paying close attention, reading slowly, new science fiction
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- thinking about the business of how we pay attention and what attentiveness means when it comes to reading. Talking about finishing the splendid 'the principle of moments' by Emie Jikimie-Pearson
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I agree that’s the way I read as well. I thought I was doing it wrong but if I’m enjoying the book I want to hear it all in my head.
Your a really lovely presence to spend time with. You are informal informative but also happy to take whatever time you need. This is very refreshing in our era of hyper activity.
I completely understand things that take away your time. I (like the majority of people) have to work a "regular" job. Which for me does take 45 -50 hours per week of my time. At my core, though, I am a book collector, poetry lover (and writer), and avid reader. So my downtime is relaxing with a good book and enjoying the journey. Thank you for another great video, I have been watching your channel for a while, and I truly appreciate your content. I hope the best for you and yours🙏😁
I’m so excited !! hardly ever. I’m pleasantly pleased listening to you while I draw or doodle .
I rather like your approach. Authenticity is underrated.
I’m listening. Keep talking.
I can so identify with your wish to dive into the experience of reading. I remember being chastised by a person for saying l could connect with a literary character more than some people but for me they exist in a very concrete way.
I quite like your slower style. I watch a lot of fast talking channels.
I’m probably one of them. (Although not as bad as some)
So it’s nice to have a more chilled, relaxed voice to listen to as well.
One thing about reading slower is you spend more time with the book. Which is a win over fast readers you get to enjoy it for longer. And if you're the sort of person who reads a lot don't have to find new books as much.
From the occasional snippets of booktok the tiktok algorithm shows me which hasn't happened in months, it seems like people sort of complete on how many books you read a year. I don't know if they actively do it but if a person says they read x their veiwers may feel like they don't read fast enough since they keep comparing themselves to their favourite creator often in parasocial ways. People seem to do that for literally every aspect of their life.
Thing is if you read 200 books a year it has to be quick and you are going to forget them and the type of books booktokers read seem to be awfully similar. Romance books don't seem like there is much variety in the stories and it seems like the popular ones on tiktok have a gimmick. their interest is also a very specific part of the romance. However i will note shitting on their taste a lot does lead you down a sexist path. Women's interests and especially teenage girls are often seen by many to be of no vaule. But ultimately if you read a bunch if similar books quickly no matter what it is you won't remember it well. Ultimately I guess if that matters to you depends on why you read.
I feel like the difference of a TV show dropping all the episodes of the season, all at once vs week by week is similar how fast you read a book. When you watch all of it at once you don't sit there and think about it as much. Also you aren't is likely to remember what happened in each episode especially if it's a serialised thing. If its episodic distinguishing episode is easier but trying to remember the jist of several different plots is always going to happen. When all of the episodes are there, you don't have to wait. However this difference is most profound when you quite active with online discussions. When everything is dropped at once so much more can be talked about that some things just won't be. Ultimately the speed you watch you also be seen like reading indeepth vs no so indeepth.
Personally i don't really read much. I have been meaning to get back into the eighth doctor novels. I definitely think focusing while reading when you haven't done much recently is difficult. I think interest is another factor. The one I'm to is The Banquo Legacy and the framing device is very different. I just started it. It is all in first person with two different characters which means that the Doctor and the companions (Fitz and Compassion) won't appear as much. Which doesn't sounds as interesting to me. However managing expectations is important. Online fandom can get carried away sometimes with hype. The hype train can ruin enjoyment if you expect something to be the most amazing thing ever and then it's okay maybe even good. But a 7/10 when you expected a 9.9/10 could feel like a 3. Which alternatively could make something expected to be terrible but ended up okay seem very good.
But expectations don't always have to be about quality. It could be about what exactly the story is too or tone it can be many things. Mindset van be a factor in enjoyment.
On a completely different note apparently there are people who don't sub vocalise when they read. They just look at the word and know it. I can't imagine that. Most of my thinking is words. Talking to myself in my mind is one way you could describe it. There can be all sorts of things different about they way people think on a basic level. Learning about aphantasia is similar which for anyone who doesn't know is when you can picture things in your mind. Not being able to think in words (can't remember the name for it).
Thinking about this stuff makes me think about what other have in their heads while reading. I can't really visualise super vivid images in my mind they always feel at a distance. I don't visualise characters but the setting has a feel with some vague images. All this stuff is awfully hard to describe. Ultimately there are many things we don't really think too much about where you assume everyone is like that.
This has gotten awfully rambly and probably has some grammatical errors.
Additionally as to doing youtube wrong. Thats only true if what you vare about is maximising views for the algorithm and being a youtuber making money and things. If you want to become a full-time youtuber then you probably would want to do thinfs differently. But if not what's the problem.
I feel better about my reading speed now, I'm about the same as you, going through my first read through of Dune before watching the movies and I don't want to miss any of the nuance
If I'm on a roll I usually do 20 pages in one sitting before my attention span runs out, but there's no set time for that. I'm getting better at evening reading.
I was reading a couple of Substack essays this morning about working too much, not paying attention and how much of your person you give across to the online world. A lot of people seem to be thinking about how much time they have and what they do with it. I never seem to have enough time to read. TH-camrs often say they are 'obsessed' with things - books, art materials, TV shows. Then they zoom through the story using Audible/Netflix at 2x speed so they can keep up for the video. Surely it takes away from the point of reading or enjoying a series? Or maybe I am just old 😆
I really enjoy your channel. By far the best of any book tube channels I’ve visited. Do you like Ursula LeGuin? And have you read Tim Powers’s The Anubis Gates? I have just sent my friend the Audible reading of Never the Bride. She is recovering from knee surgery and I think it will be right up her street.
Oh, I love Anubis gates! I need to find a new copy. Also a Le Guin fan. I’m thinking of a Gollancz sf marathon soon… and thank you for your kind words!
Seth, Zen and the ripple effect ; butterfly effect. Caterpillars rather than slugs . Teardrops to snow or vice versa in a desert . Sky and sea one, Egyptian . Colonies natural flora Lily of the Valley ; fauna is chrysalis . People (meh) . Soundtrack Steeleye Span (a capella) Christmas ditty and potentially Ruby(mother daughter grandmother ad infinitum ) hitting the appropriate notes . The river runs shades of red . I am hoping for a visionary finale . Individuals know who they are even in Love of the Seven dolls ; we are all atavistic and magical in that sense . Emotion is our survival our ability to empathise with a bogeyman . Human construct like your Machiavellian sprite doesn't matter in the end . Nature nurture dialectic . Holographs are a form of reality construct . Back to books ; I have time because I am a widow and of the Quentin Crisp school of domesticity ; " I never dust ; it may have been someone I knew" . I think that is probably the most appropriate place to end /begin. Dust and the individuality of every snowflake ever ; each snowflake is unique it is a scientific fact . In one of my poems ; I asked my friends to make a chain of snowflakes ; then come and visit me . The thing that always fascinated me is that lifeforms from the deepest deepest oceans have rainbow blood (science) ; we dont have the technology yet but we will to see and be like that "we are such things that dreams are made of" a time of holograms and thoughtforms is coming even if only through the telly . The editing software Deforum is the closest I can see at the moment. Some natty return to Oz perpetual zoom stuff too. That's the telly I want .
Quentin Crisp, rather than Blake..?
@@paulmagrs2474 thankyou . Francolli is the channel on here that does Alice in Wonderland Deformum style ; watch one in your leisure time . He does a Poe too.