"Now you'd find it very difficult to establish a reasonable book on Nicola's successor".
On the other hand, to give her her due, she is jolly good on magic mushrooms and the art of making bombs out of silly putty, and this is quite a reasonable book of a fairly standard variety.
For this reasonable reason, each of her books has a different look.
And if you maintain a library what is a reasonable percentage of books read to books owned?
Random House and Lyon quite sensibly refused the offer, perhaps clinging to the reasonable hope that books should spark discussions about ideas, rather than about body parts.
I wasted my time and money on reasonable things: secondhand books, dramatic spices, jackets that I hoped might transform me into the well-groomed and self-possessed novelist I still intend, one day, to become.
I didn't have a ticket for the show, but found a reasonable hotel and booked in for five nights.
Maybe it's not possible to create reasonable female comic-book superheroes, since their origins are so tangled up with magazines for men.
If so, material abundance has been, on balance, good for us, and Lindsey's measured cheerfulness is, like his scintillating book, reasonable.
"Maybe it's not possible to create reasonable female comic-book superheroes, since their origins are so tangled up with magazines for men," Lepore speculates.
