Sentence examples for a strange reader from inspiring English sources

ADAM GOPNIK: I am a strange reader, who manages to put off what everyone else is reading until no one else is reading it: I am just now beginning "Ragtime," for instance.

In "A Strange Eventful History," readers are introduced to the nineteenth-century acting duo who brought Shakespeare up to the speed of modernity — Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.

Frank and urgent, the narrative voice casts a strange spell over the reader.

It is a strange book, and even readers keenly interested in history may have trouble seeing it as anything but an allegory, and apologia, for the Supreme Court's ruling in Bush v. Gore.

Seemingly a strange question for Forbes readers, but the question is hardly an academic one in the wake of the credit crisis and ensuing global recession.

The reader has a strange sense that women don't exist in his world.

Because the narrative is also about domestic life in all its inglorious mundanity, the reader experiences a strange thrill (and shudder) of recognition.

Jamie's captivating new collection hauls the reader on a strange, profound journey – the poetic equivalent of deep-sea diving at great pressure – throughout which we find ourselves more than usually alive to how language is as moving, as endlessly transformative, as the world we journey through by plane or boat.

Bissinger's sweeping if sometimes baggy and overwrought dispatch from what — for most readers — was a strange land established rules that are nearly as strict as a sonnet's.

But readers of "A Strange Eventful History" may weary a little of all the attention he is paid here, and may even come to resent, as his sister did, that Terry preferred him, the prodigal, to Edith, who spent much of her life caring for her mother while Gordon was traipsing around Europe running up debts.

In a new book, Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them, out July 3, David MacNeal takes readers on a strange journey into the world of the modern bug.