I’ve been reading a lot lately, and unsurprisingly for someone in my field I can read extremely quickly. I’ve read 300+ page novels in a single sitting, no longer than I would spend at a movie. Granted, these aren’t Pincher or anything, but still. But I struggle with the desire to read devouringly, against the self-imposed requirement to read slowly. This varies of course from work to work, and from genre to genre. But I’ve been reading a lot of […]

Categories: Poetry, Reading Journal • Tags: gertrude stein, reading journal, reading strategies, slow reading, tender buttons