reading slowly is good for your health
Somebody should inform every graduate level professor of this "phenomenon," that reading slowly is good for your health. In most of my information studies courses, the break-neck pace at which the class is conducted is NOT conducive to good health, according to this guy.
I remember a time, when I was a little bit shorter and a lot younger, when I would spend summers reading as many books as I could get my hands on. At the Tulsa City-County Libraries, you could check out 50 books at a time, with the checkout period being 2 weeks. Each week, I would bring my giant stacks back and replace them with more, low-quality, pulpy teen fiction books, mostly; but I also perused the Native American History sections, cooking for kids, and nature stuff, too. No matter what I was reading, I enjoyed every second of it. Hold up in my OWN bedroom (which I had to fight for, being the eldest child of 5), during the heat of the summer months, I was mostly reading during the day. When I realized I was about to finish a book, I would get really sad and try to prolong the inevitable.
What a release, when you finish a book? I think it was
falfax who said to me that reading is a form of entertainment where you create the scenes, and this requires work, unlike TV or films, which give it all to you. I immediately thought this was genius, and went to work formulating a plan on how to get people to stop being hypnotized by the boob tube. Well, here you have it. Telling people that reading is good for them, offering a little backup, is my plan. And yes, you may take this idea and share it with whomever you like. I have no problem with idea sharing. And no, this isn't copyrighted. ;)
I remember a time, when I was a little bit shorter and a lot younger, when I would spend summers reading as many books as I could get my hands on. At the Tulsa City-County Libraries, you could check out 50 books at a time, with the checkout period being 2 weeks. Each week, I would bring my giant stacks back and replace them with more, low-quality, pulpy teen fiction books, mostly; but I also perused the Native American History sections, cooking for kids, and nature stuff, too. No matter what I was reading, I enjoyed every second of it. Hold up in my OWN bedroom (which I had to fight for, being the eldest child of 5), during the heat of the summer months, I was mostly reading during the day. When I realized I was about to finish a book, I would get really sad and try to prolong the inevitable.
What a release, when you finish a book? I think it was
falfax who said to me that reading is a form of entertainment where you create the scenes, and this requires work, unlike TV or films, which give it all to you. I immediately thought this was genius, and went to work formulating a plan on how to get people to stop being hypnotized by the boob tube. Well, here you have it. Telling people that reading is good for them, offering a little backup, is my plan. And yes, you may take this idea and share it with whomever you like. I have no problem with idea sharing. And no, this isn't copyrighted. ;)