Distance: 2.5 miles, Yoga
Maybe Ciwt mentioned that she's slowly getting the knack of reading more than one book at a time.
That is, reading a few chapters/pages/whatever of one book, then going on to another.
Here's an unexpected something she has realized by adopting this system: the author's thoughts sink in more deeply. It seems to her many authors tend to group concepts and at the end of a paragraph, section or chapter, they have often laid out a point they are trying to make. It could be an aspect of a character, portrait of an historical personage, a philosophical idea, an important plot development. Whatever it is, the author is organized around it for a certain passage of paragraphs, pages, chapters.
In 'regular,' start to finish reading Ciwt would go from one of these passages to the other. One after the other taking in the concepts but also eagerly moving ahead to what was next. In the new, more focused, multi-book type of read, Ciwt notices that she spends more mental time with what the author has been saying for the pages she's read.
Subtle, but interesting she thinks.
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