In a chapter-length rant, she even lays New Age religion at the First Lady's door.
Exhaustion, however, manifestly sets in, and after disposing of Tolstoy's flight from wife and home and his death at Astapovo station in under a page, she seems happier writing a chapter-length epilogue on the Soviet handling of his legacy.
Readers hoping for a chapter-length "Immunology 101" course would be advised to turn elsewhere (1, 2 ) The phased stages of clinical trials are covered in excellent chapters by accomplished authors with practical insights.
In "The Iron Whim," the average chapter length is eight pages, and much of the book is simply a miscellany, a collection of anecdotes.
I would take other books off the shelf to check my chapter length was OK.
That's about the maximum average chapter length for achieving the potato-chip effect, that momentum that drives you to keep nibbling away compulsively until you've finished the whole thing without even really meaning to.
At first I was quite annoyed with how long each chapter was - on average six pages – purely because I've personally never liked short chapters, but the more I read the more I began to appreciate the short, yet fitting chapter length as I began to see that it helped each chapter fit its title.
At times, Schmidle's work, a collection of chapter-length anecdotes, coheres little better than Pakistani politics.
He offers a series of chapter-length biographies to illustrate this idea.He tells the story of Frances Perkins, who rather than looking inside herself to find a purpose in life asked what the world was calling her to do.
The popular London mayor and former editor of The Spectator magazine chronicles his city's rise through a series of chapter-length profiles of artists, politicians, warriors and other notables.
One of Shlaes's chapter-length detours deals with a junket that, in 1927, on the good ship President Roosevelt (named after Theodore), carried a self-designated "unofficial American trade-union delegation" to investigate and report on conditions in the Soviet Union.
