Sentence examples for taste for books from inspiring English sources

Morningside has given her older daughter "a taste for books," Ms. Levy said.

John was provincial and aggressively class-conscious; he derided her taste for books and her writing ambitions.

But as he develops a taste for books, a little smile appears, and soon he's stuffing whole libraries into a gaping maw big enough to rival that of one of Bacon's screaming popes.

Five weeks into it and I'm in the lead, having knocked off about 1,400 pages: The Love Wife by Gish Jen; two mysteries; and Ji Chaozhu's The Man on Mao's Right, which is reviving my pre-parenthood taste for books about China's Cultural Revolution.

While the parasites munched at my skin, I lost my taste for food, books, anything.

Former associates describe him as a loner with a taste for history books and classical music.

By then, I was in my twenties and in a way I had lost my taste for comic books.

The mercantile spirit lives on, too: Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, the Nordics and the Baltics share a taste for balanced books and free trade.

In the service, he read furiously, discovering a taste for "long books that I'd heard were difficult: Proust and Dostoevsky were glad tasks for me", and developing an unlikely passion for Evelyn Waugh.

Indeed, it is probable that Frances Trollope did quite as much if not considerably more than Kinglake to foster the English taste for humorous books of travel during the Victorian era.

When authorities discovered their taste for comic books, media attention focused on the emerging crime comics genre as an influence on juvenile delinquency.