Sentences with phrase «over piles of books»

Nothing kills a romantic moment when you are making your way to the bed, to only trip over piles of books, magazines and clothes on the floor.

Not exact matches

You can blow away any remaining support for the bible and argument over the details of its crazy contents (if anyone still tries to support that cr @p pile of a book) with the following anyway:

This year I vowed that, before I spent a fortune on new books, I would read some of the novels that have been piling up in my office over the last few years.

I've had the lovely book Baking with Julia in my cookbook collection for a while and have made some very successful and delicious recipes from it, but it had somehow gotten buried under the ever - growing pile of newer cookbooks over time.

Both men picked up their fifth bookings of the season and in turn will sit out a game through suspension, but with a nine - point buffer over their rivals, Conte will be delighted that his side have piled the pressure on them to respond with Arsenal and Manchester City facing each other on Sunday.

While you're creating a glowing atmosphere in your home, find some things that warm your soul as well: piling into the living room for movie night or reading a good book, brewing your favorite drink, inviting friends over and gathering around a pot of something delicious.

Don't look so surprised: This may be a Disney — Marvel comic - book film — and, as such, pretty much designed by one of the world's biggest corporations to generate piles of money — but these movies have become steadily more politically self - aware and socially conscious over the years.

Hibernation - find out about different animal that hibernate over Winter Literacy resources Snowflake alphabet Book review Worksheets - various worksheets about the story, Winter and the characters Word searches Writing pages - various pages to photocopy for the children to write and colour in the borders Writing sheets Hibernation worksheets Worksheets - Signs of Autumn, Winter and Spring worksheets Acrostic poem Art and crafts Animal paw prints - use the cards to copy the paw prints in the sand tray or in the snow Tracing picture Colouring worksheets Winter scene worksheet Animal puppets to make Animal masks - black and white masks of the different animals in the story Games Bingo - a colourful picture bingo game Snowman building game - throw the die and collect the different parts of your snowman Hibernation game - throw a die and turn over a card to see how many hedgehogs are hibernating under the pile of leaves Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves.

My to - be-read pile of physical books has taken over one end of my desk, and my to - be-read pile of ebooks stands at 250 + and counting.

It's a decision that no one had to make a few years ago, when the only alternative to traditional publishing was «vanity» publishing, where you forked over a lot of money for a pile of poorly constructed books that had your name on the cover.

I drove down in my 1986 Opel Ascona with a pile of books, a laptop and a Yamaha guitar and stayed for over two months in a flat with no internet access.

It is not acceptable to merely hand over your self - published book as the odds are that it will not be read, it will land on a pile of other unread books.

Even for me — after attending nearly a hundred book fairs and publishing industry trade shows over the past 5 plus years — I have a rolodex of images in my head representing book fairs that go all the way back to my elementary school cafeteria where wood tables were set up and piles of hardcover versions of «The Magic School Bus» were laid out and sold for $ 5 each to students.

You write in a vacuum or for a professor who frowns on genre; you workshop with other writers; you craft a query letter; you appeal to the tastes of an intern at a literary agency; you claw your way out of the slush pile; you hope to win over an editor at a major publishing house; your book comes out a year later and sits spine - out on a bookshelf for six months; it gets returned to the publisher and goes out of print; you start over.

Your pages will start turning slightly slower, which is happening to me as I have a lot of books in the electronic «to be read» pile — plus I've dropped the darn thing way too many times over the past few years.

It just about summed up everything I learned from reading piles of books and articles over the past 6 months.

Mop up any excess and lay thick towels or diapers over the area, weigh down the towels (perhaps with a pile of books) and leave overnight.

In the Injustice comic book Damian accidently kills Dick Grayson by throwing one of his kali sticks hitting Dick in head, dazed and confused Dick falls over braking his neck on a pile of bricks.

In the «Pavilion of the Common» an inexplicably large chunk of space is given over to works involving thread — tables hold piles of Taiwanese artist Lee Mingwei's patched, ripped clothing; Filipino David Medalla invites visitors to embroider what they please onto a long swath of fabric (by the second day, it was filling up with stitched - on business cards, which seems about right for the Biennale); and elegant stitched texts and books by the late Sardinian artist Maria Lai are on display not far from terrific fabric pieces by Walther.

A boy precariously balancing a pile of books by Yinka Shonibare doubled estimates at # 137,000; a portrait of Cara Delevingne by Jonathan Yeo rose over estimates to # 100,000; and a 1960 used book collage by the underrated John Latham, the subject of a retrospective now at the Serpentine gallery, sold for # 56,250 — all auction records.

You've reminded me of another book that's in my «to read» pile: «Automate This: How Algorithms Took Over Our Markets, Our Jobs, and the World,» by Christopher Steiner.