Sentence examples for novel reading from inspiring English sources

Why must she spend parts of this already digressive, attenuated novel reading celebrity magazines and eating ice cream?

Monday at 7 30 p.m. Romance novel reading group, with Donna Dietrich, featuring a discussion of Julia Quinn's "Offer From a Gentleman".

Nersesian sustains the staccato, almost manic pace of this scene throughout the novel; reading "Unlubricated" can make you feel like a commuter catapulting herself down the stairs to squeeze onto the A train before the doors close.

The year's worth of sprightly incidents that follows barely amounts to a plot, the novel reading more like a US television comedy – complete with recurring characters, limited sets, badinage and chat, episodes often ending with a tag-scene moral homily.

Although it is supposed to be a YA novel, reading The Westing Game felt, to me, like the most adult experience I'd had as a reader up to that point.

Though Stuart and I don't play golf at all and not much tennis, we figured that we could, at the very least, loll around on a couple of chaises in the shade of a palm or a coconut tree on the beach, and indulge in some competitive novel reading.

The novel reads like a roman clef.

The novel reads like a Can This Marriage Be Saved?

Elsewhere, the novel reads as if conflict has been deliberately evaded.

The novel reads like a perfect, deliberate inversion of "The House of Mirth".

To me, the novel reads as one long cry: How to live?