Reading around the subject...
I have to say, I've never really enjoyed reading. I don't know why. But the idea of picking up a tome and spending hours just immersed in someone else's world, their thoughts, their ideas... there's something about that process that kind of freaks me out. Even in fiction reading, the authors language can really confuse me and, depending on they way I read the authors content, it can dramatically change my understanding of a book. Maybe it's a lack of confidence in my own abilities, or maybe I'm just a naturally slow reader. And it's probably one of the reasons why I did my undergrad degree in mathematics. As a strategy to help me with reading I tend to find audio-books helpful in this respect. Without an audiobook to accompany a text, I genuinely spend hours and hours labouring over the language and never feel like I'm getting the author's meaning. ( " Reading " by be creator is licensed under CC BY 2.0 .) But in a...