Do you read books?

[sinfonia]

Has anyone here successfully taught themselves to read?

My working memory is so poor that when I try to read a block of text, it goes over my head. I usually have to reread a sentence multiple times before it sticks. I eventually get very frustrated and give up.

*Read easier books (eg. children's books)
*Trace the lines with your fingers
*Don't put too much weight on individual words or sentences; try to see the bigger picture

 

[ms_beaverhousen]

SS book club when?

This isn't a terrible idea.
Although I just had an image of me being insubordinate and choosing 50 Shades of Grey when it was my turn to choose a title. There were a lot of red cheeks at that meeting

 

[JordanF]

History books are honestly so good, at least when you find the right one. It's nice because there's so many interesting people that were real and had crazy impacts on the world. Right now I'm reading a book on Che Guevara

 

[SoulWhisperer]

Yup, books are a large part of what I consider to be my "essence". From Carl Sagan's scientific thinking, to classic writers such as Dostoevsky, Homer (gotta love the greeks) and Shakespeare. We all know the benefits of reading (improved memory, focus, empathy). But, in my opinion, the greatest benefit is: you become wiser. One good book equals a lifetime of knowledge/experience. When you read The Odyssey, for example, you not only enjoy one of the greatest stories ever written, but you understand what people from the past (greeks, in this case) believed in, how they behaved, what were their worries, their idea of the Cosmos, and you start to compare that to your own ideas and beliefs. You become humble, you become curious, you become wiser.

However, of course, knowing too much is not bound to make you happy, unfortunately.

Do you know Carl Sagan? What you wrote reminded me of one of the episodes from his tv series, Cosmos. Check it out, he speaks in such a passionate manner:

Also, did you get a digital copy of a discourse on voluntary death? If so, could you PLEASE send me the file/link? I've been looking for this book for months now, but the only pdfs I find are made of photos, terrible to read.

Also, what were the books recommended to you on suicide? I've read Suicide, by edouard levé, and it was so intimate I felt it was me he was writing about. (He committed suicide short after writing it, which makes it even more interesting)

I agree with the opening of your reply
Also idk Carl, I just based my thinking off what I learnt from my literature, English, psychology and communication teachers. Some were cool people with cool minds. I'll have a look at the vid after work (if I remember).
For books I only buy physical ones, maybe there's digital copies from Amazon? That's where I get my books mostly but idk how digital books are like
For the books I recommend you can try looking at the list I sent up here in this thread, I commented some too

 

[ImnotCTB]

I don't know if it would be considered books but I read fictions on Royalroad. I drop it when it nears the end so that I can leave it to imagination

Has anyone here successfully taught themselves to read?

My working memory is so poor that when I try to read a block of text, it goes over my head. I usually have to reread a sentence multiple times before it sticks. I eventually get very frustrated and give up.

Don't try to remember the entire thing, eidetic memory is not real. I solve it by automatically forgetting what the imagery looked like and reform it with my own words. I don't really do it consciously, it's just natural.

 

[permanently tired]

The books seem so serious in this thread lol. I usually read romance or fantasy. I'm currently reading a webnovel, omniscient reader's viewpoint. It's unlike things I've read before bc it's like I'm reading a game tutorial and diary. I've read the atlas six series (I lost my page in the last book and never got back to it ) and the captive prince series in the last two yrs. I usually get thru a book quite fast until I inevitably take a break and then I don't get back to reading it (idk why). I have the house in the cerulean sea on my ipad, but I've yet to get thru a single page. I had a wattpad phase and I've read some good writing on there too. I must be subconsciously longing for a partner cuz I eat that romance shit up. Fantasy bc it makes me feel powerful or I could be, similar to that feeling when u finish a movie and u imagine u were in that universe with powers.

 

[SoulWhisperer]

I occasionally go to the library to get games from, but I've been thinking about getting books from there too. There's a category for books about suicide there, so I should probably try reading some of those despite that the books are in Finnish which isn't my native language, but I need to get better at it anyway.

The closest library I have is owned by a very mean old woman so I avoid it, I'd rather build my own collection anyway

SS book club when?

I actually think it'd be pretty fun

History books are honestly so good, at least when you find the right one. It's nice because there's so many interesting people that were real and had crazy impacts on the world. Right now I'm reading a book on Che Guevara

History is cool too, it helps you understand many interesting things and views of the past and if you know much and enough you can even try to predict some things, so I've been told