I just want to be accountable re: my 'What I'm Reading' list and confess that 'The Everlasting Man', although amazing, is not an easy read. What I mean is, I need to find a special reading space for it, I can't skim it while I'm cooking dinner, or even get my head round it while there is the slightest noise going on, which means, in my house, I'm going to find it really hard to get it read. The language is beautiful, but vintage, if you get my drift, bit like reading Dickens or Jane Austin, and sometimes I need to check a dictionary.
All very literary, but I think my problem is, I've forgotten how to read properly.
This was highlighted over the festive season, where Joe received the final instalment of 'A Series Of Unfortunate Events' and I just HAD to know the ending but wasn't allowed to turn to the final chapter 'just to see' - it wouldn't have made sense anyway. So I speed read the whole book, and when discussing it with Joe later realised that I'd totally missed the point. He asked me if I'd cried at the end ( I cry at Tom and Jerry!) and when I said no, he just knew I'd missed it.
He was right, I re - read the end and cried!!
Must do better.
3 comments:
is the author a goal keeper (GK) ?!!!!
You need an hours tube journey each day! I find it works a treat! (Especially on days like today where it was more like 2 hours! How I love the district line!)
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The book I've bought is by 'Tony Buzan' and it's called 'The Speed Reading Book'... I've only read a couple of chapters so far, because he encourages you to read the book like it was a course, to absorb it properly... Funnily enough he highlights the point that a lot of adults' reading skills slow down when they don't 'have to' read anymore (i.e. not in full time study). I'm learning something new everyday!
You are very welcome to borrow it when I'm done...but I don't know how long that will be?
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