I’m bad at reading- recommendations?
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I’m bad at reading- recommendations?
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The thing is to keep one step at the time. Also have a daily goal not hard to fulfill, you need to build the habit of reading and keeping concentration. Something simple like 5 pages a day minimum is enough in the beginning when you move to serious books. Good luck.
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Alternatively, if you like child narrators writing about non-childish things, you might like to try The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon - the narrator is an autistic boy.
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I also suggest trying comic books or graphic novels. The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is one of my favorites. There's also graphic novel versions of classic literature. I have a graphic novel version of Fahrenheit 451 that is incredible! I haven't read this yet, but there's a comic book called Here There Be Gerblins based on the My Brother My Brother and Me podcast series, The Adventure Zone, where they did DnD with their dad.
Another recommendation I have is to find books that might interest you based on movies or shows you enjoy. For instance, The Umbrella Academy on Netflix was an amazing show to binge-watch, that also happens to be based on a comic book series by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance. He also has another comic book series called The Killjoys, which are referenced in at least two of his music videos.