The result is not just a page-turner but consistently surprising.
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Similarly, "Singers Patti and Tina?" wind up being a PAGE TURNER.
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Under Medina's care, this story is a surprisingly funny page-turner.
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Two journalists have told the story as a bureaucratic page-turner.
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Mr. Burgie married Page Turner in 1956; she died in 2003.
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"The Inner Level" is not a page-turner in the usual sense.
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But it works well on its own terms: It's a page-turner.
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" Monday's selection was the John le Carré page-turner "The Night Manager.
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In spite of its heft, this tome is a real page turner.
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It's a children's book but a really great one, total page turner.
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An 1,100-page novel like "It" can be a breathless page-turner.
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Brett's novel is a rare page turner that avoids the obvious traps.
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If this were a novel, this would be grist for a page-turner.
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It's clearly *written in the stars* that you pick up this page-turner.
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Rebecca Makkai's "The Great Believers" is a page turner about illness and mortality.
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The next page turner you read may not have anything even close to pages.
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It is full of Russian drama and romance and espionage — a real page-turner.
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Our ballot's going to be long, but it's going to be a page-turner.
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Clear your schedule: Atwood has delivered a scary, witty and seriously seductive page-turner.
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This may be an unconventional thriller, but it's still a page turner for that.
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It's no Stephen King page-turner, but that's not why this book was created.
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A slim page-turner, "The Perfect Nanny" can be read in a single, shivery sitting.
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This promises to be a perceptive page-turner, a volume to haunt summer's warm nights.
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In Dr. Mukherjee's skilled hands, the story of this frightening disease became a page-turner.
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In fact, I'm usually very excited to get stuck into an all-consuming page-turner.
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Andrew's bottom line: I read the book in just two sittings — it's a page-turner.
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The prose is vivid and compelling, it's a page-turner without the glaring, manipulative tricks.
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Front Burner Boris Fishman recalls his youth in Belarus in this page-turner with recipes.
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It's Judge's, and even though the title gives away the outcome, it's a page turner.
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Crazy ambition, betrayal, sex, deceit and naked power grabs all make for a page-turner.
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Of the two, "She Said" is the tauter page-turner because it mainly focuses on Weinstein.
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And it's root physical advantage that Naomi Alderman examines in her speculative page-turner The Power.
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One of the big appeals of The Martian was that it was a real page-turner.
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I think she could take my pretty ordinary life and make it into a page turner.
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Grace Notes John Grisham wrote his latest page-turner without visiting the scene of the crime.
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Now Knoll is back with a second page-turner, stomach-churner of a book, The Favorite Sister.
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I read Cooper's book in prison and it's not what you'd call a page-turner or anything.
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It's a page turner all the same, and in some ways more affecting than the other books.
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"The series works like a good page-turner," Neil Genzlinger wrote in a review in The Times.
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"A realistic look at growing up, particularly growing up in the south" makes the page-turner seem boring.
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"My Year of Rest and Relaxation" is a page-turner about a woman who is almost always asleep.
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To readers in search of dark-minded revelations, it will be a page-turner in the wrong way.
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Ms. Bryan-Wilson's research is more than substantial, but her propulsive style makes the book a page-turner.
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It's also a total page-turner — don't let the moniker "classic" dissuade you from reading this uplifting, important book.
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Family Trust is also a zippy page-turner set in Silicon Valley, but Wang focuses on tech's middle class.
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So, for the purposes of this list, we'll classify a "thriller" as a gripping page-turner rimmed by darkness.
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Miracle Creek is a page-turner backed up by big ideas about family and what we'd do for them.
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Ide's crackling page-turner of a debut follows a brilliant loner, IQ, who tackles cases the LAPD won't touch.
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Calling all fans of courtroom dramas and Netflix's shockingly tense show Quicksand: This is the page-turner for you.
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If that makes "The Ferryman" sound like the stage equivalent of a best-selling page turner, well, it is.
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Even more enviable is the rare feat of writing a comedic literary novel that is also a page-turner.
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It's an "I can't wait to tell you, listen to this!" page turner, dropping one aha moment after another.
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The page-turner occasionally flips a page from the score, until he spaces out and messes up a cue.
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The result is a novel of ideas that reads like smart pulp, a page-turner of craft and calibration.
