Dudley Moore: Do you feel you've learnt by your mistakes here?
Peter Cook: I think I have, yes, and I think I can probably repeat them almost perfectly.
Yes, I have this too. Having a lot of things to watch or read tends to cause me a fair bit of ambivalence. Sometimes I feel like there is nothing and sometimes I feel like there is too much to choose from. Anxiety can be a crossroads a lot of the time with 2 voices.
Smaller articles can be easier but even then when anxiety is higher or you are agitated, it can be hard to concentrate enough to get through even posts on here.
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Yes, I do. It's come in the last year though as before that I was more settled into it.
Stephen King has a new hardback out and it's a collection of short stories. Perhaps that might be worth a go?
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Yes I've started reading a book in the gaps that I usually do nothing, to keep my mind busy. I read in my break at work too - Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith. Very enjoyable
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So, I made a promise I was going to read a chapter and I did .... I got half way through the second chapter before I realised I wasn't really taking it in but carried on. I am now half way through the book and had to go back and re-read the first two chapters. But for yonks I've been wanting to read and not felt I could, so I feel pretty good right now.
I read myself. When I feel in the mood.
My husband sits with a book nearly all day.
Does my head in
Magic
if you need to be led to short articles to read an App like Zinio can help
1) It curates articles by certain topics
2) It allows you to download magazines from your local library if you register for that
Dudley Moore: Do you feel you've learnt by your mistakes here?
Peter Cook: I think I have, yes, and I think I can probably repeat them almost perfectly.
I see there are many of us in a similar situation.
MrsCav, it's great you managed to read so much. I managed to finish my book off late on Friday night (but not before my Nook decided to reset itself and erase all the books I hadn't purchased through the Nook store! Grrrr).
Terry that's a great idea about his short stories. I believe I have it on my computer somewhere from when my Dad got it and asked me to transfer it onto his Kindle. I'll convert it and put it on mine.
I'm also going (well hopefully) to read The Jonah by James Herbert
How do you guys motivate yourself to do it? How do you get the concentration?
I tend to start reading a book when I'm on the bus. It's usually a ten minute bus ride and I always take my e reader and usually read a chapter going there and a chapter coming back then when I get home I'm more likely to read.
Today I've been stuck in all day and been wanting to read since dinnertime. I'm going to force myself to read just a few chapters before I have to go to the school in an hour.
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Also my concentration usually improves once I get interested in a book. I never really enjoy the beginning of a book.
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