Sentences with phrase «readable novel»

By Larry Gaughan In The Divorce Dance, Stan Corey has written a readable novel about the divorce process and has seamlessly woven into his narrative a great «how to» book on avoiding the traps of the divorce process.
Here is an immensely readable novel, populated with sympathetic yet realistic characters.
Tiger — From what I've seen those robots write, I think it would probably take longer to turn it into a readable novel than starting from scratch.
«If I could ask Ginny Moon one question — and she only does allow one question at a time — it would be what does it feel like to be the heroine of a compulsively readable novel?
Pete Dizinoff, the narrator of Lauren Grodstein's compulsively readable novel, A Friend of the Family, is a man in crisis.
Library Reads, A March Top Ten Reads Pick: «Book groups will devour this compulsively readable novel with thought - provoking themes.
Book groups will devour this compulsively readable novel with thought - provoking themes.
In the end, Eyrie is a dark, immensely readable novel that, despite an ending that doesn't quite tie the strings together neatly, never loses its sheer propulsive power.
Catherine McKenzie's fresh and compulsively readable novel, Spin, at first sounds like a horror story out of Cosmo.
A haunting, highly readable novel of extremes, The Ballroom explores love and loss; progress and terror; and nature versus the institution, all of which will appeal to those who enjoy books with a slow tension - fueled build - up and an emotionally satisfying ending.
Now comes his most intellectually provocative and compulsively readable novel yet.
Much was made about the decision to make The Hobbit, a short and easily - readable novel about one character's adventures, into two three separate features.

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The source novel, originally self - published by computer programmer Andy Weir, was readable but hardly a masterpiece.
I have learned to edit my work with an eye to popular appeal and am doing a second edition of my first novel because I can see how to make it more readable / saleable now.
In his moving, funny and compulsively readable second novel, The Book of Joe, Jonathan Tropper proves that while you can go home again, actually doing so can be colossally upsetting to all involved.
Many of your Kindle comics, graphic novels, and manga purchases are now readable on comiXology!
For your regular linear fiction novel, or even readable tomes of non-fiction, a no - frills PDF does the job just fine and Lonely Planet has been selling its travel guidebooks and phrasebooks a chapter at a time, no DRM or other silliness, as PDFs for years now.
The process teaches writers about the focus and discipline of crafting a novel, but later forces them to truly see the work that needs to be done to turn it into a readable book.
Its moral ambiguities, along with its very readable style, make this novel an ideal choice for book groups.
The same with The Amber Spy Glass, that also wasnt suitable despite the previous novels being readable, that wasnt for her age group either.
This novel was very readable, almost compulsively so.I would call this a coming of self story.
It is a readable, gripping novel.
Five Tips for Plotting a Romantic Suspense Novel (American Christian Fiction Writers) Valuable advice for plotting and writing romantic suspense, broken down into 5 - easily readable tips by the very popular inspirational romantic suspense author Susan Sleeman.
Pixel Qi's innovative LCD designs leverage such film technologies, and other advances, to create novel displays and enable the best outdoor readable, power efficient displays available on the market.
A compulsively readable, deeply human novel that examines our most basic and unquenchable emotion: want.
Once the reader suspends disbelief about time travel, the rest of the novel is utterly believable and, despite the volume, eminently readable.
(The Times (London)-RRB- «Hugely readable debut novel -LSB-...] about the inability to know others and ourselves.»
But the beauty of First Person is the way it blossoms into a much richer novel than that outline scenario suggests... Both readable and thought - provoking.»
Marvelous and compulsively readable, Helene Wecker's debut novel The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale.
Compulsively readable, This Is How It Begins is a timely novel about free speech, the importance of empathy, and the bitter consequences of long - buried secrets.
Farishta is a fabulous debut novel, as readable as it is relevant.
Virgil Flowers is a most unlikely and immensely likable detective, the novels are readable just for the pleasure of Virgil's company, but John Sandford also imbues the stories with humor, satire and sympathy.
«It is a measure of the ambition of Michael Harvey's first novel, The Chicago Way, that we start it thinking about Dashiell Hammett and end it pondering Aeschylus... With its fast pace, sharp dialogue, vivid characters and horrific crimes, The Chicago Way is hugely readable, even though we remain baffled about what's happening.
The style of this as a historical novel and told from the point of view of the heroine is very readable as well as informative.
Kirkus Reviews describes it as a a «sparkling debut», Publishers Weekly thinks it is «an impressive novel of outsiders whose feelings of alienation are more natural than supernatural,» and Waterstones (a leading UK bookseller) describes it as «darkly captivating and intensely readable....
Oprah Winfrey's Summer 2017 Book Club Pick In the vein of Amy Tan and Khaled Hosseini comes a compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream - the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy.
The blistering, compulsively readable new novel from Herman Koch, author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Dinner.
This very readable, 264 page history of the «The Devil's Distillate» is just what a gunpowder fantasy writer needs to provide some realistic details within their novels.
This author has expertly crafted a highly - readable Science Fiction novel with an equal mixture of Fantasy and Paranormal elements.
A quiet update came out for the ComiXology app on iPad that lists as the main new item: Many of your Kindle comics, graphic novels, and manga purchases are now readable on comiXology!
We are working toward having all your Kindle - purchased comics, graphic novel, and manga readable on comiXology.
I loved the combination of readable sentence, brash color and vibrant brush strokes that meshed abstract expressionism, street art and narration that had a graphic novel feel (that is, if living the artist life was made into a graphic novel).
In its review, The Times called the novel «surprisingly powerful» and «compulsively readable
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