Why you should savour over skim: The art of slow reading for BREATHE MAGAZINE

I have always given myself a bit of a hard time about the glacial pace at which I read novels, green with envy that some people seem to have devoured a heap of books while I’m still reading the blurb. Where some ‘skim’, I make a meal of it.

But when I stop to think about it, it’s pretty obvious why it takes me an age. I sometimes read aloud. I’m quite often so wide-eyed that I reread whole sections. I scribble a cross here and there in the margin. I pause to go down research rabbit holes.

Which all made me wonder if slow reading was such a bad thing after all. I attempted a reframe in the current issue of Breathe Magazine and here are some excerpts.