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View submission: Drop Everything And Read: Week 1
Day 6
Date: 27 March 2018, Tuesday
Time: 2 sets of 10 minutes, sometime in the afternoon
Book: The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
Didn't have the best reading day, was constantly getting interrupted. Then in the evening wasn't able to read at all because had a migraine. From what little I read today, I am hyper-aware that I am skimming it, because the topic of the book is the kind of attention we give books, whether it's "deep attention" or "hyper attention". This book is best read with a notepad and pen on the side, because though filled with citation of scientific research and other authors, it's a bit circuitous, in the style of Montaigne essays (as far as I can recall), and it helps if you try to summarize now and then, in your own words, what was just written.
I am also going to start posting the bulk of my notes on Goodreads so I don't clog up this space.
There's nothing here!