Sentences with phrase «tells about the novel»

I would look and see how passive my blurb is and if it tells about the novel instead of the plot of the novel.

Here, he tells us about the novel and two poetry collections he's been reading.

The Hollywood grapevine told me about his novel - of - assembled - novellas, Wool, which was a sudden major self - publishing bestseller and that he had a movie deal.

While we've had discussions from time to time about Second Life, but we missed telling you about a novel virtual workshop on innovative forms of library services through virtual worlds.

Not exact matches

«When I think about how I understand my role as citizen, setting aside being president, and the most important set of understandings that I bring to that position of citizen, the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels,» he recently told The New York Review of Books.

«When I think about how I understand my role as citizen... the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels,» Obama told The New York Review of Books.

He was doing a book tour, and we were hanging out and talking about his graphic novels, and I had told him that I was interesting in maybe collaborating with him on something if he had any pages he didn't know what to do with to send them over to me, and I would try to write some songs or something.

How about the people just telling them what to do and they actually do it, there's a novel idea.

In a series of novels about life in a small town in Canada, Robertson Davies tells of the plight of Solomon Bridgetower, who is tyrannized by his invalid mother.

It was nearly one year ago - in November 2009 - that Deepak Chopra first told me about his upcoming historical fiction novel about the Prophet Muhammad.

She has also been doing a lot of reading about super heroes and graphic novels of late — can you tell?

I'd tell you about how I read way too late into the night, always novels, and pay for it in the morning but it's totally worth it.

Using biblical stories told by and about Jesus as his starting point, Cox offers a series of wide - ranging reflections on everything from the ethics of in vitro fertilization to the biblical accuracy of the Left Behind novels.

There is a fascinating story here to be told - but one which would take us too far afield from this discussion - about the intricate interplay between the crises of biblical authority and Christian belief on the one hand and the rise of the novel and the growth of art history and literary criticism on the other.

Three complete novels that, taken together, tell a single epic story, about an author whose life is shattered when violence and tragedy consume the people closest to him.

«In addition to providing new information that could help develop novel treatments or a cure for this virus, the findings can also tell us more about how our immune system recognizes virus infections beyond CMV.»

In early 2012, Emmanuelle Charpentier, a little - known French microbiologist who would soon meet worldwide fame, contacted her old friend Rodger Novak to tell him about her recent studies at Umeå University in Sweden of the mechanisms behind a novel bacterial immune system.

Laurel raves about Thorvaldsen's Off on a Comet, a Celestia - based rendition of Jules Verne's 1877 novel, which tells the tale of 37 people stranded on a comet.

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.»

She tells you she wants stability, security, a nice guy and a home to take care of, but her fantasy novels are never about an accountant who buys her the washer and dryer of her dreams.

Raise your chances to get a reply from her composing a well - thought, funny, interesting letter that will tell interesting facts about you, will be long enough to keep her interest, but not a «novel» that will make her bored and sleepy.

In the novel, Kathy informs the reader: «I knew why I had gotten drunk last night, was smoking so much again, and why I was sleeping with Lester Burdon: losing my father's house had been the final shove in a long drift to the edge, and I thought about calling Connie Walsh [her lawyer] again, just tell her to sue the county for as much as she could get.

I'm told that Alex Garland's film, out February 23, veers considerably from the plot of Jeff VanderMeer's hit 2014 novel; those going in expecting a faithful adaptation will be disappointed, and may spend the bulk of the movie frustrated about what's not there instead of appreciating what is.

Gidding met with Jackson, told her his interpretation of the novel as being really about a mental patient who's been institutionalized and that all the events of the book can be explained as manifestations of her psychosis, only to be decisively told by Jackson that her book was «a ghost story.»

The 24 - year - old actress received the first of her three Academy Award nominations 11 years ago: for director Joe Wright's film of Ian McEwan's novel Atonement, in which she played 13 - year - old Briony Tallis, who tells a lie about a rape which destroys two people's lives.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Tim Burton's cinematic take on the first of three novels in Ransom Riggs» popular dark YA fantasy series, introduces Jacob (Asa Butterfield in the film), a child who ventures out to find the fabled Miss Peregrine (Eva Green), whom his late grandfather had told him so many enrapturing stories about.

