Sentences with phrase «who hears about this book»

Anyone who hears about this book will no doubt try to compare it to The Art of Fielding, although the stories (and writing) are quite different.

Not exact matches

I really know nothing about writing a book, except what I've heard from people who I've interviewed, so this also provided me with an insight into this tricky venture.

I did also want to point out a couple of other books by L.M. Montgomery you might not have heard about but feature excellent heroines: Emily of New Moon (who was Madeleine L'Engle's favourite) and Jane of Lantern Hill.

All we hear about the book is lies from the rightwingers who take words or sentences out of context.

Did you forget about Revelation 22:18 — «I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book.»

Centuries before the Karen people of Burma first heard the gospel, their poetry taught of one creator God who mankind had sinned against by eating forbidden fruit.Their poets also foretold the coming of a white man who would visit with a holy golden book that contained the truth about life.

I've heard Jewish friends talk about how there used to be many more women in the community who just knew how to keep a kosher home and didn't have to go to a book to figure it out.

Best of all, this book closed with several chapters on pertinent theological questions for today, such as how to reconcile the Bible and science, how to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament, and how to make sense of what the Bible teaches about women, homosexuality, and the fate of those who have never heard the gospel.

One hears not only physiologists, but numbers of laymen who read the popular science books and magazines, saying all about us, How can we believe in life hereafter when Science has once for all attained to proving, beyond possibility of escape, that our inner life is a function of that famous material, the so - called «gray matter» of our cerebral convolutions?

The worst part about this is that those who read the books and articles of these various teachers might not do their own homework by checking out the baseless claims that they read and hear, and as a result, may be led astray into confusion and the false maligning of godly men.

I've handed this book so far to 4 people who needed to hear that they are understood, and to watch someone model the very path they are on and yet still talk about church in a hopeful way.

I've not heard of that book but for some reason it reminds me of the book Who Moved My Cheese, possibly because its also about mice?

They got a sense of who he was by hearing about his wonderfully quirky personality and humor, his love of poetry, books and talk radio.

About half way through writing this book to my kids, I started to have such a passion for the idea that I began to develop a website to make it easy for other parents to do the same thing, and I've heard from many other parents who share my conviction that this is a wonderful gift for children.

Therefore, the first thing to know about dealing with any tough situation is what I speak about in my book in the chapter on self - expression: The child must let the emotions out with a loving and supportive parent who hears him out without advice or judgement.

Ray Jayawardhana: Indeed, and some very colorful characters that I write about in the book, including some physicists who you might not have heard of, like Ettore Majorana, an Italian physicist who was this reclusive genius, really struggled with many things in his life, and disappeared without a trace at age 32.

Contrary to what I have read in several American books on widowhood, which claim that a widow is usually forgotten by her former circle of friends, all my friends — Israeli and American — have stayed in touch, and two young widows in Los Alamos who heard about the accident sought me out and have supported me with advice and understanding throughout the years since.

The first voice you'll hear is senior editor Michael Moyer, who asks Flynn about his latest book titled, Are We Getting Smarter?

I first heard about Metabolic Flexibility from Dr. Mike T Nelson, who literally wrote the book on the subject.

Couple that with the fact that I had a lot of friends who had written books and had heard lots of stories about all - nighters, insane deadlines, and tremendous pressure to sell lots of books!

The mob film based on Charles Brandt's 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses, about Frank «The Irishman» Sheeran (De Niro), a hitman who was purported to kill Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa, has had a troubled path to production because of Scorsese's insistence on using de-aging technologies for the majority of the film — techniques that have been used sparingly in movies like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button or Marvel films.

In the film, actor Brendan Gleeson portrays cabin boy Thomas Nickerson (played at a younger age by Tom Holland), who when he is older tells the story of the ship to Herman Melville («Skyfall» actor Ben Whishaw), who wrote a book about a whale you might have heard of.

A. Like hearing someone who talks about reading a new book, who's excited about something they've read about different pedagogies or teaching styles and strategies, for instance.

