– holidays offer the luxury of reading in circles.
We must bear in mind that the boundary between adult and children's texts was not clearly drawn, nor was that between scholarly and popular texts.1 Patterns of reading in family circles meant that authors even of "high" literature, encrusted with political philosophy and moral reflections, also deployed melodramatic incidents, romances, and slapstick that might appeal to children.
This virtuous circle or "Matthew effect" (Stanovich, 1986) leads to those who can read easily reading more, improving their reading comprehension through practice, acquiring more vocabulary and general knowledge, and thereby further easing the task of reading.
Being a kid can be tough sometimes ― there were times when I felt weird and that I didn't belong to any circle of friends, and reading the books was a way to escape that and feel like I did belong," Hubler told HuffPost.
Members of Mr Obama's inner circle are reading up on FDR's first 100 days.
or the one depicting a circle of kids being read to by Keith Van Horn, then with the New Jersey Nets, decked out in a "Cat in the Hat" stovepipe.
You are also in a band called Ambergris that I once wrote bad things about on my blog, not realizing that anyone outside of my immediate circle of friends would read it.
You are also in a band called Ambergris that I once wrote bad things about on my blog, not realising that anyone outside of my immediate circle of friends would read it.
To assess a possible bias, we plotted the percentage of the genome covered by aligned reads as a function of read depth for raw and corrected reads (black squares and circles in Fig. 4).
Examples of reads with their respective score are shown with filled and empty circles representing methylated and unmethylated CpGs respectively.
