I seem to have these phases I go through where I alternate between constant reading and constant video games. I'm in a bit of a transitional phase right now where I'm doing half and half.
I find it hard to always get immediately absorbed in a book, mainly because I always feel like I'm such a time-constraint in life. There's a million things I want to do and never enough time to do them. I want to play this game, learn something new on guitar, catch up on my favorite shows, etc. Sometimes there's so much stuff I want to do that I start to feel guilty for not doing something productive (funnily enough reading is now on my list of non-productive things, which is pretty sad, but I've got a busy life).
Taking notes or writing reflections might be a good way to get into a book, but sometimes I find the best way to let yourself get absorbed into a book is to just put it down if it's not immediately catching you. I like to pick up something else that I can immediately jump into and then alternate between them. I was recently looking for new books to pick up, but actually instead I just started re-reading the ASOIAF books. For such dense books, re-reading them actually offers a whole new experience. I was able to jump right in because I already was familiar with so many of the characters and the settings that the familiarity is helping me get into it without too many problems zoning out.
I find it hard to always get immediately absorbed in a book, mainly because I always feel like I'm such a time-constraint in life. There's a million things I want to do and never enough time to do them.
This is also partially my problem to committing to a new book. Once I get started it's usually no problem unless the book really sucks, which after giving it a few chapters I will quit, but if it's an engaging piece of literature I will finish it quickly and with pleasure. I guess I experience procrastination with books just because I feel that there is so many other things I can be doing that actually require a little less effort.
For me, the idea of taking notes and reflecting on passages is to get the most out of a book. Sometimes I finish a book and don't walk away with too much — I'd like to really chew and digest every bit of it. I guess it's the whole idea of 'active reading'.
Yeah it's certainly not a bad idea. I think personally it just makes me think too much of writing a paper in high school so it doesn't sound like an appealing way to read. I do however really like the idea of coming together and discussing books after we read them. Maybe we could use this tribe as a sort of make-shift book club?
Until we have a larger community I doubt those single "I've read this book, lets discuss" threads will work that well, we just don't have enough people to fill that amount of niches yet. But I do kind of dig the idea of picking a single book of the month that maybe we can vote for in some sort of list snap first and then those who read it can discuss. We can do a Text Post thread first to get a list of books, then we can organize it in a list and allow everyone to vote for a few days, and then we can go with the top voted one maybe? Just an idea I guess. I do really like the approach though!
Edit: We can even have a genre of the month maybe? :D
See, I feel like if I'm stopping to make notes that much, I'm not really enjoying the book so much as studying it. Though, I guess I could always re-read and take notes then, especially on the new things I pick up on.
I seem to have these phases I go through where I alternate between constant reading and constant video games. I'm in a bit of a transitional phase right now where I'm doing half and half.
I find it hard to always get immediately absorbed in a book, mainly because I always feel like I'm such a time-constraint in life. There's a million things I want to do and never enough time to do them. I want to play this game, learn something new on guitar, catch up on my favorite shows, etc. Sometimes there's so much stuff I want to do that I start to feel guilty for not doing something productive (funnily enough reading is now on my list of non-productive things, which is pretty sad, but I've got a busy life).
Taking notes or writing reflections might be a good way to get into a book, but sometimes I find the best way to let yourself get absorbed into a book is to just put it down if it's not immediately catching you. I like to pick up something else that I can immediately jump into and then alternate between them. I was recently looking for new books to pick up, but actually instead I just started re-reading the ASOIAF books. For such dense books, re-reading them actually offers a whole new experience. I was able to jump right in because I already was familiar with so many of the characters and the settings that the familiarity is helping me get into it without too many problems zoning out.
This is also partially my problem to committing to a new book. Once I get started it's usually no problem unless the book really sucks, which after giving it a few chapters I will quit, but if it's an engaging piece of literature I will finish it quickly and with pleasure. I guess I experience procrastination with books just because I feel that there is so many other things I can be doing that actually require a little less effort.
TIL: The human brain can be such a dick.
For me, the idea of taking notes and reflecting on passages is to get the most out of a book. Sometimes I finish a book and don't walk away with too much — I'd like to really chew and digest every bit of it. I guess it's the whole idea of 'active reading'.
Yeah it's certainly not a bad idea. I think personally it just makes me think too much of writing a paper in high school so it doesn't sound like an appealing way to read. I do however really like the idea of coming together and discussing books after we read them. Maybe we could use this tribe as a sort of make-shift book club?
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See, I feel like if I'm stopping to make notes that much, I'm not really enjoying the book so much as studying it. Though, I guess I could always re-read and take notes then, especially on the new things I pick up on.
Yeah, I wouldn't want to sacrifice my enjoyment of the book. I'd just jot down little notes as I read and perhaps backtrack later to reflect.