Sentences with phrase «saying about the novel»

The site does not have to be extravagant, but should allow potential customers to learn about your book, hear what others are saying about the novel, and purchase it.

Then tell them what everyone's saying about the novel.

Literary agents keep saying this about my novel.

Not exact matches

«This is uncomfortable, but it's possible we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people if we want them to be able to say novel things about physics,» Altman wrote.

That said, I'm always hopeful that people know that my novels are about questions from me, not from New Life Church.

The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, is a futuristic novel about the wretched future which has much to say about the present.

The originality of Hartshorne's discussions about the nature of God, and particularly his daring and novel defense of the ontological argument, have led some to overlook the fact that, as he himself says, his primary interest lies elsewhere.

Jeremy, you could write a novel, without any thing illicit being said or done, as Lewis did, about a man who found ways to talk about Jesus (Gods Grace you know what I mean) over and against the forces surrounding him.

Novels could (and should) be written about what this show got right about marriage, but it's enough to say here that their partnership and love is arguably the finest portrayal of marriage in television today.

In his novel Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut writes about how back in the old days (before advances in transportation, trade, communication), there would be one artist or one songwriter or one storyteller in a village of, say, 1,000 people.

Recent novels by evangelical leaders say more about popular American Christianity than about the end times.

There is in fact nothing more to be said about the novelty of these uniquely occurring occasions than that each occasion is novel, that it happens only once and is unrepeatable in relation to all other occasions to which, as such, it can stand in a real relation of connectedness.

Of Innocent Blood (1980) James has said, «I wanted to write about the search for identity, revenge, redemption,... and therefore I decided this had better be a novel that wasn't a straightforward detective story and wouldn't feature Dalgleish.»

We have, he says — probably in direct reaction to Wittgenstein in his Tractatus (a book that appeared just a few years earlier and that Whitehead certainly knew about)-- we have to «rationalize mysticism»: not by causal reasons, but «by the introduction of novel verbal characterizations, rationally coordinated» (Modes 174).

In the summer of 1986, when the Greenwich Village bookstores were crowded with Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City — a novel whose method of demonstrating the bankruptcy of our culture, one critic said, is to chronicle its parties — and Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero and Don DeLillo's White Noise, all in shiny paperback covers, I remembered a New York Times review that called Richard Ford's The Sportswriter a novel about a good man.

Walker Percy — no slouch when it came to Catholic philosophical thought — used to say that whereas O'Connor wrote about cosmic conflicts played out in the existential arenas of the Georgia backwoods, his novels depicted a world of shopping malls and golf courses.

About the subjective aim of God's consequent nature Whitehead says: «His primordial nature directs such perspectives of objectification [in his consequent nature] that each novel actuality in the temporal world contributes such elements as it can to a realization in God free from inhibitions of intensity by reason of discordance» (PR 88, italics added).

I can remember perfectly that when I was coming to manhood, the half - philosophical novels of the time had a deal to say about the young men and maidens who were facing the «problem of life.»

Will Self who has shut himself off in Jura (where George Orwell wrote the novel) is sure to have something interesting to say about this as usual.

He said in a statement that he was excited to pursue «new passions and develop new interests, mainly spend more time writing my second novel» and about «spending more time home and frequenting my beloved New York diners.»

He said there is «nothing novel about the 2014 Democratic Party campaign to elect Democratic candidates to the state Senate, other than your attempt to selectively criminalize it.»

«If I find myself with some spare time I will have a look at this fascinating novel someone has written about me,» Mr Cameron said from Chicago, where he is attending a Nato summit.

«Knowing how cells respond to mechanical cues in the living embryo and how they physically sculpt tissues and organs in the 3D space will transform the way we think about developmental processes,» said Otger Campàs, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UCSB and senior author on the paper that reports this novel technique in Nature Methods.

Researchers are «now looking very carefully to see if they have in their freezers samples from pigs or other animals that might provide a missing link and information about intermediate viruses that could help narrow down the time and place of emergence of this novel influenza virus,» said Cox.

Much uncertainty still remains about the number of people with serious illness, he said, and it's clear that the novel H1N1 can kill perfectly healthy people.

Professor Neil Bruce from the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) in the University of York's Department of Biology said: «What is important about this transformation is that it converts TNT into a product that could be more amenable to being broken down in the environment.

