Sentence examples for sorting books from inspiring English sources
"They told me, 'White people don't read about black people, black women don't like black men, and black men don't read, so who is going to buy this book?' " Sorting books into rigid categories, said another panelist, president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America John Scalzi, is "neither how it's always been, nor how it should be".
I like the idea (from Daunt's shops) of sorting books into countries: it means that all German novelists, poets and philosophers, all biographies of Nietzsche or Dietrich, all Second World War books and all works of furtive porn or naked flesh published by Taschen (however did they get here?) end up crowded higgledy-piggledy in the same section.
You're tempted towards it because categorising story types – or sorting books into life-affirming or gloom-inducing – is a good deal easier as a way of getting a grip on the experience than trying to juggle 129 different prose styles in your head.
There are indefinitely many ways to sort the books in a library and some are just as useful as others, but there would be no way to begin sorting books were books undifferentiated.
He spends most days sorting books in the storage space.
Today, I'm a volunteer at Housing Works, and I only sort books for a couple hours each week.
On long bookshelves, she said, you could sort books based on size, "like stairs, from high to low.
This is genre fiction at its most basic, of the Grisham, Patterson sort – books that grip but don't abide.
We've read a variety of different sorts of books, biographies, classics, contemporary lit, short stories, medical stories.
These are among my favorite sorts of books.
