I don’t know if it is the write place to post.
For me, reading is difficult, and I figured out it is not related to how simple or complex what I read, I read some books by some writers who are known for their simple language, and it is the same.
I cannot simply understand the meaning of what I read, many times I reread some paragraph more than once and I move on to the next paragraph without understanding.
I read without processing what I read, literally just reading, pronouncing the letters and words of what I read without understanding.
I lose focus and forget what I read, without exaggerating, I reread some paragraph I just read and feel like it is the first time reading.
These factors make me hate reading and make the idea of reading so hateful.
And I hate this about me, I want to love reading, there are a lot of things that I don’t know about and the only way to know is reading.
So, if someone knows the reasons and how to overcome, I would be so grateful.
Something I remembered while writing, I’m a quick-to-fidget, and it is not only with reading, even if I do something I enjoy, like watching a movie, it might take me a whole day or more to finish, watching a scene, getting bored, doing something else, going back to continue watching and so on.
Sorry if there are any grammatical mistakes, English is not my first language.
by EgyMisery
2 Comments
Seems like you haven’t found the right book. When I’m reading a really good book, im so immersed into it that nothing else comes into my mind. I’m living in the story. when I’m reading a less interesting book my mind starts to wander and I have to reread stuff often or just accept it and keep going because not all of it registered.
Buy a five pack of highlighters from Walmart.
Highlight anything that sticks out to you I always have my books and my highlighters in very close reaching distance also don’t be afraid to listen to audiobook version of the written version.
You can also go for commentaries on YouTube as many commentaries on literature and it may spark some kind of thought or it may bring into light some thing that you have not understood about the novel (**let me preface that with do not investigate the book before you read the book** 📙 I made this mistake when I was reading Albert Camus the plague…. I was a big fan of all philosophy and I wanted to understand this book before going into it and it gave me a presupposition of what the book was about so the whole time I was reading the novel my mind was trying to put the pieces together and I have to say it was not a pleasurable experience although I got through it).
So that being said don’t do a lot of research don’t do a lot of “what do other people think” about this book or this novel before you actually read the book so that you do not go into literature with a presupposition of what it should be about but rather take in what you can and use peoples commentaries **after the fact** to fill in the pieces 🧩.