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When I was a teenager, what I most wanted to read were fantasy novels. Not Tolkien and Malory, but sword-and-sorcery pulp. I craved glowy blue magic, chainmail bikinis, dragons with unpronounceable names.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Blue Dragons Fantasy Magic Most Most Wanted Names Novels Pulp Read Teenager Tolkien Wanted Were

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Readers have always read high and low, and to fight that urge is to fight the freedom inherent in the act of reading itself. The only arguments that have any traction, as best as I can see it, are about whether the genre classification of 'young adult' should exist at all.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: About Act Adult Always Any Argument Best Classification Exist Fight Freedom Genre High Inherent Itself Low Only Read Readers Reading See Should Urge Whether Young Young Adult I Can

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With few exceptions, the publishing industry has come to a consensus: if a book has a young protagonist, and if its worldview is primarily interested in the questions that crop up when coming of age, then it's a young adult novel.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Adult Age Book Come Coming Coming Of Age Consensus Crop Exceptions Few Industry Interested Novel Primarily Protagonist Publishing Questions Then Up Worldview Young Young Adult

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Calling a book 'young adult' is only important in that it can help get a book to the right reader. After that, it's a useless abstraction and should be discarded.

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Topics: Abstraction Adult After Book Calling Discarded Get Help Important Only Reader Right Should Useless Young Young Adult

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You are literally never alone. While there are roughly 6.7 billion people on Earth, you may not feel that many of them at all care very much about your existence. But within your colon alone are living at least 1012 billion organisms, or roughly a thousand times the number of people on the planet. Stop your metabolic processes, and you stop theirs.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: About Alone Billion Care Colon Earth Existence Feel Least Literally Living Many May Much Never Number Organisms People Planet Processes Roughly Stop Them Thousand Thousand Times Times Very While Within You Your

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Pick any scientific field, and you'll find that those snubbed by their communities, left feeling alone and despised, were often those on the forefront.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Alone Any Communities Despised Feeling Field Find Forefront Left Often Pick Scientific Those Were You

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The College Board is officially a non-profit. But all that means is that it doesn't have shareholders and that their financial accountings must be available to the public; it certainly doesn't mean that they're not also into making money.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Also Available Board Certainly College Financial Making Making Money Mean Means Money Must Officially Public Shareholders

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The College Board is both in the business of test administration and test prep. If this feels inherently unfair, it should - it's like a doctor whacking your knee with a sledgehammer and then offering to patch you up.

~Eliot Schrefer

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Colleges accept the highest sub-scores from different administrations. So if a student takes the SAT many times instead of once, she has a larger pool of scores from which to pick out the highest math, critical reading, and writing.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Accept Administration Colleges Critical Different Highest Instead Larger Many Math Once Out Pick Pool Reading Sat Scores She Student Takes Times Which Writing

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In my business - SAT tutoring - you get used to sighs. A client's mother frets over the sheer amount of work her daughter has to do to get her score up, until she reaches the resigned moment when she will sigh and observe that no one thought you could prepare for the SAT back when she took it - it was 'untutorable.'

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Amount Back Business Client Could Daughter Fret Get Her Moment Mother Observe Over Prepare Resigned Sat Score She Sheer Sigh Sighs Thought Took Until Up Used Will Work You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: November 25th, 1978

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