Sentences with phrase «reading of library books»

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But if it's simply that your book reading in no way keeps pace with your book buying, I have good news for you (and for me; I definitely fall into this category): Your overstuffed library isn't a sign of failure or ignorance, it's a badge of honor.

-- 0.7 % go to my book accounts, as much of what I read is not availiable at libraries, and I'm a student.

I've read over 150 books, courses and tapes and have a library of such information.

To create an even more welcoming environment, volunteers also built 3 Mendocino benches, 3 benches with attached shade structures, a directional sign post, 4 adult and 2 kid picnic tables, a trash and recycling container, a set of soccer goals, and a «little library» to encourage reading and book sharing.

The bible is not a book to be read one way, but rather a library of books, each to be read differently depending on if it is: historical account, or parables, or narrative, or symbolism or poetry or songs.

Doc — I read every Heinlein book I could get my hands on when I was a kid... they were all in the public library by mid-70's early 80's... «The Moon is a harsh mistress» and «The number of the beast» are my all time favorites.

Yes Please by Amy Poehler — I'm not usually one for reading humour books or books by comedians in general, but I loved Tina Fey's Bossypants and so I decided to grab this one from the library as a bit of light reading one weekend.

My hope is that you will check these books out of the library or buy them at your local bookstore and then read them to or with the kids in your life.

Now I can only guess the identity of the defeatists who have «left the front lines to read books in the library and argue causes and effects in the coffee shop.»

Here was a band politically committed in a way that smacked of the idealism of the 60s I had been reading about in library books, and that, sound-wise, was a bridge from the hard rock I was familiar with to the «new wave» I was becoming fascinated by.

Schools, Libraries, Book stores... yes, all of those are switiching to becoming electronically centered — which by the way was your original argument if I recall (that people have stopped reading because bookstores are closing).

My hope is that you will check these books out of the library or buy them at your local bookstore and then read them to or with the girls in your life.

GO to library and get some books of C S LEWIS to read them.

Their pietism, which I confused with Lutheranism, early made me restive, not least because of my precocious reading of Britannica articles on evolution and Gibbon's Decline and Fall (my father's library was short on comic books).

Abraham Lincoln reading a book by fireplace light with the picture of a single, working mother sitting at a computer in the local public library.

Summer is when you march yourself down to the local library, come out with more books than you can carry, and then beat the pants off all the other kids enrolled in the summer reading program by downing every Ramona book within a 50 mile radius like so many shots of vodka.

I am not anti-knowledge, I read a lot and have a personal library of over two hundred books.

The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows:: One of my perpetual comfort reads is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society which was co-written with Annie Barrows, so I was very excited to see her new book at the library.

... my memory of his sojourn there [at Tuskeegee University] was kept alive by the sight of his name on checkout slips of so many of the library books of fiction, poetry, history, and literary criticism that had become the main part of my own personal extracurricular reading program.

The readings of the family created a vast library of English books, from which Borges read at a very early age.

More libraries than ever coordinate reading groups, which are just that: groups of people reading a book together and discussing it over coffee or tea.

After taking the Grammar of Science back to the library and reading Moore's book and mulling over them, I seem to have put Clifford's keystone in place without realizing that Pearson had rejected it.

Maintaining a growing library of books that you've read (whether it's on your Kindle or iPad or, you know, one of those actual «shelves» that old mansions in the movies have), is a good habit to get into at any age.

But when I add a Logos volume to my library, it instantly inter-connects with every other book in my library as well, so that when I am reading this one book, I can quickly and easily jump over to other volumes with similar topics or discussions of passages, and compare the notes and ideas of these other volumes with the one I am reading.

I set up an excellent home library filled with books I love, and will spend all of next year getting caught up on all the stories I haven't read yet.

I read your notes on the library page, and I've got the book on my christmas wishlist, but I've been told people are sick of buying me cookbooks and can't I ask for something more interesting: -LRB-

I look around my library some nights and I do these terrible things to myself — I count up the books and think, how long I might have to live and think, «F @ # % k, I can't read two - thirds of these books.»

coincidence: i just took out of the library the sweet melissa baking book & am reading recipes!!

The 161 square - foot library will hold nearly 1,000 books, many bilingual, offering a range of excellent reading material for children from 2 to 12 years old.

The ceremony will include a ribbon cutting for the library, a book reading by Batali of Dr. Seuss» Green Eggs and Ham, as well as remarks from the Mario Batali Foundation; Books for Kids; Variety Early Learning Center and a special thank you from the children.

If a book from our required reading list is not at the local library of an aspiring Best Doula, Best Doula Training will donate a copy to the library.

To encourage a love of reading, we make frequent trips to the library and are always rotating our selection of books.

Comic books, now generally known as graphic novels, have increasingly been finding their way into classrooms and school libraries as teachers search for tools to not only help their students learn how to read, but to tap into the vivid imagination that is the hallmark of childhood and turn their students onto a lifelong love of reading.

Most libraries have story programs or reading activities and there's an endless selection of books to keep your young reader occupied.

For example, a stuffed monkey would be a great topper if the baby's nursery will be jungle - themed, or a stack of board books is perfect if the parents have requested shower guests help build baby's reading library.

Mrs. Hollenbeck was employed for 20 years in the library at Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn prompting many students to share her lifelong love of books and reading.

Since the children's reading room — the Margaret and H.A. Rey Children's Room — is named after the couple who created the monkey, it makes sense that the library would keep a large selection of books about Curious George.

What's the point of having an extensive library of children's books if your kids never read them?

We got lots of picture books from the library about having a new baby and being a big sister that we would read before bedtime in the months leading up to that baby being born.

Check your library's early reading section; it typically features a large collection of baby - pleasing titles in paperback that are easier to tote along than board books.

Always within reach - and right next to the window; And we always have a basket of seasonal books handy too; A basket of library books (not that keeping them all in one place helps me actually return them); An always - rotating basket of frequently read - usually «new» to us - books right next to the couch (these are the titles I usually share in the sidebar); and on and on.

I'd read to him since birth, had plenty of books around the house, made sure he saw me reading frequently, and provided opportunities to go to the library since he was a baby.

But it's a blessing to get to do this again, to go to library storytime and baby music class and read board books and wrangle crayons out of tiny stubborn fingers.

Well i have 3 kids 6 yrs 2 yrs and 1 yrs and i just went over to barnes and nobles or borders or even the library and get some books with pictures to read to them i think that makes it alot more easier for them to understand cause my kids got a hang of it or show them some friends that preggo or preggo ladies in the store or with babies and talk to them cause tots are alot smarter than you think

The project is designed to promote the pleasures of reading along with outreach activities, such as paperback book exchanges and participation in events such as the Farmers Market, Alpine Days and the Ela Festival of the Arts, library officials said.

While you're there, check out the library's calendar of events for author visits and book readings and craft activities and mom's groups.

Lay on a blanket outside and read a book, set up a mini desk on the deck for «homework» or to «play school», bike the library instead of drive.

What it does mean is that we have an extensive library of books that we have loved and I've put them together in book lists for toddlers and preschoolers that you can check out to find new and classic books for you to read together.

Although the book was organized in the baby book section of the library, Boss For a Day is actually targeted at children who are old enough to read the book themselves.

So why do some books that aren't) of obvious (at least to me) interest to most high school students placed on reading lists, and why are others of much greater interest (as judged by sales and / or library borrowings) ignored?