This Insane New App Will Allow You To Read Novels In Under 90 Minutes. Technology• Christian La Du • The reading game is about to change forever. Boston-based software developer Spritz has been in “stealth mode” for three years, tinkering with their program and leasing it out to different ebooks, apps, and other platforms. Now, Spritz is about to go public with Samsung’s new line of wearable technology. Other apps have offered up similar types of rapid serial visual presentation to enhance reading speed and convenience on mobile devices in the past. However, what Spritz does differently (and brilliantly) is manipulate the format of the words to more appropriately line them up with the eye’s natural motion of reading.
The “Optimal Recognition Point” (ORP) is slightly left of the center of each word, and is the precise point at which our brain deciphers each jumble of letters. The unique aspect of Spritz is that it identifies the ORP of each word, makes that letter red and presents all of the ORPs at the same space on the screen. The game done changed. Time traveling photographer adds herself into her childhood pictures. Does everyone really have a novel in them? 29 November 2013Last updated at 04:59 ET Every November, hundreds of thousands of writers around the world participate in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), trying to churn out 50,000 words of a new novel in just 30 days. But what drives this community of amateur novel-writers, asks Sophie Robehmed. Janelle, who has swapped her historical romance for an alternate realities story because she "can have more fun with it", is typing furiously on her tablet.
Chris, an IT professional, is thoughtfully eating a chocolate-covered fancy. Sitting among them, it's not long before you are asked: "Are you a NaNo? " Continue reading the main story Three excerpts from NaNoWriMo authors "Kirsty had turned up at his Central London apartment two hours ago, completely hysterical and mumbling about her husband Jared leaving her for some hussy. " This is a typical NaNoWriMo meet-up, at a cafe in London, where 13,000 people have been taking part in the event.
The meet-ups can be serious. “Start Quote. The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list | Books | The Observer. 1. Don Quixote Miguel De CervantesThe story of the gentle knight and his servant Sancho Panza has entranced readers for centuries. • Harold Bloom on Don Quixote – the first modern novel 2. Pilgrim's Progress John BunyanThe one with the Slough of Despond and Vanity Fair. • Robert McCrum's 100 best novels: The Pilgrim's Progress 3. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe The first English novel. • Robert McCrum's 100 best novels: Robinson Crusoe 4.
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift A wonderful satire that still works for all ages, despite the savagery of Swift's vision. • Robert McCrum's 100 best novels: Gulliver's Travels 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. Ten tips to make bedtime reading fun. All children need and love stories. Yet a recent poll of 2,000 mothers with children aged 0-7 (What? No fathers?!) Found that only 64% of respondents said they read their children bedtime stories. Reasons for not reading to their kids included being too stressed or too tired, while nearly half said they couldn't lure their kids away from computer games and TV.
Well, try harder. We continued bedtime stories until he was 11, when he literally pushed us out of his room. Here are my 10 top tips for making reading to your children a joy. 1. I began looking at board books with Josh when my son was four months old. 2. That's like saying you don't have time to feed them. 3. They can take home 10 lovely books a week. 4. Now's your chance. 5. Swallows and Amazons is filled with arcane language – I had no idea what many of the sailing terms meant. 6. When they're older, get five books you'd also enjoy reading. 7. Kids can enjoy books that are much too hard for them to read on their own. 8. 9. 10.
The Jonathan Franzen flap and unconscious gender bias. - By Meghan O'Rourke. The literary debate of the fall is the tempest everyone is now calling, illogically, "Franzenfreude. " The storm, summarized here by Ruth Franklin in TNR online, has encompassed a debate about the place of commercial fiction and whether Jonathan Franzen's work is overrated. But I'm interested less in arguments about the relative merits of Franzen's latest novel, Freedom — I'm halfway through and find it artful and engaging—and more in the deeper question raised by the debate: Namely, why women are so infrequently heralded as great novelists.
A thought exercise, perhaps specious: If this book had been written by a woman (say, Jennifer Franzen), would it have been called "a masterpiece of American fiction" in the first line of its front-page New York Times review; would its author, perhaps with longer hair and make-up, have been featured in Time as a GREAT AMERICAN NOVELIST; would the Guardian have called it the "Book of the Century"? Finally, I get the sex in Fifty Shades of Grey | Victoria Coren | Comment is free | The Observer. So, I've been away for a month. And I've spent it trying to read Fifty Shades Of Grey. On the plane to America, one person in three had a copy. In California, they were reading it on buses and in diners. In Las Vegas, they clutched it in the swimming pool. I assume they were all struggling as much as I was. The world seems united in determination to get through the damn thing, comforted by the solidarity of communal effort – like the Blitz, or when everyone went on the Atkins diet.
Most people know the gist, at least, of the story. They then spend 400 pages negotiating a contract for her to become his "submissive" – but don't let that sexy word fool you. This book is ubiquitously described as "erotic"; something, evidently, is turning people on. On their first date, Anastasia tells us: "His hands glide across to my breasts, and I inhale sharply as his fingers encircle them, kneading gently, taking no prisoners.
" Taking no prisoners? This Partridge quality is hugely problematic. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs. The concept of father memoirs is a fascinating one. Confronting fathers directly and publicly is not, and never has been, easy: the patriarch should judge and not be judged. To write about the father is to sit in judgment upon him, and for most cultures this was a taboo too strong to be overcome. The Greeks, despite their searingly perceptive stories about father-child interactions, did not attempt to do so – nor did the Romans, the Italians of the Renaissance, the Elizabethans or even the Romantics. Paradoxically – but not surprisingly, given the rigid paternalism of the age and the attendant psychological pressures – personal father writing, like radical feminism, is a product of the Victorian era. In 1907, six years after the death of Queen Victoria, Edmund Gosse published Father and Son. 1: Father and Son by Edmund Gosse The first of all father memoirs, this is still one of the best.
Almost 20 years later, Gosse unburdened himself of Father and Son. 2: Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel. A List of Books | 623 of the Best Books ever Written. The Joy of Books.