Sentence examples for reading marathon from inspiring English sources

While I didn't try to become a novelist until years later, I think sub-consciously, there was something inside me that said, 'What a cool job it would be to be able to make people feel the way I'm feeling right now, reading Marathon Man.'.

I downloaded the app on to my iPod Touch – you can also get it on iPhone and iPad – and when I saw I could read stories offline it began a reading marathon as I commuted between work-experience jobs.

Best crazy moment: The Da Vinci Code reading marathon.

Barack Obama took the oath of office on the same King James Bible that had been used by Abraham Lincoln in 1861.Everlasting lifeIn Britain more than 70 celebratory events are planned, starting with an exhibition at St John's College, Cambridge, and including lectures, reading marathons, symposia, concerts and conferences as far afield as Plymouth and Aberdeen.

The airy beach huts are surprisingly cool once the fans are whirring, and hammocks invite reading marathons.

THE poetry of Alfred Tennyson is the kind of thing Gordon Brown, perhaps Britain's most literate prime minister since Winston Churchill, takes with him on the reading marathons he calls holidays.

On New Year's Day, 1995, Smith and Lenny Kaye appeared at the annual poetry-reading marathon at St. Mark's Church, where they had first performed together in 1971.

Tom Wolfe's iconic characters and social touring call Rand to mind (albeit Rand with a sense of humour), a comparison that Mr Wolfe might not welcome.Both "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" read like marathon screenplays grandiloquent and campy.

You will still need enough time in each sitting for some continuity and understanding, but you need not read in marathon sessions.

The day before the race, I chatted with a former coworker who encouraged me to avoid going out too hard, which echoed the advice I've read about marathons from other runners and marathon race reports.

What I didn't realize was that this five-month marathon reading session would change my understanding of the novel form and force me to see my own writing differently.