Sentences with phrase «thinking about novels»

The horizontal format is not usually an option, because most POD companies are thinking about novels, which are vertical.

After a quick mental check of the books I've been reading recently, and thinking about novels in general, I decided: suspense.

«We're concerned that students are learning critical thinking and deep thinking about novels, for instance, in the ELA courses - that they can critique a text and understand its role; they can connect it to history and all the different interdisciplinary connections that good literature helps us do,» Larson said.

«This will excite spider biologists and people generally interested in vision into thinking about novel ways of building better vision.

One measure was a test that had two parts: a written essay, which demonstrated students» ability to apply their understanding but was also, of course, affected by students» writing ability; and a multiple - choice section that didn't require writing but couldn't measure extended thinking about the novel.

But before I did that, I had to think about the novel itself.

Well, I'm thinking about a novel, which would be scary because it's the first time I would attempt to do it.

In light of the turmoil each of her children is still in at the time of Viola's death, what do you think about the novel's title?

My hope is that readers who loved Little Women will take pleasure in this story, will think about that novel in a new way, and will consider, maybe for the first time, the real woman who wrote it.

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.

Some of the biggest threats experts are thinking about in 2018 range from the familiar to more novel cybersecurity considerations.

«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.

It's a very dark novel, but it's one I couldn't stop thinking about for a good long while.

I've been reading an historical novel — World Without End by Ken Follett — and it's got me thinking about how Western civilization evolved from the middle ages to the age of enlightenment.

Folman's adaptation attempts to update some of the themes of Lem's book to fit our modern obsession with entertainment, but the original novel is more about the use of psychotropic drugs to create a dream world in which everyone thinks himself happy.

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.

It is not novel to think that we project our conclusions about God unto him.

If you spend all of your time thinking about food and you also like to read, these food novels belong in your weekend getaway bag.

thats novel in a recipe... something I have never thought about till now — if you have an egg allergy would that be all eggs or just chickens?

I really thought you had some quite novel breath taking new topics about the future of Arsenal FC But no its the same issues Wenger out and who do we want to buy.

The authors think that dogs likely do not transfer knowledge about physical rules from one physical problem - solving task to another, but rather approach each task as a novel problem.

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.

«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.

I mean, infrastructure really is the key in a lot of these things, but in some ways that goes to the really creative, novel way of thinking about this.

But it challenges us to think deeply about the mind - body problem in a novel, rigorous, and mathematically and empirically minded manner.

Much has been written about the triumph of geek culture, but what I am seeing all around goes deeper: not just a fondness for comic books and fantasy novels, but a wholesale embrace of scientific thinking in popular entertainment.

Respondents first read a news article about the novel pears, then completed a questionnaire that included questions about their attitudes toward the pears, what they think their friends and family think about the idea of buying these products, their novelty - seeking tendencies, whether or not they would buy them, and how much they'd pay for them.

Sohee Park and her colleagues at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, wanted to find out what was different about the brains of people who are good at «divergent thinking» — creativity characterised by coming up with novel ideas.

In 1983, astronomers discovered dust orbiting the star, suggesting it had a solar system, and Carl Sagan (pictured) chose to make Vega the source of a SETI signal in his 1985 novel Contact, though the responsible aliens weren't native to the star: At the time, Vega was thought to be only about a couple hundred million years old, probably too young for any planets to have spawned life.

(Think about it: If you are writing in a language that has only two letters, each word has to be pretty long in order to have a unique spelling; if you have 26 letters to choose from, your words can be shorter, and a given sentence, or paragraph, or novel will also contain fewer keystrokes overall.)

«A lot of work that initiated this project stemmed from what we learned about how these pathways work in normal brain development, and as we learn more about how it normally works we think it'll provide us with novel insight about how to target it in disease.»

Dr Daniel Martin, Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant, UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science and Director of UCL CASE Medicine, adds: «These exciting results give us a unique insight into the possible mechanism of insulin resistance in diabetes and provide some clues as to where we should be thinking about focusing further research on novel treatments for this disease.

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.

We weighted diverse factors in choosing the winner, including the paper's topic, originality, impact, and more generally the extent to which it exemplified the goals of The American Naturalist: «to publish papers that are of broad interest to the readership, to pose a new and significant program or introduce a novel subject to the readership, to develop conceptual unification, and to change the way people think about the topic of the manuscript.»

Rather than claim a method of administering certain novel drug dosages, Prometheus chose to instead claim and assert a method that recited old steps and thinking about the FACT (law of nature).

She's been writing a novel about a female astronomer for longer than she cares to think about.

Most people would think that a book about the toxicity of the elements arsenic, antimony, mercury, lead and thallium would be fairly heavy going, but this book reads more like a novel than a chemistry text.

Nestle into the easy chair with a sudoku puzzle or with a fresh pad of paper to write that novel you've been thinking about.

This doesnot necessarily mean that they might be some other place totally, but if your other half is sat reading a novel, playing an instrument, enjoying a spare time interest or anything, think twice about disturbing them.

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.

Neal Stephenson's third novel, Snow Crash, had an enormous impact on me (fast forward 20 years to Oculus Rift), and this post got me thinking about ways to use Bitcoin to authenticate online dating profiles.

This doesnot necessarily signify that they would be some other place entirely, but if your other half is sat reading a novel, playing an instrument, enjoying apursuit or whatsoever, think twice about annoying them.

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.

In the Dai Siije novel, you don't think about «Jules and Jim» in the sticks.

If you aren't familiar with the Zero Escape series, it is a mixture of visual novel with some tough as nail puzzles that make you think about the situation at hand.

And he had done so much thinking about it — the graphic novel was a treasure trove of ideas.

I think about great adaptations of novels like «The Shining», which I guess Stephen King doesn't like because he saw something different in it.

Cite Coney Island, as writer scripter Nick Hornby does in a screenplay based on Colm Toibin's novel, and you think of how your dad gave you a dollar in 1945, about the same amount as your friends received from their folks, an amount which gave us four hours of fun in Coney Island where Nathan's hot dogs were fifteen cents and a bag of fries the same.

The novel, about a male computer executive whose ex-girlfriend harasses him after getting the promotion he thought was his, starts pushing buttons with its epigraph: «Power is neither male nor female,» a quote attributed to former Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham.

A more risk - averse, image - conscious star might have thought twice about playing six characters — including the heavily face - painted chief of a cannibal tribe — in the wildly ambitious 2012 film of David Mitchell's novel Cloud Atlas.