Ally read novels, wrapped up in her duvet beside the central-heating radiator in her bedroom, borrowing them from the center and the public library, sometimes finishing one and starting another without even changing her position or getting up to make coffee, like an addict.
Have you read any serious novels lately that paint a sympathetic picture of business people or entrepreneurs?
When I was in college and I was young, you read these great novels that have these ambiguous, artsy endings what happened to who, where did the bad guy end up, is the couple staying together?
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We can get a PhD in philosophy or read grocery store romance novels or both.
Mawle - who is partially deaf and dyslexic - explains that he did not read Lawrence's novels as he finds reading "quite strenuous".
The novels still read thrillingly today (here's a tip: the best of them is "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"), but there is no question that when the movies came along, they overshadowed Fleming's ink-on-paper volumes.
To appreciate just how much so, one only has to read old hard-boiled detective novels and English manor-house mysteries.
And we know it may or may not be great for reading novels and also possibly dangerous for those who read in bed.
Novels are done because people don't read anymore.
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Though Mr. O'Hara's once-popular novels and short stories are no longer widely read, he was famous in 1940 for his well-tuned ear, and the characters in "Pal Joey" sound like they stepped out of a real-life alley after throwing a couple of punches.
First I read comic books, then adventure books, a few romantic novels, the Spanish literature she was studying at school, as well as the Catalan, Manelic and the wolf, and all that.
Those discussions come disguised in adventure novels so gripping that they cry out to be read in one gulp then quickly reread to savor the details skipped in the first gallop through the pages.
Not novels or absorbing non-fiction books you like to read on airplanes.
Many popular Chinese novels have begun to appear online, where they can be read in their entirety without charge.
"This is a list of high quality literature that includes five novels in translation which readers might not otherwise get the opportunity to read", said Dublin Lord Mayor Naoise O'Muiri.
"When they write those novels, they share their secret, personal problems, and when they read by mobile phones, they can hide what they are reading, " explained Toshie Takahashi, an associate professor of media studies at Rikkyo University in Tokyo.
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We are told that his parents the eye-and-ear surgeon William Wilde and the poet Jane Francesca Wilde, who wrote under the name Speranza accumulated mountains of books at their home, in Dublin, and that young Oscar habitually read in bed, his mind ravished by Irish folktales, ancient-Greek texts, Romantic poems, and gothic novels.
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