"Wanting to be happy or joyful all the time is not very realistic," study author Maya Tamir, a psychology professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, told HuffPost.
When I was still an science fiction and fantasy newbie, I was surprised when I stumbled across readers in forums opining largely that fantasy by women was just fluffy romance, unlike the grittier, more "realistic" male authors.
The characters' appearances and personalities were very realistic but the author didn't give much away about the surroundings and experiences, she only wrote about their thoughts and actions.
The results are realistic because the author made all communications to students including lecture notes, feedback and class cancellations through Twitter.
Manga-News praised the series' introduction for being more realistic than the author's previous work, Suzuka, and the plot which was described as eventful.
So, it's simply not realistic for indie authors to expect untold riches from the sales of one book.
The author is realistic and handles sadness and passion with equal insight.
He is the author of "Realistic Image Synthesis using Photon Mapping", AK Peters 2001.
A realistic portrait of the author, employing the motif of a David Levine caricature: an enormous head on a vestigial body.
