Sentences with phrase «reading fiction in»

Despite, or maybe because of, my being a nonfiction writer, one whose professional career is spent dealing with facts, I like reading fiction in my spare time.

Summary: This article explores the importance of reading fiction in helping students understand characters and their motivations, relationships, and emotions by simulating the character's experiences in relation to the story.

So it is important not only to read plenty of nonfiction and to read it in a way that adds as efficiently as possible to a student's knowledge base but also to read fiction in the same way.

I used to read fiction in my Farsi language... this book was my first English book that I had to read just for school... I started forcefully but I really enjoyed reading it....

Just as an aside - I last read fiction in paper sometime in early 2009.

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My attitude is probably rooted in some deep paranoia cultivated after reading too much dystopian fiction in my youth.

Several years ago they published a study in the influential journal Science that showed reading literary fiction was linked with an improved ability to better read fine emotional cues on people's faces.

«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

Neither is geologist Liz Hajek, but she makes an exception for this book: «I don't generally gravitate toward fiction, but this collection of short stories, set in a variety of compelling places and time periods, is so creative and rich, it's been really fun to read.»

Here they are in brief, but check out the post for lots more details as well as testimony from bosses who swear by the benefits of reading fiction:

Reading fiction, in other words, has made him a better, more engaged person.

In August, I wrote that those stories you were reading about the US presidential election being close were fiction.

Researchers at the New School for Social Research in New York have determined that reading literary fiction — books that have literary merit and don't fit into a genre — enhances what scientists call «Theory of Mind (ToM), or an ability to understand the mental states of others.

Hey Caitlin, I know it's been over a year since you posted, but I too love reading and disagree with Financial Samurai — personal finance is the most interesting non fiction literature in the world!!

The best stock market fiction that I have read in my whole life.

I havent read the odyssey so I cant personally make a case that it was written as fiction, I'm relying on the hundreds of critical examinations of it that state it is fiction with some historical facts thrown in.

I just read about their history and can't believe anyone would fall for that crap... In fact if you took away the Racism, Child Molestation, Treason, Blasphemy, Archeological Fiction... It was just be Christanity LOL

She said that Jesus doesn't want people to dance, drink alcohol, smoke, play sports, watch movies, read fiction, eat meat, use spi / ces in their cooking, play board games or anything like that.

Authors often use an avatar in their fiction stories — it is not Jack that climbs the beanstalk, it is the author... and many times, it is the reader that years later «lives» the story as they read it.

By now, everyone who reads contemporary fiction will have heard of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel's acclaimed historical novels about Thomas Cromwell, the powerful advisor to Henry VIII who all but single - handedly disestablished the Catholic Church in England.

What I found, in addition to more wonderful reading, was a writer who had lived in many of the worlds evoked by his fiction.

You might wasnt to read more religious texts (do you think they are all true) and some high quality science fiction in which new religious ideology is often invented.

When we think about the role of reading in our spiritual formation, we generally think of non-fiction books that help us understand scripture and theology, but fiction powerfully shapes the ways in which we think faithfully about God and the world.

I entreat all of you to read A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes novel — fiction, of course, but interesting that a very reputable and fact - driven author would choose to delve into the life of the antagonist as being helplessly tied up in an early Mormonist agenda...

The question of Jesus's literacy has been much discussed in modern scholarship; the Jesus Seminar and others feel references in the Gospels to Jesus reading and writing may well be fictions.

If the mind were the dimension to which Lewis referred, then he must have «created» his stories and characters in his own mind, with a bit of help from «fiction» literature he had read.

My favorite high school memories take place in the library: lounging by the magazines, Quiz Bowl practice, the time I spent reading The Lord of the Rings at a table in the fiction section.

It is hazardous to read autobiography into fiction, but in this case we can be sure we have Singer's own view.

By contrast, in literature class we read poetry and fiction, and in social science we study the subjective beliefs of various cultures from a naturalistic perspective.

Perhaps most poignantly, one reader who read the book in light of the pedophilia scandals and the church's early secrecy about them says, tentatively but tellingly: «With all that is going on in the Catholic Church today, it makes you wonder if some of the fiction is actually true.»

Believe it or not, certain aspects of my theology have been radically changed by what I read in some books of fiction.

The question of Jesus's literacy has also been much discussed by the Jesus Seminar and others and they note that references in the Gospels to Jesus reading and writing may well be fictions.

For the first time in quite some time I managed to pry myself away from the non fictional category, and knock out a major work of fiction, and it turned out to be one of the more influential things I read all year.

Most of what we see and read in books and magazines is hyped - up, glossed - over, air - brushed fiction.

To quote Kenyan feminist theologian Musimbi Kanyoro, «Those cultures which are far removed from biblical culture risk reading the Bible as fiction,» Conversely, societies that identify with the biblical world feel at home in the text.

On first reading, we see that Dillard wants to account for the fascination with surfaces, with play, with the mixing of genres in postmodern fiction, and she wants to know why those traits fascinate her so much.

books i read The Sky Beneath My Feet by Lisa Samson:: I'm pretty hard to please when it comes to «Christian» fiction (as in: I don't really like it) but Lisa Samson is consistently my favourite in this much - maligned...

Every once in a while, I read a book of fiction.

Neither the label «fiction» nor the First Amendment gives Universal the right to libel, slander and ridicule the most central figure in world history...» The Rev. Donald Wildmon charged: «The script... is the most perverted, distorted account of the historical and biblical Jesus I have ever read.»

The problem with religion is similar to the problem with fiction: thousands of novels are published in English each year, and without literary critics and judging panels for awards like the Booker Prize, we'd be floundering around without any idea as to what might be worth reading and what probably isn't.

It's not the best fiction I've ever read, but Young weaves together a compelling story, the first four chapters culminating with Mackenzie's decision to follow up on a mysterious note he finds in his mailbox, apparently left there by God.

However defined, Updike's religious consciousness informs all of his work; a close reading of his fiction supports the claim that he is seriously involved in enfleshing that marginal belief which underlies life for an increasing number of Americans.

Non-fiction that reads like fiction is Michael Sander's forte - published in 2006, but I sadly missed it.

The book is super cute, exactly the type of mystery - meets - chick lit - meets foodie fiction type of book I read when I am alone (if I'm in public, it's War and Peace or something that makes me look smart, of course).

There comes a time when you need an everyday cider, a cider that teaches Martinelli's drinkers what cider can be if it decides to really put in the hours at work, instead of reading Game of Thrones fan fiction all day.

I do not have the figures in front of me, but I expect that golfers buy more instruction books, chuckle at more golf whimsy, read more fiction about their sport and sympathize more fully with accounts of the agonies of their brethren of the links than any other athletes.

Some Girls reads like a swiftly - paced novel, but gets under your skin in a way fiction can't.

Reading fiction helps ease the anxieties children commonly experience facing important events in their lives, whether it's starting school, going on a first date, or approaching school tests.

Each month in the student flyer children will find a terrific selection of new and noteworthy fiction, classics, award - winning titles, perennial favourites, reference books, and more — all at amazing values and just - right reading levels.

These books would appear in full, so the reader of the novel would read the reading of the narrator — mysteries, romances, westerns, sci fi, and «literary» fiction, his taste would be catholic.