How did that test your faith and your ability to put a book like this out?
The danger with a book like this is that it ends up lost in abstract discussion of difficult subjects.
The Diane Arbus Estate, protected by her daughter Doon, makes it hard to reproduce her photographs (the book like this article has none).
Orlean writes sentences that make you ache with longing for moments in the past, those by which each person individually defines happiness, whether it be the comforts of a beloved pet or the joy of reading a great book like this one.
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But for those who do like the book this is the day of celebration.
His whole career, like this book, can be taken as a plea for individuality, for not going with the crowd.
Mr. ALEXANDER: I'd like this book to really give black women something to celebrate themselves in which they should walk away with lot of pride about the diversity of their beauty and the diversity of their hair as something that--I think when a black woman comes into the world, hair is something that is discussed in her life very early on.
What I like about this book is, first, it has layers of resources to help you do more homework and sleuthing.
This book, like all his others, is teeming with arguments and ideas.
This book is like a long leisurely talk with a cherished grandmother.
"Usually in a case like this one book lands at No. 1 and stays there, " said Robert Gottlieb, chairman of Trident Media Group, a New York literary agency.
In this light, credible investigative stories, like the kind promoted in this book, are increasingly important for highlighting the continuing importance of professional journalistic work.
This past weekend someone told me to write a book because he's never seen anything like this.
This book is so good that rivals in the field will, like this reviewer, put it down not knowing whether to feel inspiration or despair.
Ms. LINNEY: (As Wendy Savage) Yeah, like you can put this book aside for a minute while dad dies.
Inevitably, this book reads at times like a macabre form of survival guide.
Hannah Elliott: Yoko, as you re-read this book does it seem like it was you who wrote it or is it like reading the work of someone else, since it was so long ago?
But even putting aside the fact that pre-war America is one of the richest settings of the modern era, in terms of potential for rich narrative, this book just feels more like fantasy than historical fiction.
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The promotions page is also littered with fake 5 star reviews to make this look like a great book.
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Like so many others, this book is longer on diagnosis than on prescription.
But that part of being the iPod, being that soundtrack, I know Felicia Pride, in a way, that's how this book started - you were like listening to the tunes on your iPod.
Ken Kalfus' extraordinary first book, "Thirst, " starts out like this, with two stories ("Bouquet" and the title story) that sketch the confounding of a repressed Irish au pair in Paris as she encounters a seductive Algerian boy.
But unlike so many pretentious works of fiction today, Estleman's hardboiled, Detroit-based tales of intrigue, wrongdoing and, ultimately, justice develop three-dimensional, often unforgettable characters (among them in this book, a Larry Flynt-like pornographer) set in finely wrought, factually described settings.
For the most part those virtues are on keen display in this book, which in fox-like fashion does not attempt to construct a grand account of human prediction but simply to identify some of the common ways in which people make mistakes and some of the methods by which they could improve.
The logic was: this should be as much like a book as possible.
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Now you can read more stories like this one in the first ever StoryCorps book, Listening Is An Act of Love.
If you are interested in self-publishing go try a sample of this book via Kindle, see if you like it or not.
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