Sentence examples for slim read from inspiring English sources

Five hundred pages into "The Goldfinch" — and at 784 pages, it's not a slim read — Theo is asked some major questions by one of the book's minor characters, a Russian chauffeur called Guyri: "First question: does God have sense of humor?

To the degree that the hefty celeb becomes an unwitting champion of her weight class, slimming reads as treachery.

This slim novella reads like a poet's almanac... — the sad portents and flights of magic realism seem as natural as the mistral.

From the longlist, Wyl Menmuir's Daphne du Maurier-inflected The Many (Salt £8.99) is a slim and spooky read, while JM Coetzee's The Schooldays of Jesus (Harvill Secker £17.99) is pleasingly baffling, suggesting hidden depths and multiple layers without ever quite revealing them.

It's a deceptively slim volume, easily read in an evening or two.

TAKING A-Level history, way back when, we were all obliged to read a slim volume called "What is history".

Even before I started to read this slim little book, I noticed what a piece of art it was.

I read the slim paperback thinking it would tell me what Pete would be doing in Southeast Asia.

Before meeting Parton I read her slim memoir, Dream More, which included a list of her favourite answers to often-asked questions.

The book distills the author's 25 years of work as a psychoanalyst and more than 50,000 hours of conversation into a series of slim, piercing chapters that read like a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks.

I first read the slim volume in galley form, without any publicity or jacket copy, and I didn't know it was the last of a trilogy -- a "companion," the publisher says, to Lowry's hugely popular novel "The Giver".