Sentence examples for book sums from inspiring English sources

The tagline for Deborah Copaken Kogan's new novel, "The Red Book," sums it up: "There's the story we tell the world, and then there's the real story".

A quote from the book sums her up perfectly: You sing your own song, pumpkin, and you dance your own dance.

Although he never claimed to be truly in the wilderness, his book sums up a beautiful attempt to "simplify, simplify, simplify".

This book sums up perfectly the predicament of the young, not only in the 60s but also in the succeeding years and decades.

Laxmi Hariharan, author of The Many Lives of Ruby Iyer Thought about which book sums up Christmas for me; a bit idiosyncratic perhaps but my mind kept going back to The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

The first piece of advice in the book sums up the madman perfectly: "Do not respect he whom you suspect is doubtful of your intentions towards him".

The subtitle of her book summed up her priorities: "Just your average 28-year-old.

Comments in the museum's guest book summed up the genre's dark appeal.

The title of a 1993 book summed up the situation: "Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered the World".

But speculating about who, if anyone, created us and what lies ahead of us can be intellectually engaging and, as David Eagleman shows in his new book, "Sum," very entertaining too.

David Eagleman's previous book, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, was a delightful collection of short fables, each offering a wish-fulfillment image of life after death in which the wish turns out to contain its own perverse consequences.