Writer Junot Diaz tells us why he’s a big fan of Samuel R. Delany’s novel, “Dark Reflections”.
I have to admit that Jil lian was truly one to die for. I’d never seen a woman whose visage struck me so deeply — smack-dab in my gut, and various regions nearby. Whenever I saw her in the flesh, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir would insinuate itself into my brain, and I would reel in response to the ecstasy of her divine musical theme.
Many wise men throughout the ages have written about this sensation. Suffice it for me to say that, if she were a predator and I were her prey, I’d gladly give up my bodily organs for her to feast upon.
Sculptured metal rose petals abloom against a desert night. That’s what happens to the hull when a starship generator blows. It’s the pressure, not the heat. Superheated plasma locked up inside of a metal box. Doesn’t leave much for salvage. Doesn’t leave much for history either.
Unaided, I cannot speak Utmano.
My base vocabulary is okay, and I might squeeze out a few words, but the Utmano tonal range is 14 octaves.
They have some vocabulary modifiers well above 20,000 hertz, which is likely to make your neighbour’s dog bark.
If you watch old videos, Julie Andrews had a four-octave range, Mariah Carey perhaps five, but most people can’t do that.
I certainly can’t. I’m good at listening to the symphony that Utmano call speech.
as young readers get older, they are not moving to more complex books.
High-schoolers are reading books written for younger kids, and teachers aren’t assigning difficult classics as much as they once did.
Walter Dean Myers, who is currently serving as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, says that these juniors and seniors are reading books that he wrote with fifth- and sixth-graders in mind.
Anita Silvey, author of 500 Great Books for Teens.
… a study of kids’ reading habits by Renaissance Learning.
For the fifth year in a row, the educational company used its Accelerated Reader program to track what kids are reading in grades one through 12.