Sentences with phrase «olds reading novels»

Where there's 3 year olds reading novels and little babis reading words off of flashcards?

Not exact matches

The author of this article appears to have not read one complete novel or non-fiction essay by Rand or, apparently, the Old and New Testaments.

She loves rock music, classical piano, driving kids to soccer and swimming, reading romance novels and old comics, and organizing clutter in the house.

14 - year - old Bronxite, Brittany Lopez, read 325 novels and comic books this summer and was crowned winner of New York City Public Library's summer reading contest.

At my old gym, I once forgot that I was exercising and fell off the elliptical while trying to read a novel.

Don't read easily digestible stuff like an old John le Carre spy novel.

Couple of days ago I read an article titled «Yoga after 50 ``, that made it sound as if older students practicing yoga is some sort of a novel idea.

Classics, vintage - inspired novels and just old - fashioned good reads as well as books for mental health and personal growth.

I read a lot of everything — science fiction, science, philosophy, novels, short stories, mysteries, literary fiction, old books — everything.

my name is tony nice to me you i live on the eastside of baltimore i'm 25 yrs old my favorite color is green i like chinese and home cooked meals i'm in to reading romance horror and anime novels i'm a day time tv person any movie would be good to watch i have a job i'm on the laid back tip drama...

My name is Hollie, 31 years old and i'm single no kids am a nurse, and I am devoted and true christian.my fav color is green... I love listening to music, reading novels, watching tvs and movies, Camp out, Fishing, playing basketball, volley ball and i like jumping on Trampoline as well, I'm an ex...

By all accounts, Emma Donoghue's novel, written from the perspective of a 5 - year - old boy who's spent his entire life locked up with his mother in a madman's garden shed, is a terrific, harrowing read.

In 2014, writer - filmmaker Roger Michell read an old copy of Daphne Du Maurier's novel My Cousin Rachel, which he found at his mother's house.

Corset - y period dramas of repression and oppression are not normally our go - to bag but aside from the leads, who we'd queue to see read an old - timey phone book, the film's setting is much grimier and more sordid than the drawing room / china teacup variety of period drama (in keeping with the naturalism and class setting of Zola's novel) and gives the advance look we've had an impressively distinctive look and feel.

I never read Lowry's novel, turned off in part by its black and white cover image of a bearded old man, so I can't speak to how faithfully it has been translated to the big screen.

Law narrates the 1960s segments, which are actually from a novel being read to viewers in the 1980s by (presumably) a now much - older author (Tom Wilkinson).

Adapted from André Aciman's novel by James Ivory, Call Me By Your Name is set in the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, where Elio Perlman (Chalamet), a precocious 17 - year - old American - Italian boy, spends his days in his family's 17th century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel).

My 12 - year - old son and I read this gripping novel by Cory Doctorow over the course of a few days.

A Max Brand reader would be very angry if they started to read a Max Brand novel and discovered an old vampire lusting after young girls.

I do love regular plain old books, but I have to admit that since I got my Kindle last summer I find it far far far easier to read a novel on that device than with a traditional book, especially in bed or in public transportation, or on a plane.

My love of romance novels started as a child when I spent a summer reading through a giant trash bag of old Harlequin Presents paperbacks that my mother snagged from the local library.

But, I am still reading novels the old fashioned way.

Reading as voraciously as I did inspired me to write my own «novels» when I was around eight to ten years old.

As Kristen Lamb says, older authors are «writing books they'd like to read: romance novels with a sixty - year - old protagonist finding love, not a twenty - two - year - old....

Reading an old - fashioned novel is also linked to improving sleep.

For the last two days I've been reading a good old - fashioned paperback novel.

The second is with Kate McClelland of Perrot Memorial Library in Old Greenwich,... - davinamw Did reading this novel make you think about your own family history?

Although her previous novels are all ostensibly written for adults they all feature young protagonists and, as the reviewer for The Boston Globe comments, Kira - Kira could just as easily be read by a 41 - year - old as a 14 - year - old.

-LSB-...]-- My nephew Stephen from Nebraska, who is 14 years old, told me during an interview in early July that he had never read a novel.

A brand new author needs to build that reputation, and while they can find success and break out on their own, I am not willing to be their gatekeeper when I could be reading new (and old) novels from Ann Leckie, Steven Brust, Elizabeth Bear, Daniel Abraham, Peter Hamilton, and Kameron Hurley.

The biggest problem I had in reading this novel was with the protagonist: 11 - year - old Flavia.

Despite my non belief in the 15 year old girl's voice, I was thoroughly entranced with this novel and read all of its 640 pages in 2 days, although getting done with nothing else in my life.

If you're tired of reading the same old horror classics, don't worry; this fall there is a cornucopia of new novels guaranteed to give you the creeps.

As I grew older I started reading what my parents read, which were often crime and mystery novels, so that's where I got a taste for that genre.

this reviewer thought as she read the first page of Alan Bradley's latest novel starring the 11 - year - old sleuth - cum - toxicologist, Flavia de Luce.

The novel THE TIME MACHINE was the very first «grown up» book I ever read, when I was about eight years old.

I have read loads of short story collects, i actually prefer them to full length novels.Of course you can garentee out of say twenty stories your gonna love ten, five are ok and five you hate or just don't get.Not with this book.The only one i wasn't fussed on was the first one where theres a nuclear war.The rest are gory, interesting and although some are old and a bit obvious the writing is sharp.Check out his novel trapped.

At times the book reads like a page - turning espionage novel, beginning with a 1907 bank robbery masterminded by the 29 - year - old Stalin and led by gang leader, Kamo who was «completely enthralled» by Stalin (read the excerpt).

There will be a silent auction for a signed edition of the novel; a screening of upcoming documentary Our Mockingbird; a public reading from the judge's bench in the old courtroom where Lee's father practiced law; and more.

I have an old Palm pilot and an ipod touch, and read novels, websites, blogs, and so forth on that.

She enjoys reading mystery / suspense novels, touring and photographing old houses and traveling.

I started writing for my children, because they were now old enough to read, and over the course of a couple of years of false starts, created Vulcan's Kittens, a YA novel (and a bunch of short stories, but more about those later).

I hadn't noticed the lack of use in novels I have read lately although most are probably not new but a few years old.

Ahh Sarah, how timely: before I read your post this morning, I had two form - letter rejections from agents for an old novel (one even addressed, sentimentally, to «Dear Author»).

He stated that a «reviewer had read an old manuscript I had published with Author House and the reviewer had forwarded comments to Litfire stating that the manuscript could be rewritten and turned into a good novel.

Although her more recent novels focused on autism and hemispatial neglect, Genova chose to talk about her first book, which revolved around a 50 - year - old woman, Alice Howland,... Continue reading The Story of Still Alice →

Heck, half my big6 reading is now «hand me down pbooks» The best part is that favorite authors of mine, that were «constrained by the publishers», are soon going to release their newest novels sans the constraints of the old system.

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I have an (old fashioned) perception of self - published authors from 20 years ago — when «vanity publishing» meant you and your ten best friends were the only people whoever read your novel.

Sun Xuebin, a 26 - year - old computer engineer who works in Beijing, has been reading novels online since 2003.