In fact, prior to discovering Hinton's novels, I had not willingly read any work of fiction since Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are," which had scuttled my interest in reading when I was six.
Gradually, foreign publishers figured out how to package it, realizing that English-speaking fans would willingly read translations from right to left and back to front, as in Japanese, rather than enduring the absurdities that arise if printers flip the pages and produce mirror images, like samurai wearing their swords on their left side.
Falon Papale Hammonton, N.J., Aug. 30, 2009 To the Editor: While I think it's great to read the trendy, popular literature — much of which is superb reading — if I had been left to my own devices in school, I would never have willingly read "An American Tragedy" or "Pride and Prejudice," both of which are now staples on my bookshelf.
"There are also THOUSANDS of women who work as escorts and most do it willingly," read one of his animated emails.
You can write about anything you want -- traveling, hiking, cooking, beauty, anything you enjoy, there are people willingly to read about it.
Some families have also found the Irlen Syndrome work to be effective in helping their children read more willingly.
That seems like a far bigger privacy breach than willingly letting your insurance company read your posts.
"The big commercial metropoles can be extremely provincial in their outlook, and several of the writers we read are nomadic, willingly or unwillingly part of the contemporary world's diasporas, while imaginatively, they inhabit places far and wide besides those which the body occupies or birth allotted," she will say.
"Larsson is a page-turning writer who has us willingly suspend all disbelief as we read his crime fiction books, which are not what they seem, and go in wildly unpredictable directions".
Advice to entice: Considering that every middle or high school student has read this book — quite willingly — for the past 50 years, the only barrier to an enthusiastic "yeah, let's watch that!" may be that it is "old".
