When it comes to fiction, Tim Winton's Cloudstreet is probably the must-read novel, although I thought Breath was brilliant at making sense of the joy and wonder of surfing to people who have never ridden a wave.
He says he has never read a novel and told his staff he'd rather hear about any problems in person than read a report.
When we read a novel or watch a movie, we understand that we are spectators only.
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Fewer than 50% of UK children aged eight to 17 read a novel outside class every month, research suggests.
It staggers me that we can have a head of government who hasn't read a novel or play or poem since high school.
To make sure that children don't stumble into a disturbing story, Cindy Hudson, author of "Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs, " suggests that parents read the novel alongside them.
Ms. Benathan first became interested in Richard when she read a novel that contradicted accounts of Richard's villainous ways, taught in school history, and decided these were lies propagated by Henry Tudor, Richard's successor.
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To read the above passage in isolation is to perhaps glean from it uncertainty on the part of Fellowes about the good or bad of disruptive economic change, but to read the novel in full is to see that Fellowes sides with Schumpeter.
The Kite Runner is brisk and bland, but if you've read the novel, you know it has a great melodramatic hook: As a boy, the Afghan narrator stood by and did nothing when his little friend, the son of his father's servant, was raped by bullies.
And as usual, my annual re-read of the novel did not disappoint.
My college boyfriend the same one who took me to Niagara once refused to speak to me for a full day because I declined to hike in the Rockies with him and instead read a Russian novel in the car.
They read the occasional Oprah novel, fashion magazines, and Modern Bride, with no encouragement from me.
The novel was read 18 million times.
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CoeSo if I tell you that I have read his most recent novel, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, and that my wife is now reading it, please take that as a recommendation in lieu of a more conventional review.
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The novel demands to be read like this, as a fable, for while it roots around in the stench and swill of life, it is at the same time a highly figurative tale about truth versus fact, about meaning, and the power of language both to carry and destroy it.
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Conceptual artists in Houston and animators in Japan and South Korea are now at work on 26 half-hour episodes of Mutineer's Moon, based on a sci-fi pulp novel that Ledford and Greenfield read a decade ago.
Martin's fantasy novel "A Dance With Dragons" finished the book, and spent an average of 20 hours reading it, a relatively fast read for a 1, 040-page novel.
Salon book critic Laura Miller picks novel Bangkok Tattoo as her top summer read.
Davidson's novel was made into an audio book read by actress Joanna Lumley in 1998.
These days, I still read the London Times, I cherish every classic novel I purchase, but occasionally, just occasionally, I might be found on a tube train, reading a tabloid, totally oblivious to all the shocking headlines.
She and Andy, who is two and a half years younger, have retained a childhood habit of sharing books, and soon both of them were obsessively parsing the novel and calling friends to insist that they read it.
For a novel and somewhat dispiriting theory of economic divergence, read A Farewell to Alms, published this year, by Gregory Clark of the University of California at Davis.
But the novel, initially a flop, was not much read or even appreciated until after World War I, long after Ryder had finished the painting, so it is almost certain, scholars agree, that the biblical tale was the artist's sole starting point.
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O'Brien became acquainted with Ferreras when a friend recommended she read the book "B as in Beauty, " a fiction novel written by Ferreras about a young Latina woman who struggles with self-esteem issues.
Recently I gave - I finished a draft of a novel, and I gave it to my husband to read, and about two weeks later I said to him oh, you know, it's just complete garbage.
Newspaper writers have learned to color everyday events so well that to read them will give posterity a truer picture than the historic or descriptive novel could do.
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