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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 1/12/2009
Reading is fundamental
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A reader sends me this piece and asks if this is how I read.  I wish.  According to web software, I only read about 600 words a minute, which is in the "above average, but not particularly impressive" range--though in fairness, I have a hard time taking those tests without thinking ...
Reading: Apparently, It’s Not Fundamental For Weekly Standard Editors
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 1/9/2009
Reading: Apparently, It’s Not Fundamental For Weekly Standard Editors
— wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — Readers of this blog are aware that Weekly Standard web editor Mike Goldfarb — whose primary task... as a McCain spokesman was to make Tucker Bounds seem competent — has a history of embellishing his stories with quotes and views either ... (more) Reading: Apparently, It’s Not Fundamental For Weekly ...

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Where To Stop Reading
fablog.ehrensteinland.com - 1/15/2009
Where To Stop Reading
— fablog.ehrensteinland.com — In this case the 13th graph: “Does that absolutely prove he did it? No,” Mr. Garrett said.... With no confession and no trial, he said, “you’re going to be left not getting over the top of the mountain.” Take it away Newsboys! (more) Where To Stop Reading
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washingtonmonthly.com - 1/19/2009
Obama's reading list
— washingtonmonthly.com — OBAMA'S READING LIST.... We're wrapping up a presidency led me a man his own team has described... as "not a big reader." Barack Obama is an altogether different kind of leader, and as it turns out, a different kind of... (more) Obama's reading list

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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:  462 Books In A Year

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462 Books In A Year
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... would probably be close to 90 minutes. What also seems to happen is that I read a page not necessarily word by word, but by capturing pages in sequence in my head. The words and phrases appear diagonally, like I'm absorbing the text all in one gulp, and then I move on to the next sequence I can absorb by paragraph or page. It's like I'm reading from a whole-language standpoint instead of phonics -- that's the only way I can figure out how to explain it. (Hat tip: Megan) ...

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