The phrase "reading talent" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to someone's innate ability to read and comprehend written material effectively. Example: "She was known for her exceptional reading talent, devouring books of all genres with ease and understanding beyond her years."
But the mind-set behind his life's work — competitive and curious, with an uncanny knack for reading talent and character — helped Gillick succeed as a general manager in Toronto, Baltimore, Seattle and Philadelphia.
In an 1894 article, Hamlin Garland wrote that Riley's celebrity resulted from his reading talent, saying "his vibrant individual voice, his flexible lips, his droll glance, united to make him at once poet and comedian comedian in the sense in which makes for tears as well as for laughter".
This is familial dysfunction at its delirious, laconic best, but Woodward's descriptions of incipient alcoholism make sobering reading: talent is squandered, relationships stagnate.
Imagine Roth approaching his 80th birthday laden with awards and honorary degrees, globally translated, universally read, his talent having triumphed over every adversity: mental breakdown, heart ailment, rabbinic orthodoxy, feminism.
Perhaps we should give their mind-reading talents more credit.
The next paragraph yet again seems predicated on the author's self-presumed mind-reading talent: "But Mirisch is incensed that he and the City would not control how the project shapes up and thus he is using his position as mayor to do everything he can to affect the process now underway.
"Even so, at the reading, her talent made you forget the Scarlett Johansson brand that the movie industry has imposed on her".
And "Hee Haw," which dispensed corny jokes, country music and down-home folksiness for 22 years, was born of his talent for reading them.
At secondary school, she was fortunate to meet an instructor who picked up on her talent for reading and analyzing poetry.
Alice had a particular talent for reading people's manuscripts and offering constructive criticism; she regularly did it for friends, including one who had written a sixteen-hundred-page novel.
Herzog, having spent his childhood clambering across the Alpine slopes of southern Bavaria, says that he has an uncanny talent for "reading a landscape," and he could immediately spot the danger: his primeval nook was an ideal place for a bathroom break.
