Sentences with phrase «spent reading fiction»

I had not read it because the title had put me off and I am teaching an overload this semester, so time spent reading fiction is precious.

Not exact matches

If you spent more time reading your Bible instead of watching that abominable science fiction, your life would be more joyous and uplifting.

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.

If given no direction at all, some people will gravitate to spending all day compulsively watching TV, or reading junk fiction, or playing computer games.

Happy Retired lady who spends time Volunteering at Nature Canada, aqua exercises, play bridge, read mostly historical Fiction, music light classical, Love the outdoors, nature, photography, sunsets, and most sports on land & water, any season.

The students eventually decided as a group to open a Chinese restaurant, and the class spent several weeks reading fiction and nonfiction books about China to help them make decisions about their restaurant's decor, ambience, and menu.

And in turns of getting great «student achievement» results (aka high test scores) I could spend the whole year having students read nothing but newspaper extracts and single pages ripped from any current fiction.

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.

Sure, editors spend all their time reading and making decisions about what's the next hot thing in fiction.

Joy Tamsin David is a wife, a mother of three, and an inner city school teacher who spends her seven and a half minutes of free time each day reading and blogging about Christian fiction at Edgy Inspirational Romance.

I have read so many books of historical fiction about WWII and studied the war in non-fiction but I haven't spent much time looking at the every day life of women in Germany after the way and the extremes of guilt and bitterness depending on the role of the men in their lives or their own choices during the war.

When not gardening, walking, completing a paralegal certificate, replastering walls, and reading to her granddaughter, she spends her time reading children's books, architectural treatises, a select smatter of literary fiction, and lots of murder mysteries.

It had all the extra-ordinary attributes that many reviewers had told me about, but by 30 pages into it I realized that I'd rather spend my time reading fiction that lifts me up or non-fiction that educates me.

Our average reader is 45 years old, college educated, has been reading science fiction since their teenage days, and spends over $ 2,000 per year on science fiction books, magazines, movies, and conventions.

My final recommendation still is dependent on what you're looking for: if you want an e-reader and plan to spend most of your time reading fiction novels, I can't recommend any LCD - based tablet computer, including the Nook Color.

A while back I spent an evening going through one of the big fan fiction sites and many of the stories I picked at random were so bad that I could feel my brain melting as I tried to read them.

My wife, who is an artist, probably spends 5x - 10x buying print books about artists she likes than I do reading 80 - 100 fiction books a year.

I'm not going to add $ 10 a month for books when 1) They are unlikely to offer the books I want to read (largely nonfiction, and very selective non-fiction) and 2) With work and school, I don't have time to read $ 120 worth of fiction a year (and I doubt I could find enough interesting fiction to spend $ 120 year) and again, they probably wouldn't include all the titles I'd be interested in.

I don't like reading fiction where the characters spend their time angsting (that's a word, right?)

I spent my last holiday reading five books and two web fiction serials on one, taking notes on the reading experience as I went along.

Now, if the spending on total reading is flat, and two of the three reading types are down, that probably means the revenue for trade fiction is up.

If you enjoyed my 30 Minutes of Flash Fiction book or know what a Tribble is, you'll want to pick up your FREE copy of Stories and spend five minutes reading it.

Steve is a father of three and spends his spare time reading and writing fiction.

Although I tend to spend most of my free time playing games I also read fiction and magazines, watch movies at a rate of about 6 per week and hang out with a solid group of real world friends.

When he's not off exploring virtual worlds, he spends his time working on motorcycles, reading science fiction, and playing electric bass.

In his leisure hours, he enjoys spending time with his family and his chocolate labrador, Mocha, as well as reading fantasy fiction and playing guitar.

In her spare time, Eily enjoys reading contemporary fiction and spending time with her husband and three school - aged daughters.

In her spare time, Ms. Woody enjoys volunteerism, reading fiction, and spending time with her own family.

The problem is that I am one of those professionals that spends my free time reading professional books and so I never actually make time to read fiction books for pleasure.