He spent three months there before moving to the Transitions Program in Florida, where a framed poster in the reception area reads, "Commitment: The distance to success is measured by your own drive".
Main is the naïve reader writ large — the kind of reader who approaches a book not with an academic's theoretical apparatus or the scope of a professional critic, but who reads with commitment and intelligence, and with a conviction that there is something worth learning from a book.
Remember what you read about commitment, and how if you stop after you've gone through all this work, it'll be for nothing.
This qualitative dataset (once we type it up) will feed into other programs and processes D4BL has underway! they read the commitments and demands from other people.
Indeed, whatever the precise relation between the paraphrase and the sentence being paraphrased, nothing justifies reading the ontological commitments of the original sentence off the paraphrase rather than the other way around (compare the neo-Fregean account in §5.2).
Reading for form, as I understand the term here, implies a commitment to reading the elements of a literary work as parts of a totality; and while it presumes the constructedness of that totality, it does not assume that the authorial intention behind the literary construction can be retrieved.
But I also suspect that there is a particular obstacle with fantasy that doesn't exist with, say, horror novels or murder mysteries: The sheer immensity of the standard-issue fantasy saga, and the fact that committing to a bestselling fantasy author takes much more, well, commitment than reading Dean Koontz or Peter Straub, Michael Connelly or Tana French.
If you are part of the elite GoT literary clique, I'm not knocking the books, nor am I criticising your commitment to reading them.
Her own personal interest and commitment to reading eventually led to the Oprah Book Club, igniting an interest and passion for reading by people across the country.
What she has done instead is take the role that good teachers and good librarians have always taken: recommending books that will interest or entertain readers and reinforce their commitment to reading itself.
