Sentences with phrase «surprised me about book»

I was pleasantly surprised about the Book 2 because of the gaming and virtual reality, and if that's important to you, I can see paying the $ 2,000 for this incredible laptop.

One of the things that surprised me about book publishing was how interested I was in the business side of it, and as that interest in the business grew, my interest in the magazine grew.

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What did surprise me is that Moneyball isn't really a book about baseball.

You Can Negotiate Anything, probably the most entertaining of the books, skips any allusion to scholarship about the human tendency to defer to authority, instead citing an old Candid Camera episode in which a surprising number of highway drivers confronted with the sign «Delaware Closed» actually turned around.

(The development is also not a big surprise given that Ansari cowrote a book about dating in the digital era, «Modern Romance.»)

The book is chock full of tips for employees on how to succeed as a remote worker as well as surprising advice for managers about how to hire and retain the best talent.

Daniel Pink, a contributing editor at Wired and author of the blockbuster A Whole New Mind, has made human motivation the subject of his new book, Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us.

It's the same conclusion one can draw from Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera's excellent new book about the mortgage crisis, All the Devils Are Here: the real surprise isn't that there's a new scam being run, but that there are so many willing participants.

When speaking this way about Scripture, most theologians are about to say that as a result of the Bible being a human book, it should not surprise us to discover that the Bible has errors.

Of course there are other reasons for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)

If you've ever had the pleasure of cracking open one of his books, a charming detail about his personal life like this comes as no surprise.

Among the books he fails to mention, Lloyd Alexander's five imaginative books about Prydain are those whose omission most surprised me, since these books fit into the realm of fantasy, which he discussed extensively.

Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire by Jennifer Wright Knust HarperOne 3 shamrocks I love the title and premise of this book, but was a little disappointed by the content.

What surprised me most about this most recent book, however, was the keen sense of humor that was displayed on every page.

It is not surprising that the man who wrote a pseudo-review about a nonexistent book, a man who spent three years writing a biweekly on foreign books and authors, should write «Pierre Menard,» a story (composed in the form of an obituary) whose narrator is the reviewer of a nonexistent author's life works.

In her new book, Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, she tells an amusing story about two workmen in her building at Kings College, London.

But what has surprised me the most about Still --(I still have about a quarter of the book left to read)-- is how challenging I've found it.

One of my favorite things about the book — and since it's from Matt, whose integrity is razor sharp, I wasn» r particularly surprised — was the section on labor practices and the importance of buying fair trade.

There is something so lovely and wholesome about gingerbread, so it doesn't surprise me that famous children's book author Beatrix Potter was a big fan.

I'm not surprised that the three leagues that books know the least about — the CFL, WNBA, and NHL — provide the best returns for dogs.

I don't remember Bvb fans whining about Kloop last season when things were not going well, so lets take a page outta their book and get behind the team, we all know Arsenal is enigmatic, I won't be surprised if we beat Barca!

I'm surprised to see the goal line trending towards 2.75 and I'm wondering if the books believe this could be a game between two sets of players already thinking about the beach?

I'm about two - thirds of the way through my book tour and it's been amazing, surprising, exhausting, exasperating, enlightening.

I am pleasantly surprised to not feel this way about Barefoot Books Kid's Garden activity cards.

First, there was Eric Klinenberg's book Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone (2012), followed by Kate Bolick's Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own (2015) around the time that The Washington Post started a column about the single life called «Solo - ish».

I'm surprised I'm not hearing more about this fantastic book!

One of the surprises about writing this book and learning about the effects of exercise on women is; that in 2001, our board of OBGYN doctors said that, when a woman gets pregnant, and she's exercising, she should continue at that rate until it becomes unmanageable and reduce it.

I was surprised to learn that The Book Rack has roots dating back to the 1960s and is a network of independently owned bookstores, with about 100 stores across the country, including five locations in Massachusetts.

And yet, I've started to push him anyway, trying something called the Three - Day Potty Training Method (to little success, surprise, surprise), reading him all sort of books about potties, having endless conversations about not peeing in his fancy big boy underwear, even bribing him with gummy bears when I'm really desperate.

Last month, the council surprised library officials with an action to reconsider its previous approval of an $ 18.6 million budget for a 93,000 - square - foot facility after questions were raised about book and equipment purchases.

Loved the book, lukewarm about the movie, naively surprised by the commercialization of what was such a personal story.

I was really surprised about just how readable Taggart made a book about chemicals and their potential ramifications on health.

book and I figure I'll get him a toddler - sized baby doll and we'll work on bottles and diapers and no, we don't pick up babies by their eyeballs, honey, but beyond that, I'm still sensing he'll be in for a HUGE WORLD - ROCKING SURPRISE in a few months, and I might as well be spending my time having deep telepathic conversations about babies with my dog.

Perhaps its not so surprising - given that we co-edited a book on the subject - that I very much agree with your argument about republicanism being a promising third way, as it were, between liberalism and communitarianism....

So perhaps it is not surprising that an important new book about women in Parliament has been overlooked so far in the pre-election debate.

Speaking about her new book last year, Phillips said: «I am very excited if not a little surprised and terrified to be writing a book.

That a major university press would publish a series of graphic novels may come as a surprise to those who think of these works as comic books on steroids, offering plots about superheroes to younger readers.

I have certainly learned a lot, scientifically as well as about book production, over the last 2 years, and it is a little surprising how frequently I am asked, «are you sorry to have left science?»

Scientific American spoke with Benford about the factual basis for his book, the appeal of «alternate history» and the surprising origins of some real - world nuclear tactics in works of science fiction.

A popular science writer who has written a book about science - themed tattoos reveals some of the surprises he encountered along the way

Although Gehl wrote about alternative social media in his book, «Reverse Engineering Social Media,» he is surprised at the number and variety of the alternative sites.

In his book Raising Children: Surprising Insights from Other Cultures, Lancy examines what's known about bringing up kids in hunter - gatherer groups and farming villages.

In our recent book, Supersurvivors: The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success, we write about people who have dramatically changed their lives in the aftermath of trauma.

To learn more about how dietary choices affect your neurological health, check out Dr. Perlmutter's book Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar — Your Brain's Silent Kilabout how dietary choices affect your neurological health, check out Dr. Perlmutter's book Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar — Your Brain's Silent KilAbout Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar — Your Brain's Silent Killers.

His new book is The Allergy Solution: The Surprising, Hidden Truth About Why You Are Sick and How to Get Well.

So when I read about Heidi Smith and the work she does at Moon & Bloom in a Vanity Fair article, you can bet no one was more surprised than me when I booked a flower essence therapy session for myself.

For my step - by - step guide to fighting back against toxins and allergens, check out my book, The Allergy Solution: Unlocking the Surprising, Hidden Truth About Why You Are Sick and How to Get Well.

When my friend, Heather Dessinger of Mommypotamus released her book DIY Beauty, I learned some things about skincare that surprised me.

I'm surprised I didn't hear more about this book.