This week I’ve had the honor of guest posting over at John Ottinger’s science fiction and fantasy review blog, Grasping For the Wind. My posts appeared Monday, Tuesday, and today, and take the form of a three-part article entitled ‘Ramp Up Your Reading.’ Those of you who have read my posts at Black Gate will find some of the material in ‘Ramp Up Your Reading’ familiar, such as my recommendations to use a list and my musings on specialists and generalist readers, but it is an all new article and something of a synthesis of many of the reading related themes I’ve been blogging about over the last year.
Each part of ‘Ramp Up Your Reading’ looks at how to improve your reading in one or more ways. In part one, More and Faster, I talk about ways to get more reading done over the course of a year, both from a practical and an inspirational perspective. In Do It Better, I dial the speed knob back a bit on quantity and talk about close and immersive reading. In the final part, Expand Your Horizons, I propose a few strategies for breaking out of reading ruts and challenging yourself do something different, like the Five Book Challenge I’ll be doing in 2010.
