I wanna read this...

That actually makes a lot of sense. According to my VARK learning preferences test, my results are high for visual learning. One of the reasons why I enjoy reading is because I visualize the events and characters in my mind's eye. In fact, I've disliked many book-to-movie adaptations because the actors didn't match my mental image of the characters. Does that make sense?

I'm thinking of using this tip to transform academic texts into characters to make them more engaging. Did you find this approach required more effort or did it actually make learning easier and more enjoyable?

I'm really hoping this approach will work for me because I'm starting to doubt whether I can succeed. The current education models don't support my preferred learning style at all, as they seem to be geared towards aural and read/write learners. It feels like these models are not designed for people like me who have a different way of processing and retaining information.

Look for The Planiverse. I was very happy to see it ask what it would mean for flatlanders to have biology and gravity and all that.

Reading the books doesn't resolve one from the fact that they have to practice and put what they read into action... otherwise it's useless... You're disagreeing with something I didn't say!

Omg yess his death made me cry so much. Too many people died in the end. And I feel like none of them were ever truly happy.

Flatland is really a satire about British social structure and the difficulty of imagining alternatives though…

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Oh no. How much of a doozy is that one?

Thank you. I was hoping it wasn't going to be a toss the book across the room ending. Because im invested. Its too late to stop now. Even though the whole time I'm reading, I'm just wide eyed saying, "Nooo."

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My VARK learning preferences test results show low scores for aural and read/write, but high scores for visual and kinesthetic. The reason I enjoy reading novels is that I can vividly visualize and create entire worlds in my mind's eye. However, I find it challenging to do the same with academic texts, which are often dry and technical. I'm not sure how to apply my preferred learning styles to make academic material more engaging.

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This. Sometimes engagement and interaction with other humans is needed, or even just desired.

Insomnia

Ayyyyyy 😎

Ooof I strongly disagree with this. I love books but I have lost count of the number of times I have see a request for a book recommendation and thought, there's no book for that. Sometimes you have to do the thing, fail and do the thing again. Sometimes you need to talk to real human beings. Sometimes you need to talk to a doctor.

The ending is realistic and hopeful but not a hugely satisfying one. But it’s very in line with the character. It’s such a good book and one of my best reads from last year. Reading was like watching a train crash. As an adult I saw all the red flags so early on but could completely understand how an isolated teenager would miss it and fall prey to a predator.

Absolutely heartbreaking to watch and read reviews of people saying that they didn’t realize they too had gone through a similar experience and didn’t understand that what happened was bad until reading the book.

This will never not seem like fan fiction to me. Such a lazy way to write.

I returned at 30, so I feel your pain! (40s now). I Found it helpful to read it out loud and immediately make it into an outline that told the story of the text-my major was science, so I would treat organic chem mechanisms like they were cartoons I had to memorize. I made it work for me, in a way that made sense to only me haha.

I've only read the book once so my thoughts on this may be more from the movie version, but I got the feeling that no one else thought he was hideous except him. Like to everyone else he was a normal dude with a little bit of a lisp and it was his own trauma that made him zero in on whatever "flaws" he had as a way to make himself feel like a piece of shit.

Another vote for not beg able to follow an audiobook! I don't have nearly the capacity for retaining what I hear over what I read. We'll run them for long car trips, but otherwise, I just don't.

I didn't like it. The writing was lacking, Harry was the only nice character for me. And the twist was meh. Sometimes I felt like I was reading a Wattpad novel.

I mean we say that Evelyn is unrealistic but... Elizabeth Taylor is real. So is Marilyn Monroe. Britney Spears. Even Kim Kardashian.

If we were to fictionalize any of those lives it would feel insane.

I read it after having read Daisy Jones and the Six, which I had liked way more, and I remember reading it super fast, but then feeling disappointed. I had listened to the audiobook of Daisy Jones, and then read the French translation of Evelyn Hugo as a physical copy, so maybe the format/translation didn't work as well for me this time.

I just felt like I wasn't as smitten by the characters, didn't feel them or relate to them as much as human beings, as I was hoping to.