Even with my Big Running gear and my Big Running habits, I finished Askwith's book feeling an urgent need to run up the nearest fell, with no watch and no plan.
You're going to have to accept that no, not everyone will like your book, but there will be readers who will stay awake all night to finish your book, feeling a little less alone in the world.
It is hard to read Baum's later Oz books without feeling the exploitation in progress, by a writer who only dimly understands his own masterpiece.
In "Small Apartment," in which a couple shares some sort of anguish at a table in front of two paintings, their fluid, distorted faces are veritable flip books of feeling.
For example, we're in the middle of a little news drought now and our colleague Stanley Fish wrote a nice piece about selling almost all of his books and feeling perfectly fine about it.
There is a certain tactile value to "real" books, just feeling the paper, turning the pages.
Sales began to slump in the '50s, Rehak noted, and the books were feeling a bit dated.
A lack of money for fees and school materials (i.e., uniforms, books, pencils), feeling too old to resume schooling after being away from it for a substantial time, and pregnancy were the main reasons given by participants for dropping out of school.
Most readers will finish this book feeling as if they have actually spent time with human beings.
His actions leave the narrator and moral centre of the book feeling awful, desperate, trapped.
