Word: readerly
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...colored by the narrator's perspective, the book focuses almost entirely on Vincent and her struggle to define her own illness. The nurses are watching her, the patients are bothering her, the doctors are locked in a power struggle with her. Vincent focuses so much on herself that the reader begins to mistrust the hospital observations she presents as fact. Are the nurses really that cruel, or is she just imagining it? The three treatment centers, hidden by pseudonyms and with very few identifying details, come across feeling like caricatures, the kind of stereotypical hospitals and psychiatric wards that appear...
...York Sun editor Francis Church answers a young reader's letter with the phrase, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus...
...hidden in all the four corners of the image so that those interested could make it visible by placing the cursor over each corner to create a roll-over...Unlike an analog photograph where the viewer is told never to touch its center for fear of smudges, the reader is invited into the interior of the digital image...
...blog vocabulary (CAPTCHA; commenter; troll; vlog), as well as various means of measuring traffic (hits, page views, unique visitors). Surprisingly, the book is congratulatory towards Arianna Huffington without taking a completely hagiographic tone. A must read for blog newbies, of which there are increasingly few. Ironically, the tech savvy reader could probably find much of this information somewhere online...
...formation to their 1984 de facto dissolution, from dodging spit and beer bottles to winning worldwide acclaim and dealing with the drug addictions and personality clashes that caused their break-up. One part photo album and one part interview transcript, “The Clash” brings the reader a vibrant and engaging history of one of punk rock’s most influential and inspiring bands. Bob Dylan once said, “Most people who write about music, they have no idea what it feels like to play it.” In telling the band?...