Word: readerly
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...testing a mailable reader, a very thin, hard box about the size of a large postcard. We could mail that to you to put on your TV, and you could mail it back. It would be an efficient way of collecting information. We're testing it among employees, and we'll have a market test with clients this summer. We've had an ongoing test with Arbitron [which does ratings research for radio] for a device called a PPM [portable people meter]. It looks like a little pager, and you wear it, and it would allow us to measure television...
...this kind of reality-based writing that sets Miyabe's novels apart-and that has helped make her one of Japan's wealthiest authors. Readers in English may be less enthused by the translation of Crossfire, which makes Miyabe's prose sound less natural than it is in Japanese. Still, even in translation, it's a powerful and satisfying mystery. Miyabe details her characters' every thought, no matter how cutthroat or compassionate, as they argue with their families, berate themselves, fall in love and earn a living. By the end of the novel, the reader understands just how hard Junko...
...Holbrook said that the format of the book should interest any reader...
...dead), but a single written testimonial which makes time cease for her: "From the window I saw my mother in the garden, picking aubergines for our lunch. She burst into flames." Jones' novel works in much the same way as this. With carefully chosen images and words, the reader is transported across the tyranny of time, to face a century of terror...
...R.E.M. might say, it’s the end of the world as we know it, and we feel fine. No, dear reader, the following is neither a forecast of the apocalypse nor an elegy for the state of rock music today. But have you ever noticed how we often go through life as if we are living at the end of the world, as if the world—whether or not we like it—is going to keep looking like this forever? As one of the first generations to grow up largely beyond the shadow...