies of Hinduism: R. K. Narayan is one contemporary novelist whose works have excited students to further study of Hinduism and Indian culture.

(Narayan's Financial Expert is the only one of his novels in paperback, but his other novels are now published in the United States.)

Nothing is more damaging to fiction, she wrote, than writers who try to impose their beliefs on their novels in a forced or unnatural way.

I remember seeing Greeley's novels in my home growing up.

gave me a chance to rediscover Jane Austen, not least because she is my mother's favorite author: For not only does the Oakesian matriarch own all six of the Austen novels in the elegant Oxford edition, but Park Honan's marvelous biography, Jane Austen: Her Life, occupies a prominent place on her bookshelf as well ¯ which I gobbled up (naturally) even more avidly than I did the novels.

Men dream of being rapists, and women find themselves wistfully reading novels in which someone ravishes the «soon to be made willing» heroine.

I consumed many fantasy novels in my youth.

Ultimately this elliptical, even eccentric involvement of biblical themes, figures, and narratives does not make for a work of superior accomplishment in either religious or literary terms, whether by comparison to masterworks of the past or the finer novels in Coetzee's own oeuvre.