Hello all,
During my life I have managed to read only four books. By this I mean four fiction books that I really enjoyed, school reading is excluded.
One reason I think is that I struggle with reading because it seems so slow to me. I really do enjoy reading a good story and I always get involved with the book when I start one, but it usually takes me about a month to complete a normal fiction book of about 400 pages.
My wife read the complete Hunger Games trilogy in just a week. I would love to do this and I have asked my wife how she does it and she can't really explain.
I have noticed that when I read, I tend to "hear" the words in my mind and sometimes my lips are moving as well. I have read that in order to make reading faster I have to keep my mouth busy to stay away from using my mouth to read. So I tend to chew gum when I read and this helps to some extend. Next I tried to glimse through the text instead of really reading each word with thought, but then I seem to miss half of the text and not catch the idea of phrases.
So my question to you "pro" readers out there, is there a way to improve my reading so that one day perhaps I could read a book in two or three days? There are so many books I would love to read but I get discouraged when I know it would take me two years to read all books I have currently interest toward.
Now that Hunger Games: Catching Fire is about to come to movies, I started reading the first episode of the book and love it. I didn't know a book can take you in so deeply into the story emotionally. I'm about to start my third week reading it and have about third left of the book.
Thank you for your tips and for reading this post
- Artur