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I've finally finished "The Original Illustraded Strand Sherlock Holmes The Complete Facsimile Edition", a thick book with small print. It took me almost six months... and was well worth it! Those stories still hold up.
And every time I rewatch the Downey/Law movie I heart Irene Adler more and more. She's brilliant!
Now I can at last read something else, and why not something by the guest of honour at our next SF convention, Justina Robson? I was just out and bought the slimmest volume I could find, on the principle that I might be able to finish it before she gets here. One can always hope, I guess.
Right now I'm a very slow reader, due to too many things to watch, like "Cosmos" which is still brilliant. I can well understand why I loved it so much as a kid. But I'm a pretty slow reader anyways; unlike most ppl, I must read every word, not throw one glance at a page and get the gist or indeed full contents of it. I can't understand how that is done! A slow perusal of every line, sometimes every letter, is my method. At least I don't have to look at every word backwards, or count the letters, as I did during a period when I was a kid. That was annoying and time-consuming. But just glancing at a page and getting what is said there... impossible!
How do you lot read? Word-for-word or big-picture, as it were?
And every time I rewatch the Downey/Law movie I heart Irene Adler more and more. She's brilliant!
Now I can at last read something else, and why not something by the guest of honour at our next SF convention, Justina Robson? I was just out and bought the slimmest volume I could find, on the principle that I might be able to finish it before she gets here. One can always hope, I guess.
Right now I'm a very slow reader, due to too many things to watch, like "Cosmos" which is still brilliant. I can well understand why I loved it so much as a kid. But I'm a pretty slow reader anyways; unlike most ppl, I must read every word, not throw one glance at a page and get the gist or indeed full contents of it. I can't understand how that is done! A slow perusal of every line, sometimes every letter, is my method. At least I don't have to look at every word backwards, or count the letters, as I did during a period when I was a kid. That was annoying and time-consuming. But just glancing at a page and getting what is said there... impossible!
How do you lot read? Word-for-word or big-picture, as it were?