When I learned that Tangle would take place in an adjacent setting and revisit some of the same characters, I was uneasy about the prospect of yet more anthropomorphic musings — worries that were justified right out of the gate, as the book's framing device is a man telling the novel's story to a squirrel, and getting some cheeky squirrel answers in return.

Adapted from the Stephen King novel, the new horror film succeeds in telling a personal story about fear, adulthood and danger.

Based on the Lissa Evans novel Their Finest Hour and a Half, Scherfig's film tells a behind - the - scenes story (with a witty script by Gaby Chiappe) about a group of filmmakers tasked with creating effective World War II propaganda films, meant to inspire resoluteness in the people of Britain and to sway American public opinion toward joining the war.

«s 2003 bestselling novel, about a high school massacre told from the perspective of the killer's mother, has been adapted into a film.

Co-scripted by Huston and Peter Viertel (who later dissed his boss in the tell - all novel (about the shooting of «The African Queeen,» «White Hunter, Black Heart»).

It was tough to tell how much of The Descendants was Payne, whose human dramedies (Sideways, About Schmidt, Election), typically adapted from novels with Jim Taylor, always garner notice and how much was the separate ampersand - bound pair of relative novices whose script Payne seemed to rework.

A student at a novel middle school located inside the Grand Rapids Public Museum, Banks is eager to tell you about the historic importance of the sturgeon in the diet of the region's indigenous Anishinabek, as well as the details of its overfishing by white settlers and its present - day endangered status.

They used to say everyone has a novel in them; well, I don't know about a novel, but I know for sure that everyone has a great story to tell!

James Baldwin's 1953 novel, «Go Tell It on the Mountain,» about a Harlem teenager's search for meaning, quickly became a classic, along with his searing essays about race published a decade later in the book «The Fire Next Time.»

For it to have book marketing value, it has to have a direct link to your book or something in your book (for example, the author of a novel or children's book telling Raggedy Ann's «real» story could create Raggedy Ann Day), and you have to spread the word about the special day you've created (publicity is a good option).

It's a historical novel set in the medieval period (telling the story of the real King Richard III), so I'm booking stalls at every appropriate medieval festival; it's a book aimed primarily at children aged 10 and up, so I'm making overtures to local schools about author visits and to libraries; I'm attending events at my first literature festival next week to meet and network with local authors and hand out some leaflets (maybe even sell a copy or two).

Hi Brenda I'm a writing a novel about lesbian romance can you tell me if there would be a specific publishing house that I should send my manuscript too.....

In the beginning, when I was trying to sell my first novel, I had a weird experience of editors really wanting me to write, sort of magic realism set in the Caribbean, or about recent immigrants with a magical ability (I've had two editors actually give me that logline and ask if I'd be interested in writing that story, but it's just not there for me, I've got other stories still to tell).

At the end of the novel, Gertie tells Varya about the beauty and freedom in uncertainty, questioning why her children believed the fortune teller.

As BookPage reviewer Julie Hale wrote in December 2011, «Facet by facet, Philbrick reveals what this vibrant novel has to tell us about the contemporary world.»

That one of the recurring characters in The Portable Veblen is a squirrel tells you much about the experience of reading Elizabeth McKenzie's clever second novel.

With particular appeal to women readers, Tan's novel, the first in a string of books she has written about her Chinese heritage, tells the heartfelt story of four Chinese women who formed a support group in 1949 in San Francisco.

Told in alternating perspectives, this groundbreaking novel is an indictment of rape culture and explores with bold honesty the deepest questions about teen girls and sexuality.

Curtis Sittenfeld told the Guardian, in an interview about American Wife, «I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

Donna once told me the reason her books take so long to write (her last one, The Little Friend, was published 12 years ago) is that they are about as long as three regular novels.

The novel is about the personalities who work for an English - language newspaper based in Rome, and it's told in the form of stories.

Farce, failure, and heartbreak tell the truth in this novel about smart, desperate Luther, 15, who hates his rich, corrupt mom and finds a substitute parent in an unexpected place.

The Hand That Feeds You by A.J. Rich Authors Amy Hempel and Jill Ciment team up as A.J. Rich to tell a smart, twisty novel of psychological suspense about a woman who discovers her (former) fiance has quite a secret life.

Yesterday we told you about The Plum Tree, Ellen Marie Wiseman's poignant debut novel about love and survival in Germany during World War II.