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I reread it in confusion instead of with the pleasure I felt through the rest of this elegant page-turner.
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Remember, this was a novel, meant to be a page-turner with deeper lessons on the need for political reform.
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"Educated" by Tara Westover, available at Amazon, $13.99Give them a page-turner to add some excitement to their holiday vacation.
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But the story often gets bogged down in relationship details, never gathering enough momentum to become a true page-turner.
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This gripping debut about a Mexican-American misfit is alive and crackling — a gritty tale wrapped in a page-turner.
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But incessant name-dropping aside — which tends to detract from his gripping narrative — Holiday has written one helluva page-turner.
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The pair documents their extensive hunt in Looking for Lenin, a page-turner of a photo book recently published by FUEL.
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Published in 1942, this page-turner about the demimonde of a Midwestern city examines the rules and realities governing female behavior.
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At a piano concert, the performer always has a shadow that moves only when prompted by the score: the page-turner.
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"The Dry" is a breathless page-turner, driven by the many revelations Ms. Harper dreams up for Falk during his visit.
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If you're looking for a page-turner, a good rule of thumb is to steer clear of books based on doctoral dissertations.
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There is a slightly breezy overlooking of travel logistics and the realities of war, but the story is a colorful page-turner.
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I'm late to it, but: Fredrik Backman's page-turner "Beartown," about a Swedish youth-league hockey team in a dying forest town.
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More than anything it is a hell of a good tale from the first word to the last, a literary page-turner.
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R. Wasserman's Girls on Fire is a dark and exhilarating page-turner; she returns with a psychological thriller that sounds equally riveting.
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This macroeconomic picture has implications for that page turner known as the "Quarterly Inflation Report", also released by the bank on Thursday.
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Conversely, I was early to William Christie's riveting new page-turner of a historical spy novel, "A Single Spy," out next month.
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Sometimes reading someone else's pain is the best breakup salve, and this deeply sad and compulsive page-turner is definitely in that vein.
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It's like a combination of The Body and The Running Man — a page turner that's also a brilliantly written depiction of teenage companionship.
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Nos4a2 is huge, but never unwieldy, and if you're looking for a page turner, it's one of the very best options out there.
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It's a breathtaking page-turner of a novel that covers some very 2019 themes, all while set against the beautiful backdrop of Kamchatka.
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Alas, the story was a page-turner, and I was finished in a day — forcing me to buy the just-published sequel, RIGHTEOUS.
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That's a 98% discount on 13 hours of life-changing lessons that will help turn any book you touch into an unputdownable page-turner.
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For the most part, "The Wonder" is a fine, fact-based historical novel, an old-school page turner (I use the phrase without shame).
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"The Trials of Nina McCall" is a consistently surprising page-turner, and at times I found myself wishing Stern had lingered over particular details.
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Do you have any suggestions of a page turner that will also generate a good discussion among such a disparate group of avid readers?
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In this video Mr. Herscher constructs and demonstrates "Page Turner," his contraption that uses 19 steps to turn the front page of a newspaper.
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" The Great Alone Kristin Hannah "In this pressure cooker of a page-turner, a damaged Vietnam vet moves his family to the wilds of Alaska.
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It's a concept that could be sort of naff in the wrong hands, but in King's hands it's a suspenseful and lightning-fast page-turner.
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Inferno — the latest film adaption of a Dan Brown page-turner — is nominally about a plague that threatens to wipe out half of the world's population.
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Like Shout, T Kira Madden's memoir Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is a fearless examination of a strange childhood – and a total page-turner.
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It's not easy to take a story familiar to almost everyone and turn it into a gripping page-turner, but that's what these writers have done.
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In his play "Radio Delirio," Mr. Magania narrates the tale of Cristian Leu, a man disguised as a page-turner working hard to not be noticed.
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Such a whopping undertaking could have easily turned maudlin, strident or just plain eye-glazing; instead, Pickert has produced an evenhanded, powerful and unflinching page-turner.
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It bristles with life, feeling, argument; it's sexy and cerebral and romantic and — somewhat surprisingly for a book of poetry — a bit of a page-turner.
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Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift is an epic page-turner that fuses magical realism and sci-fi together for an utterly engrossing, centuries-spanning Zambian epic.
