| 单词 | reader |
| 例句 | He was crying, reader, because he had been forgiven. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I am writing about my religious life, aware that most of my readers do not consider them-selves religious. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not a mind reader,” the doctor said at last. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I know it’s not a clue, but it feels too important to ignore. Strategy games are like that all the time—intentionally misleading the reader. Maybe James Parker is the real mystery.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But any adventurous readers who are not too squeamish can make the test and prove it for themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Do not ask me, reader, to give a minute account of that day; as before, I sought work; as before, I was repulsed; as before, I starved; but once did food pass my lips. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The age listed is erroneous, a detail few readers perceive. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The first is missing the hyphen that bolts together the pieces of the compound word that was supposed to remind readers of the problem with piranhas, man-eating. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z For New York City’s millions of readers of the downtown papers, it was, at that time, another one of the periodic “Racial Unrest in Harlem” stories. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The boss planned to offer her fifteen a week, figuring he’d get as good a reader as his future wife at half the salary. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “They tell me, Gilly, that you are some kind of a great reader yourself. I know Mr. Randolph would like to hear you read something.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z A summary should repeat enough of the key words to allow the reader to connect it back to the earlier passages that spelled out the points in detail. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Now, reader, what I haven’t mentioned is that tightly packed inside each crate was a brand-new robot. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I am writing this book in the hope of enlightening readers about the journey an African-American takes in having to grow up and live under the laws and traditions of oppression. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The moral for a writer is obvious: a reader must know the topic of a text in order to understand it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z To the readers of Popular Electronics, in those days the bible of the fledgling software and computer world, that headline was a revelation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Reading a draft, even in a mumble, also forces you to anticipate what your readers will be doing as they understand your prose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It is the source for this map, though the reader is cautioned against regarding it as either exact or universally accepted. genetically unsound but logically consistent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Then he touches his security card to the reader. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Tally squinted, making sure the reader didn’t flash her, and worked her powerjack between the doors. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Was there something new enough to justify a big commitment of reporting time and reader attention? Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Even more challenging, the optimal number of connectives depends on the expertise of the reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Careful writers and discerning readers delight in the profusion of words in the English lexicon, no two of which are exact synonyms. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And the reader’s short attention span only makes things worse. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He became one of my most faithful readers, and would go to the library to research the people in the column, then call me with tips. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z For later readers this was the paradigmatic account of discovery; Vergil, who certainly read Vitruvius, makes no reference to it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But we’re going to have to talk about it soon, so gird your loins, reader. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Besides learning about Garfield's vital signs each day, readers knew when Garfield slept restlessly, how much pain he had, and how often he moved his bowels. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z As long as the modifier is short, it poses no difficulty for the reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Weigh in, readers, and share your experiences, especially if you are non-black. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I knew that my readers would not let me get away with concluding GGS without saying anything about this obvious question. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By now the reader will not be surprised to learn that an apparently arcane debate about the distant past could become vehemently personal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And I wrote always with a specific reader in mind. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z That imposes two demands on the long-suffering reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A reader of this intimidating passage can marvel at Butler’s ability to juggle abstract propositions about still more abstract propositions, with no real-world referent in sight. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The topic of the column is obviously “herons in winter”; that’s what the reader asked about. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This may be grounds for suspicion by the reader and a prod to self-improvement for the writer, but it is not a failure of consistency or logic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Many of its readers became foes of the whole system of slavery. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It was such a hit with British readers that an American magazine, The Cosmopolitan, carried the serial, too. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Inexperienced writers often think they’re doing the reader a favor by guiding her through the rest of the text with a detailed preview. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The writer can see the links among the concepts in his internal web of knowledge, and has forgotten that a reader needs to build an orderly tree to decipher them from his string of words. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I deserve neither such praise nor such censure,” cried Elizabeth; “I am not a great reader, and I have pleasure in many things.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Mrs. Conway had us up and reading as soon as the readers had been handed out. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Mayor Swaney was deluged with angry phone calls and emails from Times readers who were appalled that he had kicked the Fugees out of the town park after Christmas. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z What sense or hope or satisfaction could a reader draw from such an account? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Only toward the end of my schooling and only because political issues pressed upon me did I write, and have published in magazines, essays intended for readers I never expected to meet. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Now she was an even more voracious reader. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Why must a typical reader struggle to follow an academic article, the fine print on a tax return, or the instructions for setting up a wireless home network? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I was a girl with a modern education, with parents who were both thinkers and readers, and a best friend who was the next Marie Curie. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The reader starts to think, Who is this “we” who fail to appreciate them? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z What I had to hide was the self who was a reader, who loved poetry. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The key is to assume that your readers are as intelligent and sophisticated as you are, but that they happen not to know something you know. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was his usage, then, not Koyré’s, that Butterfield adopted with some discomfort, believing that it would already be familiar to many of his listeners and readers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But in many genres, numbered headings are not an option, and as we saw in chapter 2, excessive signposting can bore and confuse a reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Then one day I thought I would set myself up as a reader of letters such as there are in most villages, and surely also in cities? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Many readers have asked me what happened since I quit: How did the state respond to my book? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And for that, reader, the rat knew that he must go upstairs. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I learned how a popular novelist like Dickens, writing for a middle-class audience, makes his readers aware of their ability to effect social reform. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The writer should refer to each theme in a consistent way, one that allows the reader to know which is which. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Whenever one sentence comes after another, readers need to see a connection between them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Trees are what give language its power to communicate the links between ideas rather than just dumping the ideas in the reader’s lap. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies,” said Jojen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Thus, as a reader I never forgot the ancient Catholic faith—that the Church serves to help solitary man comprehend God’s Word. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was asking the reader to figure out the difference between them. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I think about the house in my school reader, white, with a picket fence and a lawn, and window curtains. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Then he let readers relive the mass flight from the city, see the closed shops and empty streets, and meet suffering fever victims and those who bravely stayed to help them. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z And as Mr. Larson had proved, making only one copy means that it only takes one angry reader to shut off the whole circulation instantly. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Popper, who had always been such a great reader, had no difficulty in thinking of names for the penguin children. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Akimi slipped Sierra’s card into a reader slot above the doorknob. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z While Mrs. Bell, Stanley's former math teacher, might want to know the percent change in Stanley's weight, the reader probably cares more about the change in Stanley's character and self- confidence. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The most obvious is that a negative statement such as The king is not dead is harder on the reader than an affirmative one like The king is alive. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “This is one I used to try to read to him last year, but”—her voice sounded almost shy—“I ain’t too hot a reader myself, as you can probably guess.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z The newspaper’s readers donated to the Fugees in amounts large and small, and a deal was made for film rights to the Fugees’ story. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z From time to time Claire turned her reader on and skimmed the material, but she had little interest in it. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Newspapers shirk notoriously their editorial responsibilities and print what they think their readers want. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Any reader steeped in the history of Western civilization would be forgiven for assuming that African food production began in ancient Egypt’s Nile Valley, land of the pharaohs and pyramids. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Classic style also differs subtly from plain style, where everything is in full view and the reader needs no help in seeing anything. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Eventually, I was able to bring her around, and I hope I will be able to do the same with you, dear reader. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z It’s not as necessary in writing, where a reader can backtrack and look up what she’s missed. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Literate readers rely on punctuation to guide them through a sentence, and mastering the basics is a nonnegotiable requirement for anyone who writes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I suppose that I knew other readers could make sense of what I wrote—that, therefore, I addressed a general reader. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I suppose I could have reviewed them in terms of how familiar they are to me or to American readers, or the order in which the studies were done, or even alphabetically. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Then, without warning, the third sentence shifts to the imperative mood and we are supposed to have the reader, not the nouns, forming plurals in a certain way. