Sentences with phrase «readers of a book like»

Their odd - couple friendship will appeal to readers of books like Lost & Found, and Evans» authentic period tone evokes the subtle charm of midcentury classics like I Capture the Castle.

Not exact matches

This book might not sound like the most exciting subject for the non-expert but Parrish assures readers that «it's just the best book of its kind I have ever read, and I just hugely enjoyed it.

Instead of opting for a coveted internship like many of his Stanford MBA counterparts, JuicyCampus.com founder Matt Ivester self - published a book alerting readers to the potential dangers of social networks.

Such advice comes as no surprise to readers of Fried's 15 years of posts on his company's popular and influential blog, Signal vs. Noise or who have read any of his books, like Rework, the New York Times best - seller he co-wrote with his Basecamp partner, David Heinemeier Hansson.

The purpose of the book is to teach the reader how to think more like Charlie Munger, the legendary thinker, investor, and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.

Admittedly, I'm not a culture critic but I do like my books and my shows so I thought I'd share a few of my favourites from the year with you, my dear readers.

I hope that in his next book, Turner does a little more of this, for it transforms his funny, sometimes bizarre anecdotes into more relatable, human stories and makes the reader feel more like a participant and less like an observer.

-LRB-(Throughout his book he tries to ease his traditionally biased readers into some of the radical statements heâ $ ™ s about to make, like a good pastor would.)-RRB-

Although this little book (it can be called an occasional address, yet without having the occasion which produces the speaker and gives him authority, or the occasion which produces the reader and makes him eager to learn) is like a fantasy, like a dream by day as it confronts the relationships of actuality: yet it is not without assurance and not without hope of accomplishing its object.

Then everybody got together and wrote a whole bunch of stories about him... and centuries later, a Muslim convert got together with some of his homies and put them all into one book... kinda like Readers» Digest.

If it interests you or any of your readers, I wrote a book called Nine Lies People Believe About Speaking in Tongues, and deal with many things I see come up in these comments like Paul said you can't speak in tongues in a meeting unless you have an interpreter, speaking several languages allegedly being the same thing as speaking in tongues in the Bible, etc...

While I have problems with some of the plot holes, the book did an excellent job of making the reader understand what it was like to live during that racially charged time period.

«My goal with this book,» he writes, «is to assure people of faith that they do not need to feel anxious, disloyal, unfaithful, dirty, scared, or outcast for engaging these questions of the Bible, interrogating it, not liking some of it, exploring what it really says, and discerning like adult readers what we can learn from it in our own journey of faith... We respect the Bible most when we let it be what it is and learn from it rather than combing out the tangles to make it presentable.»

Like its predecessors, his new book is layered with statistical quirks and story twists, as the author crafts a compelling and ambitious argument designed to challenge and even change the reader's view of the world.

I would like to think I have hit a happy medium here, but I would rather the book be returned or discarded than that it satisfy any reader who hopes only to be entertained for an evening by that living prophetism which proclaimed and still proclaims God's judgment and redemption of Israel, and through her life, of the world.

Lewis» Space Trilogy, consisting of the books Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength is a very good allagory on Christianity from a more «adult» viewpoint, without the obvious appeal to the young reader, even though they read like science fiction stories.

This is a remarkably daring text, the sort of book many academics avoid like the plague: a book aimed at a wide reading public, written with the hope that it might actually change the lives of some of its readers.

Christian thinker and philosopher Dallas Willard emphasized spiritual formation and discipleship in his books including The Spirit of the Discipline and The Divine Conspiracy, calling readers to grow more like Christ.

You noted, «it is not the best way for traditional book readers like myself to enjoy a book in a quiet corner with a cup of coffee...»

In a few cases this will undoubtedly be true, but if the general run of readers of the book — and it is not designed for specialists in the field — are anything at all like the students who, across the years, have enrolled in the writer's courses in the Bible, then it is fairly safe to assume that their knowledge of the book is not too extensive or detailed.

To prevent other readers finding out the hard way like I did, you may want to include this information in the next reprint of your book — I'm sure there will be one!

Heidi, I've been a steadfast and admiring reader of this blog for a long while, so I knew that I'd like your new book... but I finally got my copy in the mail today and was blown away.

