Sentence examples for calling a book from inspiring English sources

Is there a more backhanded compliment than calling a book "a good beach read"?

The female counterpart to your penis is not (spoiler alert) our vagina, and calling a book about the female sex "Vagina" is like calling a book about the male sex "Scrotum".

By Meredith Blake June 10 , 2010Is there a more backhanded compliment than calling a book "a good beach read"?

The object we are accustomed to calling a book is undergoing a profound modification as it is stripped of its physical shell.

It's a trite and overused phrase, and often a dismissive one, like calling a book a mystery or a genre novel; but when a book takes hold and propels you, well, that is something worth noting.

Germaine Greer rightly rejected the word "vagina" some years ago because of its etymological associations with a "swordsheath"; and, despite the best efforts of the writer Inga Muscio, few publishers are going to contemplate calling a book C***.

A group of aunts is called a book club.

Would it be weird to call a book "withholding"?

Not if you want to call a book nonfiction.

People hate spiders, you can't call a book Spiderman".

He wasn't what they call a book manager".