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The page turner was also an opportunity for Mikes to expand his skills when it came to designing and 3D-printing custom parts on a tight budget.
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The empirical findings in "Everybody Lies" are so intriguing that the book would be a page-turner even if it were structured as a mere laundry list.
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In a lighthearted, gentlemanly touch, he encouraged his hard-working page turner, Olivia Porada, to take a bow after the three singers had finished their zarzuela encores.
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The book becomes a page turner once she is on the job, whether with Easy or another unforgettable character — a Buddhist vegetarian ex-militant — at her side.
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Preston has written this page-turner like a political thriller, with urgent dialogue, well-staged scenes, escalating tension and plenty of cliffhangers, especially once the trial begins.
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Y'oughta. It's a page-turner and almost literal barnburner, about an arsonist couple and their five-month campaign of terror on Accomack County, Va., back in 2012.
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It's certainly a clear explanation of the movement — here called "Just Us for Justice" — but it's also a page turner brimming with pop culture references and humor.
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But this page-turner from Sally Rooney is a hard to put down, so it's sure to get your friends in the groove of reading every day.
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This is probably the only calculus book ever written that can truthfully be called a page-turner, which speaks to Strogatz's strength as a writer and teacher.
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In this follow-up page-turner, wisdom is added from Cameron Herold, a bestselling author and widely respected business coach, using the Miracle Morning framework as a foundation.
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Page Turner and DeRon Jenkins, a former NFL cornerback, dated for years, went through a "traumatic" break up, and then came back together — this time, as business partners.
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The compiling of dictionaries may seem a quiet topic, but this memoiristic account of the lexicographer's art, by an editor at Merriam-Webster, is an unlikely page-turner.
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Nguyen's debut is at once a suspenseful page-turner, a shrewd critique of startup culture, and a poignant examination of the interplay between humanity and high tech. —A.
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To call this a page-turner is to minimize how brilliant this action-packed, tightly written, and incredibly smart (especially in terms of social commentary) this book is.
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History, biography, nature explained and unfolded, and even if you don't care two figs about the migratory patterns of the prothonotary warbler, there's always the next page-turner.
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Some of the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High are planning on using their newfound star power to get their gun control message out ... through a good page-turner.
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In celebration of National Pet Month, Book of the Month, an online book subscription service, curated a cute and studious list of pets who love a good page turner.
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Nevertheless, through a mix of dogged field and laboratory studies, scientists have lately made progress in delineating the weasel playbook, and it's a page turner, or a page burner.
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And so he deploys his skills to make the history of the National Weather Service's ability to predict hurricanes — and its difficulty in predicting tornadoes — into a page-turner.
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Mood: Startled (six-year-old's arm got ripped off!), embarrassed (alone in a Starbucks), excited, (I think the last true page-turner I read was My Little Phony in 19853
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Matt Richtel's DEAD ON ARRIVAL, (William Morrow/HarperCollins, $26.99) is an intellectual thrill ride that tucks searing social critique into the Trojan horse of a save-the-world page-turner.
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Though its novel framing device was the initial hook, the raw, gripping story, about a family learning to live in the face of unspeakable grief, made it a page-turner.
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Our reviewer called it "a page turner brimming with pop culture references and humor," and it has been on this paper's best-seller list since it was published in 2017.
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R. Last year, I fell in love with Gailey's page-turner Magic for Liars, so I was psyched to hear we'd be getting a new book from them so soon.
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Napolitano's dual-timeline structure turns "Dear Edward" into a suspenseful page-turner with sprinkles of mystery, satisfying our rubbernecking urge to see the unfolding of a disaster and its aftermath.
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"American Rust," by Philipp Meyer, because his last historical novel, "The Son," was such an amazingly well-written, violently beautiful page-turner that I have to read what came before.
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Girls Like Us isn't just a page-turner; it also examines class, race, and power on Long Island through the point of view of a protagonist who straddles those lines.
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As she begins to read Edward's book – a tense page-turner about a family under siege by hoodlums on the highway late at night – we read it right along with her.
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CNN obtained a press statement from Little Brown about the upcoming book, which they describe as a "gripping page-turner" centered on a former secret operative being hunted by the government.
