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Someone at technology news site, Cnet, came up with the clever idea of running a poll to learn the age of people who use Amazon's miracle book reader, the Kindle. Seven hundred people responded, which puts the survey somewhat below what researchers would expect from Gallup, but it is a reasonable straw poll, nonetheless...
...mention where this reader came from - but I had an email from a reader that had gone into a bookshop. She didn't explain what the issue was, but she decided that she wasn't going to continue to live. And she came across Mma Ramotswe, and this changed her mind about taking her life. And she wrote me a very nice email saying that this had happened. Well, what can one say in those circumstances? We also get a lot of messages from people who have, say, been having chemotherapy. That's a very common thing...
...appeal of so many of the fables Stan Lee and his colleagues have spun out for Marvel Comics is their confirmation of what any young reader may have thought about himself as his body changes and his mind reels: I'm a freak. To this Lee adds the fantasy: But your weirdness is a sign of preternatural abilities; you're odd because you're a hero. Spider-Man emits goo from his fingers, and he can fly. The Hulk gets mad and becomes bigger and stronger. Wolverine's Dragon Lady fingernails make him the toughest guy on the block...
...which he is responsible every year. He has a log book—dating back to the eight years that he has worked in the office—that he carefully fills out every day with a running count of the folders made, and the number sent out to readers, or “cleared.” “See here in July and August,” he says, pointing to his records, “these are the kids who are very anxious and applied before their senior year even started.” Anderson?...
Most athlete autobiographies are pretty mundane and predictable, but the opening sentence of your book certainly grabs the reader: "I'll kill all y'all," the drunk with the shotgun raged. You then detail your father's abuse of you and your brothers, and the moment your family stood up to him and forced him to leave for good. What made you want to open up about all this? I think because every opinion has been out there about me, and no one really knew who I was. I think people just portrayed me as this person that had everything...