Sentences with phrase «small bomb»

The National Book Award finalist, The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan (PRH / Viking; Blackstone Audio; OverDrive Sample) rose even more, moving from # 5,189 to # 280.

This weekend, we've had shopping, a kids party, family stuff and various other things to do, all on top of trying to catch up with a week's worth of washing, tidying a house that looks like several small bombs have gone off in it and keeping a dog and a 4 - year - old stimulated enough that we don't end up with a riot on our hands.

But too small a bomb would cause the fragments to fly apart only slowly, allowing them to clump together under their mutual gravity.

-- In operations against cities, aeroplanes would use incendiary bombs, small bombs filled with some material which would set fire to combustibles on contact.

«A very, very small bomb», you could almost hear Hactar mumbling from the dust - cloud... Pegg can't resist the Spaced - style banter, but it works pretty well in this context — particularly on the Spock and Doc show — I would watch a whole other movie of those two bouncing off each other.

What surprised me about this diagnosis was that a number of characters in Small Bombs fear blindness — or do go blind: the motif of eyes is ever - present in the book.

You said the idea for The Association of Small Bombs came as your last book, Family Planning, was coming out.

Secondary weapons include Four Way Magic, which unleashes four fireballs that surround you for a limited time; Snake Fire, which launches a snake that attacks your foes; and Bomb Fire, which spits out small bombs downwards onto the ground.

Dynablaster is about blowing up your opponent using small bombs - but first you must blow your way through concrete walls to get to your opponent.

The US imposed an in - flight ban on laptops and large electronics in March, saying that «evaluated intelligence» showed that terrorists were developing smaller bombs that could be integrated in gadgets.

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Wrap each onion bomb with one piece of bacon (or 1/2 piece of bacon for the smaller bombs) and secure with a toothpick.

That hot chemical blast would be like «having a small bomb go off in their stomachs,» he says.

The small bomb ensures you have time to move away before it detonates, in turn detonating the large bomb.

Then, select the Small Bomb and plant it next to the large one.

The Association of Small Bombs will likely find an audience in those who like well - written literary fiction set in today's India.

In The Association of Small Bombs, the 2002 Gujarat Riots become the rationale for a bombing as terrorists seek revenge against then Chief Minister (and current Indian Prime Minister) Narendra Modi.

And though the book is about small bombs — about the futility of such bombs in the shadow of the larger attacks — it speaks directly the psychology of the terrorists behind 9/11 and 26/11.

Karan Mahajan discusses how a terrorist bomb near his home inspired him to write The Association of Small Bombs

I began working on a new book two months after selling The Association of Small Bombs to publishers.

The Association of Small Bombs is an expansive and deeply humane novel that is at once groundbreaking in its empathy, dazzling in its acuity, and ambitious in scope.

The Association of Small Bombs — A finalist for the National Book Award, Mahajan's novel — smart, devastating and unpredictable — opens with a Kashmiri terrorist attack in a Delhi market, then follows the lives of those affected.

-- Karan Mahajan, author of The Association of Small Bombs

Another example she cites is of a forthcoming novel by Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs, which HarperCollins India will publish in the Indian subcontinent, but other publishers will publish in different territories.

I can then take Load -LRB--RRB-, which creates a small bomb that detonates on impact, and ad the Bounce -LRB--RRB- function to it, which increases the blast radius.

It's like shrapnel from a small bomb.

Small bombs, like the basic barrel bomb (made with a small barrel and a fire herb), are time - based, giving you limited control.