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What's Your Reading Style?

Bloghop prompt  Question for  March 8-11 from  The Blue Bookcase How do you find time to read, what's your reading style and where do you think reading literature should rank in society's priorities? My answer:      There is always a book with me when I have to sit in a waiting room.  When I worked I always read when I had a break.  These days two or three times a week I read from 7-9 P.M.      I read several books at one time s-l-o-w-l-y.  Then I need to think about them.  I write notes in the margins so I can see what I thought the last time I read the book.  I love to re-read.  Every time I read I book I notice or understand something I did not before.   Article on slow reading on The Daily Beast.      For example, I just re-read Their Eyes Were Watching God  by Zora Neale Hurston.   I had a better understanding of the relationship between Janie Crawford Killicks Starks Woods...