We were unaware of this booking until the repair company called me that morning to book a time to visit.
The final, focusing on the characteristics of different natural environments, seemed to be lifted straight from the book that had been so important to me in my adolescence.
To a degree that surprised me, they liked to quiz me about text-book-aberrant behavior and about my unhappy childhood, thinking, once they heard the stories, that this was the way to my heart.
Ms. BLACKBURN: I think, for me, one of the things that shocked me and led me to want to write a book about Billie Holiday was because every time you pick up a CD or a record or a biography, before they've even begun anything else about her, there was a mention of this drug element in her life.
It was during one of these later meetings with Gen Petraeus that he introduced me to Mrs Broadwell, who at that time was working on her book about him and with whom, it emerged last week, he was having an affair.
This subject is dear to me, and one that I covered in my book, Life 2.0.
While reading it onboard, it occurred to me that someone else I know would find the book interesting.
Halfway through the book, it occurred to me that the flip side of all these great ideas would be a list of ideas that were strangled before they had a chance to develop.
And, in fact, I later found almost those exact words in a book that is now dear to me, by the same sailor, cited by the first man, who had written of the gifts of the sea.
But months later, after the letter arrived and I traced its arc and came to land with a soft thud in an enchanted forest, and after I had listened to all the stories contained in this book and written them down for you, that one story came back to me.
When I got to Washington in 1993, in the spring of that year, from Moscow, a colleague of mine handed me that book -- it has come out the year before -- as I began to cover politics, and it was the best read imaginable.
It seems to me that some of the stuff that you do in your book "Dr. Ro's Ten Secrets to Livin' Healthy" is really about trying to embrace your physical self and challenge your physical self, even though it may come in different sizes.
That was one of the purposes for me to write this book.
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Of course the book jacket of Snobs alerted me to the fact that Fellowes already had a successful track record beyond his first novel.
One resolution in particular nags at me this year: the desire to start writing the book that has been kicking around in my head for the past two years.
At the time, all sorts of people were telling me that I needed to put quotes on the back cover of the book.
As I sat down, he graciously walked me through a book that was produced a year ago to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the D:All Things Digital conference.
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As a young boy who loved literature, I had no book at hand that spoke my own language back to me.
Yesterday my dentist asked me if there was a short and sweet book I could recommend to him that would help him establish a framework for his thinking on matters economic.
I've made no secret when Josh approached me about being a character in the strip that it was my lifelong dream to be a comic book character.
Once I understood the source of my discomfort, I resisted the urge to drop a name or tell people I had just given a talk or written a book or something else to identify a solid role for myself that would make me look and feel good.
She'd been working on a book, "How to Become an American in 100 Films" and told me that finishing was a challenge because she wasn't sure she wanted to include modern flicks.
Whether a book of that nature, the impact it has is sort of not for me to decide.
It came as no surprise to me that I would find the traits of creative leaders in the characters in the film (I knew the book, of course), but I was pleased to see how beautifully rich the lessons of leadership could be when played out against a backdrop of Middle Earth where wolves and trolls wait at every turn.
To know that the book has touched the lives of others has been the greatest joy for my father and me.
This approach that the author of the book describes of collaboration with a community in order to make solutions that will really work struck me as being very different than what is presented in KONY 2012.
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Somebody is doing a book about the 10 letters that I get every day, and they came by to talk to me yesterday.
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