Sentence examples for books hard from inspiring English sources

His Thomas Cromwell is like Hilary Mantel's books: hard to read yet impossible to put down.

There is little or no physics; there are few of the tangential flights of fancy or, say, repeated child-rape scenarios that make his bigger books hard work.

After "Goodbye to a River," two other books, "Hard Scrabble" and "From a Limestone Ledge," formed what became known as the Brazos Trilogy and cemented his reputation as a writer of note.

In one calm early moment that almost made me want to stand up and cheer, the whole family sit in silence around the fire, intently reading their books – hard books such as Middlemarch and The Brothers Karamazov.

Shaun has two autobiographical books – Hard Time and Party Time – if you want to read some more about his life.

Kids opposed to more traditional learning are often looking for an escape -- video games, comic books, hard drugs.

It has a smart selection of children's books, hard-to-find magazines and gay fiction, and the comfy chairs make for a welcome midday break.

The lesson, then, is to make text books harder to read, not easier.

"A tougher crisis that hit people's pocket books harder could have helped us," he noted dryly.

Beware of anyone who tries to make books harder to get at.

"Frankly, I found the book hard to read," she says.