I’ve noticed that when I’m immersed in a wonderful book and it’s coming to the end, I read fewer pages and string out my reading time in order to prolong the experience of a great read. Weird, I know but it does make the book last longer.
Love this one! I have loved reading (like music) from my earliest years and still love it now. To get 15 pages into a long book and already know, “this one is going to be good!” is one of the joys of life. Great fiction is a gift to us all, and it can be “literature” or just a good story well told. I try to mix up my fiction with non-fiction out of a sense of civic mindedness and that has its rewards, too. But to be taken away by characters you grow to love, what a treat. Thanks for reminding me of that!
It’s all about what book for me. If I dig, I crush. If I don’t, I don’t. Luckily I have a good friend who let me in on a (what may seem obvious but was game changing for me) bit of reading advice. Put down a book if you don’t like. Freed me right up from having that book sit on my nightstand for 3 months while i pretend i’ll get back to it. Now, I just put that guy in the local charity library on my street and move on to something i like. Reader Unlocked.
As an author I have no bias towards anyone's reading habits as long as they read. I am doing my level best not to take this opportunity to plug my own stuff. Not easy.
i get this careering from hobby to hobby. i'll get into the spirit of decluttering and tackle it with all my heart, imagining that *this* is the time i'll finally Get It All Decluttered. and then ... i don't.
i'm on a roll with audiobooks right now and i listen to them at 1.5x as i apparently don't want to take leisure time to read them, well, leisurely.
seems to me some fine things have been laid upon my table (desperado) but i'm living too frenetically to enjoy them.
I’ve noticed that when I’m immersed in a wonderful book and it’s coming to the end, I read fewer pages and string out my reading time in order to prolong the experience of a great read. Weird, I know but it does make the book last longer.
Love this one! I have loved reading (like music) from my earliest years and still love it now. To get 15 pages into a long book and already know, “this one is going to be good!” is one of the joys of life. Great fiction is a gift to us all, and it can be “literature” or just a good story well told. I try to mix up my fiction with non-fiction out of a sense of civic mindedness and that has its rewards, too. But to be taken away by characters you grow to love, what a treat. Thanks for reminding me of that!
It’s all about what book for me. If I dig, I crush. If I don’t, I don’t. Luckily I have a good friend who let me in on a (what may seem obvious but was game changing for me) bit of reading advice. Put down a book if you don’t like. Freed me right up from having that book sit on my nightstand for 3 months while i pretend i’ll get back to it. Now, I just put that guy in the local charity library on my street and move on to something i like. Reader Unlocked.
As an author I have no bias towards anyone's reading habits as long as they read. I am doing my level best not to take this opportunity to plug my own stuff. Not easy.
Love Hyperion! Kick ass article. I like to set a timer for 10m a day every weekday. You'd be surprised how much you end up reading in 1 month.
A really good book is such a treasure. Great post!
i get this careering from hobby to hobby. i'll get into the spirit of decluttering and tackle it with all my heart, imagining that *this* is the time i'll finally Get It All Decluttered. and then ... i don't.
i'm on a roll with audiobooks right now and i listen to them at 1.5x as i apparently don't want to take leisure time to read them, well, leisurely.
seems to me some fine things have been laid upon my table (desperado) but i'm living too frenetically to enjoy them.