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Big Little Lies, based on the 2014 book of the same name by Liane Moriarty, has done a fantastic job developing the page-turner into a binge-worthy limited HBO series.
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From memoirs that'll make you laugh out loud to creepy thrillers that'll keep you on your toes, this list has all the inspiration you need to find that perfect page-turner.
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But for the true science nerd who also craves a page turner there's Nadine Burke Harris's THE DEEPEST WELL: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27).
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Serious sequential-art aficionados may find "Spectacular Sisterhood" a compulsive page-turner that keeps one going to see what overlooked creations Nicholson has freed from the phantom zone of forgotten culture.
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Your eyes will probably tire out whether you're reading a physical book or an e-book, but Dr. Malhotra says that there are some advantages to a good old-fashioned page-turner.
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Although their writing style does not quite qualify the book as a page-turner, TPD is essentially organised as a chronological narrative that is free of jargon and is sometimes outright funny.
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Those are the books that have mattered and have stuck with me, not the books that were good just as a page turner or just as a brief exposure to an idea.
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The insider look in "Bolshoi Confidential" is incredibly rich and makes this book a page-turner; the moment it steps outside the Bolshoi, Mr. Morrison's narrative becomes somewhat cruder and less compelling.
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Buy it here >>In Jane Shemilt's shocking page-turner, "The Playground," the lives of three couples converge when their children end up in the same tutoring group, with unexpected and dangerous consequences.
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Her careful balance of the hard-bitten with the heartfelt is what elevates "Long Bright River" from entertaining page-turner to a book that makes you want to call someone you love.
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At first, the many little sections might put off a few readers, but soon they generate a great deal of narrative tension, and "The Mercy Seat" becomes a well-timed page turner.
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Click here to view original GIFGIF: Alex MikesNot since Rick and Morty's butter-passing robot has there been a more hyper-specific, purpose-built device than perhaps Alex Mikes' automatic Kindle page turner.
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Hugo's extraordinary feat is to deliver "an intricately realistic portrait" of France after Napoleon, "a dramatic page-turner" packed with suspense—and a demonstration of "generous moral principles" that readers still find appealing today.
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In this way Apt Pupil is comfortably the darkest story in Different Seasons — it wouldn't feel out of place in King's later collection, Full Dark, No Stars — but it's also a gripping page-turner.
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A masterly literary page-turner that captures the paranoia of the end of the Vietnam era as hippiedom and the summer of love deteriorated into hard drugs, sleaze and corruption on the home front.
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It is, simply put, a page turner: FitzGerald is a great writer capable of keeping a sprawling narrative on point, even as it descends into discussions of Keswickian holiness, pretribulationist rapture and theonomic governance.
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Regardless of stretching company resources even tighter and testing the patience of Musk, the Tesla semi truck will signal a new chapter for the company — and we're just at the beginning of that page-turner.
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That page-turner-worthy plot has actually unfolded in Hong Kong in recent weeks, as at least five people connected to a bookstore and publisher known for works critical of China's leadership have gone missing.
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January 30 The crime novelist Harlan Coben is known for his twisty page-turner plots, which often involve ordinary people getting dragged abruptly into mysteries that end up exposing surprising secrets from their own lives.
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If the banking system cannot help fuel economic recovery, particularly an eye-watering 37 percent rate of youth unemployment, Italy's chapter in the history of banking will become a page turner for all the wrong reasons.
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Leavitt's novel has the tone of a family chronicle; her readers will expect to immerse themselves in her characters' domestic snarls and scandals — grief, love, betrayal, redemption, everything that goes into a popular, zesty page-turner.
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I was once playing it, and the page-turner turned after the first bar, because I think he was so freaked out by the difference between what he saw on the page and what he heard.
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Another that really captured me was Nicholas Shakespeare's "Six Minutes in May," the story of how Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940 — although one knew what was going to happen, it was a real page-turner.
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Ann Beattie returns with stories of baby boomers flailing in a post-analog world, and an acclaimed nonfiction writer, Francis Spufford, makes his fictional debut with a spirited page-turner set in 227th-century New York.
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TORONTO — Barry Sherman, a Canadian billionaire, generic-drug mogul and philanthropist, once promised that the autobiography he was writing would be a page-turner, packed with stories of intrigue, duplicity and outright corruption by his competition.