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Two of the oldest readers there, sisters, had originally come from Ohio. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Like all writing decisions, the amount of signposting requires judgment and compromise: too much, and the reader bogs down in reading the signposts; too little, and she has no idea where she is being led. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z After the snack, the kid proved himself as good a mind reader as a cook. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Armpit’s father worked in the daytime as a meter reader for the electric company. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z In fact, I would venture to say that no argument in the book has resonated more with readers than this one. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z There was no other mention in the index, and Will got up from the microfilm reader baffled. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s a nervous reader and reads too quietly, mumbling into her neck. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z But Digges was not a conventional reader of Copernicus, for he understood that Copernicus really did intend to be taken literally when he described the Earth as moving and the sun as stationary. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The central message that readers were bound to take away from such texts is that human beings have a mistaken sense of their own importance. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The reader does not need to be informed that a guy named Bob was flying one of the helicopters. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The community loves it; readers have even found me and Samantha on Instagram to tell us. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z But it's as if he's some kind of mind reader, because he says: "I'm going to start running. Tomorrow is my first day." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z And lastly—I realize that this is the kind of deep and thoughtful question you always hoped your readers would ask—what becomes of Sisyphus the Hamster? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “Adults can’t read it, as I understand. As I am to human fighters, so you are to adults with the symbol reader.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Somehow I knew, however, that my words were meant for a public reader. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z More purely pictorial than Zapotec or Maya script, the texts were arranged almost randomly on the page; red lines directed the reader s eye from image to image. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I have come to understand better why works of literature—while never intimate, never individually addressed to the reader—are so often among the most personal statements we hear in our lives. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But don’t worry, dear reader and Mrs. Miller. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Right away, I could tell that he was a reader, because there were books everywhere in our room. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z There will be no outsourcing for me—even if some of my readers wish my column could be shipped off to North Korea. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z They call the reader’s attention either to the similarities or to the difference. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And Miss Perumal, the only person who always treated him kindly, had become an imaginary reader to whom he wrote imaginary letters. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z But to encourage the reader to parse it as a noun phrase, he should have set up a context in which the reader indeed expects to see a noun phrase. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Rubio steps off the ramp and pulls an atmospheric reader out of his bag. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Our readers want homestead stories,” he wrote, “not philosophy.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The reader has to fill in the background—to read between the lines, to connect the dots—and if he doesn’t know which background is applicable, he will be mystified. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It is worth reminding the reader once again of my age. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Black newspapers, however, worked relentlessly to spread the word far and wide about available war jobs and exhorted their readers to apply. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z To read the message, the reader had to brush a second chemical on the paper; that chemical made the message visible. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Their readers’ reward consists of partaking in—and, if they themselves write, helping to preserve—this rich patrimony. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She wanted to welcome the reader into this strange world. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They simulate a conversation, as classic style recommends, and they are gifts to the memory-challenged reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was the question she’d wanted to ask all along—fifteen years of marriage had turned us into mind readers. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It needs also to be said that they are unable to write to a public reader. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, there isn’t. The other Oxford readers are honest scholars with sound academic reasons for using the instrument.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Douglas, I know that Otis Bottom is a wonderful reader. It's a gift that he has. You may have different gifts. But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't try to read aloud.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z And, reader, too, she wanted so desperately to become a princess. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I felt that what I wanted that scene to say to the reader was more important than its surface reality or plausibility. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Narrow wooden stepladders on casters stood by the shelves, ready to help any reader up to the top shelves. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z By the end of August, she was reading more papers and marking more items than any other reader in the Bureau. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A thoughtlessly placed dangler can confuse the reader or slow her down, and occasionally it can lure her into a ludicrous interpretation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I am good at being a reader of poetry, but not at much beyond that. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z All those readers, growing month by month, Linking and cross-posting, knowing so much more than she did; they had always frightened and exhilarated her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I had not long been a reader of the “Liberator,” before I got a pretty correct idea of the principles, measures and spirit of the anti-slavery reform. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z If she was a really practiced reader, she thought, each of those ideas would be surrounded by a phalanx of qualifying detail, but there it was: that was all she had to go on. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z For readers unwilling to accept this on faith, here is a brief derivation. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps you think I had forgotten Mr. Rochester, reader, amidst these changes of place and fortune. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Even the earliest readers of Origin were aware of the book’s far-reaching implications. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Dave Barry’s “Ask Mr. Language Person” satirized their typical advisory: writing tip for professionals: To make your writing more appealing to the reader, avoid “writing negatively.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I swore I’d read that myth book cover to cover to make up for throwing my reader out of the window. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z In fact, Rob was deliberately running other stories and links ahead of my columns, in order to get some information out before the site went down as readers rushed to respond. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If Clausewitz’s dictum is so subtle, complex, and misunderstood, how is the reader being enlightened by being told it is false? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Maybe one of the bumps along the way had broken its little eye- reader and it would never send its message back to Dr. Cable. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z And not far from Cook, in the pantry, atop a bag of flour, slept the mouse Despereaux, dreaming, as you know reader, of knights in shining armor, of darkness, and of light. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The active parties are the writer and the reader, who are taking in the spectacle together, and the writer can refer to them with the good old pronoun we. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. Do I look like a mind reader?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The book of Nature had waited more than a millennium for a reader. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps one of you, dear readers, with a legal turn of mind can dredge the appropriate clause from memory. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The only person who looked equally out of place was the thin reader, Darius, who was sitting at the very end of the row of black-clad men and kept fiddling with his glasses. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Dear reader, I told you not to he fooled by high expectations. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Why? You needn’t fear me. I’m only a cave-dwelling charlatan. A reader of sheep’s entrails, yes?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Using the card in his hand, he swiped it through the magnetic reader. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z He got a job as an electric meter reader, and then he saw an ad in the newspaper for openings in the El Paso police department. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m more of a reader than a racer.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z From grammar school to graduate school I could always name my reader. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The copied passage sought to put the reader into Holmes’s mind. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Patient reader, you may have been wondering what happened to my grandmother. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z You, reader, know already some of those consequences. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I wanted her to think that I was a reader. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Happy reader, honorable friend, I can tell you, he brought back my heart. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z As you know, reader, Roz had always liked to keep herself as clean as possible. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z My friends aren’t mind readers, but I expected them to know how I felt. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z That was the fundamental truth the readers forgot. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The primary lifeline between an incoming sentence and a reader’s web of knowledge is the topic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A writer should revise in response to a comment when it comes from more than one reader or when it makes sense to the writer herself. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In classic prose the writer is directing the gaze of the reader to something in the world she can see for herself. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Those values that I was accepting in school—being a good reader, being a person willing to explore the great ideas—were actually serving to separate me from other kids my age. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Some readers will leave this book wondering what we should do about our prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It refers to a situation that the writer is uncertain about, and it invites the reader to draw inferences or make predictions about that situation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Too many readers are intimidated and humbled by what they can’t understand, and in some cases that’s precisely the effect the writer is after. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As you know, reader, Miggery Sow had heard this sentiment expressed many times in her short life. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z One by one they had gone to their rooms, some of them carrying the readers that they were supposed to study in order to advance in their jobs. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z At the opposite end of the kitchen Mercy, having generously alloted to Kit the primer readers, was laboring with the beginners. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z All the standardized tests said I was a below-average reader, but Mrs. Stancil kept me after school every day to tutor me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z This is why the simplest and clearest writing has the greatest power to delight, surprise, inform, and move the reader. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The other part is looking at those marks and applying the judgment needed to ensure that the narrative that flies by your mind’s eye will be recognizable to an independent reader. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z A pair of Specials moved through the pen, flashing a reader into the bound Smokies’ eyes, taking them outside one by one. