Inda and reading
The Inda read at Reddit/fantasy has begun.
My anxieties about situations I can't help aside, the opening about organizing it I thought interesting, and at least in my mind dovetailed with some of the reading discussion lately, including SerialBox and its weekly episodes.
Some have to have the entire book in hand. I tend to prefer that, though I no longer have the free time I did as a kid when I could curl up and read a book from cover to cover. But having it at hand means I can control when to put it down. But I know other people who like to structure their reading more--a chapter a day, no more, no less. I met someone once who always stopped at the beginning of what looked like a big, important scene. He said it was the only way he could get himself to read as a kid, and it stayed as habit. So basically, he was choosing his own cliff hangers.
Many like cliff hangers, judging from the preponderance of them in series? I hate them. If I find out that something I like has cliff hangers, I'll wait until it's all out before getting it. This has included shows I like--I won't watch them until the next year, when the previous year's cliff hanger is resolved.
I don't know if this is part of being a very visual reader.
Oh yeah, on the subject of comfort things, I watched a lovely, lovely Indian film that came out last year, called Dhanak. IT's kinda of meta, in that the two kids, a girl who takes her blind brother across India to meet Shah Rukh Khan, the super famous movie star, because of an ad he appeared in asking for organ donation. It was so beautiful-lovely characters, a touch of magic, and simply stunning scenery. And folk songs sung by ordinary voices, the boy being one of them.
My anxieties about situations I can't help aside, the opening about organizing it I thought interesting, and at least in my mind dovetailed with some of the reading discussion lately, including SerialBox and its weekly episodes.
Some have to have the entire book in hand. I tend to prefer that, though I no longer have the free time I did as a kid when I could curl up and read a book from cover to cover. But having it at hand means I can control when to put it down. But I know other people who like to structure their reading more--a chapter a day, no more, no less. I met someone once who always stopped at the beginning of what looked like a big, important scene. He said it was the only way he could get himself to read as a kid, and it stayed as habit. So basically, he was choosing his own cliff hangers.
Many like cliff hangers, judging from the preponderance of them in series? I hate them. If I find out that something I like has cliff hangers, I'll wait until it's all out before getting it. This has included shows I like--I won't watch them until the next year, when the previous year's cliff hanger is resolved.
I don't know if this is part of being a very visual reader.
Oh yeah, on the subject of comfort things, I watched a lovely, lovely Indian film that came out last year, called Dhanak. IT's kinda of meta, in that the two kids, a girl who takes her blind brother across India to meet Shah Rukh Khan, the super famous movie star, because of an ad he appeared in asking for organ donation. It was so beautiful-lovely characters, a touch of magic, and simply stunning scenery. And folk songs sung by ordinary voices, the boy being one of them.