Sentences with phrase «pages of a novel while»

How could I create a cozy little reading nook where I could enjoy a quick cup of tea and a few pages of a novel while the kids are at school?

Not exact matches

I composed lines of this post in my head as I went to bed last night, which was clearly productive (sarcasm) as I remember none of them and is most definitely a bad way to lull yourself to sleep because I woke from a stress nightmare at 4 am in which I was under deadline to read two novels and write three 15 - page papers by today, all while attending a full day of classes.

I had it in my mind that he would lie in this basket at my feet, sweet as a bundle of straw, silent as a pile of laundry, while I significantly revised my five - hundred - page novel.

My 44 page novelette got a KENPC of 66, while an «estimated» 262 page novel got a KENPC of 512.

Over the course of Stead's 200 - page middle - grade novel, Miranda deals with changing friendships, bullying, racial prejudice directed toward a classmate, a first crush, different income levels within her school — all while solving a mystery that could save her friend's life.

I'm trying to produce a viral marketing animation while working on a re-launch of the novel to try to capitalise on my increased web presence that I didn't have before (Twitter, Blogspot, Facebook fans page, etc.).

You made it through all 700 + pages of Donna Tartt's epic, Pulitzer - winning third novel, hauling it on the plane, balancing its considerable weight on your knees at the beach, or trading sympathetic looks with those who were also struggling to turn the pages while clinging to a pole on the subway.

While the novel was critically acclaimed, it is likely the length of the novel (at a whopping 784 pages in the print edition) that proved daunting for some.

Border Line is about, to borrow a quote from the novel's Amazon page, «[t] he dangers facing U.S. Border Patrol Agents while policing our frontier... brought to life in this story of murder, kidnapping and the footprints that drug trafficking leave on the lives of those brave people locked in the battle to protect us.»

This move makes perfect sense from Amazon's perspective: under the previous pay - per - download model, I could split one of my novels into twenty separate «books,» invite all my friends to borrow each book through KOLL (or download it through KU) and make money on every single download, while providing very little value to the readers and clogging up Amazon's system with crappy, five - page - long books.

So while the print formatting trepidation mentioned in this post is a foreign concept to me, I do find it useful to remember that not all of us spent our teen years with our own computer and printer, peering at books, measuring the spacing, and printing out a page with Times and Times New Roman in a good dozen different font sizes and line - spacing layouts to figure out which one was used in Kathy Tyers's debut novel from the»80s.

«French conjures an intellectually incorruptible man battling to make sense of it all while failing as a human being, and these pages reveal much about the differences between the travel book and the novel.