by Bruce Kirby, author of the books Sand Dance and The Dolphin's Tooth.
Adding resistance can be done by doing exercises more slowly and focused, doing exercises on one side of body (i.e. one arm pushups, one legged squats), or wearing a backpack with weight in it from books, sand or whatever!
Authors must accept with philosophical fatalism the luck of the draw when The Times assigns their books for review, and that reality hit me anew when I read the Book Review's assessment of my book "Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition" (June 26).
The stranger, who was a Scot from the Orkney Islands, told me the book was called the Book of Sand, "because neither the book nor the sand has any beginning or end".
Next month: back to art, then on to comic books, photography, sand, moths, sunsets, and the inside of your eye.
She grew to see her stories of the March sisters as "moral pap for the young," and the books certainly sand off (partially at the insistence of publishers) some of the darker or less societally acceptable aspects of Alcott's own youth, on which Little Women was based.
In "The Book of Sand" (1975), Jorge Luis Borges describes a volume of inconceivably thin leaves in which no page is the first and no page the last, so that wherever you open it there is a different story, written in various indecipherable scripts.
A scientist imagines what he would find in Borges's lost "Book of Sand".
Mr. Cohen, in his list of Borges stories that prefigured the World Wide Web, neglected to mention "The Book of Sand".
One day I went to the Argentine National Library, on Mexico Street, and I lost the Book of Sand on one of the basement's musty shelves.
With Deborah Treisman April 2, 2018 Mohsin Hamid joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "The Book of Sand," by Jorge Luis Borges, from a 1976 issue of the magazine.
