Sentence examples for hard books from inspiring English sources

Those he took most seriously he defined as "hard" books, which sub-divided again between crime stories (usually psychological puzzles) and more general domestic and sexual narratives.

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.

Pick "hard books".

But it can be a hard book to describe.

SOULSAVER (Harcourt, $24), by James Stevens-Arce, is a hard book to categorize.

It is a hard book to read, and even harder to write about, because it is really a child's complaint, with much unfinished business.

"Denial" is a hard book to read, in part because of its subject matter, in part because Ms. Stern's id floats very near the surface.

It's a hard book to describe; whoever wrote "rollicking" on the press release, for instance, should buy a dictionary.

"Valis," the novel, the first and best in a trilogy in which Dick struggled desperately to articulate what he had seen, is a hard book to read, and a harder one to forget.

Inevitably bulky, given its scope, his book is so bloated by asides, digressions, polemics and hobbies that it is positively obese, and this makes it a hard book to review justly.

Kook is a hard book to define: it's fun but also dark, fast-paced but still reflective and joyful with plenty of sadness interspersed.