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In the realm of fitness, three-month workout programs dominate the landscape. Are they effective? How long has it been since you went to the gym regularly? Six months? A year? Five years?

A child vanishes on his way home from school as thunder rumbles in the western horizon. Another is abducted from his bedroom on a dark and storm-filled night For the magnetic Kinkaid, armed with shrewdness and charm, money and women seem easy to come by. But will one of these women ultimately prove to be his demise? From out of nowhere, a psychotic genius is ripping away the women of Blacklick Valley, casting them into a place from our most hellish nightmares Donna Cummins.

Before enrolling at Acalanes High School, Donna de Varona had already set a world record in the meter individual medley and, at 13 years old, been the youngest member of the U. Olympic Team at the Rome Olympic Games. And yet, her career was at a crossroads.

Slate has published an interesting conversation between author Donna Tartt and her editor Michael Pietsch. As well as discussing the mechanics of the author—editor relationship, they touch on a topic of recurring fascination to me: the standardisation of language. Since English was largely standardised centuries ago by early printers and lexicographers such as Caxton and Johnson, the process has continued through, among others, editors who codify formal written English and so serve as unofficial gatekeepers of the prestige dialect. While acknowledging the importance of house style in journalism, she laments its effects on literary expression:. Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from other languages: flexibility, and inclusiveness, is what makes English great; and diversity is what keeps it healthy and growing, exuberantly regenerating itself with rich new forms and usages.