All doorstoppers. That got me thinking. How the heck does anyone get these books read? The solution I devised for myself is a simple one I wanted to share. Just commit to that, and then do it. What will 25 pages a day get you? Plus Christmas. That gives you days a year of solid reading time. What I have also found is that, when I commit to a minimum of 25 pages, I almost always read more. I only need to extend that 25 pages into 30 to get there. Well, The Power Broker is 1, pages.
The four LBJ books are collectively 3, pages. Gibbons is six volumes and runs to about 3, pages. Like exercise or practicing a musical instrument, consistency counts. Equally important to committing to daily reading is placing an emphasis on pages—actual physical pages, not digital text. Picking up a book removes those obstacles and allows you to focus, which in turn allows you to better retain details and information.
Stephen King pulls off that five hours a day because he does things like read in line while buying a movie ticket and then up until the second the movie starts. You can read while you're, ahem, otherwise disposed, while waiting in line at the bank, on a plane, while waiting in the car picking up your child my wife's favorite method , etc. Here's another trick. What happens when you always have your phone with you?
You'll pick it up a zillion times more. Same thing happens when you always have a book with you. I'll occasionally stick with a book just because I started it.
The book never gets better and my zeal for reading wanes. Don't follow my lead. Brady Salcido, a personal growth expert, says , "Our brains have different modes of operation and having different genres of books is like different types of music to suit the mood you're in. When I'm in read-a-book mode I find this to be absolutely true. I'll read three books at once, a science-fantasy type, a business book, and anything of general interest.
Sign in to vote ». Post a comment ». Oct 16, PM. Nice idea for a poll. Thanks, Ian. I don't want to lose half of the readers because we're going to fast, or have them bored out of their skulls by going too slow. I'm thinking of dividing the read into sections of 80 pages every 3 days, which will give us about 3 weeks, which sounds a reasonable time since people who work in the week will have 3 weekends in which to catch up. I'm hoping that won't be too fast..
We do have a bell curve skewed towards the lower end of the poll there. I wish I had time to read faster! Then again, if I can count reading essays by my students, my page numbers would be a lot higher. It's sad. Traveller wrote: "I'm thinking of dividing the read into sections of 80 pages every 3 days, which will give us about 3 weeks, which sounds a reasonable time since people who work in the week will have 3 weekends in which to catch up.
I want to cut the novel up into smallish sections so that spoilers can be avoided; I think i'll try and do it so that on weekends people can catch up with two or three sections- so i will make it clear that you're not all that much behind if you see you're 2 sections behind.
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