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...they do. For many writers, that's the best part. Reader comments are logged one click away from the actual story. "It means a lot to get reviews," Kallilli wrote in an e-mail to TIME, "because then you know if you're doing a good job or something isn't working." Her 18-chapter saga, "Second Chance, Second Life"--about JC's romance with his kids' nanny (it's rated PG)--has elicited 151 reviews since it appeared last fall. Most are of the "I loved this story!" and "Great ending!" variety. Not exactly the same level of feedback...
...only relative he speaks to—with him and he has already abandoned his career. Abby’s fear that the Mafia will retaliate against her family is assuaged rather dubiously. And though there are worse things than sailing the Caribbean with millions in the bank, the reader is left wondering what type of life the children Abby has always wanted will have as the boat-confined scions of fugitives...
...dream the other night that my thesis reader called to speak to me. I was sitting on a remote beach and was wearing sunglasses. I picked up a phone that looked very much like a coconut and heard his voice on the other end. He wanted to know why I had turned in 100 blank pages in lieu of a thesis. He then told me that my “stunt” would have been an acceptable, even admirable, postmodern stunt if I had turned in 40-60 blank pages. But words or no words, 100 pages was frightfully...
...campaign has polarized the usually dispassionate Swiss, and the issue is fueling heated debates on street corners, in offices and on newspaper op-ed pages. "We have been so successful for so long, why join an ineffective organization?" one Geneva reader asks...
...engaging humor and scant respect for many Arab governments. He intersperses juicy recipes and equally juicy stories about growing up in Nablus and attending conferences around the world as an adult. He explains how to make falafel, tabbouleh, baba ghanoush and lesser-known dishes. At the same time, the reader picks up knowledge that is not strictly culinary. For example, that baba means coquettish and ghanoush is, roughly, dissolute - adjectives that seem unlikely for an aubergine purée but which Jamal explains in a delightful story about his aunt's unmarried daughter. He also writes of an Algerian visiting...