Sentences with phrase «tough book»

(2011 Update: In fact, their tagline currently is: «World's Toughest Book Critics.»)

As I warned in my recent review of the Angela Duckworth and Paul Tough books, «This new attention to character skills has many of the markings of previous failed fads....

On the other hand, there is nothing as exhilarating as getting a positive book review, especially from «The World's Toughest Book Critics» at Kirkus — because if you do, you'll know you deserve it.

«Get up, go to a dimly lit room, and do something boring: Watch a video you've seen before, read a tough book, watch bad TV,» says Ursula Anwer, M.D., a neurologist at UMass Memorial Health Care, in Worcester.

Lois Lowry's Newberry Award - winning 1993 novel is a tough book to translate onscreen.

A tough book to adapt, but Radford does a masterful job in this viscerally impressive presentation.

It's a tough book that may have you doing a few fist pumps during scenes of redemption.

Eleanor is a tough book to rate on a star level.

If book promotion is tough, then promoting poetry books is the toughest book promotion challenge of all.

Having been a fixture in the industry for more than 80 years, Kirkus Reviews — known as the world's toughest book critics — is a bastion of literary excellence, operating as gatekeepers that assists readers, booksellers, libraries, online retailers, and library - service companies in determining which books to sell, stock, or include in their databases.

Kirkus Reviews are known as «the world's toughest book critics,» and their critiques are accepted by industry professionals as a reliable guide to the best books on the market.

This is a tough book to review.

Have I said this before: this is a tough book to review.

This is a tough book to review, because I generally respect the author, but there are many things I don't like about the book.

This is a tough book for me to review.

Rao's 10 tables in Harlem are still the toughest booking in New York, 115 years on.