Reading Fiction
Feb. 14th, 2005 07:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neongraalI've just had a thought or possibly an epiphany (only a little one :))
I've always said I am someone who learns by doing, that learning from books just didn't, err, sink in. But thinking back to Uni, this wasn't entirely true.
In the weekend I bought the book my doctor reccomended I read. It's a help book, "The Feeling Good Handbook". But I find myself reluctant to read it.
And the thought I had is this, "The majority of the books I read are fiction, escapist fiction generally. So what if I've *learned*, at a deep level, that what I read in books is always fiction, always fantasy, should always be treated as an enjoyable story."
Two followup thoughts immediately came to mind:
1) This could explain to some degree my, err, uncomfortableness with online conversation especially as a dating aid. I'm reading aren't I.
2) This might have to be something I work though before I can get any help from this book.
Of course I could be right off base. Thoughts please.
I've always said I am someone who learns by doing, that learning from books just didn't, err, sink in. But thinking back to Uni, this wasn't entirely true.
In the weekend I bought the book my doctor reccomended I read. It's a help book, "The Feeling Good Handbook". But I find myself reluctant to read it.
And the thought I had is this, "The majority of the books I read are fiction, escapist fiction generally. So what if I've *learned*, at a deep level, that what I read in books is always fiction, always fantasy, should always be treated as an enjoyable story."
Two followup thoughts immediately came to mind:
1) This could explain to some degree my, err, uncomfortableness with online conversation especially as a dating aid. I'm reading aren't I.
2) This might have to be something I work though before I can get any help from this book.
Of course I could be right off base. Thoughts please.