The recent few weeks have been the perfect time for a good book and here are some good ones that allow readers to get completely lost in another world.
Watch Me Disappear
If you like mysteries with family drama,Janelle Brown's best-selling thriller is for you,The story follows a wealthy wife and mom who goes on a hike and never returns.Her lonely husband and teenage daughter,Olive(who's dealing with her own problems),are confused with sorrow while trying to find out what happens.
The Boy from the Woods
If you pick up one of Harlan Coben's books,you won't be able to put it down.His misty stories keep readers fascinated.The Boy from the Woods,is sure to satisfy fans of his twisty,heart-racing plots filled with interesting and exciting atmosphere. This is the book to read if you love masterful surprises.
How to Walk Away
Katherine Center's best-selling novel follows a young woman,Margaret,with her perfect fiance,a pilot who takes her on a upsetting flight that changes her life forever.Readers adore Margaret's wisdom and humor as she faces a changed world and figures out what love really looks like.
The Last One Left
This novel,first published in 1967,still attracts readers decades later.Novelist Dean Koontz wrote the introduction to the recent edition,where he describes reading each of John D.MacDonald's novels“at least three times,some of them twice that often."This is your next read if you want to be swept away by a master of mystery and excitement.
【小题1】What is Watch Me Disappear probably about?A.A family outing. | B.Teenager problems. |
C.Sorrow at a dead mom. | D.Misty missing of a woman. |
A.How to Walk Away. | B.The Boy from the Woods. |
C.Watch Me Disappear. | D.The Last One Left. |
A.Dean Koontz. | B.John D.MacDonald. |
C.Katherine Center. | D.Harlan Coben. |
Nearly two decades ago when the Google Books Project digitized and freely distributed more than 25 million works, book publishers argued that free digital distribution weakens the market for physical books. However, new research from Imke Reimers and Abhishek Nagaraj reveals that the opposite — increased demand for physical books, through online discovery — could be true.
The two researchers focused on a particular part of Google Books’ digitized works: those from Harvard University’s Widener Library, which helped seed the project in its early days. The condition that enabled their experiment: Harvard’s digitization effort only included out-of-copyright works, published before 1923 , which were made available to consumers in their entirety. The works from 1923 and later were still copyrighted and not digitized.
The researchers analyzed a total of 37,743 books scanned (扫描) between 2005 and2009. They looked at sales for the two years before this digitization period and the two years after , and found clear differences in the increased sales between digitized and non-digitized books. Approximately 40% of digitized titles saw a sales increase from 2003-2004 to 2010-2011, compared to less than 20% of titles that were not digitized. The increase in sales was also found to be stronger for less popular books.
“If a book is readily available online, people may decide that it’s a useful book and want to buy it,” Reimers said. “The ‘discovery effect’, which even increased the sales of a digitized author’s non-digitized works, is a strong driver of increased sales. It’s not a huge jump in sales , but it’s still good news for publishers.”
“And book lovers,” Reimers said, “are known for their preference for physical books, as opposed to digital versions, which could also play a role.” She added ,“Whenever I talk to people about my research on books, at some point they all say,’ I just love the feel of a digitized author’s non-digitized works, is a strong driver of increased sales. It’s not a huge jump in sales , but it’s still good news for publishers.”
“And book lovers,” Reimers said, “are known for their preference for physical books , as opposed to digital versions, which could also play a role.” She added, “Whenever I talk to people about my research on books, at some point they all say, ‘I just love the feel of a book in my hand.’”
