It has never occurred to me to do this! I’m completely fascinated by the idea, though I’m confident I wouldn’t enjoy it with non-fiction for the reasons you described. I’ll have to give it a go with a novel.
I wonder if some might find employing this method useful specifically for Bible reading.
I'd love to hear if you do give it a shot, and the book you choose!
I haven't done this exact method for Bible reading, but I used to listen to the Bible a lot when I wasn't able to read as much, and have encouraged others to do so too. There's no reason this wouldn't work, albeit, with the caveat that if you like to highlight or make notes, this might hamper that a little.
Very interesting, Adsum. The combined reading and listening is new to me, but similar to something I often do with "hard" non-fiction texts. I read them alone first then listen to a knowledgable person/(s) discuss them with the text in front of me. That sounds very studyish, but I enjoy it. And I absorb more in the process.
I also find it is harder to concentrate on reading these days and so habit building is important.
What other reading methods are there?! I can't think of any, but maybe you will tell us in a later post.
That sounds fantastic Jessica, I do the same to be honest. I found out recently that a book I have on my TBR has an accompanying "course" of lectures from TGC (https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/course/the-doctrine-of-christ/#christology) and so I'm really looking forward to reading the chapters and then going for a walk and listening the talks.
I will write about this more in the coming couple of months, but this is, probably, the most creative when it comes to the form of reading, whilst the others and more akin to mindsets one might have going into a book. I've written about this in the past (https://www.ravenswritingdesk.co.uk/p/three-questions) but I wanted to see what other methods had to offer, like the Zettlekasten method and a specific one for commentaries from Thomas Creedy. I hope they'll be just as interesting!
It has never occurred to me to do this! I’m completely fascinated by the idea, though I’m confident I wouldn’t enjoy it with non-fiction for the reasons you described. I’ll have to give it a go with a novel.
I wonder if some might find employing this method useful specifically for Bible reading.
I'd love to hear if you do give it a shot, and the book you choose!
I haven't done this exact method for Bible reading, but I used to listen to the Bible a lot when I wasn't able to read as much, and have encouraged others to do so too. There's no reason this wouldn't work, albeit, with the caveat that if you like to highlight or make notes, this might hamper that a little.
Very interesting, Adsum. The combined reading and listening is new to me, but similar to something I often do with "hard" non-fiction texts. I read them alone first then listen to a knowledgable person/(s) discuss them with the text in front of me. That sounds very studyish, but I enjoy it. And I absorb more in the process.
I also find it is harder to concentrate on reading these days and so habit building is important.
What other reading methods are there?! I can't think of any, but maybe you will tell us in a later post.
That sounds fantastic Jessica, I do the same to be honest. I found out recently that a book I have on my TBR has an accompanying "course" of lectures from TGC (https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/course/the-doctrine-of-christ/#christology) and so I'm really looking forward to reading the chapters and then going for a walk and listening the talks.
I will write about this more in the coming couple of months, but this is, probably, the most creative when it comes to the form of reading, whilst the others and more akin to mindsets one might have going into a book. I've written about this in the past (https://www.ravenswritingdesk.co.uk/p/three-questions) but I wanted to see what other methods had to offer, like the Zettlekasten method and a specific one for commentaries from Thomas Creedy. I hope they'll be just as interesting!
This is really interesting, thank you for testing this method to see what works about it and what doesn’t! I’d be interested in having a go myself!
That's great to hear Anna, do you have a particular book in mind?
I’m not sure yet, maybe Fairytale as you found it helpful!?