The electronic footprint of earlier readers and their opinions exerts its tyranny on the solitary transaction between book and reader, and so in mainstream reviewing it's time to hear less of critics talking about themselves, spinning reviews out of their charming memories or using the book under review as little more than a platform to promote themselves and their agendas.
"In the course of thinking back over your 29 years," he says, "I called to mind many charming memories (and some distressing ones as well); and among the highest ranking of them all was when you were three, just before I went into military service.
Let us not save our kind words, our charming memories, our unabashed praise for sanitized funerals and stiff and formal wakes.
Charming, charming, charming" by NPR.
In Vienna they spend time with Sigmund Freud, who, in a surprisingly charming turn, unearths memories that haunt Colette's brother — and her too.
Is That You? is a charming romp through memories, misunderstandings, possible regrets... and maybe, just maybe, some roads not taken aren't lost forever.
Saramago recently wrote a charming memoir, As Pequenas Memórias (Small Memories, 2006).
"I was inspired by my two grandmothers, Chinese and Irish," said Simone Rocha of her charming show, where the memory of the Asian granny evoked the fake fur that made for an intriguing surface, while the Irish inspiration was of wool and lace.
He still has a full head of white hair — an actor's crown — but his too readily charming grin is just a memory.
(Ages 7 to 10) Jackie Robinson's daughter builds a charming story around a childhood memory: the time her father stepped out on their frozen pond to test the ice for the first skating of the season.
He does not suffer fools and has a fiery temper, but is also intensely charming and has a sharp memory for details about people, according to people who know him.
