" 'A memorable debut': 'This book has a lot of sex in it.' " Interpreting book blurbese.
They interpreted books liberally and wrote about them with a fluency and a precision befitting R. P. Blackmur's definition of criticism as "the formal discourse of an amateur".
"People interpret books in a logical way as they do dreams.
"The way they were interpreting the books, it was addressed to me that I shouldn't be playing music," he told me.
But we're always interpreting both books and we can make mistakes on both sides.
What's the point, his graphs seem to ask, of continuing to interpret individual books — especially books that have already been interpreted over and over?
She even spurned offers for the film rights, because she didn't want anyone interpreting her book for the screen.
(2010) Blackboard: Study Guides; The Reviews Are In How well do some popular study guides interpret their books?
There seemed to be some idea that you could solve the mystery simply by interpreting the book, essentially a first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Initially, this work seems to advocate a secularism identical in spirit to Herder's, arguing that we must interpret biblical books in the same way as profane texts, and thereby learn whatever religious truth they contain.
