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I am so happy to have found another slow reader. And I have that "click" moment, too, when I finally get into loving the book, then savoring every moment until the book ends - hoping to stretch it out. Nice to know I have a kindred spirit out there like me! \0/
April, you are not the only one who feels this way! I am also a S-L-O-W reader -- just like my 10-year-old self. I will put a book aside easily if it doesn't grab me -- I only want to invest the time if I think it will be worth the ride. (Sometimes I've not been "hooked" until halfway through -- REBECCA comes to mind --and I was glad I persisted for whatever reason.) <br /><br />I loved your
My 10 yr old daughter is a slow reader and it's frustrating to her because her sister and I are so fast. I have to remind her that her father is pretty average in reading time and that grandma loves to read, but just reads slowly. <br /><br />The whole thing has made me curious about reading speed- because it's not about being smart. So what is it that makes such huge variation in reading speed?
I have to say that when I left that two-week-reading list I forgot to mention that I am an extremely rapid reader. Not a speed-reader in the old Evelyn Wood school of taking in whole phrases, but a weird little system I developed in my librarian days when it was nothing for me to read twenty or thirty (children's) books a week. I have to force myself to slow down when I hit that special book...
Our house also has two styles of readers. My oldest son and I devour books. We can't put them down and we read (almost) anything -- fiction, nonfiction, science fiction, mystery, magazines, medical charts, ... you get the idea. My husband and my two younger sons are more of the slow reading variety. My husband loves to savour his reading experience; he doesn't understand why you would speed
Yes. I do believe there are the fast readers and the slow...I used to think it meant something about my intelligence, but I think it's more about wiring. Which is what makes us unique.<br /><br />clutterbugs (me) vs clean desks (my husband), night owls (that would be me) vs morning birds (my husband), slow readers (me), speeders (my husband). I wonder if these are somehow connected...?<br />
Touching and wonderful post, with such thoughtful detail and description of what one person (probably trillions!) experience when they read. It' a very helpful/important reminder how fabulously different we all are. Something I'd like to add: I ache sometimes to see or hear the word "smart," or "intelligent." Not sure it's useful to try to tie these words to fast reading or other skills the
To comment on the previous post...fast or slow has nothing to do with intelligence or the ability to take a story into your soul. My fourteen-year-old daughter is highly intelligent...and highly dyslexic. She has been in tutoring and special education reading classes since kindergarten. The simple act of getting through a sentence is like watching someone pull rusty nails out of her head, it's
I am also a slow reader. I like taking my time with a good book, precisely because I never want to leave the world in that book. I also savor EVERY. SINGLE. WORD. Takes me forever to finish one book. LOL.