They trace the evil-plagued adventures of three orphan children while reading like a warped version of Harry Potter.
Ms. FRANCINE PROSE (Author, Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them): Well.
Her new book is called Reading Like a Writer: a Guide for People Who Love Books and For Those Who Want to Write Them.
The novelist, critic, and essayist has a new book out called Reading Like a Writer, and joins us to answer the question that haunts every frustrated genius: can creative writing be taught?
Her new book is called Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them, and she joins us from our bureau in New York.
And that really, to me, is the trick of reading like a writer, and the way that I read and the way I would think that people who want to be writers should be reading.
Next door, La Maroq - the Maroquinerie - books the best of up and coming international indie acts, its alumni reading like a musical who's who of the late Noughties, from Jose Gonzalez to Pete Doherty to Animal Collective.
There is nothing wrong per se with being a former journalist, but the danger is that when such people produce reports on the G20 summit or what Europe expects from Obama etc. they end up reading like long pieces of journalism.
The editorial hand here is very light, which is why I have the pleasure of reading intelligent conservatives like Avik Roy and Lawrence Hunter while also reading intelligent liberals like Rick Ungar and Erik Kain without having to leave the site.
Kashmir great article as usual, nothing like reading an article like this before a 12.5 hour day of classes and homework, to get my brain pumping.
Reading this manuscript was not like reading four pages of a magazine, or four pages of Nietzsche.
Reading look like having the easiest game away to Derby, who have only won once all season.
In short, it makes reading the Bible more relaxing, and it makes Bible reading feel like much less of a chore.
Taken together, the stories created a daily reading experience like no other.
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My childhood (at least the formative years) was spent reading novels like Neuromancer and Snow Crash, and poring over stories about a future promised by Mondo 2000 and Wired.
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Moving its e-mail sign-up box above the fold (saving users from scrolling down to find it) helped Levenger.com --a high-end retailer of reading accessories like bookmarks and pens--expand its e-mail list 200% in one month, says Lynnette Montgomery , vice president of e-commerce.
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Reading Smith without studying economics, he said, was like reading Euclid without studying maths.
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They understand that their job is more than teaching subjects like reading or chemistry.
"To read too much into this is like reading tea leaves, " said Sibneft spokesman John Mann.
With non-glare, no backlit e-Ink display, it delivers a paper-like reading experience, even under bright sunlight.
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Several people responded that convergent methodologies like reading and even memorization are not necessarily antithetical to innovation.
Anything I say here will just be based on my, you know, reading the newspaper like everybody else.
"Ari was supposed to start, and Ari is like reading the newspaper, " Bartlett told his audience to laughter.
"You have to read the cloth, like reading a book, " she tells me.
Yet they believe something like reading or sewing is a much better activity?
This feature, plus the ink's high contrast ratio, provides a display that can offer a truly paper-like reading experience.
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