{"id":9768,"date":"2024-12-31T15:45:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T21:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9768"},"modified":"2024-12-31T16:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T22:07:04","slug":"how-to-not-get-stuck-in-your-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9768","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO NOT GET STUCK IN YOUR READING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My approach to reading that I have been doing for decades is to read <em>simultaneously<\/em>. What I mean is that I tend to read at least six books at the same time. There are demanding and less demanding books in my stacks of six. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One advantage is that I never get stuck. I am always ready to read at least one of them. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I have also found that the conversation across books, even on very different subjects, brings another S: <em>serendipities<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a typical current stack by my reading chair. Three of these (Dante&#8217;s <em>Inferno<\/em>, Stott&#8217;s <em>Cross of Christ <\/em>(first half),\u00a0and Bunyan&#8217;s masterpiece are rereads.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?attachment_id=9770\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9770\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9770\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_3284-1-e1735682370509-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_3284-1-e1735682370509-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_3284-1-e1735682370509-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_3284-1-e1735682370509-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_3284-1-e1735682370509-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_3284-1-e1735682370509-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My approach to reading that I have been doing for decades is to read simultaneously. What I mean is that I tend to read at least six books at the same time. There are demanding and less demanding books in my stacks of six. One advantage is that I never get stuck. I am always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9768"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9774,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions\/9774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}