I read in bed, propped on a pillow, usually starting around 10:30pm. Within ten or fifteen minutes I am rereading the same paragraph and then I am gone. This has been going on for about two years, and I have four books…
Three weeks of travel, a lot of it on trains and in places with no signal, and I am carrying one small bag so weight matters. I read maybe an hour a day normally but on trips it goes up to three or four. The appeal of a…
I am a software developer, comfortable with code, and I keep failing to get through statistics books. I get through descriptive stats and probability basics, then hit a wall somewhere around hypothesis testing where it…
She will read a 200 page graphic novel in two days and reread it four times. Give her a chapter book of the same length and she gets three chapters in and drifts away, even when she picked it herself. Her teacher has…
I have reread the same three novels probably fifteen times between them over the last four years. I have a shelf of unread books I bought with genuine enthusiasm and I keep going back to the familiar ones instead,…