Words are countless and we need a lot of pages to describe the necessity of reading a book. People can easily find and buy a book. Most of them love reading but they don’t have enough time to finish a book.
Who has at least two or three books standing on a library with a bookmarker in the middle of them? Raise your hand!
Well, we should adjust reading according to our personality and life. Everyone can get benefit from reading. Even if you don’t like it so much or you don’t have enough time to relax and fall into a book, you can do a simple psy- exercise that enhances concentration, relieves stress and satisfies your senses.
If you have difficulties to read a whole book, start a new way of reading it.
After you have chosen a book that seems to be good, dedicate 15 minutes to observe cover page and back cover. Try to feel it, touch it, and detect colors. Read the title and every detail of these two covers. Can you imagine the story behind the cover? That’s it for the first day.
On the second day, choose by chance 2 or 3 pages to read. Then close it.
Another day, pick your book and go to your favorite place (inside your house or maybe outside), read as much as you can. Then, take notes and write what do you like most (characters, places, time).
After these actions, you supposed to read the whole book, as soon as possible.
After reading, think about this story, the personalities you met inside this book and try to give another, alternative end.
If you want, take notes throughout this process. Think about yourself before and after reading this book. Are there any benefits? Have you spend little bit of quality time with this new friend?
If the answer is yes, go to a library and find a new book.
*illustration by almarte
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