Sentence examples for a worthy book from inspiring English sources
She is writing a transgressive fairy tale, not a worthy book for a school list.
"Arrival City," a worthy book in so many ways, is too often flat and dully reportorial, in a manner that is wearying over the long haul.
Obviously no one book would ever manage that (although for my activist aunt, Adichie's We Should All Be Feminists comes closer than most) but the idea of a worthy book has stayed with me.
I was glad that such a worthy book won the Waterstone's children's book prize, a realistic story with a teenager's guilty torment at the heart of the story rather than yet another paranormal love story.
As a Samuel Johnson prize judge this year, I reckon that any one of the books on the shortlist – from The Pike (Fourth Estate), Lucy Hughes-Hallett's winner, to A Sting in the Tale (Cape), by Dave Goulson – is a worthy book of the year; and the whole range is a tribute to the state of non-fiction publishing in the UK.
There have been moments in my life where I pursued peace, that quiet and submissive serenity that one feels tucked away with a worthy book and fine Pinot.
"Weisgall has written a valuable, worthy book," Helen Schulman said here in 1999.
In most cases, of course, translation would be an exercise in futility -- jargon-jugglers are rarely capable of disciplined thought -- but I suspect there is a genuinely worthy book lurking somewhere in the midst of "The Cowboy and the Dandy," which contains unexpectedly shrewd comments on such varied figures as Muddy Waters and Willa Cather.
White, a professor of public administration at Louisiana State University and a biographer of Huey Long, commits a single sin in this worthy book: a biography of a famously funny man should be funny.
Ms. Perry's "How to Stay Sane" is an intelligent and worthy book, filled with sensible advice about how to understand ourselves more fully.
One of the great things about running Flashlight Worthy Book Recommendations -- a website full of hundreds of lists of great books -- is the new way in which we see the calendar.
