READONOMICS

Currently, I am reading a non-fiction book titled "Freakonomics", by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner. I was never much of an avid reader growing up, it was almost immutable. Since being in Year Up, I decided to give reading a try again. The introduction of the book caught half of my attention, and if this were a reading in high school, I would have stopped for sure. But, I decided to keep on reading anyway. It turns out the book started to get more and more interesting to the point where I went beyond the required reading for the week. 


A strategy that I have found helpful for me is to just keep reading, and to not judge a book by the first chapter. At the same time, it helps to keep an open mind while reading, ask questions, or do any type of interaction with the book. I found that by asking questions or even wonder what will happen next helps a lot that will want me to continue reading. Also, by allowing yourself for at least twenty minutes a day to read will not hurt, and if you are commuting every morning you should use that time to read which has also helped me since I do not do anything on public transportation. 

By Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

To get a better understand of a book, I suggest reading the chapter twice. First, read it without annotating, but keep in mind the questions to keep that interaction alive. When you are reading the chapter the second time around, this is where you should be annotating. Again, this is a form of interaction with the book. I also find that when I am done reading a page, I sometimes do not get what I just read; I found that reading that page over again or even the page before helps a lot. 


I always found a problem with me committing to reading any book. As I mentioned earlier, that when I ride public transportation I am not doing anything but be on my phone. My commute usually takes about twenty minutes every day, and since I arrive early to Year Up everyday I usually continue my reading there until the day begins. When I started reading the first chapter, I got more and more hooked into the book because i can easily relate to some of the topics and most of them are just really interesting to read about.