The answers in the book will enlighten readers who have heard about charter schools on the news but want to learn more.

It's hard not to hear about BKnights, the book promoter guy who hires out on Fiverr.

Also, what about commuters who'd like to hear a good book on the way home from work?

It cost more than some other professionals with whom I've since consulted (I'm on my 2nd book now... and no, I don't plan to self - publish this one), but then I've heard other friends talk about freelance editors who charge double what iUniverse did.

About the only two arguments I've heard for piracy being good are anecdotes from authors who seem to mistake correlation with causality (sales increased by 100 % since being pirated), and those comparing it to book lending via libraries or in book clubs.

(Also, the more speaking you do at libraries, the better your bookstore sales will be, because at least some of the patrons who come hear about your book at your library talk will then go out and purchase the book at their local bookstore.

Traditional publishers take too long We've all heard about authors who received rejections from publishers for years before finally getting a book published.

The last thing you want to do is email a blogger who has never heard about you and say «PLEASE - PRETTY - PLEASE review my book.

That database should be the first people who hear about your new book, you'll be surprised at the number of people who have bought from you in the past would buy everything you publish.

Among other things, he's also the guy who writes about your shows, reviews your books, runs your festival programming, DJs your parties, tweets so you'll laugh, asks about your legacy with comics, creates awesome podcasts you should hear — only awesome things, basically — and so much of what he puts into the world is free to enjoy.

Knopf publisher and editor - in - chief Sonny Mehta, who introduced the works of Stieg Larsson to American readers, talks about the phenomenal success of the series.How did you first hear about the Millennium trilogy?I heard about the books at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2007.

Would American readers who, like us, had never heard of these people actually buy books about them?

Their daughters, who are my age, are characters in a book I've loved for twenty years; talking to them and hearing about their lives only made me want to read it again.

You can't really go far these days without hearing about a new book that will appeal to people who loved 50 Shades of Grey.

It's an interesting twist of fate for a novelist who once wrote, upon hearing the soundtrack to the film adaptation of his book About a Boy, «Seeing one's words converted into Hollywood cash is gratifying in all sorts of ways, but it really can not compare to the experience of hearing them converted into music: for someone who has to write books because he can not write songs, the idea that a book might somehow produce a song is embarrassingly thrilling.»

A local indie bookstore heard about the students plight and started a crowdfunding campaign to buy a book for each of the 350 kids who signed the petition.

Hi Joel, It's certainly an interesting idea, though I've heard a lot of bad press about crowdfunding: like folks who raise money for a book then spend it on redecorating their house instead!

I'm one of those people who loves collecting books but I've heard a lot about kindle from my friends and thought perhaps it will easier to carry it around while travelling.

We hear the good things about authors who self - publish that have gone on to sell thousands of books.

But it's also wonderful to have heard from so many kids at the time, and now as adults, who talk about how the Baby - Sitters Club books turned them into readers.

Titles under the Skyscape umbrella include You Know What You Have to Do by Bonnie Shimko, about a 15 - year - old girl who hears voices in her head telling her to kill people; and Reason to Breathe, the first book in the Breathing Series trilogy by Rebecca Donovan, an initially self - published title that has already earned a dedicated readership.

I'll admit, I've not seen too many romances set in the Gilded Age, so I was curious to hear from Shupe, who lives in New Jersey with her family, about what sparked the first book in the series, The Magnate.

We often hear a lot about the really BIG sellers, but I think it's good to see that there are also people like me who are making a good living without selling tens of thousands of books a month.

If you walk away from Avon, you're walking away from that database of readers who want to hear about your next book.

«When I meet an indie author and there's the potential to represent that writer, I would rather hear, «I self - published my book and sold five thousand copies,» because that means the author knows how to market himself,» says Luedeke when asked about the crossover potential for authors who have already published their works on their own.

Twitter can be a godsend for authors, enabling them to engage with like - minded souls who might be interested in hearing about their book.

But, as a reviewer, I'll say hearing from an author who is excited about their own book is a compelling reason to consider reviewing the book.