«This paper provides novel evidence for memory impairment in large animals that have brains similar to humans,» says Paul Buckmaster, a neurobiologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, whom Cook consulted about how to do memory tests.

Professor Jonathan Green who led the study says, «What is novel about this study is how early we began the intervention.

«There's something novel, something really good about this,» says Richard Crowder, an electrical engineer at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom.

E. O. Wilson says, of his new novel Anthill: «This is the first time anyone has written about the lives of ants from their point of view» (10 April, p 38).

Whirlpool is not saying much about the design of its novel fridge, but its features include better insulation and a com - puter that controls defrosting.

I think James Gunn, the author of the 1972 science fiction novel «The Listeners» about radio astronomy and the search for other life in the universe, said it well: «It may be that there is no one out there or if there is someone out there he will never speak to us or we to him, but our listening is an act of faith akin to living itself.

The narrator in his most recent novel, How to Read the Air, overhears a colleague say about him: «He's completely American... but you wouldn't necessarily guess that from just looking at him.»

«Our findings suggest further investigation into the potential of MC1R - activating agents as novel neuroprotective therapies for PD, and together with epidemiological evidence, may offer information that could guide those carrying MC1R variants to seek advice from dermatologists or neurologists about their personal risk for melanoma and Parkinson's disease,» lead author Xiqun Chen says in a statement.

Paulaitis says «the novel concepts put forth in this study, of investigating small molecules called microRNAs to see what they can tell us about mitochondria disorders in cells of the retina, hold great promise of providing new insights into how age - related macular degeneration develops, after which new treatments can be designed to save or improve vision.»

Let me preface what I'm about to say by letting you all know that between Serial, Making a Murderer and the mystery novels I've been listening to on Audible during long runs, I am on a total true crime kick.

«People and relationships are always evolving, and there are always opportunities to discover novel things about one another,» she says.

Specific novel genres, newspaper choice, casual spending and even charity donations say a lot about your opinions, views and interests.

She quotes ``... When I say beyond LOVE, I'm talking about the type of relentless devotion that you only see in romance novels and Hollywood movies».

«In a nutshell, of course I'm an admirer of Ayn Rand's novels myself,» Zader said about the reason why he created the site.

Nekojishi is a visual novel about feline beast - men, Taiwanese folklore, and the pressures and consequences that come with navigating the world of gods and When it comes to, shall we say, progressive couples, no one tops the open - minded pairings found in dating sims.

Calling all fans of said genre, looking for something like... Game title Nekojishi is a visual novel about feline beast - men, Taiwanese folklore, and the pressures and consequences that come with navigating the world of gods and

This may seem like a knock on Rowan Joffe's screenplay (adapted from Martin Booth's novel A Very Private Gentleman), but it could say as much or more about the director's decision to shoot in a moody, meditative manner — and cast characterful Euro faces who deliver dialogue as if it were carved in stone.

Lean on Pete, based on the 2010 novel by Willy Vlautin, is content to move at a canter, which is just about perfect for what it wants to say.

Beyond its best little moments, the movie is addressing a serious issue, and it feels awfully churlish to complain that its earnest depictions of soldiers in psychological pain isn't novel enough, or that Koale's performance is a little shakier than Teller's, or that the movie doesn't have much to say about the Iraq War in particular, or that it eventually tries to pass off a lack of resolution as an abbreviated happy ending.

Adapted from a novel by Kevin Powers, this is a searing antiwar drama about «kids who go to war too young and get destroyed,» Mr. Cooper said.

Sadly, the film, which was adapted by The Artist's Michel Hazanavicius from Wiazemsky's autobiographical novel Un An Après, seems more interested in pastiching Godard's own movies than saying anything interesting about the couple.

Here's what I have to say about this adaptation of Matt Bondurant's factual novel, «The Wettest County in the World.»

He was writing his novel The Big Red One, part of the process of getting to make a movie about what it was like to serve in the 1st Infantry Division, United States Army, from the beginning of America's participation in World War II to the end — which is to say, from North Africa through Sicily, France, Belgium, again France, and finally to Germany and Czechoslovakia.

Sometimes film and novel can be alike in half - heartedly following a template; perhaps the most glowing thing that can be said about «Inferno» is that reliable screenwriter David Koepp (returning from 2009's «Angels & Demons») has fully captured the essence of its source.