For a few days, Rousselot was even preoccupied by the thought that he had lost his best reader, the reader for whom he had really been writing, the only one who was truly capable of responding to his work.
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Winslet had been expected to be named best supporting actress for The Reader, in which she plays a former Nazi prison guard who has an affair with a teenager.
Mr Snyder's book is revisionist history of the best kind: in spare, closely argued prose, with meticulous use of statistics, he makes the reader rethink some of the best-known episodes in Europe's modern history.
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This led him to calculate that the information content of any event was proportional to the logarithm of its inverse probability of occurrence. (Unlike many popular-science books that eschew equations, Mr Vedral includes a couple and tries his best to explain them to the reader.) What does the equation mean?
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Best of all, he makes the reader want to go back to Graham's original work.
But it was Eurogamer reader Skirlasvoud who said it best.
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The Weinstein Company's The Reader was a surprise nominee for Best Picture and Best Actress.
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In a mild surprise, "The Reader, " based on the best-selling novel about a postwar German boy who has an affair with an older woman with a Holocaust-related secret, took home nominations for best picture, best actress (Kate Winslet) and best director (Stephen Daldry).
The witty book took the overall prize, while author and Children's Laureate Jacqueline Wilson took the younger reader's award for her book Best Friends.
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In their different ways, the essays in these collections manage to pinch their subjects pretty hard, though at their best they leave them alive and kicking in the reader's mind.
For better or worse, it seems to think that a pricier digital reading device with a unique feature or two may be the best strategy to negotiate the increasingly crowded e-reader market.
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In spite of some of her novels being banned at the time by South Africa's white-only government, the Nobel laureate insists that any author who tries to push a message on a reader ahead of narrative is in danger at best of producing bad writing, and at worst of lapsing into propaganda.
"If you love reading and are looking to invest a chunk of money into a device as a dedicated e-reader, then the iPad is not your best bet, " Cesar Torres, of CNN content partner ArsTechnica , wrote last year in a review comparing the third-generation iPad to e-readers such as the third-generation Kindle. (That iPad has the same screen as the most recent one).
Of course the reader needs a reason to continue, but the best reason is simply confidence that the writer is going some place interesting.
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Executives said Best Buy is well positioned to benefit from the changes in electronics, noting that the company offers the largest e-reader assortment in the industry and is heavily focused on its Best Buy Mobile business, which offers smartphones from multiple carriers under one roof, similar to the way such phones are marketed in Europe.
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