Book reviews are more objective than advertising and
often carry more weight when potential readers and readers are considering your book.
This may be because twin moms
often carry more weight during pregnancy and are more likely to need a C - section.
A first - person account from someone they know and love
often carries more weight than the most eloquent speeches of a stranger.
Not exact matches
Sitting in a chair for most of their waking hours
often translates into
carrying around
more weight than is good for a person, physiologically or esthetically speaking.
Add to that the feelings of frustration and resentment that people working in teams
often feel about
carrying more weight than their partners, and a team presentation is
often a recipe for disaster.
What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is
often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands»
carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.
Additionally, «buy this person's book, it's awesome»
often just
carries more weight than «buy my book»
And I've also found that if I'm
carrying one or
more tablets with me anyway, as I
often am for purposes of my day job, then having a whole extra device just for reading is unnecessary
weight in my backpack.
I think it's a combination of changes: * the distributor's algorithm changes and wall of entrance (trying to block scams etc. but
often over-reaching) * the marketing sites like BookBub, Gorilla etc.are adding
more traditional books into the stream of adverts * the Freebies (everywhere) don't
carry as much
weight with readers any longer This doesn't surprise me.
Because of the pain, these puppies
often carry their rear legs far forward in order to keep
more of their
weight on their front legs.