I've decided that my  fake  memoir will be a cell phone novel about my life as a young Japanese girl who made a million writing cell-phone novels (--That ringing noise you hear is Hollywood calling--), but then lost it all in the usual manner of the suddenly rich.  Oh, and I'll have to overcome a debilitating disease or a pill-addiction in there somewhere, too.  

How can it not succeed?


Of course, far too many American kids today are on par with their Japanese peers, who  "don’t read works by professional writers because their sentences are too difficult to understand, their expressions are intentionally wordy, and the stories are not familiar to them,” 

All of which makes it especially odd and particularly ass-chapping that someone who claims to have priorities like "leaving no child behind" has decided to gut RiF.  I mean, really, close down Reading is Fundamental?! 

How can it not succeed?