We've got one of these fabulous devices to give away to a safety-conscious reader.
A swift read and half the length of most novels today, Gatsby rewards the aspiring novelist looking less for obvious symbols and themes -- the prey of the analytical assignment-conscious reader -- than for things like macrostructure and revision, the quarry of the craft-conscious writer.
You might want to call to the attention of your more number-conscious readers that the Tuesday (10/11/11) issue of The Times is No. 55,555.
Cost-conscious readers who used to wait for the heavily discounted paperback have now realized that the e-book edition, available on the first day the book is published, can be about the same price.
More budget-conscious readers will enjoy the latest batch of volumes in Reaktion's excellent and varied Animal series: Badger, Mouse, Goat, Skunk, Swallow and – by Desmond Morris – Bison, which are packed with fascinating social history and culture as well as natural history.
Thus, the language of advertising consists essentially of often propositionally vacuous displays of competitive linguistic sophistication designed to create a largely artificial sense of exclusiveness among status-conscious readers.
Avid book watchers are probably the most self-conscious public readers, as well.
Its microscopic investigation of human urine appealed to health-conscious elite readers, and its oversize illustrations of the louse and the flea twinned marketing savvy with technical brilliance.
He encourages the green-conscious former readers among us to substitute the classics of the canon for skeet during weekend shooting practice (this bullet's for you, Jane Austen!), and notes that smearing a copy of "Lassie" with lard will coerce your pooch to down that dog-eared copy (at least someone is still gulping up literature).
Amazon's $79 Kindle may be the least flashy of the the bunch, but the Seattle company is starting to push out a new software update that adds some much-needed functionality to their cost-conscious e-reader.
And yet the novel never works to make its reader conscious of this.
