Sentences with phrase «wonderful novel coraline»

I have also wondered about Lawrence Hill's wonderful novel The Book of Negroes, how it was retitled as Someone Knows My Name for the U.S. market.

The migratory habits of cranes and the mythology that surrounds them, so well served in Richard Powers» wonderful novel The Echo Maker, acted as a catalyst for Woodruff's new series.

This is a wonderful novel, the quintessential expression of what a novel is about.

It's a wonderful novel of memory, hope, loss of hope and endurance that enables the reader a new perspective on human tenacity.

Poignant, touching, and full of the kind of wisdom that can only come straight out of the heartland, Dayna Dunbar's The Saints and Sinners of Okay County is a wonderful novel of a woman who confronts pain in order to reclaim her belief in herself, lay her past to rest, and bring order back to a life that has veered too far off track.

«THWARTED QUEEN is a wonderful novel to introduce Cecily Neville and historical biographical fiction to young female readers.»

This is a simply wonderful novel, perfectly suitable for 10th graders.

Animated by Vapnyar's beguiling grace and vividness - with a narrative richness reflecting the great tradition of Russian realism to which she is a natural heir - Memoirs of a Muse is an altogether wonderful novel.

I'd always wished she'd written more, which is part of the reason I enjoyed Geraldine Brooks» wonderful novel, March, so much.

Solace of the Road is a wonderful novel from one of the UK's most talented new writers for teenagers.

Perhaps it's the fault of Hollywood or romantic literature that we think love can only happen to the young, which is why I think MPLS is such a wonderful novel.

My friend Ransom Stephens» wonderful novel The God Patent is being (re --RRB- released today.

Simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking, this wonderful novel tapped every single feeling possible.

The «New Money» and the «Old Money» crowd come together in this wonderful novel where you can feel the heat, smell the cigarette smoke and hear the jazz band as you sip your first cocktail (Sharon R).

- Kirkus «Truly enthralling - the spirit of The Versions of Us has lingered with me... I simply adored this wonderful novel.»

«The struggles that have made Burma, India, and Malaya the places they are today are illuminated in this wonderful novel by a master storyteller.»

I for one am enormously looking forward to Lynne Ramsay's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's wonderful novel on this exact subject: «We Need To Talk About Kevin».

It is not often that one comes across a wonderful novel which features themes like infant feeding and Neonatal care.

As Kurt Vonnegut says one way or another in all of his strange and wonderful novels (perhaps cynically or perhaps seriously): purposeless things are abhorent to the human species; and if the human species suspects that it is itself purposeless, it becomes conspicuously suicidal.

While former Schools Minister David Laws counselled that the «whims of here - today, gone tomorrow» politicians should not decide the direction of the school curriculum, Gibb argued «access to these wonderful novels shouldn't be the preserve of the few».

It took two rounds of voting and several discussions, but we've finally distilled the long list of wonderful novels published in 2009 into a list of 10.

But I have watched really, really talented storytellers produce dull and off - putting blurbs that actually turn buyers away from their wonderful novels.

It's a great opportunity to pick up eight wonderful novels for winter reading, support independent writers who want to take you on an fantastic journey, and discover new writers with great stories along the way.

There have clearly been dozens of wonderful novels written by Africans about Africa.

«We know there are writers out there producing wonderful novels and memoirs, and we know there are readers of literary fiction and non-fiction who would welcome guidance through the digital labyrinth,» stated author Clare Smith in a press release on the launch of Blackfriars.

Even though you might be writing wonderful novels or how - to guides, you never know how these things might hurt you in the future.

Jessica then took all of this information and my ideas and crafted three wonderful novels set in a world that I know well.

William Goldman, author of The Princess Bride (among many other wonderful novels and screenplays) always catches the reader by surprise.

«I see on the shelf all these wonderful, wonderful novels — books that I've read that I absolutely loved that are no longer available,» the revered librarian told me during an interview last week in Seattle.

Actually, I feel very proud and happy for being able to read and review so many wonderful novels, and I wouldn't have the heart to sell them ever.

To those (like me) who are still publishing with the major houses: I've read wonderful novels in the past few years that failed to find a home.

I've put in the work, I've written the wonderful novels, I've gotten the reviews.

Not exact matches

«Other People's Money» by Justin Cartwright (Bloomsbury, 2011) is to the novel what the wonderful «Margin Call» is to film — a fictionalized but convincing account of high finance and the crisis of 2008.

Yes, with hypothermia just a couple of degrees away, with water rising and no help in sight, Clare and Russ manage to forget about his wonderful wife (the woman he truly loves, the woman who helped him through posttraumatic stress syndrome) and finally give in to three novels» worth of lusty longing.

The novel is full, too, of wonderful throwaway observations about human nature («Lancelot shrugged his shoulders — one of the stupidest things to do when the other party wants to have a fight»).

I decided this would be first recipe I'd make from the cookbook (which I've been reading like a novel since I got it for Christmas), and like all of your recipes, it was wonderful and came out exactly as described.

It's so wonderful, and honestly the first cookbook I was able to sit and read like a novel.

I'm so glad to hear you have Amy's book too, it is so wonderful and I'm excited for you to give it a novel - like read soon.

By: Jillian Lauren Tariku came with me last Sunday to a party celebrating the release of Jim Krusoe's wonderful new novel Erased.

There is always the temptation over the Christmas and New Year holiday period to relax with some wonderful trashy novel or a book on anything other than politics.

«CBN venture grants and postdoctoral fellowships have provided a wonderful mechanism for developing novel research projects and for generating critical preliminary data needed to make our NIH grants competitive,» said CBN Researcher Larry Young, Ph.D., of Emory University.

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Directed by Richard Loncrane (WIMBLEDON, BRIMSTONE AND TREACLE) and adapted by Charlie Peters from Jill Ciment's novel, HEROIC MEASURES, the film doesn't break new ground, but is a joy to behold due to the wonderful chemistry between its two leads.

John Huston's long - cherished adaptation of Herman Melville's novel has some wonderful scenes but must be counted as a noble failure.

But I also was very interested in you know all of the sort of filmic incarnations of her work as well... And there's some wonderful observations and parts of internal monologue — well more internal monologue that Therese has — but observations of Carol that're in the novel that were really really useful to read.

There is nothing wrong with being self - contained, and writer / director Mona Achache ensures her adaptation of Muriel Barbery's incredibly successful novel «L'élégance du hérisson» («The Elegance of the Hedgehog») remains simple and understated, letting the wonderful characters (and the strong performances that bring them to life) speak for themselves.

She can be compelling simply reading a seamy novel in Nocturnal Animals or, as in the wonderful Arrival, puzzling over how to decode an alien language while struggling with her own perception of memory and time.

Director Ben Wheatley (of Sightseers, Kill List) certainly knows how to make weird and wonderful cinema that will divide audiences and he's gone on to make another one with this adaptation, based on the JG Ballard novel from the 70s.

The screenplay is by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, who wrote the wonderful «(500) Days of Summer» a few years ago, and based on a novel by Tim Tharp.

«Tamara Drewe» (Sony), directed by Stephen Frears, has a strange and wonderful pedigree: an adaptation of the graphic novel (by Posy Simmonds) inspired by Thomas Hardy's «Far From the Madding Crowd» and whipped up with a light sex comedy froth by screenwriter Moira Buffini and the cast (headed by the Gemma Arterton as the gorgeous heroine with identity issues and Roger Allam as the philandering author who wants to bed her).