Question: Concentrate more on reading?

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Answer #1:

gorky park

Answer #2:

Maybe wait to read until you're a little tired, kind of relaxed. That way you won't be so fidgety and on edge.

Answer #3:

I have this problem too.I think I should be more into reading.You should find things that interest you.try the best sellers of all genres and find which one you like.

Answer #4:

just relax and study the book. maybe try a book you know nothing about and curiosity will get the best of you

Answer #5:

try to relax eat some food put on some classical relaxing music and find a comfy chair! you just need to focus... try to put everything out of your mind!

Answer #6:

I really know what you're talking about, and I sometimes struggle with the same problem. I often do some of these six things

1. get a young adult fiction novel (after looking for it for a while, making sure that it is very captivating and readable) and read it. They often end up being so light that reading is absolutely effortless, it goes really fast, it's printed in relatively big print so you feel like you're reading really fast and you're having fun. It's often enough for me to get out of a "reader's" block. However, I'm still careful in picking the next book to read and I look for, again, something with a very fluid writing style. Just a month back I just couldn't read anymore (always the case in the end of the academic year) and my winning combo was the book skin hunger and its sequel, and then the memory keeper's daughter.
2.Switch a language, if you can. I'm bilingual, and I mostly read in english. sometimes, the only thing I need is to switch to my first language and voila!
3. re-read a book I've already read. There are these books that I just love going back to, and they allow me to skip through some parts that I don't like and get pure enjoyment out of them.
4. read non-fiction books. I'm an anthropology major and the feeling of discovery I get when I read books about different subjects is just amazing and I love it.
5. I pick up one of my short story collection books and read a short story. Sometimes they're as short as 5-7 pages!
6. I force myself to read books that I have and I don't allow myself to buy anything new before I read what's sitting on my shelf. I had to dot hat last year and it nearly killed me. One of the books on my shelf was sacred games, a 900+ pages monster. But once I got into it, read some 300 pages, I really got hooked and I was proud when I read it, and everything else seemed short and restful afterward.
what got me through the "force myself to read phase" were the same strategies that sometimes get me through books for school I don't want to read. Cups of tea, reading 50 pages before taking a break (or 25), awards for finishing big sections. Sometime you just have to make yourself do it, and you'll be glad that you did.





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