1.   Beyond hooking his readers with an instant mystery, Grisham is also typically tapping into something else, something universal.

2.   Once she has hooked readers, Rubin reels them into a net of interlocking themes that makes the book hard to put down.

3.   The reader is immediately hooked on the intimacy of this writing, which soon gives way to patches of soapbox preaching and sociological theorizing.

4.   These are the factors, ultimately, that hook readers, and in these Harris excels.

5.   Hearst is hoping that like O, The Oprah Magazine, Lifetime will hook readers based on its strong presence on television.