I remember reading reviews of my very first gluten free cookbook from readers who said that they were so happy I loved Chinese food as much as they did, since the book is packed with recipes like lemon chicken, sweet and sour chicken and (you guessed it) gluten free lo mein.

I just finished reading your Paris book - I couldn't put it down, and like one of your other readers comments, «laughed my ass off», although not literally!

It sounds like the book will be fairly insightful (for both American and Russian readers) and minus the random bits of misogyny that will inevitably be thrown in, I really want to read it!

The title of the book alone tells you that Gerstner and Kutcher are not out to scare the reader, not out to make sensational, scientifically unproven, claims about the long - term effects of concussions, but that they prefer instead, like I, to live in the «land of the real.»

The book opens with a pointed but often humorous discussion of the food found in many of America's school cafeterias, prompting readers to ask themselves questions like, «Is the chicken masquerading as a dinosaur?

I'll also be giving away a free copy of Jill's new book, Eat Like a Champion: Performance Nutrition for Your Young Athlete, to one lucky TLT reader.

This book is an eyecatcher, especially with the mirror inside that makes the child reader feel like he is part of the story.

During the period I was working on this book, British politics sometimes seemed to be tracking my early 19th century course, as topics like voting and the House of Lords regularly came up for discussion, to say nothing of popular demonstrations; parallels are, however, for the reader to draw.

Much of the book is like this — a collection of random walks from biblical starting points — and it leaves the reader feeling rather adrift.

Online bookstores like Amazon can maintain vast inventories of lesser - known titles because they don't have the real estate constraints of traditional bookstores and because the Internet makes it so much easier to find the niche readers who will buy those books.

Like Maus, artist Art Spiegelman's graphic chronicle of the Holocaust, Fallout is a comic book for sophisticated adult readers.

One of the features I like best about the book is that each chapter beings with an overview, which primes the reader for what's about to be covered, and ends with a comprehensive summary, which consolidates the information.

Further fueling my fire: I was a devout reader of all books and magazines Diet, like Oxygen / Muscle & Fitness Hers / Shape.

An avid reader like yourself must own a ton of books.

We had to grab a few school supplies like a pair of scissors, activity pads and early reader books.

Examples of props I like include big headphones for music lovers, cameras for photographers, books for avid readers, statement jewellery for fashion lovers, skateboards for skater - girls, etc..

Designed to help readers develop a critical eye about representations of American Indians in children's and young adult books Chat with people who like Native American in Free Native American Chat Rooms.

The Hunger Games drags at times, is not particularly imaginative as much as it's campy, the romance part seems more perfunctory as touchy - feely love than steamy and any complexities in characters or angry revolutionary messages can't be drawn out on film like they were supposedly in the book (I'm not one of its 26 million readers, but I'll take the word of those who stated that was so in the book).

Well, it seems like Marvel was listening because the sequel, Ant - Man and the Wasp, features a totally different villain in the form of the Ghost — but this isn't exactly the Ghost readers known from the comic books.

I loved the comic books, was a pretty big reader for awhile there, and I've always felt like, of all the Marvel films, the X-Men films have fallen the furthest from their book.

Books, like teachers and parents - touch the lives of readers.

Elise Howard, editor in chief of Avon / Tempest Books for Teen Readers, offers ten tips for teen writers who would like to be published.

And even Christabel, who spends most of her time happily glued to her computer — and who is also an avid fiction reader — says she likes the feeling and portability of a paper book.

I'm an impatient reader and like the sense of different perspectives talking to each other, so I end up reading chapters from different open books at the same time, rather than concentrating on one book at a time.

«His new book, Teach Like a Champion 2.0, is an impressive volume, with 473 pages of intricate advice backed by a DVD that lets readers see how 62 techniques are applied in class.»

In the short term, the migration from print to ePub3 was less about the books that more interactivities and accessible content, but was much more towards slicing the cost of production and delivery of the book across the wide range of devices like tablets and smartphones that modern readers were using.

Tomlinson's approach to teaching the readers of this book is like her approach to teaching student in a classroom - its aimed at all types of adult readers.

The number of titles of books is growing and follows recommended school reading lists, titles from rewards programs like Accelerated Reader and Reading Counts and various state departments of education, and those suggested by teachers and media specialists.