Word: readerly
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...made the mistake of reading "Blood Song" before noticing the sub-title, "A Silent Ballad." That is, I read it like a graphic novel, with a novel-reader's interest in character and story. In this manner I consumed this epic work within fifteen minutes and felt gypped. Seemingly naive and simplistic, the story tells of a young woman living peacefully with her family in what looks like Vietnam. One day soldiers arrive (conspicuously similar to American G.I.s) and destroy the village. She flees through the jungle and across the sea. She arrives at a modern city with dark, bedraggled...
...taken as a ballad - a narrative poem - "Blood Song" becomes beautiful and expansive. Like a ballad, its story exits only as a thread for the reader to follow through the metaphors and themes. One way of reading it, for example, is a story about the transition from child to adult - moving from careless tranquility through tempestuous seas to the world of responsibility and childbirth...
According to Ujifusa, the Indy plans to improve its design “to make it more interesting for the reader...
...stone. James, son of Joseph. Then, slightly more eroded, "akhui di..." Brother of. And at the end, clearly visible from only close up, "Yeshua." Jesus. The language is the Aramaic spoken by Jews in Jerusalem in the 1st century A.D., but the words are so simple that any Hebrew reader would know the meaning. Here, in this bone-box, or ossuary, once lay the earthly remains of "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus...
...when taping starts, Aa Gym snaps into performance mode. His voice drops an octave, his face changing in a second from a broad smile to the serious, concerned demeanor of a wise uncle giving guidance to his favorite nephews and nieces. The topics could be taken from a Reader's Digest article: "The Greatest Failure is Never Trying," "Forgive and Forget," "The Importance of Politeness," "Don't Be Envious of Success...