[stylist] Another Question about Books: Losing Interest

Fri Oct 14 23:41:52 UTC 2016

Sleep through the boring parts it's kind of like cliff notes if it's an audiobook. If it's a braille book just do what everyone else does. Skip parts. That's what we all did for school and I think we pick that up when we are in academic classes. Of course I say that knowing somebody will probably put down my book or skip parts. :-)

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> On Oct 14, 2016, at 4:24 PM, Sherry Gomes via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I don't stick with a book and read through if I lose interest or don't like
> it. On the other hand, I stick with important things in my life. I work a
> lot of hours every week, so my free time to enjoy books is less than it was
> years ago when I was younger, and I refuse to use that time sticking with a
> book that doesn't appeal to me. 
> 
> I do find that my taste in books has changed over the years. When I was
> young I liked certain things, I certainly liked romances, among the other
> things, mysteries, thrillers, fantasy and historical fiction. Now I don't
> like romances at all, avoid mysteries unless they are cozy mysteries without
> much graphic violence, and I still love fantasy and historical fiction. I
> still love gothic novels, though I don't enjoy some authors I liked in my
> twenties, and still like some authors from back then. I think life changes
> us as we grow and experience things good and bad. And those changes affect
> everything from the books we read, to the music we like to the social things
> we enjoy, to the things in general that we care about. For instance, I grew
> up in the sixties and though I loved rock, I hated hard rock. Now I still
> love rock and I love hard rock. Lol. Things change. I changed, and my
> reading tastes both changed and didn't.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynda Lambert
> via stylist
> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2016 3:14 PM
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> Cc: Lynda Lambert <llambert at zoominternet.net>
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Another Question about Books: Losing Interest
> 
> Bridgit, and others,
> 
> It's true that we change as we mature and what we  understand as a child or 
> young adult is usually put aside or changed into more depth of thought as we
> 
> develop our learning skills.Not only is this great advice to read the 
> complete book before making  judgments about "the book," but it is a good 
> rule of thumb that carries over to many other aspects of our life.  I have 
> been thinking of going back to read again some books that greatly influenced
> 
> my thoughts in my teen and my 20s.  It's a good way to figure out what your 
> "core" is and to put the pieces of the puzzle together that are "you."  How 
> did I get to this place where I have a  passion for (fill in the blank). 
> What is it about (fill in the blank) that influenced me enough that I have 
> carried it with me all these years?  What is my underlying structure and how
> 
> did it develop? I have written about this for my own inquiries a number of 
> times - we keep changing and hopefully, growing, for our entire lifetime. 
> What remains? What is left behind? What is morphed into something new?
> 
> 
> About "sticking with a book," as Bridgit suggests -
> We had this rule when our 5 children were in school and wanted to be in the 
> band.  (It can be dance class, theater, art classes, or anything else that 
> requires a discipline and learning curve)  Whatever you choose, it's  a 
> commitment.  Two of our kids wanted to play an instrument in school. We had 
> a "meeting" about it with the children.  The instruments are expensive once 
> you realize the costs involved  and the time you will put into it for years,
> 
> you make a decision.
> 
> Two of our five children made this commitment, and were in the marching back
> 
> through high school.  They enjoyed many benefits such as trips with the band
> 
> to places they would never have been without this opportunity.
> One daughter even got accepted into summer music performance classes at a 
> university several times which pushed her further along with the craft. But,
> 
> the best benefit is that it develops the sort of person who has a core 
> value of persistence and tenacity and the spirit to stay with something 
> positive until it is finished. That carried them on in life, through their 
> different paths in the university, and on through grad. school, and into the
> 
> field of employment they enjoy today. I also see that same kind of 
> commitment in life in their marriages and how they raise their families. I 
> believe it starts with a very small activity, like reading a book, or any 
> other such discipline and it develops their characters.
> 
> On the other hand, I have 3 other children (NOW, in their 50s) who never 
> stuck with anything for any length of time. This becomes a life-style and an
> 
> attitude towards life in general. There is a large gap between those who 
> learned  to stick with things and those who did not.  But essentially, I 
> think it all begins with very little decisions about very little things and 
> choices.
> 
> Writing this brings me to a thought that keeps  floating  through  my mind. 
> I need to read, "Of Human Bondage," again and see what it is really all 
> about now that I am a big girl!
> My memories of that book are from the age of 19 or 20, and now, I wonder 
> what I would think as I read it again. I've been doing this with a number of
> 
> other books the past few years, too.
> Recently, when asked about naming a single book that influenced my life, I 
> immediately though of a book I read as a new young mother at age 19. It was 
> Marcus Aurelius' Meditations.
> 
> http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.1.one.html
> 
> Yes, I have to do this! It's unfinished business for me at this point. I 
> have to go back and read the book again to find the stepping stones to who I
> 
> am today. Why did this book change the life of a young girl in the early 
> 1960s?
> Lynda
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist
> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2016 3:32 PM
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> Cc: Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Another Question about Books: Losing Interest
> 
> There are some rare exceptions, but once I start a book, I finish it, even
> if I'm not into it. Once I commit, I stick with it, grin.
> 
> Also, as you get older, your perspective will grow and change a bit, and
> sometimes, things you once didn't understand or have patience for, you
> suddenly find interesting. You will notice things you may not have before.
> You will be into things you once found boring or uninteresting.
> 
> But my advice is to stick with something once started.
> 
> Bridgit
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Vejas via
> stylist
> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2016 1:42 PM
> To: Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Vejas <alpineimagination at gmail.com>
> Subject: [stylist] Another Question about Books: Losing Interest
> 
> Hi,
> Continuing our discussion on books, I seem to lose interest in certain books
> very easily. For example, yesterday I said I was reading a book called Smack
> about a teenage couple who run away, start taking drugs, etc. And it was
> very interesting. That was until this really weird younger couple whom I
> didn't like at all, took the teens away, insisting on a better life for
> them, showing them to steal, etc. This couple were just weird. I looked
> ahead in the book and they are very prominent throughout the rest of the
> book, and I just could not read it anymore. I can get far, far into a book
> and something happens in a book that makes me lose interest. Is it just me?
> In this life with so many things going on and so many other books, how do
> you stick with one?
> Vejas
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