Sentence examples for quest to read from inspiring English sources
The so-called biblio-memoir was a feature of 2014 and February will bring a new addition to the genre in the form of Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer, in which Ann Morgan embarks on a quest to read a book from every country (Harvill Secker, February).
In her quest to "read absolutely everything," Keira Knightley picks up Bernhard Schlink's "The Reader".
But utility companies, whether water, gas, oil or electric, regularly send out troops to dodge maniacal dogs and inadvertently furrow lawns in their quest to read tiny dials on meters that are often underground or hidden in crawl spaces.
Arranging his chapters alphabetically according to entries in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Jacobs humorously recalls his quest to read all 32 volumes (44 million words), and describes the venture's effects on his marriage and his complicated relationship with his father.
Having completed my quest to read a book from every country in 2012 – with the help of bibliophiles all over the planet, who recommended, sent and in some cases even wrote and translated things especially for me– I thought the hardest part of my project was over.
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In my quest to learn more about Stewart, I just read the book.
Too often, in the quest to improve reading scores, history and reading are pitted against each other in a zero-sum game so any time spent on history/social studies detracts from the effort to improve reading scores.
Aaaargh! – they're actually reading, though, of course, it is perfectly possible to be caught up in the world of Beast Quest without actually bothering to read a word of any of it, because, by the extraordinary process of playground osmosis, stories are somehow absorbed through the ether during the infinitely more important business of card swapping.
You never see a scared, spotty, doubtful teenage girl who wants to be noble and has a quest and is trying to read books and trying to do something, who doesn't have any friends and only hangs out with her sisters.
An emphasis on the arts' utility in the quest to reach math and reading benchmarks may seem politically smart, but the science it rests on turns out to be shaky.
