#late reading

[stefito0o]

Last night I stayed till 3am to finish Elif Shafak's Honor. I haven't done it in a while and it felt SO GOOD!

[stefito0o]

Me: I'll finish this chapter and I'm going to sleep.

My fiance: Read if you want.

Me: But I'll regret it in the morning...

My fiance: Read.

Me: Well, just one more chapter.

[allyreader]

I started reading looking for Alaska at 12:10 and finished at 3:46.either this book was to short or I have a major problem.

[crazywriting]

After postponing it for years, I've final finished reading Dracula by Bram Stoker

That book is eternal! Like seriously, it took me three hours to read from chapter 24 to the 27 (which is the last one)… And of course I laughed my ass off when I read “because Godalming and Seward are both happily married” thinking they were married to each other…

[crazywriting]

Stayed up all night reading the sixth book of a series I haven't read and now I hate the world and need the other books!

[edgeoftoniight]

One of my favorites

[theglasssamurai]

Have you ever read a book at 2:33 in the a.m? 

Have you ever read a book this late (or early, depending on how full or empty you see the glass) after not having slept for quite a while?

Everything is already dreamy enough as it is; it is the hour stories, that could not possibly be real, come to life. 

It's an incredibly experience, and I often find myself remembering the story as a dream when I wake. 

[softbode-blog-blog]

I'm late! I'm late! For a Very Important Date!

This whole idea of "Late Reading" has surfaced in my sphere of consciousness quite a bit lately and I feel the need to talk about it.  "Late" readers.  Who decides what qualifies as an on time reader?  How do we know for SURE that age five is the absolutely perfect time for people to begin learning to read?  That any time after that is Late?

Well -- we don't!  Have a gander at this article in which we learn about some interesting findings by researchers in New Zealand.  As sited in the article, Waldorf schools do not teach their learners how to read until they are age seven.  SEVEN!  Gasp! Surely, those children are TERRIBLE readers who are completely illiterate as adults.

Surely, my friends, they are not.  [And don't call me Surely.] 

As a matter of fact, people learn to read without anyone ever telling them how - get this - all the time.  But-but-but - children have be <i>taught</i> the things they need to know, especially reading.  I promise you, they can, and they do teach themselves to decipher the code of written language.

We have all been fooled into thinking that the earlier a person learns to read, the more chance at success they will have as adults.  Not only is this not true, it tends yield opposite results in terms of reading success.  That is, when reading success is defined as a person loves to read and does so for their own pleasure and acquisition of new information.

Some children teach themselves to read as early (or "early") as three years old, others as "late" as 11 (and beyond).

The point of this is that we must move away from the paradigm of learning timetables.  For reading or anything.  And for everything!

We have created these arbitrary timetables based on... what? Really: what?  Whom? 

As a result of this blind-leading-the-blind fallacy, these poor unfortunate souls are tortured tracked, labeled, teased, pressured, robbed of their burgeoning self-esteem because they don't fit into this cookie cutter learning mold we try to squeeze them through. 

I submit that this is:

...or The Wrong Way, depending on how you look at it.

I further submit that whenever a person learns to read at her own direction and choosing (though not necessarily alone, the learner is free to ask for help!) she is ON TIME for the tea party.

 Haven't you ever noticed that the tea pot never runs out?