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Quill and Feather Pub [Public] / Re: "Read more fiction," says the doc
« Last post by LilyBLily on Today at 12:16:27 AM »I don't read the long articles in the NYTimes from first sentence to last. The first three paragraphs--totally in contradiction to the rules we were taught in journalism school--are usually unimportant in the extreme and repeat info from the teaser that got me to the article. And when the story wanders into the long process of this person or that person seeking this or that, I skim those, too.
I confess there is a major interview with the owner of the Ripped Bodice in the New Yorker about the current rise of romance novel oriented small indie bookstores, and since I know all that mag's articles run very long, I did not read it. Someone will have to do a tl;dr on that one. These long articles try my patience.
I do read the comments on articles whose topics interest me, because they show a wide variety of perspectives and experiences--often much wider than what the main article has. I know we are adjured not to read comments, but those that get posted on the NYTimes articles are quite interesting. For instance, there is always at least one bitter man ranting that women only want to get money from men--and it's not the same guy each time, as it was on the Washington Post's comments last time I checked. (Other commenters recognized him and "yelled" at him.)
When my mother went into dementia, she stopped doing the Times crosswords. I eventually found those half-completed books, and the notes to herself to remind her of my address, and other clues to her efforts to keep her wits. But dementia took her brilliant brain anyway. I do not expect to get lucky myself.
I confess there is a major interview with the owner of the Ripped Bodice in the New Yorker about the current rise of romance novel oriented small indie bookstores, and since I know all that mag's articles run very long, I did not read it. Someone will have to do a tl;dr on that one. These long articles try my patience.
I do read the comments on articles whose topics interest me, because they show a wide variety of perspectives and experiences--often much wider than what the main article has. I know we are adjured not to read comments, but those that get posted on the NYTimes articles are quite interesting. For instance, there is always at least one bitter man ranting that women only want to get money from men--and it's not the same guy each time, as it was on the Washington Post's comments last time I checked. (Other commenters recognized him and "yelled" at him.)
When my mother went into dementia, she stopped doing the Times crosswords. I eventually found those half-completed books, and the notes to herself to remind her of my address, and other clues to her efforts to keep her wits. But dementia took her brilliant brain anyway. I do not expect to get lucky myself.