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Motor Maids across the Continent is a page-turner which makes you not want to turn the page because you want to stop and marvel over all the different things that Padgett does in his crystalline prose.
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LESLEY BARK MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. Dear Lesley, Sustaining a fast reader can feel like volunteering at a marathon refueling station, handing off books instead of water as your fleet page turner slows, briefly, at your pit stop.
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It's an old-fashioned page-turner, tweaked by this witty and sophisticated writer so that you sometimes feel she has retrofitted sleek new engines inside a craft owned for too long by James Jones and Herman Wouk.
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Groundbreaking in its scope and gritty-pretty when it comes to language, this visceral page-turner will have you rooting for Virgil as he chases down the drug dealers causing so much pain on the Rosebud Reservation.
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This is an old-fashioned page-turner, tweaked by this witty and sophisticated writer so that you sometimes feel she has retrofitted sleek new engines inside a craft owned for too long by James Jones and Herman Wouk.
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Pretty Little Liars was inspired by Sara Shephard's genre page-turner of the same name, and the wildly successful adaptation may explain why studios have snapped up the rights to anything and everything by Gillian Flynn and Liane Moriarty.
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Give them a book by their favourite author One of the best ways to enjoy a cold fall day is to wrap up in a blanket with a good book, especially a real page-turner by your favourite author.
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"The book is a page turner and each chapter unveils the history of exploitation in the spinning mills and factories," said Karrupu Samy, director of READ, a charity that works with garment workers in the Erode district of Tamil Nadu.
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Based on the novels by Lee Child—books better known more for their page-turner quality than their psychological depth, Jack Reacher has always struck me as Cruise's second-tier Mission:Impossible franchise, the movies he picks up while he's killing time.
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Mr. Obama has fired a giant marshmallow cannon invented by a 14-year-old and been charmed by 6-year-old Oklahoma Girl Scouts dressed in Superman capes who showed off their prototype for a mechanical page-turner constructed with Legos.
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It's a rollicking page-turner about a skeptical journalist who runs a UFO debunking website, a Holocaust survivor, an heiress whose father mysteriously dies, and a Marine pilot who gets recruited into a secret government technology project at Area 51.
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A story that's as much about female rage as it is about an iconic bloody rampage, Cline's novel is a page-turner because there is no good stopping point, nor any way to break the trance once you begin reading.
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MIRACLE CREEK By Angie Kim In this thought-provoking journey of ideas disguised as a courtroom page-turner, Pak and Young Yoo, recently arrived from South Korea, want nothing more than a better education and future for their teenage daughter, Mary.
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Based on meticulous research, Hillenbrand unspools a gorgeous page-turner about the eccentric characters who populated the Sport of Kings in its heyday and a small horse who became a champion and lifted the country's spirits amid the Great Depression.
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So perhaps unsurprisingly, his favorite book of the year was about none other than Russian hackers: Andy Greenberg's latest book on Sandworm, the group of Russian hackers blamed for the most disruptive cyberattack in history, is a real page-turner.
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Though the book is deeply emotional, it's also a playful, hilarious page-turner told in the form of a daily(ish) diary that also includes details of all the meals Ruth cooks when her mother becomes too forlorn to face the kitchen.
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But Labor Day is a page-turner, Clinton's aides say, promising a much busier campaign schedule not only for the Democratic nominee but also her big named surrogates: President Barack Obama, Democratic primary rival Bernie Sanders and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
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While Ferrante Fever did not make me change my opinion on Ferrante's work, it did help me understand the relevance of her books, both for readers craving a page-turner packed with feelings and for scholars studying the evolution of contemporary Italian literature.
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I was working on a science fiction novel of my own at the time — my first — and I confessed to her that it seemed to be turning into something too complex, perhaps even convoluted, for the rollicking page-turner I'd hoped for.
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Until now, the high-wire act Lehane has managed — to craft a character thriller, a psychological nail-biter based on real emotion and relatable anxiety — has been the rarest kind of page-turner, one in which character, not plot, drives the book's addictiveness.
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The book is a tightly written page-turner about the author's childhood in Minsk, his extended family and their odyssey from Belarus to New York (via Vienna and Rome in the 1980s) as well as his efforts to conquer his own demons.
