Sentences with phrase «ups about the novel»

Who speaks up about the novel ideas we try in our efforts to engage our students?

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If you picked up a book instead, you could be benefiting more by learning about something new, reading something inspiring or simply relaxing with a fun novel.

These companies may be growing or about to be going, but the founders are spending every day just like you facing the same kinds of challenges, coming up with new and novel solutions, and suffering all the ups and downs of the startup process that we know and love so well.

China's move last week to ban initial coin offerings (ICO) has caused chaos among start - ups looking to raise money through the novel fund - raising scheme, prompting halts, about - turns and re-thinks.

The current fight between Delta and its home state is occurring against the novel backdrop of many corporations speaking up about gun control for the first time.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

How about updating your bible and remove the BS, figure out where «god» was wrong, suck it up and rewrite it, put a little reality into it and it might become more believable and less like a harry potter novel.

Since he is about my age, I grew up seeing that much of the stuff he incoporated into his novels was plagiarized right out of old B horror movies of the 1950's and early sixties!

Most Likely To Make You Feel Less Guilty About Curling Up on the Couch This Afternoon With a Novel: Enuma Okoro with «Read, Write, Worship»

By now, everyone who reads contemporary fiction will have heard of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel's acclaimed historical novels about Thomas Cromwell, the powerful advisor to Henry VIII who all but single - handedly disestablished the Catholic Church in England.

In a recent article in the «New York Review of Books» on the television and stage adaptations of Hilary Mantel's historical novels «Wolf Hall» and «Bring up the Bodies,» the Irish critic Fintan O'Toole tries to explain the present popularity of a story about Henry VIII's obscure....

But could even they, in all their simian chaos, come up with a romance novel about Colonel Sanders?

They become apparent when Theo talks about his mother's «visitation» to him in dreams, when Hobie speaks affectionately of the Catholic Church and the Jesuit priest who protected him as a youth, when the otherwise cynical Boris admits to being moved to tears by Biblical stories, and again when Theo opens up to the higher purpose in life, despite all its difficulties and insanities, toward the end of the novel.

Unsurprisingly, Churchill ended up befriending H.G.Wells who authored the novel about a British alien invasion, The War of the Worlds.

Adam Gopnik — like his pieces on France and the French — writing about Houllebecq (whose new novel is out) and Eric Zemmour (a French TV journalist with a book of diatribe against modern France) in the latest New Yorker, brings up Football: «The result of the new free market in football is that French footballers, like Thierry Henry and Arsene Wenger, have become heroes in North and West London».

A beautifully - angled novel about growing up and breaking down (Richard Coles) Pure genius!

In this episode of The Write Up, host Owen Egerton talks to George Saunders about craft, ecstatic empathy and the afterlife in his first novel Lincoln in the Bardo.

As a mother to three young children myself, I couldn't help but catch up with Jessica to ask her some questions about her novel, her family, and her writing journey.

This novel will have you cracking up as you read about the moms of Manhattan's upper crust.

It is normal to be a little anxious about a first pregnancy: the sensations are new, it might bring up normal concerns about what will your parenting look like, and overall, it is a novel experience that you don't have anything to compare it with as a reference.

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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.

We caught up with Reeves as he was putting the finishing touches on Dawn, the sequel to 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes, to talk about his chapter of a franchise that began more than 50 years ago with a French novel.

James Randi, famous debunker of frauds, talks about the «Amaz!ng Meeting» coming up in Las Vegas, and SciAm editor Mark Alpert discusses his new physics novel, Final Theory.

Mike Friedlander, the executive director of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute (VTCRI) and associate provost for health sciences, and David Kingston, a University Distinguished Professor and director of the new Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery (VTCDD), presented an overview to the Board of Visitors about Virginia Tech advances in human health, novel research programs, technology licensing, start - up companies, and drug discovery and development.

No one's prodding us to write the screenplay or novel we've been dreaming about, perhaps have even started, making sure we fill up the blank page.

The Dating Sim is a type of game designed to set up goals, usually in the forms of schedules and stats corresponding to social skills, which must be... Nekojishi is a visual novel about feline beast - men, Taiwanese folklore, and the pressures and consequences that come with navigating the world of gods and

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Director Jason Priestley and screenwriter David Schultz team up to adapt author Joy Fielding's best - selling novel about a woman who sacrifices her career for marriage, only to discover that another woman is planning to steal her husband away.

Veteran director Walter Hill helms this graphic novel adaptation about New Orleans (or, going by the film, Crescent City - NOLA's nickname) hitman James «Jimmy Bobo» Bonomo (Sylvester Stallone) who teams up with greenhorn D.C. cop Taylor Kwon (Sung Kang) to bring down the killers of their respective partners.

