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   = On reading
   Anton Podviaznikov <anton@podviaznikov.com>
  -:revdate: 2017-12-29
  -:docdate: 2017-12-29
  +:revdate: 2018-01-17
  +:docdate: 2018-01-17
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   :document_type: writing
   :tags: "books, reading"
   
   In this post I’ll present my own relationships with reading, how it evolved over years, current challenges I’m facing with it and will think about possible solutions. Here we go.
   
  -### Reading: first years
  +## Reading: first years
   
   Before school (up to 7 years) I was a very slow reader, I struggled a lot and my mom struggled to teach me. 
   This problem continued well into the first half of the first year of school. 
  
positive.code: However, I have never read or watched Harry Potter because the first book was published in 1997 and it came few years later to Ukraine. 
  By that time I was mostly done with this genre.
  
  ### Middle school
  
  During this stage, I read most of the things we were reading for the school program but sometimes on my own schedule. 
  A lot of works I read before the program because again I had a lot of free time on my hands and some I discovered outside of school (e.x. at my parent's or grandparents' library). In this period I read mostly classics of French, Ukrainian, and Russian literature (XVIII and XIX centuries), I read also some science fiction for the first time and I read a decent amount of books about WWII, about partisans, about resistance. I read also other historian adventures about cossack, pirates etc. Occasionally I would pick up some random books like Viktor Suvorov's explanations of Soviet and world history of the XX century.
  
  The main theme during this stage was history (which I enjoyed a lot) and some adventures but by real people.
  
  ### First transition
  
  During my high school years I moved to the big city, it was the beginning of 00’s years, the country was very different. We had a lot of TV channels, radio stations, cinemas. There were a lot of things one could do after school. The environment changed dramatically. I also lost some personal interest in books. I still read most of the works for the school program, but it was rare that I would find a book that I would read with the joy for few hours per day. Basically, my taste and interests changed but I wasn’t able to find a replacement yet. School program was of no help. We read usually something I wasn’t interested that much at the moment. Topics were unappealing to me.
  
  
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  So what should I do?
  
  ## New solutions
  
  I started thinking in the last couple of days about the problem of forgetting. 
  And I think there are at least several points to be made here.
  