" 'The Rose Grower' is a lovely, meticulously researched first novel," Joanne Harris said here in 2000.
"The Rose Grower" is a lovely, meticulously researched first novel that evokes the beginnings of the Terror in crisp, elegant, compassionate prose.
Lovely Umayam, a research analyst on the nuclear security team at the nonpartisan Stimson think tank, said that Centerra might be overlooking a fundamental aspect of security culture.
She readily admits that it is far too long - "I would have liked another six months to make it shorter" - but it took her four years, involved a huge amount of research and her "lovely, lovely" patient editor was anxious to get it published.
Oh, the research is lovely.
Now Foden's conspicuously thorough research, the lovely African flashbacks and the many meteorological references all come together dynamically.
"It's a lovely, lovely piece of research," says music psychologist David Huron of Ohio State University, Columbus, who was not involved in the study.
If you really wish to change your present bachelor status to that of a committed, perhaps (yikes) married man, you must halt pursuing the truly unavailable far away from home and research some lovelies — right here in your own backyard.
The surreal descriptions of pornography plots in this week's fiction piece, Roberto Bolaño's "Prefiguration of Lalo Cura," had me researching images of lovely nudes, porn-film sets, and Mexican brothels.
It's classic Furst – elegantly written, faultlessly researched, full of lovely details such as the illicit rebetiko music in the clubs where Zannis goes to smoke hashish, and the Siemens teleprinter in his office.