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z By background and education, she belonged to The Club class but by ability and intelligence she belonged to the readers’ class. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Again, reader, we must go backward, before we go forward. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Yes, Francie was the fastest reader in the Bureau—and the poorest paid. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m an avid reader. I must have read something by you. What are the names of some of your books?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The boss’s wife came back to read and he fired all the remaining readers except Francie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m actually a huge fan of your blog. I’ve been a loyal reader for years.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z To this reader, at least, it can hardly be argued that Mendel was unaware of the far-reaching implications of his study: he was trying to unlock the material basis and laws of heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The curse of knowledge means that we’re more likely to overestimate the average reader’s familiarity with our little world than to underestimate it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Capricorn's words were working away feverishly in her mind: hair like spun gold...that useless reader Darius...No, it couldn't be true. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z It was a 1955 edition of Jet magazine, a publication primarily designed for black readers, and the photograph on the front showed a dead boy’s mutilated head, face, and neck—up close. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z You, as the reader, are left to figure it out for yourself. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z But he also wanted to give the reader the sense of being present at a real argument, one from which Copernicanism emerged as indisputably victorious. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Still, writers will do themselves a favor, and increase the amount of pleasure in the world, if they use a word in the senses that are accepted by literate readers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z E-mails came from readers who wanted to support the blog. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z People, places, and ideas may make repeat appearances, and the reader must keep track of them as they come and go. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z So eager are readers to seek coherence that they will often supply it when none exists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Roscuro, reader, told the princess about the prisoner who had once owned a red tablecloth, and the princess saw to it that the prisoner was released. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The number of readers was even greater than the number of subscribers, as copies were passed from hand to hand. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When an item is modified by a relative clause, and its role inside the clause is the object of the verb, the reader is faced with a long span between the filler and the gap. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He was a reader and recognized his habit of reading as obsessive and neurotic, and told himself that if he read something less frivolous than newspapers and magazines he might indeed be better off. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Even the highly regarded Literary Digest got caught up in the panic, warning its readers that, “Outside of Russia, the storm center of Bolshevism is in the United States.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z That is how the content of a passage of text becomes integrated into the reader’s web of knowledge. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Say, W.E.”—Gilly flashed her teeth at him—“how about you and me doing a little red-hot reading after supper? You know, squeeze the old orange reader?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z But he also got a good—and tough—reader. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z From far away, it might pass for an electric meter reader. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z When I find some I clean it off and flatten it out and store it between the pages of my school reader. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z That’s because the reader’s attention usually starts out on the entity named by the subject of the sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In the book, she asked readers to look a little deeper. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Sometimes two examples are better than one, because they allow the reader to triangulate on which aspect of the example is relevant to the definition. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z However, I realized that many readers would also wonder “Why, among Eurasians, was it Europeans rather than Chinese or some other group that expanded?” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Columbus had been an itinerant peddler of old maps and an assiduous reader of the books by and about the ancient geographers, including Eratosthenes, Strabo and Ptolemy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When a reader is forced to work through one stale idiom after another, she stops converting the language into mental images and slips back into just mouthing the words. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z On the assumption that many general readers are as unmathematical as I am, I will use them sparingly, though they are occasionally unavoidable, not least in a chapter dealing with things on a cosmic scale. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He crept closer and then closer still, until, reader, he was sitting right at the foot of the king. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z She wanted to fill the pages with color, to dazzle her readers as she herself had been dazzled. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z "Perhaps you did teach her. Perhaps she was lying. Perhaps you have shelves full of books all over the house. I wouldn't know. Perhaps you are both great readers." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z I think, reader, that she was feeling the same thing that Despereaux had felt when he was faced with his father begging him for forgiveness. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z These facts may still leave some readers unsatisfied. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She said that this was because readers cared more about people than dogs, so if a person was killed in a book, readers would want to carry on reading. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The reader would have to think that, too, since the new Gospel hammered home again and again what a nobody Jesus was. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “You strike me as a reader. Am I right?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z And, like a mind reader, Mikayla’s mom had gone into their cabinets and pulled out a seed, just for me. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Negative sentences are easy when the reader already has an affirmative in mind or can create one on short notice; all he has to do is pin a “false” tag onto it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Have you got the symbol reader?” said the witch, in a voice so like the high wild singing of the Aurora itself that Lyra could hardly hear the sense for the sweet sound of it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z When an author has to negate something that a reader doesn’t already believe, she has to set it up as a plausible belief on his mental stage before she knocks it down. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In fact, the reader’s misery begins well before she plows into the pile of is-phrases at the end. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And he told himself, reader, that it was the cloth that he desired and not the light. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The challenge to the writer is to use those resources so that the reader can graft the information in a series of sentences into his web of knowledge without getting tangled up in either. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I know it’s been hard for her, but she’s been great in English. Her writing is gorgeous and funny and detailed. She’s a tremendous reader.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z My fresh love of reading brought me to the transformative writers who have worked their magic on generations of readers. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z It is time for us to turn our attention elsewhere, time for us, reader, to speak of rats, and of one rat in particular. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z They informed her of trouble-making office rumors, expecting that she would relay them to the readers and create dissension. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything just flew by me: the teacher’s words, the numbers on the page, the letters in my reader. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z So what do you think so far, reader? Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z As I look back over this early book, I relive memories that are etched on every page, though invisible to the reader. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But laboratory studies have shown that even skilled readers have a little voice running through their heads the whole time. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z "I used to think you were a good-for-nothing book reader," he said. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z I shall not name him, following the tradition of letting the reader guess. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z For all its length and lexical exuberance, the sentence is easy to follow, because the reader never has to keep a phrase suspended in memory for long while new words pour in. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The passive trains the reader’s gaze on someone who’s having something done to him: See that mime? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z One reader became so furious when journalist Nelson Dunstan switched his allegiance from Seabiscuit to War Admiral that he threatened to attack him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Newspapers sprang into action, supplying readers with the information they craved. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They forget that their readers are encountering the event for the first time and need to see it enacted with their own eyes'. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Mariela is a perfectly fluid reader, but numbers trip her up. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “We treat our readers right,” said an argumentative voice, “and never have to make replacements.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the heron is merely being observed by an unidentified birdwatcher at this point in the passage, the passive voice keeps it in the reader’s spotlight of attention. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z You might already know this, reader, but raccoons have very nimble hands. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z And if there is a reasonable chance that readers will misinterpret a statistical tendency as an absolute law, a responsible writer will anticipate the oversight and qualify the generalization accordingly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Let’s turn now to another arc of coherence, which connects the different appearances of an entity on the reader’s mental stage as they come and go over the course of a passage. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A reader can figure this out, but it’s hard work, like hacking through a blister pack to get at the product. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But it’s better to keep in mind the guiding metaphor of classic style: a writer, in conversation with a reader, directs the reader’s gaze to something in the world. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When a noun is repeated in quick succession, readers may assume that the second mention refers to a different individual and fruitlessly scan the stage for him. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It may seem obvious that a writer should begin by laying her topic on the table for the reader to see, but not all writers do. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I’ll skip through the details quickly in order not to shock the readers, and also I see no reason to hold these people up to scorn. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes they are victims of professional narcissism and write as if the reader were interested in every blind alley, fool’s errand, and wild-goose chase they engaged in while exploring the topic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Clutter-English vows given in Saturday ceremony: that headline, appearing on the social page of the Garden City Telegram for November 23, surprised many of its readers. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The reader shouldn’t need a map to follow a sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Sula squatted down in the dirt road and put everything down on the ground: her lunchpail, her reader, her mittens, her slate. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z But if it starts to get longer it can force a reader to entertain a complicated qualification before she has any idea what it is qualifying. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Eager to share his knowledge on any subject, he neglected to ascertain the interest of his listener or, in my case, reader. