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Have you thought about reading a book together? Possibly you could read aloud for a chapter, then it's his turn to read aloud. If he is embarrassed by his lack of fluidity in reading, this might not work, but I know several couples who read together this way, and they love it. Some of them even do different voices for the various characters.
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Serious answer: Seems to me, the best way to get someone to read is to find something that will make them want to give it a try. For my mom, who used to think reading magazine articles took too long, it was a biography of her favorite child star. She's never going to be a ravenous reader, but she's now no longer afraid to pick up a book now and again.
Silly answer: Are you familiar with the JD Robb "in Death" books? Eve always promises sexual favors - with costumes - to get her husband to do things for her. ![]() |
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I'd say: start talking about books (while making sure the ereader is always there to be used, filled with books...) Read the books you know he'd like, so you can talk about those (without spoiling, naturally!) and whet his appatite, so to speak. If he doesn't get curious and won't even try to get started on those books, then let him be, it'll be a lost cause.
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My dad wasn't a big reader, but I knew he was fascinated by airplanes and wilderness adventures. I found several novels and biographies for him about 'bush pilots' and other adventurous airplane stories; and some reminiscences of WWII pilots.
He read ALL of those. He preferred the non-fiction. Perhaps your husband would like some non-fiction about boat building or sailing adventures or something related? |
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I have a co-worker who only reads when she doesn't like the weather outdoors. So if your husband is a summer-lover and always running around, you might have to wait until the snow starts falling to get him interested. I read more summer and winter - fall and spring being my favorite seasons to be outside!
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As far as short stories go there are always anthologies for sale at places like Amazon. And there are also a lot of short fictions as stand alone stories too.
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If you go into the Reading Recommendations forum and do a search for either Short Story or Short Stories (I just tried this and got different results when I entered it as singular vs plural) you will find a bunch of old threads about various kinds of short stories - maybe there will be something that would appeal to your husband.
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As he's unused to reading, try books which have very simple vocabulary, such as those written for children.
There are various websites which recommend books for dyslexic adults: http://www.dyslexiaaction.org.uk/blo...yslexic-adults The PDF lists are useful on that site, you can probably find ebook versions of the books. http://www.dysbooks.com/Pages/AdultBooks.aspx includes a section about short stories. Also if you google Short Story Websites you'll find sites which host short stories; you can copy and paste these into a text document (like Notepad) and either put this directly onto your reader or convert it in Calibre. http://www.fluentu.com/english/blog/...ead-beginners/ This site is aimed at EFL readers, but includes suggestions which could equally well suite someone with poor reading skills. They might give you other ideas as to the type of book he may want to start with. https://bdatech.org/what-technology/...-for-dyslexia/ This gives some ideas about which reader font to use. Finally, it may be best if you have an ereader with a non-touch screen: http://www.beatingdyslexia.com/eye-tracking.html I do agree with Cinisajoy to a certain extent, so if he doesn't respond to gentle encouragement, give up and let him be a non reader. Last edited by BookCat; 09-13-2016 at 09:47 PM. |
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Only thing I could offer is: graphic novels/comics/manga.
I've found comics to be gateways to prose reading. I have dyslexic friends who find comics, with short text snippets, less draining to read than longer prose. |
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I made some Asian dish, with a (fat) roll of sushi per person as an appetizer. I made it a fat one, and sliced it as thin as possible and just served it as if it was some sort of salad. In the dish itself, I used some nigiri sushi, but didn't tell anyone. I just called it 'fish and rice with salad dressing in an Asian style'. (And no-one noticed it was sushi... at that point, nobody knew. My family is not that Asian-minded with regard to food, except for me.) In the end I told my sister the appetizer and half of the dish were actually sushi. Since then, we have a sushi shortage in the Netherlands, and my sister is very poor because of addiction treatment she now has to go through. ( ![]() What I'm trying to say is: maybe you can get your husband to read without him realizing it. That sounds strange, but not too much, if you combine it with the short stories barrym suggested above. Read some of the ones you know your husband would probably like. If he likes boats and history of wars and action movies and such (just an example) then read some naval historical fiction stories. Then ask him about it. "Hey, I've been reading some stories over here, but some stuff is not really clear to me... do YOU have any idea how these guns are positioned on ships in the 1600's? Do they need to turn the ENTIRE SHIP to aim and fire?" He'll probably tell you more about it than you'd want to know, because it's a subject that interests him. Do it a few times, with different subjects and stories. Ask rethorical questions, that show that the stories contain stuff he's interested in, such as: "Such a ship can't really be 350 feet long, can it? That would be HUGE for that time." Leave the reader lying around. If you're lucky, he'll be interested enough that he thinks: "I have to see what stuff that woman is reading." Then, two things can happen. He gets hooked... or he gets bored. If he gets hooked, you'll just have to make sure that you have some stuff... eh... lying around... accidentally... that is interesting to him, but slightly longer than short stories (such as a novellette or a novella). If he gets bored, you're out of luck and he'll never read books. That's what I'd do. Quote:
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