【小题1】Why did the researchers choose the publications before 1923 for their research?A.They were all masterpieces. | B.They were mostly searchable. |
C.They were not protected by copyright. | D.They were only partly downloaded for free. |
A.By interviewing book users. | B.By comparing the sales data. |
C.By classifying the book titles. | D.By referring to historical records. |
A.To point out the limitations of the study. | B.To stress people’s different reading tastes. |
C.To tell another contributor to the sales rise. | D.To show a growing trend in reading books. |
A.Consumers Are Enthusiastic About E-books. |
B.Book Publishers Object to Digitizing Books. |
C.Physical Bookstores Are Declining in Importance. |
D.Digitizing Books Promotes Demand for Physical Copies. |
My earliest reading memory takes me back to being five years old, sitting in my grandfather’s cozy study. He would read to me from his French-translated copy of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. I was so familiar with the stories that I could correct him word-for-word if he tried to change something.
Growing up, my favorite book was Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes. It was a treasure for an imaginative and lonely child like me. The book was filled with magical elements: a magical carousel, monsters, and the charming scent of autumn leaves lying in the sun. The language was as crisp and sweet as an October apple, awakening in me a deep passion for words and the magic they could bring out. I’ve reread it regularly and it never fails to satisfy me.
In my adult years, I revisited Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. When I first read it at 16, I perceived it as a love story. However, rereading it as an adult, I was struck by how different it seemed to me, and how much of the humour I’d missed. Now I love its poetry. And the love story not only exists between the characters but between Brontë and the North York Moors.
James Joyce’s Ulysses was a book I came back to after 40 years. Initially, at 15, I found it ugly, depressing, and dull, and I hated it. It took me four decades to return to it, and this time, I found myself understanding and beginning to appreciate it. I could see the details, the mythic parallels, the references to different writing styles, and the groundbreaking technique.
Though some exceptional books can develop and grow alongside us, others fall by the wayside. I’ve revisited so many childhood favourites only to find the magic gone, but I’m usually happy to leave the book behind. I’ve taken from it what I need.
【小题1】What was the author’s earliest reading memory?A.Copying the stories of Rudyard Kipling. |
B.Reading Something Wicked This Way Comes. |
C.Studying Ulysses for writing styles. |
D.Listening to The Jungle Book in French. |
A.The complex plot. | B.The characters. |
C.The humour and poetry. | D.The love story. |
A.Remain unchanged over years. | B.Lose their original attraction. |
C.Gain widespread popularity. | D.Are left by the side of the road. |
A.The Changing Power of Reading |
B.The Development of Reading Taste |
C.The Lifelong Journey of Rereading Classics |
D.The Childhood Memories in Reading Habits |
Some people say that we are reading less than ever. In a sense, that’s true, at least for certain forms of writing. However, you might be reading a lot more than you think.
Although printed publications (出版物) still enjoy large sales, you can read many of the same materials online. Some books, magazines and journals can be found online. Blogs and other information resources (资源) can also be easily found. There are lots of materials to read on computer screens.
Reading habits are generally measured by the number of minutes spent in reading. You can also measure these habits by the number of pages. You might think that new television channels and online games, along with the Web surfing, might make people read less. The Internet does influence reading, but the results may be a bit of a surprise.
The Internet has influenced people’s reading habits. However, the time spent in reading books for pleasure doesn’t change a lot, although people are managing to read fewer books every year. In addition, many magazines and newspapers can be read online at any time. Many publications that are weekly or monthly in print form are updated (更新) much more quickly on the Web.
There’s no doubt that online reading has changed what we read and how long we read, and now we read most things less carefully. However, when you consider how much we read, we are still doing a lot. The biggest change is that the medium that we use to read has changed.
【小题1】What does the underlined part mean in the second paragraph?A.Online materials don’t cost very much. |
B.Printed publications are more expensive. |
C.Printed publications become less popular. |
D.Many people still buy printed publications. |
A.People have more reading materials to choose online. |
B.Printed publications are more popular than online ones. |
C.People are more willing to share reading materials online. |
D.Printed publications are getting more and more expensive. |
A.Doubtful. | B.Supportive. |
C.Uninterested. | D.Disappointed. |
A.They spend more time reading. |
B.They don’t like reading books any more. |
C.There are more ways for them to read. |
D.They read more printed books and magazines. |
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