Word: readerly
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...surprisingly, though, the pace relaxes when Carr reaches his recovery stage; by that point, familiar with the major players and milestones in his life, the reader can relax too. And if he lapses into clichés on occasion (he adores his daughters "madly, deeply, truly"), at other times his word choice attains a chilling precision, as when he describes the two girls on the date of their premature birth: "They weighed a bit more than a kilo, a term of art in our current context." Carr and the girls' mother had used crack during her pregnancy--he had just handed...
...Lace Reader By Brunonia Barry; out July 29 If you can sign off on the idea that the women of the Whitney family of Salem, Mass., can see the future in pieces of lace, you will enjoy this long but richly imagined saga of passion, suspense and magic. If not, we predict you will reread Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca instead...
...Bournemouth University are upending the term for mail sent via old-school postal services. "We're all living in a speed-obsessed world," says Vicky Isley, which is why she co-created RealSnailMail.net Users submit e-mails that get relayed to a tank with some snails and two electronic readers. A gastropod with a chip on its shell wirelessly picks up a message from one reader and eventually moseys 50 cm to the other, at which point the missive dashes over the Internet. Delivery, if completed, could take days, weeks, months. The project officially launches in August and is part...
...David Lehman, editor of the Best American Poetry series, describes her work as both "riddling and reader-friendly." And critics often note the wry, introspective, paradoxical quality of her poems. Ryan has said that her poems "surf the edge of sensory deprivation." Yet she also seeks to unnerve the reader...
...Whether it was the sun or the smiles, Sydney thawed. "Go, pilgrims," called office workers lunching in the park opposite the city's St. Mary's Cathedral. The pilgrims were "pleasant people who don't swear or brawl," commented reader "Thomas" at the Daily Telegraph website, "and they treat each other with respect." Most of the populace seemed to approve. "People have been high-fiving us in the street," said Sydney Catholic Marcia Moses, who took part in the event...