Sentences with phrase «rollicking read»
I'm also rather fond of a rollicking read that combines history with a gripping personal tale.
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Jim's 1991 book, Catapult — Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon, is a great rollicking read, a celebration of boys throwing rocks.
In the end, Earle's confident wrangling of this material coupled with his empathy for his hardscrabble characters assures a rollicking read.
A highly entertaining and rollicking read.
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Hamiton said he had one more Melville book in him, and Reading Moby Dick and Other Essays contains a rollicking guide to Moby Dick in which Melville's treatment of the «dangerous God» motif is highlighted.
When we read of Churchill as a «showman» and «an extrovert» who wrote with a «rollicking readability», one detects a wink and a nod to the author's own qualities.
Though director Brad Peyton's RAMPAGE shows the occasional blip of rollicking good camp and... [Read more...]
Apropos of current events, I've been reading Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa's new book, Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, a rollicking bit of pop science that turns the lens of evolutionary psychology on issues of the day, everything from suicide bombers to the porn industry.
It's a rollicking good read..»
Wonderful for reading aloud, this picture book, illustrated with energetic collages, tells a rollicking story of a girl's sly barnyard game with feather - flying action.
O'Neill's rollicking genre blend, mixing SF, detective story, and noir thriller, boasts a delightfully dark and smart sense of humor, making for an incredibly entertaining read.
Lloyd's newest middle grade read is nothing less than a rip - roaring, rollicking ride through a wild and wacky world.
It is a perfect beach read and if one can just enjoy the plot you will have a rollicking good time.
Read on in Generation Rx for: — exclusive interviews with the strategists, scientists, and current and former heads of GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Merck, Roche, and more — a first - ever, inside look at the rollicking business story behind pharma's rise to power — the dramatic effects our drug culture is having on our major organs, from the liver to the heart to the brain — why old bodies and young bodies are the biggest, and riskiest, arenas for our great American prescription pill party — how the largely uncharted terrain of polypharmacy (various drugs taken together) has unleashed unanticipated, often deadly, consequences on unwitting patients Generation Rx will make every American who has ever taken a prescription drug look anew at what's in our medicine cabinets, and why.
A rollicking good read.
The artist's raucous compositions read more like butt - dialed emojigrams... Bernhardt's lexicon indulges a pronounced nostalgia for the Day - Glo disposables of the late 1980s and early 90s — curly - corded telephones, Sharpies, Rubiks Cubes, ChapStick tubes, Pac - Man, Papa Smurf... This rollicking volume supplements more than one hundred pattern paintings.
Yet the proposals themselves are so lacking in wisdom and judgment that the only really good response is either the best writing you have ever read in your life (I'm all out today, sorry) or a rollicking satire.
To read more about the approval (and a rollicking 225 reader comments on the topic) see: GMO salmon gets final FDA approval.
What a rollicking, entertaining read.