If «The Breadwinner» were a live - action film, it would be virtually unbearable to watch, but as animation, it's not only possible, but somehow inspiring to immerse oneself in this pared - down adaptation of Deborah Ellis» well - regarded young - adult novel, about an 11 - year - old girl who must step up and care for her family after the Taliban raids her home and arrests her father (hence the title).

The third film in this trilogy based on EL James's softcore novels about an S&M relationship might be more fittingly titled Fifty Shades Tied Up (or, rather, Fifty Shades Tied Down), given that it begins with the wedding of student Ana (Dakota Johnson) and billionaire Christian (Jamie Dornan).

In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's animated adaptation of Satrapi's graphic - novel autobiography about a young girl growing up in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution and Iran's war with Iraq, episodic stories give Western readers and many others a glimpse into a fascinating world during a tumultuous era, and the author's illustrations express the caricatured, exaggerated impressions of a young child.

Moderator Neumier followed up with Nagy as to whether Highsmith was nervous about this novel becoming a screenplay for film:

The Nanny Diaries (PG - 13 for profanity) Sacrlett Johansson handles the title role in this romantic comedy, based on the best - selling novel of the same name, about a college grad nanny for a wealthy Manhattan family who finds herself having to put up with the parents» (Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti) dysfunction and the demands of their precocious son (Nicholas Art) until hope arrives in a relationship with a well - heeled, handsome Harvard alumnus (Chris Evans) from Park Avenue.

In the aforementioned framing device, Ben Whishaw, playing a far too soft and obsequious Melville, shows up at the inn of pickled, traumatized Thomas Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson, typecast) one dark and stormy night seeking raw material from the former Essex cabin boy for his upcoming novel about whalers.

ATLAS SHRUGGED PART I Rather than take the time to come up with something witty to write about this heavy - handed screed that boasts all the production values of a bad made - for - TV movie from the early 1980s, I'll just substitute the word «novels» with «films» in this popular quote and be done with it: «There are two films that can change a 14 - year - old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.

The second season of the Netflix original series 13 Reasons Why, based on the young adult novel by Jay Asher about the investigation into a teen suicide, is now streaming along with the documentary 13 Reasons Why: Beyond the Reasons featuring the cast and crew discussing issues brought up in the series.

«Room,» an adaption of the best - selling novel about a woman raising her young son inside a solitary room, won runner - up in the best film race.

As is frequently the case, the initial premise and the early set - up of bizarre and terrifying events to come work a lot better than the denouement, even if Garland has at least been shrewd enough to keep the viewer guessing about the exact meaning of his weird evolutionary fable (it's adapted from Jeff Vandermeer's novel).

f anyone was going to do a silver screen adaptation of «Into the Wild,» Jon Krakauer's acclaimed novel about a young man who eschews a life of privilege to tramp across the U.S. only to end up starving to death in the Alaskan wilderness, it was Sean Penn..

Marc Forster has signed up to direct an adaptation of World War Z, a bestselling novel about flesh - eating zombies who destroy the word

Before I Go To Sleep is a psychological thriller based on the worldwide best - selling novel about a woman who wakes up every day remembering nothing — the result of a traumatic accident in her past — until one day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.

-- Gina Prince - Bythewood wrote and directed this moving drama, based on the best - selling novel by Sue Monk Kidd, about a 14 - year old girl (Dakota Fanning) who, longing to find out more about her deceased mother, runs away from rural South Carolina home and winds up in the care of a beekeeper (Queen Latifah) and her sisters (Alicia Keys, sophie Okonedo).

Hilary Mantel's critically acclaimed novels «Wolf Hall» and «Bring Up the Bodies,» about King Henry VIII's adviser Thomas Cromwell, come to the small screen with a new miniseries adaptation.

Kerouac's novel about wayfaring bohemians hitting the open road is a classic expression of the American dream; but the way it's done here, it seems more like a time capsule that's been dug up long past its expiration date.

Ask the 44 - year - old director of Inherent Vice about adapting Thomas Pynchon's 2009 stoner - noir novel — in which a hippie - dippy private detective (played by The Master's Joaquin Phoenix) tangles with all sorts of Seventies Southern California types — or what he remembers about growing up in the Me Decade, and Anderson will thoughtfully stare out the window of his hotel's lounge.

They're joining forces for Across the River and Into the Trees, based on Ernest Hemingway «s 1950 novel about an older man who travels to an exotic location and strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.

A 10 - episode, intense psychological thriller based on a best - selling novel and brought to life by executive producer and director M. Night Shyamalan, about a Secret Service agent on a mission to find two missing federal agents, whose investigation only turns up more questions.

B - The Paperboy Rated R for strong sexual content, violence and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Precious director Lee Daniels chose for his follow - up this over-the-top adaptation of the Peter Dexter novel about a young man (Zac Efron) whose brother (Matthew McConaughey) has come back to his home town to investigate a case involving a death row inmate (John Cusack) with the help of the accused's fiancé (Nicole Kidman).