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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
The film was made in 2001 by Gunnarsson, whose previous feature film was the wonderful «Such a Long Journey» (1998), inspired by the novel by Rohinton Mistry.
The novels drew praise from such distinguished crime genre practitioners as James Crumley («Woodrell knows wonderful and funny and degenerate things that speak to the best of the human soul in the worst of circumstances») and James Ellroy («stone brilliant»).
In fact, they intended to only choose one or two, but received so many wonderful applications that they extended it to three students: Zoe Blatt, who creates large - scale knitted soft sculpture; Brendon Snyder, who's working on a graphic novel about the theory of Multiple Intelligences; and Azucena Verdin, who focuses on a dance performance exploring interdisciplinary learning.
Novels like A Fault in Our Stars and The Pigman are wonderful opportunities for discussing nuanced literary concepts like moral dilemmas, and such books often feature relatable characters that provide opportunities for analysis and discussion.
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«Samantha did a wonderful job in proofreading my novel, Love Illusion.
There is something wonderful about gluttonously devouring a novel in one sitting.
She says the only title she sees as in direct competition with Plympton is Margaret Atwood's serial novel, Positron, which she notes is «wonderful.»
«The struggles that have made Burma, India, and Malaya the places they are today are illuminated in this wonderful novel by a master storyteller.»
A novel is a wonderful place in which to scatter observations and curious details; nothing is wasted.
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.
And his editor and publisher Sean MacDonald, is even more effusive, saying of the novel «the greatest and perhaps most unexpected satisfaction is the quality that encompasses all these things, that this is simply a magnificent novel, weird and dark and wonderful, adventurous and spellbinding in the way of any great piece of literary art.»
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).
An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star - crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932 illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place.
In this novel, how wonderful could the past have been if we never learned what Charlie was running from?
As I was reading it I kept thinking what a wonderful PBS comedy it would make, with the Major and Mrs. Ali as well as the other great characters in this novel.
«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.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Octopus are two novels that were written in 1900 and 1901 respectively about the infamous robber barons and the railroad monopoly, and in this time we saw political and social activism sprout up around these books.
To wrap up my year, I was on the cover of The Wall Street Journal and in The Times, The Chicago Tribune, Forbes, and a host of others at the top of the year, have sold nearly a million books now (not counting my co-authored tomes), released my co-authored novel with Clive Cussler in Sept. and hit # 2 on the NYT Bestseller List with it, sold foreign rights to Germany, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic, have a half dozen name production companies nosing around JET and my Assassin series, have a wonderful agent who has forgotten more than I'll ever know about the biz, and have generally had a nice run of it.
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.
I had never realized how rare naturalistic lighting was in romance covers until I saw the jacket for Tessa Dare's wonderful latest novel.
We've found three wonderful romance novels with nary a Christmas wreath in sight that we're sure will make you smile.
Everyone's talking about Natalie Portman's wonderful performance in Black Swan — but she's playing a more conventional role in February's The Other Woman, based on Ayelet Waldman's 2006 novel Love and Other Impossible Pursuits.
We women know the men in romance novels are fictional wonderful guys.
Apart from its historical interest (the illuminating author's note gives Klaussmann's sources and hints at which of the wonderful letters in the novel are authentic and which are invented), this is a captivating portrait of a marriage in crisis: «Every couple had a dance, Sara knew, one that had to be performed when times got tricky.»
Women have always been well represented in the crime genre, but thanks to Gone Girl and the wave of female - penned psychological suspense it inspired, as well as to the wonderful Library of America box set Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s and 1950s, it is no longer possible to think of the genre apart from women's experience.
It's a wonderful allusion in the novel, and one that I hope will send teen readers to this poem about being face to face with our differences and loving that which we both agree to fight for.
Jessica then took all of this information and my ideas and crafted three wonderful novels set in a world that I know well.
The author's detailed descriptions of sights, smells, and sounds in an American aircraft plant during WWII, and his evocation of everyday life at home, make this a wonderful, unforgettable novel.
Park, author of half a dozen science fiction novels and a wonderful short story collection, has turned in an interesting first volume in what promises to be an exciting and thought - provoking series.
This is a wonderful first novel about a young girl who grows up in a close knit Jewish - Canadian family.
My friend Deborah Reed, a wonderful writer but not a household name, has sold more than 100,000 copies of her novel Things We Set on Fire — virtually none of them in a conventional bookstore, since conventional bookstores won't sell Amazon Publishing — produced novels.
Introducing NaNoWriMo For any writer (especially writers of fiction), National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, is a wonderful opportunity to seriously upgrade your writing skills in the space of a month.
Under Fire is a wonderful example of what a romantic suspense novel should be: tense action, strong characters and love in the midst of danger.
Linda Spalding wrote a wonderful essay about this novel in the anthology, Lost Classics.
This is a wonderful addition to the novel - in - verse canon, whether enjoyed individually, shared as a read - aloud, or used as a class text.
As a writer who published my first short story in 1975 and my first novel in 1988, this new world of 2012 is fantastic and wonderful and I love the choices I now have.
Romance is the best ever wonderful gift given by the God and you described it very well in your novels.
In honor of the release of Pamela Samuels Young new novel, ATTORNEY - CLIENT PRIVILEGE, some author friends and I decided to band together to celebrate, promote, and extol the many virtues of this wonderful, entertaining, legal thriller.
What a wonderful topic to reflect on as I start the next chapter in my novel this weekend.
Kristen did a wonderful job in covering the many things setting can do for your novel and / or scenes.
I recently had the pleasure of launching Kate Forsyth's wonderful new novel THE WILD GIRL, published by Vintage Books in Australia, at an event in Sydney.
«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.
On the way to Telluride and back we listened to two audio books in the car — one (which shall remain nameless) highlighted the very worst aspects of the audio book experience (wooden narration revealing a badly written novel in all its horror...) and we gave that one up after three discs; the second (thankfully) displayed all the wonderful elements associated with listening to a great book on CD.