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z But the purpose of the fiction is to create a sense of reality which will convince the reader that the information in the dialogue is perfectly genuine. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He began by making readers face the terrible illness: “About this time, this destroying scourge, the malignant fever, crept in among us.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z A classic writer counts on the common sense and ordinary charity of his readers, just as in everyday conversation we know when a speaker means “in general” or “all else being equal.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But when they coincidentally find themselves rubbing shoulders despite belonging to different phrases, the reader will be derailed. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z What the reader cannot do is understand it—to see with her own eyes what Butler is seeing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In fact, quotation marks used like that can mislead the reader. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The reader would wonder whether it’s only great blue herons that defend frozen fishing holes, or all herons. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One minor modification that readers will already have noticed is that the Semitic and Greek g became the Roman and English c, while the Romans invented a new g in its present position. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Don’t forget, he warned his readers, about “the haunting specter of that last mile.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But if the first sentence had been A tank came roaring around the corner, which refers to an atypical example of a vehicle, a reader would have had a harder time making the connection. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And, reader, as you already know, he did not look back. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z It tells the reader how to hum the tune. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z —Plato I find, dear reader, that I have grown accustomed to the hectic pace of office life, an adjustment which I doubted I could make. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In all these cases, the reader is apt to think, “Who ever thought it was?” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I was able to see them with a new appreciation for how my reader would see them. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My own argument agrees at certain points with Fish’s, but it is the differences that the reader should keep in mind. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But imagining the reader over your shoulder is a start. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As a writer bangs out sentences, she needs to ensure that her readers can reconstruct the coherence relations she has in mind. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Others fill out a phrase’s rhythm, which can also make the sentence easier for the reader to parse. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z These books were frankly meant to shock their middle- class readers—to scare the daylights out of them—even as they played on their sympathies. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “A reader. The daughter of two of the most powerful people I’ve ever met. You, Sefia, are what makes him special. Of course we want him.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z A puny arrow connects the filler who with a gap right next door, and the reader gets instant gratification: no sooner does she come across who than she knows what it’s doing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Silvan Tomkins, maybe the greatest mind reader of them all, was compulsive about practicing. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It would have to be quite entertainingly written, however, since, though there’s happily a small army of readers interested in verbal niceties, relatively few are interested in similar but often more important numerical nuances. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I scrolled through the readers’ comments, mostly sympathy for Nicole, anger that the cops weren’t doing enough. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Topic-then-comment and given-then-new orderings are major contributors to coherence, the feeling that one sentence flows into the next rather than jerking the reader around. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And here is my pledge to you, faithful reader you can count on me to be truthful and certifiable in giving the honest-to-goodness scoop each and every week. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z But if the branch is bushy, or if one branch is packed inside another, a left-branching structure can give the reader a headache. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Actives and passives differ in which character gets to be the subject, and hence which starts out in the reader’s mental spotlight. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The newspaper was thin, ill-edited, and designed to circulate among rural, white Protestant readers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, reader, he followed Furlough over the book and down the chair leg and across the library floor to the waiting Mouse Council. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Mr. Lapham’s selections for his boys were sometimes designed to point out some fault in a member of his household, especially in the reader. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, when everything that I do has an urgency, I would not spend one hour in the preparation of a book which had the ambition to perhaps titillate some readers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It may interest you to know that one of your avid readers was Mrs. Elizabeth Bowen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “So we’ll need a new city reader,” the boss was saying. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I will not swear, reader, that there was not something of repressed sarcasm both in the tone in which I uttered this sentence, and in the feeling that accompanied it. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I was instructed to hear in the Renaissance poet’s celebration of pastoral life the reminder of his reader’s own civic responsibility and power. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Copernicus’s disciple Rheticus, in the first published account of the Copernican theory, held back any reference to heliocentrism for as long as he possibly could, for fear of alienating his readers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Some syllabaries persist today, the most important being the kana syllabary that the Japanese use for telegrams, bank statements, and texts for blind readers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z British readers of The New Yorker who assume that this august publication is in constant ignorant error when it allows “1980’s” evidently have no experience of how that famously punctilious peri-odical operates editorially. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z So I threw that stupid reader out the window and buried myself in bed. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe it was just the author’s way of telling the reader stylistically that ‘this isn’t real; it never happened.’ The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z This divide-and-conquer strategy is better than repeatedly allowing counterexamples to intrude into the main line of an argument while browbeating readers into looking away. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Hidden within what looked like an ordinary letter was the secret message that was only revealed when the reader applied the mask. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And, reader, truthfully, they might be sitting there still, if a mouse had not arrived. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The odd behavior of defending a frozen fishing hole connects all the way back to the reader’s question at the beginning of the column. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I will tell you, reader, that I imagine her like Kelly J., who looks nothing like a pasha’s daughter, but very much like a Disney princess. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Why is the tree on the bottom, with the unintended meaning, the one the reader arrived at? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It became clear to him that though he wrote in his paper what his readers wanted to see, this was not always the truth. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I never thought I’d ever set eyes on one of them again. That’s a symbol reader. Did he tell you anything about it, child?’ The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes a writer should cleave an intimidating block of print with a paragraph break just to give the reader’s eyes a place to alight and rest. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “But my young pupil here is a very exceptional reader. I shall pass the honor on to him.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The rabbits’ anxieties and strain in climbing the down were different, therefore, from those which you, reader, will experience if you go there. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Or she herself may discover her topic only after she has finished laying her ideas on paper, and forget to go back and revise the opening to let the reader in on her discovery. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The puzzled reader is put on notice that her ability to understand the world counts for nothing; her role is to behold the enigmatic pronouncements of the great scholar. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Helping a reader keep track of the entities that make repeated appearances in a text is a tricky business. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And if our readers do know the lingo, we might be insulting their intelligence by spelling it out. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I obeyed them and everything and just read my part, opposite the reader in the chair. And she wasn’t even good as Gertie!” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Then she was put into training as a reader. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The “typical” connectives in the charts, however, are only typical, and writers can leave them out when the connection is obvious to the reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In the offices around him, official readers go through thick reports, boiling the information down to the salient paragraph. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She has at most nine hours left—and she’s a very slow reader. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Self-exposure was inevitable the moment she described a character’s weakness; the reader was bound to speculate that she was describing herself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It can wait a century for a reader, as God Himself has waited 6,000 years for a witness. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For such readers a few notes on the more important points are here collected from Hobbit-lore, and the first adventure is briefly recalled. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Not long after I read the Science study, a reader sent me the following quotation from Sigmund Freud. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “This book is pretty cool. This Sir Arthur Conan Doyle guy knows how to keep his readers hooked.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Rubio slips his reader back in his pocket, his brow furrowed in disappointment. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z One of the things I want to create is a Wander section where readers can send in pictures or videos of their favorite grand, small, bizarre, poetic, nothing-ordinary sites. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I’m not saying I will, but I could go on for hours escorting the reader—forcibly, if necessary—back and forth across the Paris-Chinese border. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Also, even if a dangler is in no danger of being misinterpreted, enough readers have trained themselves to spot danglers that a writer who leaves it incurs the risk of being judged as slovenly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The reader became my excuse, my reason for writing. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I was a slow reader and often had to read each assignment twice. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Let the reader beware at this point: I am not the best person to evaluate the Third World Student Movement. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The characters say something and mean something else, but the connection is so obvious it embarrasses the reader. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Worse, the article kept reminding the reader that finding your feminine side made you more of a man. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z In classic style, the writer credits the reader with enough intelligence to realize that many concepts aren’t easy to define and that many controversies aren’t easy to resolve. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Hardheaded, sensible, a reader of magazines and books, he was proud of his race and indignant about its wrongs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In the case of where herons live, most readers know that the northern United States is contiguous to Canada and that the two have similar ecosystems, so they don’t need a similarly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When wording is varied, only certain variations will be easy for the reader to track. