Comments on: Alice Sebold’s Ghastly Scenes, Written at a Fourth-Grade Reading Level, Infest ‘The Almost Moon’ http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/alice-sebolds-ghastly-scenes-written-at-a-fourth-grade-reading-level-infest-%e2%80%98the-almost-moon%e2%80%99/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 20 May 2013 13:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/alice-sebolds-ghastly-scenes-written-at-a-fourth-grade-reading-level-infest-%e2%80%98the-almost-moon%e2%80%99/#comment-4908 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:50:57 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/alice-sebolds-ghastly-scenes-written-at-a-fourth-grade-reading-level-infest-%e2%80%98the-almost-moon%e2%80%99/#comment-4908 My pleasure, Lisa. I’m glad you asked that, because if others are having the same problem, they’ll know how to solve it.

]]> By: lisamm http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/alice-sebolds-ghastly-scenes-written-at-a-fourth-grade-reading-level-infest-%e2%80%98the-almost-moon%e2%80%99/#comment-4907 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:37:50 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/alice-sebolds-ghastly-scenes-written-at-a-fourth-grade-reading-level-infest-%e2%80%98the-almost-moon%e2%80%99/#comment-4907 Janice, thank you! I did as you suggested, going to the “Help” section for readability statistics, and voila! I was able to figure it out. I copied and pasted my latest book review in to see the reading level, and it came back Grade 8.7. I will have to do a bit better than that in the future! I LOVE that I now know how to check it. Thank you so much!

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/alice-sebolds-ghastly-scenes-written-at-a-fourth-grade-reading-level-infest-%e2%80%98the-almost-moon%e2%80%99/#comment-4906 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:28:11 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/alice-sebolds-ghastly-scenes-written-at-a-fourth-grade-reading-level-infest-%e2%80%98the-almost-moon%e2%80%99/#comment-4906 That’s strange, because I have a Mac, too. But you might have a newer edition of Word that puts the stats some place else.

Have you tried searching MS Word “Help” for “readability statistics”? (My edition of Word doesn’t seem to have a roman numeral, but I do have Mac OS X.) Can any visitors who are reading these comments clarify for Lisa and me why this might be happening?

]]> By: lisamm http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/alice-sebolds-ghastly-scenes-written-at-a-fourth-grade-reading-level-infest-%e2%80%98the-almost-moon%e2%80%99/#comment-4905 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:08:32 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/alice-sebolds-ghastly-scenes-written-at-a-fourth-grade-reading-level-infest-%e2%80%98the-almost-moon%e2%80%99/#comment-4905 Fascinating. I would love to be able to check the reading level of the last couple of books I’ve read. The one I finished last night was so simplistic that I’m sure it must be a 3rd grade level or below. I have MS Word X for Mac, and I tried it, but can’t seem to make it work.

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/alice-sebolds-ghastly-scenes-written-at-a-fourth-grade-reading-level-infest-%e2%80%98the-almost-moon%e2%80%99/#comment-4901 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:06:50 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/alice-sebolds-ghastly-scenes-written-at-a-fourth-grade-reading-level-infest-%e2%80%98the-almost-moon%e2%80%99/#comment-4901 Thanks, Jon. I reviewed “The Almost Moon” later than I had planned, because the Bad Sex Award nominees were announced right after I picked it up. And enough reviews of the novel have appeared that I was afraid that nobody would read this one. So glad you found your way to it. Jan

]]> By: Jon http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/alice-sebolds-ghastly-scenes-written-at-a-fourth-grade-reading-level-infest-%e2%80%98the-almost-moon%e2%80%99/#comment-4900 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:06:35 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/alice-sebolds-ghastly-scenes-written-at-a-fourth-grade-reading-level-infest-%e2%80%98the-almost-moon%e2%80%99/#comment-4900 Another brilliant review. Makes me almost tempted to check it out (like watching a “bad” movie), but having read “The Lovely Bones,” I think I’ll pass. :)

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