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That is not to say it doesn't get dark and tragic in places — it's about slavery, and America's lingering legacy of racism, so yeah, things get rough — but it's a fast-paced, propulsive, and immersive page turner of a book at heart.
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"[O]nly Tom Clancy or Vince Flynn or someone else like that could take these series of inadvertent contacts with each other, meetings, whatever, and weave that into some sort of a fiction and turn it into a page-turner spy thriller," Conaway said.
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The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, by Andrea Wulf (out April 2) Wulf follows up her gorgeous The Invention of Nature, a page-turner on Humboldt and the conceptual invention of a living Earth, with a graphic work on the 19th century explorer's life. 3.
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I went in thinking it would be a dark thriller (sort of a creepy, you-don't-know-who-you're-living style page-turner) and I guess in some ways it is — but it's also grimly realistic, and packed full of some very unpleasant details.
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Network executives are especially excited about two in particular: "Flip or Flop Vegas," with the mixed martial arts fighter Bristol Marunde and his Realtor wife, Aubrey; and "Flip or Flop Nashville," with the former N.F.L. player DeRon Jenkins and Page Turner, a real estate broker.
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Her breezy page turner is essentially Bridget Jones goes to the White House, offering stories of love affairs with Sam, who goes off to campaign in Missouri, and Jason, who refuses to leave his girlfriend, as well as cautionary tales about dating Secret Service agents.
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The study, which is a dystopian page turner even if you are not a policy wonk, reported that older Americans face inadequate income and unmanageable health care costs, resulting from a shrinking safety net and the shift of risk from government and employers to individuals themselves.
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It's a testament to Holsinger's storytelling prowess that a novel revolving largely around something called the Cognitive Proficiency test (or the CogPro, as everyone refers to it) manages to be both a suspenseful, laugh-out-loud page-turner and an incisive inspection of privilege, race and class.
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As Berkowitz admits early on in his amusing page-turner, "Away with Words," puns for many people are comedy kryptonite, and yet a small circuit of events for punning in public places has grown into something like a competitive sport, complete with local traditions and national stars.
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When his voice changed and he could no longer sing in the children's chorus, he became a page-turner for recital accompanists and then a pianist at La Scala while he was still a teenager, then a chorus master in small opera houses and eventually a conductor.
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Sunday afternoons he took his horn, and me as page turner, to a vaudeville theater in Pawtucket, where he played in a stage band for sundry down-home acts who opened for a Hollywood feature film that we in the band watched backward from the far side of the screen.
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"If you play a concert series, you just show up— they give you the time to be there, the audience is brought to you, you don't have to talk to them, the chairs are there for you, the stands, even a page turner," said Ms. Robinson, the Helix Collective flutist.
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Bannon's quotes in a preview of Michael Wolff's gossipy page-turner "Fire and Fury" caused a minor MAGA earthquake Wednesday, the Breitbart chief calling his former boss unprepared for office and accusing Don Jr. of committing treason when he had the infamous June 2016 meeting with Russians at Trump Tower.
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Modest only in its brevity, just 116 pages including the index, On Modern Beauty is an extraordinarily ambitious, almost entirely successful commentary, one of those rare revelatory art history books that opens your eyes, and, it can be said, a real page-turner, a clichéd phrase that only applies very rarely, in my experience, to art history writing.
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"By flicking the upper right-hand switch, you convert its calculator buttons into music keys, a full 11 note scale from A to D." People didn't need Beethoven with their math—certainly not when it sounded like this, and certainly not from The Sharper Image—but the device was a page-turner for Casio and the company's primary designer, Toshio Kashio.
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Listening to Multi-Task feels like reading a page-turner in one sitting: You're propelled from song to song, pulled through the record by guitar runs that sound difficult enough to break someone's hand, bass lines that run counter to them but somehow still complement them perfectly, and image-rich songwriting delivered with a punk sensibility—almost like Frobos is improvising poetry.
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Before you think about coming to Tamariu know that there are two other coastal towns nearby — Lllafranc and Calella — also under the administrative aegis of Palafrugell and those two are larger, busier, more finished if you will; Tamariu is good for a swim, a page-turner, and a walk along the esplanade; it never seems more itself than when it's empty and quiet.
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