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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. 
  
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  I’m not sure I realized these parallels reading Hemingway and Remarque back then, but it probably doesn’t matter. I was magnetized by these books anyway.
  
  ### Second transition
  
  Around 2010 several things happened. First, I've read enough of Hemingway and Remarque and I didn't know what to read next. Second, I left Ukraine and my access to physical books in Ukrainian and Russian languages was limited. At that time I was reading technical books in English but I have never read a full fiction book in my non-native language. 
  Next few years were periods of struggle with both finding books I would want to read and starting reading books in English. 
  
negative.code: Mix and match books, read a fiction book and then non-fiction, change topics etc. 
  It happened to me at least once during the year one book reminded me so much of the previous one that I just stopped reading it (however I plan to come back to it later).
  
  ## New problems
  
  This year is already one of the best in terms of reading for me personally. I don't think I've read that much since middle school. However 10 months after starting reading again I noticed several new problems.
  
  