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Much too, you will think, reader, to engender jealousy: if a woman, in my position, could presume to be jealous of a woman in Miss Ingram’s. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z More generally, a modifier can dangle when its implied subject is the writer and the reader, as in To summarize and In order to start the motor in the examples above. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Come now, Harry, there’s no need to be scared of getting into trouble. We all know you shouldn’t really have entered at all. But don’t worry about that. Our readers love a rebel.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Often a writer needs to steer the reader’s attention away from the agent of an action. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Since we’re now Oakley Street,” said Hannah, “may I ask you this: Is there another Oakley Street agent among the Oxford readers?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “I know you’re a fussy eater,” she said, “but I’m not a mind reader.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z These workers, illiterate but sharp-witted, who for some reason called themselves The Club, assumed that the better-educated readers looked down on them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt a connection with these readers but didn’t know what that connection was. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z "That's exactly why we want you. You've become identified with that controversy and it's our job to bring such subjects to the eyes of our readers." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Reporters tantalized their readers with stories about the “plutocratic Osage” and the “red millionaires,” with their brick-and-terra-cotta mansions and chandeliers, with their diamond rings and fur coats and chauffeured cars. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z While he is so occupied, I will tell you, reader, what they are: and first, I must premise that they are nothing wonderful. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Suppose a reader has successfully parsed a sentence and now has an understanding of who did what to whom or what is true of what. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Rubio holds the beeping atmospheric reader and carefully starts walking the perimeter of the lake. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He introduced Ernest Lawrence to his readers as the leader of a “scouting party” of Berkeley wunderkinder, most of them “still in their early thirties.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Doc Savage to whom he referred was a fictional hero popular among adolescent readers of pulp magazines a generation ago. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I frankly find the reality of readers wholly unappetizing.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z An active construction trains the reader’s gaze on someone who is doing something: See that lady with the shopping bag? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Parallel syntax is just the Rule of One Variable applied to writing: if you want readers to appreciate some variable, manipulate the expression of that variable alone while keeping the rest of the language unchanged. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I would fain ask the reader,” Carey demanded, “is this the language of an enemy? Does this deserve railing or reproach? Is it honorable for Jones and Allen to repay evil for good?” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The Amsterdam News reported the planned meeting and many readers inferred that we were establishing our beginning mosque in the Theresa. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The reader gets the feeling that he’s being bullied rather than persuaded. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The group collected petitions, recruited additional supporters and volunteers, raised funds, and started a weekly newspaper, the Suffragist, which kept readers up to date on the status of the federal suffrage amendment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z One of the cities had a box around it, intended to attract the reader’s eye. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Some people are surprised by this advice, because they think of the claim by speed-reading companies that skilled readers go directly from print to thought. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Fifty years from now, she’d be telling her grandchildren how she had come to the office, sat at her reader’s desk and in the routine of work had read that war had been declared. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “So you’re an artist, a musician, a green thumb, a fish lover, and a reader?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The book also contends that Boyle developed a novel technique for winning support by turning readers into virtual witnesses: virtual witnessing is important, but Boyle was hardly a pioneer in this respect either. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Squire recognized that readers would want to know about the thing that made Sing Sing increasingly famous as an object of fascination and horror: the Death House. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Since readers tend to link a phrase to the words that came just before it, they will misunderstand a sentence when the writer had a more remote association in mind. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A failure to realize that my chunks may not be the same as your chunks can explain why we baffle our readers with so much shorthand, jargon, and alphabet soup. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As writers, then, we should try to get into our readers’ heads and be mindful of how easy it is to fall back on parochial jargon and private abstractions. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The following day he offered his readers this translation of Ulbrickson’s reply: “which in less guarded terms means... ‘very good indeed.’” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The last two allow a writer an additional lever of control over what the reader will treat as given and what she will treat as new. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Always, as I wrote, I was both reader and writer, both the con- ceiver of the action and the appreciator of it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I have not intended to present, nor do I think I have presented, any kind of cross-section so that a reader can say, “He thinks he has presented a true picture of the South.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And when the subject of the main clause is the dummy element it or there, the reader glides right over it, and it poses no danger of attracting a dangler. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Air raid rules, the Review reminded readers, were now posted on many electrical poles: keep calm and cool; stay home; put out lights; lie down; stay away from windows; don’t telephone. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I had already gained the door; but, reader, I walked back—walked back as determinedly as I had retreated. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Lee's endearing characters, Atticus Finch and his precocious daughter, Scout, captivated readers while confronting them with some of the realities of race and justice in the South. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z People act like the words “slow reader” tell them everything that’s inside. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z But, reader, there is no comfort in the word “farewell,” even if you say it in French. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z But it also determines the sequence of early-to-late processing in the reader’s mind. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I am an avid reader of all signs, and I find that in the historical markers the prose of statehood reaches its glorious best, and most lyric. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I find I think of myself not as a writer so much as someone who provides a gateway, a tangential route for readers to reach the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I wanted to talk to you, readers, about what it means to grow up looking and feeling different. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z But as a reader, I did not despair. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Minority student—that was the label I bore in college at Stanford, then in graduate school at Columbia and Berkeley: a nonwhite reader of Spenser and Milton and Austen. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do not, dear reader, let the pleasure of your eyes be spoiled; judge not too quickly, but read me from beginning to end.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The reader board out front, where the letters used to say “Ask About Our Early-Bird Specials,” now read “Welcome to Olympia Village.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Repeating a name or an indefinite noun can confuse readers by making them think that someone new has walked onto the stage. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In reality, previews that read like a scrunched-up table of contents are there to help the writer, not the reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One of the older readers, returning from the washroom, paused by Francie’s desk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I know there’s always a certain kind of reader who will be compelled to ask, But what really happened? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The girl’s name, reader, was Miggery Sow And though she did not yet know it, she would be instrumental in helping the rat work his revenge. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Although I was a reader, I did not associate books with writing. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “That girl,” Marc says, “is the reader. And her job is to read all the parts on the page that aren't your part.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Everyone in that courtyard must have glared at Ali Shekari for hurting a little kid—but reader, please, he did nothing wrong. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z This party, reader, was a sight for a rat’s eyes. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “You must be a good reader then,” I replied. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Mr. Ram and I used to wait together for a ride back from Mom, and when he found out I was a reader, a real one, he became almost giddy. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I’d discovered it about three years ago and had been a loyal reader ever since. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader’s. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Why should a writer want to control the order in which the reader thinks her thoughts? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Breaking his own privacy rules, Bobby even included a PO box number that he could be written to in care of so that the reader could order “additional copies.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Even when the sentence structure gets more complicated, a reader can handle the tree, because its geometry is mostly right-branching. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Prose becomes stuffy when an insecure writer hammers the reader over the head with redundant indicators of a connection, as if unsure that one would be enough. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Our readers have a right to the truth, Harry. I am merely doing my — “Who cares if he’s half-giant?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Consequently his letters had a certain ambiguous dignity calculated to catch at the imagination of a very special sort of reader. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z But, reader, we must not forget that King Phillip loved the queen and that without her, he was lost. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Writers are well advised to avoid between you and I, since it makes many readers bristle, but it is not a heinous error. can versus may. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The examples are not so much metaphors or analogies as they are actual instances of the phenomena he is explaining, and they are instances that readers can see with their own eyes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But she was a reader, she reminded herself. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Every action, reader, no matter how small, has a consequence. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z She was brilliant, had been an avid reader her whole life, and she was a terrific literary critic, editor, and proofreader. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m still around, but from here on in, for reasons I’m not at liberty to disclose, I’ve disguised myself so cunningly that even the cleverest reader will fail to recognize me. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Will Hamilton from instinct and training in business had become a fine reader of the less profound impulses of men and women. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The third strategy, least familiar to most readers of this book, uses a sign for each syllable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Too few connectives, on the other hand, can leave the reader puzzled as to how one statement follows from the last. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She says, “We can help guide our readers into adulthood like Sherpas on Mount Everest. We give them the truth about sex, the truth about college life, the truth about love.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z AR: Well, JJ, that’s certainly an inspiring story, and I know our readers will appreciate your sharing it with us all. