On the beach
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Three different types of readers at the beach are discernable during the summer. One group of readers typifies the lazy attitude of summer, reading books that provide quick gratification. Another group reads books that will likely be discussed in the fall. The third read thought-provoking books.
Publication Name: The New York Times Book Review
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0028-7806
Year: 1998
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The group
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A member of a reader's circle of book readers describes how meetings are conducted, and how the activity of reading is more social than it would normally be because of the group. The popularity of such groups has increased since the early 1990s as more people take up reading for pleasure.
Publication Name: The New York Times Book Review
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0028-7806
Year: 1999
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Look who's modern now
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An English professor describes her feelings about modern American fictional literature. She believes that the works by women writers in the 1980s allowed men to write softer novels that are lyrical that have become popular in the 1990s.
Publication Name: The New York Times Book Review
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0028-7806
Year: 1999
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