A new year often signals a fresh TBR (To Be Read) pile. It brims with good intentions, guilt divided evenly between Christmas gifts begging to be addressed and the books from 2023 you thought you had time to read but didn’t. But — of course — reading shouldn’t be a chore, an endless game of catch-up or a slog powered by a sense that you’re missing out on the best of the year’s crop.

In the wonderful phrase of a friend, perhaps it’s time to set an anti-resolution instead — to settle into a slow classic, and give yourself the gift of unrushed reading. Spending time in the pages of just one book for months, sometimes years, is a rarity in our hurried age.

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[–] padjakkels@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Really,who reads so slow?

[–] blubton@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Many people do, myself included. I myself am just not capable of reading fast for some reason, but other people may just want to take more time to analyse prose or certain aspects of the story. For older books you may want to do some research about society in the time that it was written, for a book like Crime and Punishment you may want to think about the symbolism.

In short, there are many reasons to read slow, so many people do it.

[–] grimdeter@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The reason you can't read fast might be dyslexia. I am incapable of reading fast too, and after i got diagnosed with ADD and dyslexia it all just made sense

[–] blubton@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I forgot to mention it, but I have ADD too, so that is definitely a big contributing factor!

[–] grimdeter@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it probably is. Hopefully it all makes a bit more sense now

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