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z “The World’s Fair is, of course, of great interest to our readers. Have you seen an increase in meat sales since the Fair began?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z And then, reader, as he stood before the king, a wonderful, amazing thought occurred to the mouse. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Although Washington was not, like Adams or Jefferson, a prodigious reader of books, he was an obsessive reader of newspapers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Like everything else on these pages, my reasons for writing will be revealed instead to public readers I expect never to meet. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “And she might not. In any case, she has her symbol reader; that will tell her anything she wants to know.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He was a fast reader himself—faster than most adults—but compared to Sticky he must seem positively sluggish. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Can you imagine the words you’d use, dear reader, to tell your family that your parents had been murdered? Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Mavens, according to Price, are the kinds of people who are avid readers of Consumer Reports. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z These are questions the reader shouldn’t have to ask. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Neat. I didn’t know your grandpa was a reader,” my mom said, trying to lighten the mood. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z You do not engage the attention of the reader unless your story has basic human interest elements. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I’m a decent reader and an okay writer. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z We looked at a version of this principle when we saw that to help the reader keep track of a single entity across multiple mentions, a writer should not flip-flop between unnecessary synonyms. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Many readers may already be protesting: don’t stereotype people by classifying them into arbitrary “races”! Yes, I acknowledge that each of these so-called major groups is very diverse. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But in the time since the book has come out, as I’ve talked to readers and revisited some of my ideas, I’ve come to believe that there is a social agenda in Blink as well. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The long distance between a filler and a gap can be hazardous to writer and reader alike. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One is to provide the reader with hints about prosody, thus bringing writing a bit closer to speech. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A number of the authors’ names have been starred with penciled asterisks by previous readers, but there is no sign or mark by Nikolai Gogol’s name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z No, reader: gratitude, and many associations, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I best liked to see; his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The reader has to scan the sentence several times to figure out which of two meanings the writer intended, or worse, she may come away with the wrong meaning without realizing it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I had grown used to thinking readers somehow needed my column. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Very hard for non-Margo readers to decode. So, okay, I’m going to spoil the story for you, but first you have to promise not to get mad.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z A skilled writer can interleave multiple story lines, or deliberately manipulate suspense and surprise, or engage the reader with a chain of associations, each topic shunting the reader to the next. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Newspaper journalists, mindful of their readers’ attention spans, sometimes go to the other extreme and dice their text into nanoparagraphs consisting of a sentence or two apiece. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He asked the reader to envision a train one hundred yards long moving at 60 percent of the speed of light. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The writers forget that the few seconds they add to their own lives come at the cost of many minutes stolen from the lives of their readers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It depends as well on impressions that build up in a reader over the course of reading many paragraphs and that depend on the author’s grasp of the text as a whole. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z That accounts for some of the discrepancies that readers may note between this book’s dates and those quoted in some standard reference books on early food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Timelines, summaries, and comparison charts appear throughout the book to help the reader absorb and retain important points. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z I am a good reader now, and sometimes I tell you about the things I read, and you ask me to tell you even more. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Classic writing, with its assumption of equality between writer and reader, makes the reader feel like a genius. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Imagine that at the same time the rat steps from the dungeon and into the castle, a mouse is being born upstairs, a mouse, reader, who is destined to meet the light-bedazzled rat. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z It was true of course, though sprinkled with little inaccuracies that added to the story, making it strong meat for the hundreds of readers who wanted value for their pennies. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Would you like to hear, reader, how it all unfolded? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love, a powerful, wonderful thing. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The categories of grammar reflect the building blocks of thought—time, space, causality, matter—and a philosophical wordsmith can play with them to awaken her readers to metaphysical conundrums. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The relationship between music and reading in beginning readers. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z But every reader addicted to coffee can thank ancient Ethiopian farmers for domesticating the coffee plant. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He pulls his atmospheric reader out of his bag. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z This is a gentle delineation, is it not, reader? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z This, reader, was a little joke on Louise’s part, as she was not a person who laughed. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The closer the subject is to the verb, the less likely the reader will get lost. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He was an adventurous reader and theatergoer, but less so an adventurous person. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z As I’ve told you, what I say is not what I feel, which is why I have a reputation for being boy-crazy as well as a flirt, a smart aleck and a reader of romances. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Elizebeth rooted for her readers even as she pushed them to excel. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In addition to four trolls who looked like very small and hairy human beings, thirteen little glass men and women climbed into Elinor’s buses—and so did Darius, the unhappy stammering reader. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z But the reader, with no agent in sight, has no way to visualize the event being moved forward by its instigator. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A Chicago landmark, the building drew readers from far and wide. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But he may not want the reader to think about the content of the subject before she thinks about the contents of the verb and object. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And if something you write doesn’t get your point across, it’s probably not the reader’s fault—it’s yours. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “What are you, a mind reader or something?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z To keep the text coherent, the writer must allow the reader to keep track of these themes by referring to each in a consistent way or by explaining their connection. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Vesalius could thus show the reader what he had seen in the body. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My advice will often shock purists and occasionally puzzle readers who have always been under the impression that this word meaning or that grammatical usage is an error. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Is there a neurologically intact reader anywhere who can’t figure out whom the pronoun refers to in Bob’s mother loved him or Stacy’s dog bit her? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It provides the reader with the line of thinking that led Papin to the invention of the steam engine. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Chapter Summary: The goal of this chapter is to introduce the reader to the most well-known music teaching methods used in music education. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I’ve presented the facts as clearly as I could, and I leave it to you, dear reader, to draw your own conclusions. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z This can keep the reader off balance, luring her into wrong guesses about a sentence’s structure. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But the starting point for becoming a good writer is to be a good reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Alas! the readers of our era are less favoured. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Don’t make the reader rearrange your messy sentences to figure out what’s going on. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But Francie wasn’t friendly enough with the readers to exchange gossip with them and the rumors died with her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z For many years Keith Waterhouse operated an Association for the Abolition of the Aberrant Apostrophe in the Daily Mirror and then the Daily Mail, cheered on by literally millions of readers. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Only after laying a semblance of it on the page can a writer free up the cognitive resources needed to make the sentence grammatical, graceful, and, most important, transparent to the reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He says in effect to his reader, “Never mind how silly they are. I will dress them up so prettily for you that you will like them.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The rat, reader, invited himself to the party. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Your readers know a lot less about your subject than you think they do, and unless you keep track of what you know that they don’t, you are guaranteed to confuse them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Any of this would have been enough to make Hooke famous and delight readers such as Samuel Pepys. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z They were the very same stairs, reader, that the mouse Despereaux had been pushed down the day before. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I hope you will find this tale of sufficient interest to yourself and your readers to warrant its publication. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z Although some readers found it hard to get through—especially if they couldn’t buy his argument. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know so many mind readers lived in Garden Heights.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Will it be alright, reader, if I choose just the good ones? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It’s up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Also omitted were his mentions of the biomedical team working with John Lawrence; consequently, the article gave readers the impression that the radioisotope and neutron work was solely a two-brother effort. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The public had an ongoing interest in the picketers, they reasoned, and the editors believed that readers had the right to know what was going on. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z And when we were home, everyone usually had his or her nose stuck in one of the books or advance readers’ copies that Mom brought home from work. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z To begin with, I have been an excellent reader for most of my life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I reread my words, and again it is the reader’s voice I hear in my mind, sounding my prose. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He must be a mind reader, Buttercup thought. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Good writing takes advantage of a reader’s expectations of where to go next. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As a reader works his way through a text, the next challenge is to keep track of the ideas that run through it and to discern the logical relationship between one idea and the next. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “So...I’m supposed to be a mind reader?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Put yourself in my shoes, reader, and ask yourself what conclusion you would have come to about your sex, if you had what I had, if you looked the way I looked. