No love for literature?

[Streetwise]

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Oh jeez God rice cakes like eating floor tiles

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

Oh jeez God rice cakes like eating floor tiles

Have you tried laminate?

 

[Peter Morrison]

I have had a strained relationship to reading. By junior high school, I was diagnosed as dyslexic. I didn't feel it then and I don't feel it now. I was, however, incapable of staying with reading material for more than a few minutes. Reading assignments from school were torture. I wasn't able to follow the story and I didn't realize that ADD was running my brain as I went through the motions of reading. These two, together, explain a lot about my learning disabilities. Today, I grasp them both so well that I feel I can lecture on the topic. Both are ever-present, but I have managed to find a few ways to combat them ganging up on me. I must have an environment with no distractions and I must consciously develop and maintain interest in the reading material. I had to learn focusing skills and remain aware of ADD interference.

The only way I learned advanced vocabulary and residual skills came from my love of encyclopedias. To this day, I feel that the best learning materials for kids at any age is a set of encyclopedias (books with pages). Even though they become outdated with time, the written material, the photos, diagrams, sketches, and maps are exceptional learning tools for young people. I loved them for the variety of topics and the palatable texts that accompanied them. My favorite was a 1940 Encyclopedia Brittanica. As long as it happened before 1940, it was in there. These volumes were written for adults, so I was exposed to quality "proper" British English, way beyond what I was learning in school.

Though I struggled with reading as a youth, I overcame the fear and loathing I experienced during my grammar school learning issues. Learning problems continued to plague me through high school and college because I didn't know what was causing me so much grief. I just knew I hated traditional learning. I chose to go to graduate school and I was determined to read every word of every text, do every project, attend every class, and write the best papers I could. I was making up for lost time and poor skills. I like literature more today than in early adulthood. I am more patient and I have learned how to tone down the anxiety. It's not a race and it's not a contest. It is skills and enjoyment, not a homework assignment.

 

[Streetwise]

Have you tried laminate?

got to be better than rice cakes they are the driest things on the planet

 

[Streetwise]

I have had a strained relationship to reading. By junior high school, I was diagnosed as dyslexic. I didn't feel it then and I don't feel it now. I was, however, incapable of staying with reading material for more than a few minutes. Reading assignments from school were torture. I wasn't able to follow the story and I didn't realize that ADD was running my brain as I went through the motions of reading. These two, together, explain a lot about my learning disabilities. Today, I grasp them both so well that I feel I can lecture on the topic. Both are ever-present, but I have managed to find a few ways to combat them ganging up on me. I must have an environment with no distractions and I must consciously develop and maintain interest in the reading material. I had to learn focusing skills and remain aware of ADD interference.

The only way I learned advanced vocabulary and residual skills came from my love of encyclopedias. To this day, I feel that the best learning materials for kids at any age is a set of encyclopedias (books with pages). Even though they become outdated with time, the written material, the photos, diagrams, sketches, and maps are exceptional learning tools for young people. I loved them for the variety of topics and the palatable texts that accompanied them. My favorite was a 1940 Encyclopedia Brittanica. As long as it happened before 1940, it was in there. These volumes were written for adults, so I was exposed to quality "proper" British English, way beyond what I was learning in school.

Though I struggled with reading as a youth, I overcame the fear and loathing I experienced during my grammar school learning issues. Learning problems continued to plague me through high school and college because I didn't know what was causing me so much grief. I just knew I hated traditional learning. I chose to go to graduate school and I was determined to read every word of every text, do every project, attend every class, and write the best papers I could. I was making up for lost time and poor skills. I like literature more today than in early adulthood. I am more patient and I have learned how to tone down the anxiety. It's not a race and it's not a contest. It is skills and enjoyment, not a homework assignment.

You’re more intelligent than me ,I have a set of 1963 Encyclopaedia Britannicas ,the text used to boggle my mind ,I looked at all the pictures and always looked at the anatomy section as it was colour.

 

[Peter Morrison]

You’re more intelligent than me ,I have a set of 1963 Encyclopaedia Britannicas ,the text used to boggle my mind ,I looked at all the pictures and always looked at the anatomy section as it was colour.

This is the beauty of an encyclopedia - it's the everything. I was also drawn to color illustrations and as I was fascinated by the details in the images, I was also learning. My ADD could run wild, but it was fun and I learned a lot - names of artists, countries that never make the news, architectural styles, cities and industries. It's all just continuous learning while being obsessive over a detail that captures your attention. I still believe in traditional learning, but encyclopedias make the world interesting. The best part is that you can absorb whatever you want and ignore what doesn't interest you. No rules. You get from it what you can manage, happily. No stress. No test. But we learned.

 

[Kalinychta]

he has no idea what he’s done to me I spent an hour yesterday trying to find vegan doughnuts you have no idea how hard it is to find a vegan doughnut

Come to Portland! Voodoo Doughnuts makes vegan doughnuts. They're exactly like the non-vegan kind.

 

[Clueless in Canada]

I am an avid reader and also have a useless degree in English Lit. I read more non-fiction now than I used to and I am tend not to read popular fiction so I usually don't have anything to discuss with others as we never seem to be reading the same books. Currently I am reading Don Quixote and a biography of Canadian Suffragette Nellie McClung. I am also deeply immersed in reading about autism and ADHD lately as it became a new intense interest for me a little over a year ago. I have not participated in any literature related threads here though.

 

[tlc]

I like reading nonfiction and have a ton of books from resales, like probably enough to fill 3 or 4 tall bookshelves. I like reading actual books, don't really care for reading on a device.

But I don't read what most consider literature. Fiction books. Don't understand them.