Sentences with phrase «year about favorite books»

My students blogged last year about favorite books, and it went really well.

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I saw Douglas Gresham speak about 10 years ago and he said that Till We Have Faces is his favorite book by Lewis.

I'm linking up to my latest post about planning out this years» garden — including links to my favorite seed catalogs, influential books I've read this winter, companion planting tips, and more!

I have been your fan for at least 5 years and I loved your posts about travel and most, your favorite things posts because we seem to have the same taste in books, movies, programs.

After I made them I realized that Heidi already wrote about them years ago, claiming they were her favorite cookie AND that David had included a recipe for an adaption in his latest book Ready for Dessert: My Best Recipes.

I was so touched that Jamie Lee Curtis read the memoir, seeing as her book Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born was Tariku's favorite for about 2 yAbout the Night I Was Born was Tariku's favorite for about 2 yabout 2 years.

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System Director Mary Jean Jakubowski had a few favorite books this year, each one about perseverance, hope and survival: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah; The Art of Risk: The New Science of Courage, Caution & Chance by Kayt Sukel; and Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island by Regina Calcaterra.

Apropos Ray's comments on my two excursions into climate (and he's one of my favorite commentators on climate subjects), that Atlantic Monthly cover story was written nine years ago and the book about five years ago.

This is one of the best books I've read all year (my book favorites list is coming soon) and I'll be thinking about it for a long time to come.

December 17, 2010 • Our series on Favorite Books of 2010 takes a special request from Susan Stamberg to talk about a book from a previous year: Olive Kitteridge.

To help her get to know all the new teachers, she asked them at the beginning of the school year to fill out information forms about themselves, including their birthdays, and favorite colors, foods, candy, and books.

List your favorite read - aloud this year and describe something the book made you think more about.

Traditionally, requiring students to write an end of year summary about their favorite books is a task most students find quite boring.

We'll post more about the year's biggest books - to - film closer to the Academy Awards, but for now tell us: Which was your favorite adaptation?

The Children's Book narrowly missed our 2009 Fiction Top 10 and was a personal favorite of mine this year — if I haven't gone on about it enough to convince you here, read the full review.

Well, it's December, and you know what that means: Time to start panicking about Christmas shopping... OR you could just hit up your favorite bookstore, buy a few of our best books of the year for your family and friends, and then put your feet up and read a seasonally appropriate novel.

Final thoughts: A couple of years ago, when I first wrote about such a device in comparison to the Kindle, one of my favorite bloggers, Michael Hyatt, the CEO of Nashville - based Thomas Nelson, the sixth largest book publisher in the U.S., made a comment on my post.

I read about about a book a week, which is a lot less than many book bloggers — but enough that characters and storylines start to blur together, and at the end of the year, it's not hard to determine which books are far and away my favorites.

Tell us about your favorite book of the year.

Click here to browse the list of this year's contributors — and learn about the favorite books of a few of your favorite authors.

• Adelle Waldman — author of one of my favorite books of the year — wrote this thought - provoking article over on Page - Turner about the tendency of writers to use female beauty without adequate consideration.

Favorite travel book (s): If you're asking about travel guides I have three favorites: Rough Guides, Lovely Planet and, not only because they were Joseph Rosendo's Travelscope's underwriter for five years, D.K. Eyewitness Travel Guides — amazing images.

The idea for the book came about when Francia's five - year - old cousin asked her to write a recipe for her favorite pastry snack.

Apropos Ray's comments on my two excursions into climate (and he's one of my favorite commentators on climate subjects), that Atlantic Monthly cover story was written nine years ago and the book about five years ago.

This is the same NPR which permitted book excerpts from Laurie David featuring a false accolade about Ross Gelbspan, the same radio network which allowed Gelbspan to prominently mention his favorite leaked memo «accusation» bits where zero time was allotted for rebuttal, the same radio network which interviewed him more than one time, and the same radio network which years later featured Al Gore's bit about the infamous «smoking gun leaked industry memo phrase» «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,» where the NPR writer offered not one word of curiosity about that awkward phrase.

The incredible thing about technology is that it has the effect of leveling the playing field. At one time there was this misguided notion that all attorneys that ended up working for the top law firms were somehow genetically superior to the rest of the legal world. As demonstrated by my favorite book in this last year Outliers, and this post The Outliers of the Law — the old sytem of selecting the best and brightest has no actual grounding in finding the true outliers. In this post by Jordan Furlong supports this idea that the «best and brightest» is a fallacy handed to those attorneys with the best pedigrees and economic situation rather than those most likely to be exceptional attorneys. Don't expect to see this changing any time soon.

Come tell me on facebook or twitter about your favorite books this year!

We recently purchased a fixer upper, but for four years we lived the same rental house and I wrote most of my favorite blog posts there, wrote a book about decorating, and learned to be content to rent.