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z That means that when the reader has to handle the complicated phrase, her work in analyzing all the other phrases is done, and she can concentrate her mental energy on that one. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Will the reader please take into consideration that this story was written before the writer’s fury had cooled? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z What does exist is the paragraph break: a visual bookmark that allows the reader to pause, take a breather, assimilate what he has read, and then find his place again on the page. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The reader suddenly sat up, cast away the paper, displaying a flushed countenance, and with a funny mixture of solemnity and excitement replied in a loud voice, “Your sister.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z A shocking number of phrases that drop easily from the fingers are bloated with words that encumber the reader without conveying any content. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z You’ll be a good boy or girl in the eyes of copy editors, and will have avoided a sibilant, which many readers find ugly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The San Piedro Review printed a reminder to its readers that it was pledged to remain silent on military news that might comfort or aid the enemy. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z What did matter, indeed struck most readers as the only thing that truly mattered, was that George Washington was retiring. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z You can’t have this kind of shared understanding if writer and reader are in an adversary relationship. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When The War of the Worlds was published just two years after Lowell’s first book hit the shelves, Wells’s scenario seemed entirely possible to his readers. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z It may not make you a better person in all spheres of life, but it will be a source of continuing kindness to your readers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Who knows? I have never seen a symbol reader, nor anyone who could read them. Perhaps you are different from others.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z This chapter also familiarizes the reader with each method’s philosophy and principles, unique pedagogy, and practices and activities. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z His book begins with a glossary to help the reader make sense of these new words. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As I approach the third-floor door, I tear the ID tag off my necklace and pause long enough to swipe it against the door's reader. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I want to know if I'm sitting at a table filled with wizards and mind readers. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z When she was in first grade, she had been the worst reader in the whole class. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Other nights I slept at Mama Sweetie’s, a tiny woman in her sixties who was the best reader in Pine Level. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Above all, Boyle, like any seventeenth-century scientist, realizes that most of his readers will be mathematicians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And, reader, do you think I feared him in his blind ferocity?—if you do, you little know me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Many of the readers took and passed the examination and were called to work immediately. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The professor saw drive and strength in the young woman, the voracious reader with the discipline, Terryl recounts. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She was told that they never hired new readers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If a thing was cold, I tried to make the reader feel cold, and not just tell about it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The truth is that the reader is always right. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were those who accepted me as a reader but then would separate me, in their thinking, from anything they accepted as black. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z But they get away with it by arranging the words so that a reader can absorb them a phrase at a time, each phrase conveying a chunk of conceptual structure. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One might think that Schaffer or his readers would have rejected these arguments as inherently implausible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is the first time I’ve ever written to the person whose life I’ve occupied, and it feels both strange and comfortable, knowing that Rhiannon will be the reader of these words. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z It is a fine thing, reader, to be lifted in a moment from indigence to wealth—a very fine thing; but not a matter one can comprehend, or consequently enjoy, all at once. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “Hey, it’s not my fault what people think they’re buying. How is that my fault? Am I supposed to be a mind reader?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z He took no interest in the stacks of books that Regina, an avid reader, always had in the house. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Though he might not be too interested, being, apparently, not much of a reader. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Forget all that stuff about the spiritual value to the reader of working out the meaning for himself; forget as well the humility of those copyists of old. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Though no writer can avoid idioms altogether—they’re part of the English lexicon, just like individual words—good writers reach for fresh similes and metaphors that keep the reader’s sensory cortexes lit up. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The reader of Unweaving the Rainbow opens the book and is walloped with a reminder of the most dreadful fact we know, and on its heels a paradoxical elaboration. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It made it easier to lure Christians and Muslims onto the aliens’ dinner plates, but it also upset a lot of contemporary readers here on the planet of humans and dogs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z When given a choice, readers tend to attach phrases lower in the tree rather than higher. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As we become fluent readers we file away in memory tens of thousands of common word pairs, such as horse race, hunt ducks, cotton clothing, fat people, prime number, old man, and data point. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z So every time a writer adds a word to a sentence, he is imposing not one but two cognitive demands on the reader: understanding the word, and fitting it into the tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The problem with dangling modifiers is that their subjects are inherently ambiguous and sometimes a sentence will inadvertently attract a reader to the wrong choice. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Slicing away the layers of familiar abstraction and showing the reader who did what to whom is a never-ending challenge for a writer. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The reader probably still has some questions, but unfortunately, from here on in, the answers tend to be long and tedious. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z When her papers were read up, she didn’t have to pitch in, as the other readers did, and help the girls who were behind. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was extremely unusual for an Englishman to have such an adventure, to explore faraway lands, and now in his book Charles took his readers with him on the adventure. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z What, reader, in your experience is the promise of a rat worth? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Mistaken, the gullible reader will—in sympathy or in anger—take it that I intend to model my life as the typical Hispanic-American life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And so he tells the reader not about the dreams, which were too private an experience, but about the day he spent in the stove-heated room, when his life as a philosopher began. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The problem is that the order in which thoughts occur to the writer is different from the order in which they are easily recovered by a reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Too many connectives can make it seem as if an author is belaboring the obvious or patronizing the reader, and it can give prose a pedantic feel. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Rowdy isn’t a fast reader, but he’s persistent. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Another reader offered more money for a blinking graphic that showed, first, a long-necked model in a tight dress, then the same model in a floppy hat. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Every fifteen minutes the readers paused for a short prayer: Catholic, Jewish, Unitarian, or Protestant. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Finally, my history deserves public notice as no more than this: a parable for the life of its reader. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They are symptoms of absent-mindedness in a writer who has forgotten that he should be staging an event for the reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The form in which thoughts occur to a writer is rarely the same as the form in which they can be absorbed by a reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As we shall see, many omissible words earn their keep by preventing the reader from making a wrong turn as she navigates her way through the sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But first he has to train the reader in understanding and representing shapes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I have some really bad secrets to share with someone, and it might as well be you—a stranger, a reader of books, but most of all, a person who can’t hurt me. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Nineteenth-century newspapers intentionally printed fake news stories to entertain readers and increase sales. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Every negation requires mental homework, and when a sentence contains many of them the reader can be overwhelmed. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Books are fun, Nicholas, he says, they’re like amusement parks for readers. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Money,” he said, moving his lips exaggeratedly as if talking to a lip reader. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thank you, sir,” she said, turning back to the reader. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They tell the reader, “You’ve already met this guy; no need to stop and think about a new kid in town.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z If the new phrase has the same structure as the preceding one, its words can be slotted into the waiting tree, and the reader will absorb it effortlessly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Nothing’s wrong with that, Ms. Laverne said, being a teacher/mind reader. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Now I never had, as the reader knows, either given any formal promise or entered into any engagement; and this language was all much too hard and much too despotic for the occasion. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z And in the column she answered maths questions sent in by readers. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But to answer your question: No, I have not written anything else, nor will 1.1 do not feel that continuing to share my thoughts with readers would benefit either them or me. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Although she had been raised to ten dollars a week when she went on reading, her runner-up received twenty-five dollars a week and the other readers received twenty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s always good to show mercy to your readers and periodically let them rest their weary eyes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But divining the chunks that have been mastered by a typical reader requires a gift of clairvoyance with which few of us are blessed. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Coherence begins with the writer and reader being clear about the topic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The reader, then, may care to know at the outset that in 1955 the eldest of the Glass children, Seymour, had been dead almost seven years. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Skeeter refuses to give any more away on this intriguing subject, so we turn instead to the relationship that will undoubtedly fascinate her readers more than any other. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She packed her math workbook and her science reader. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Even worse, this trend may be due partly to the fact that burdens an attentive reader with ten words, seven levels, and more than two dozen branches. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The Black Suit takes our cards from my dad and places each one over a reader—the kind the TSA uses to scan your passport when you come back from a trip abroad. