How To Read And Understand Difficult Books Ep 58

Welcome to The Read Well Podcast, a weekly show dedicated to building a strong reading habit, improving research strategies, and learning intellectual ideas from the books you love. Your passion may be the wisdom of Plato, how to cook a curry, or the complex ideas hidden in Dostoevsky’s fiction. Whatever you’re researching today, this show is about helping you master the topic. You’ll find practical advice on how to take effective book notes, develop your annotation skills, and benefit from tools like a Zettelkasten or a second brain. So grab your favorite book, and let's get started. Let’s have a chat about “difficult” books.

What are they and why should you read them? Also, let’s get into a few tips for getting the most of a challenging read. #ReadingTips #DifficultBooks #PhilosophyReading #BookLovers #IntellectualGrowth #ReadingJourney #ComplexTexts #NonFictionBooks #BookRecommendations #ReadingCommunity Send Me a Text Message with Your Questions 👋📚Take Your Reading Deeper: https://community.thereadwellpodcast.com/deep-reading-community?el=podcast Let’s have a chat about “difficult” books.

What are they and why should you read them? Also, let’s get into a few tips for getting the most of a challenging read. #ReadingTips #DifficultBooks #PhilosophyReading #BookLovers #IntellectualGrowth #ReadingJourney #ComplexTexts #NonFictionBooks #BookRecommendations #ReadingCommunity Send Me a Text Message with Your Questions 👋📚Help us open the bookstore by donating a few bucks at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/edgewaterbookstore/join-me-in-making-edgewater-bookstore-a-real-location

How to Read and Understand “Difficult” Books | EP. 58 Let’s have a chat about “difficult” books. What are they and why should you read them? Also, let’s get into a few tips for getting the most of a challenging read. #ReadingTips #DifficultBooks #PhilosophyReading #BookLovers #IntellectualGrowth #ReadingJourney #ComplexTexts #NonFictionBooks #BookRecommendations #ReadingCommunity

Send Me a Text Message with Your Questions 👋📚Take Your Reading Deeper: https://community.thereadwellpodcast.com/deep-reading-community?el=podcast When I first started reading non-fiction, I would only read books on self-help. I read obsessively, applied everything I could, and saw significant improvements in my life. But by the tenth self-help book, I hit a massive reading slump. Everything sounded the same—just repackaged ideas with different authors, titles, and covers.

Consequently, I no longer felt motivated or excited to read, and I convinced myself I had learned everything I could possibly know. One day, desperate to feel inspired again, I went to the bookstore. I browsed the self-help section first, but nothing stood out. So I kept wandering through the different sections: first psychology, then business, neuroscience, and economics. As I weaved my way through various genres, wanting to read almost every book I encountered, it hit me: I had exhausted one subject but still knew nothing about countless others. Suddenly, the slump disappeared.

I wasn’t bored or uninspired anymore. Instead, I was now overwhelmed by how much I didn’t know and all the subjects I wanted to explore. Despite wanting to take nearly every book home with me, I decided to be a responsible shopper and buy just one. I chose Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, a nearly 500-page book on behavioral economics. I had no background in the subject, but I gave it a shot anyway. It wasn’t exactly beginner-friendly — dense with research and terminology that felt complex to me at the time — but I pushed through.

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When his parents divorcedin the early 1950s, young Tobias Wolff found himself stranded in Seattle with his mother, who soon paired up with a backwoods bully named Dwight. In this legendary memoir, Wolff recounts the time he spent living with Dwight in Concrete, where he suffered abuse, fell in love with basketball, and forged his own high school transcripts in a successful... The career that resulted—Wolff won a PEN/Faulkner award for fiction and has taught at Stanford and Syracuse—arguably justifies his deceptive ploy. Besides, what a fantastic story. Every line counts and every line surprises. Karen Finneyfrock’s poetry is beautiful because it achieves this rare blend of economy and novelty.

Pick up her Ceremony for the Choking Ghost and prepare your senses for funny, piercing, and vividly imagined poems. And her performances! To watch Finneyfrock recite a poem is to be pushed endlessly off a cliff by language, and endlessly caught. In her spare time she pens funky, cool YA books like Starbird Murphy and the World Outside and The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door. With Ceremony you get closest to the flame of Finneyfrock’s talent. This book’s title may be responsible for one of the worst hair metal bands of the 1980s, but don’t hold that against Murray Morgan.

The story of our fair (read: muddy) city’s founding, Skid Road chronicles the optimism, greed, speculation, xenophobia, and venereal disease that put this supply point for Yukon prospectors on the map. The personalities enshrined in street names loom large—Yesler, Denny, Boren, and Mercer all get their moment in the spotlight—but it’s the hard-edged tales of vigilante justice, inebriation, and cathouse conflagrations that earn the book’s... Under the sordid details you can detect the beginnings of what would become the progressive city we know today, most poignantly in the friendship between the drunk, polyamorous visionary Doc Maynard and the chief... Let’s have a chat about “difficult” books. What are they and why should you read them? Also, let’s get into a few tips for getting the most of a challenging read.

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