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z In retaliation, they stirred up as much trouble as possible among the readers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack the Ripper’s five-murder spree in 1888 had defied explanation and captivated readers throughout America, who believed such a thing could not happen in their own hometowns. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “What are you, some kind of mind reader?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z If only Dorian had been born a soldier, not a reader. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Hey! You know rule number one. You must be a reader.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The sentences in the left-hand column all deny a proposition that it would be reasonable for readers to entertain. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A coherent text is one in which the reader always knows which coherence relation holds between one sentence and the next. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The next best reader averaged from a hundred to a hundred and ten papers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The noun system of English provides a writer with ways to distinguish entities the reader is being introduced to for the first time from the entities he already knows about. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z If he ever wrote a book, he thought, he would present one person at a time, so that the reader wouldn’t have to worry about memorizing a lot of names. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I soon became one of the best prose and poetry readers in school, and would often get picked to represent the school whenever white inspectors came to assess our progress. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z These phrases were then strung together in ways that made the letter seem more or less natural to a casual reader. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I write today for a reader who exists in my mind only phantasmagorically. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The book is rare, and presumably had few readers, but those few would have found frequent occurrences of the word ‘fact’ in Salusbury’s translations, particularly in the Letter. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I hope my experience will be a microcosm for readers, who will also appreciate art in direct proportion to the amount of knowledge they bring to it. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z After the Associated Press picked up our January 15 story about George Dawson, who learned to read at 98, hundreds of inspired readers wrote him cards and letters. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I will have something beautiful. And I will have revenge. Both things. Somehow ” There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z It had impressed journalists, TV reporters, statesmen, and readers in comfortable homes who were thrilled by the high-sounding phrases and the nobility of the sentiments. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “But if the story is good enough to sell to your readers, then you ought to give me some of the money you get from it,” I insisted. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The biggest reader of the three, he was the most likely to know vocabulary words and foreign phrases. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z The author then must furiously try to minimize what she has been saying, which only arouses the reader’s suspicions. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The rules of standard English are not legislated by a tribunal of lexicographers but emerge as an implicit consensus within a virtual community of writers, readers, and editors. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They are used with admirable skill to enliven the story and make it seem real, never to hold it up or divert the reader’s attention from the main issue. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I had long had the feeling that this was the best way to “enclose” the reader’s mind in a new world, to blot out all reality except that which I was giving him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z To read one, the reader would unroll the next column of text on the right side while rerolling the last on the left. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Indeed, some of the supermarket apple varieties now being munched by readers of this chapter have been developed recently by crossing Eurasian apples with wild North American apples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Dear reader, you have to understand the point of all these stories. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z She was a great reader, and studied a deal; and the “bairns” had taken after her. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The ten readers sat at long sloping desks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The historian has to mediate between the past and the present, finding a language which will convey to present readers the beliefs and convictions of people who thought quite differently. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Together with the topic of a text, the reader usually needs to know its point. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But most readers didn't know that he never claimed to have seen life on the Moon. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He said, “One writes half the book: the other half is with the reader.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Later my sons set upon it like apprentice palm readers, trying to divine the fate of their world from the lengths and curves of its rivers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But that wasn’t the reason I became a reader. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not possible, by listening to the music, to perceive the underlying design, although a skilled score reader may be able to plot its workings by studying the music on the page. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And in his sleep, reader, the small mouse began to cry. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Coming too late to affect many voters, Hamilton’s diatribe exposed the deep rift within the Federalist camp for all to see and suggested to most readers that Hamilton himself was out of his mind. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Perhaps they also recall the stereotype from popular culture in which unskilled readers move their lips when they read. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And if a rat does not want to be found, reader, he will not be found. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Only because of that reader did the words come to the page. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But best of all, I think, is the simple advice given by the style book of a national newspaper: that punctuation is “a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z They’re not going to interfere with my little reader, oh, by Jesus, no. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He slid his library card into a reader on a door labeled “000s.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z In time, the reader would look up and see the deserted streets, hear some nearby cry for help. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Thomas and Turner explain that the reader of classic prose “may conclude that a text is masterful, classic, and completely wrong.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The reader’s voice silently trails every word I put down. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The cruel pretty grabbed Cray’s chin and flashed the reader in his eye. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Part of the answer is that male readers will put up with a lot in a book called A History of Warfare. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Or something interesting comes into view, and the reader examines it part by part. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It would knock the reader off balance, because he has no reason at this moment to be thinking about Canada. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Lipnitsky didn’t just fling concepts at the reader, but rather gave clear and logical examples of how to do what he recommended. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Elinor definitely knows more stories with treasure in them than that spineless reader of yours!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Most garden paths in everyday writing, unlike the ones in textbooks, don’t bring the reader to a complete standstill; they just delay her for a fraction of a second. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Again, reader, we must go backward before we can go forward. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I was permitted to reissue the book only on condition that a disclaimer was included, assuring Muggle readers that it was a work of fiction. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Meggers’s message of limitation, published within a year of the first Earth Day, resonated in the ears of readers newly converted to the ecological movement. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At this point in the presentation, the terms mean nothing to the reader, and the list is too long and arbitrary to stay in memory for long. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Haley slid her card key down the reader slot in the 400s door. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Not just a reader, but someone hungry for books. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z A story was direct and simple, allowing nothing to come between herself and her reader—no intermediaries with their private ambitions or incompetence, no pressures of time, no limits on resources. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Having spent that much, Lyddie squandered fifty pence more to get the child a beginning reader and a small paper volume of verses that the bookseller recommended. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Francie phoned the only other clipping bureau she knew of in New York and asked whether they needed a reader. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The reader may have to work hard to discern it, but her efforts will be rewarded. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And then it would be such a simple matter to set down my findings and lean back comfortably with a fine sense of having discovered truths and taught them to my readers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Only four years old in that picture, and already, a reader. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Honestly, reader, what do you think the chances are of such a small mouse succeeding in his quest? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He had always been a very slow reader.... Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Perhaps as a legacy of his childhood, Jesse remained an obsessive reader. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost any of the readers of this book, had they been in the right place at the right time, could have made the great discoveries described here. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z A good reader and skilled writer, Courtney easily masters her schoolwork, except when she is indifferent to it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Even in a world as strange as this one, a mouse and a princess cannot marry But, reader, they can be friends. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Perry does not have much schooling I dont either, I only had second reader. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In the beginning of 1666, he tells his readers, he acquired a prism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As we shall see, the practice of “pointing” our writing has always been offered in a spirit of helpfulness, to underline meaning and prevent awkward misunderstandings between writer and reader. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Standing at the podium, I listened carefully to the reader as he chanted the words from the scroll. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Instead, the reader will be presented with one last scene, which took place almost a year and a half after Stanley and Hector left Camp Green Lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z She was a good reader because she had set her mind to be one. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z “Some readers do not like other people touching their cards,” Marco explains, recalling details from his divination lessons as he gently lifts the deck. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Also, the second label should easily call to mind the first one, so that readers don’t have to rack their brains figuring out who or what the writer is talking about. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The reader is probably asking: Why would anyone go to Camp Green Lake? Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “He needs to practice. He’s a terrible reader,” I said. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But he also said some things that must have surprised readers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Using the wrong voice can make the reader crane back and forth like a spectator at a tennis match: See that lady with the shopping bag? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I hope that, by getting inside her head, readers will understand seemingly bizarre behavior. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Black newspapers and their readers wasted no time in making the link between America’s inadequacy in space and the dreadful conditions facing many black students in the South. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z |
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