Sentences with phrase «read fiction i read»

2: Read Fiction I read fiction for 30 minutes prior to beddy bye to stoke my already vivid imagination.

Not exact matches

Opinions vary on what's the best brain - boosting reading material, with suggestions ranging from developing a daily newspaper habit to picking up a variety of fiction and nonfiction, but everyone seems to agree that quantity is important.

Barack Obama claims reading fiction made him a better citizen.

My attitude is probably rooted in some deep paranoia cultivated after reading too much dystopian fiction in my youth.

You can best understand the importance of style by reading fiction and studying what makes a great story.

Over the course of two years I read 197 books on different topics ranging from business to physics, from nonfiction to fiction and made every second of my days productive.

It changes all the time, but I try to read fiction.

From what I have read, this is not a good defense, even for a science fiction movie.

Several years ago they published a study in the influential journal Science that showed reading literary fiction was linked with an improved ability to better read fine emotional cues on people's faces.

«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

President Obama's summer reading list is full of literary fiction.

And wouldn't knowledge of a range of words for different emotions naturally correlate with reading more nuanced fiction?

Perhaps because they've intuited a reality that scientists are just now beginning to conclusively document — reading great fiction has a unique ability to improve our emotional intelligence.

Reading a bunch of books and articles, anything from fiction novels to autobiographies to classic literature, has really helped to fuel my creative reservoir.

That alone is a pretty good reason to pick up a page turner, but it's not all the reading fiction can do for you, according to science.

Neither is geologist Liz Hajek, but she makes an exception for this book: «I don't generally gravitate toward fiction, but this collection of short stories, set in a variety of compelling places and time periods, is so creative and rich, it's been really fun to read.»

Here they are in brief, but check out the post for lots more details as well as testimony from bosses who swear by the benefits of reading fiction:

Reading fiction, in other words, has made him a better, more engaged person.

The Facebook founder's reading list ranges from the sciences to global politics and economy, with one stop for science fiction.

According to research conducted at the University of Toronto, study participants who read short - story fiction experienced far less need for «cognitive closure» compared with counterparts who read nonfiction essays.

A fiction lover wants to read more than one New York Times bestseller.

When it comes to reading, I try to alternate between tucking into business books and fiction throughout the year.

I became obsessed with radical science, the future of technology, the future of biotech... I was reading very interesting scientists and authors that were speaking about ideas of singularity, and life extension, and science fiction.

In August, I wrote that those stories you were reading about the US presidential election being close were fiction.

He likes reading and writing kung fu fiction, playing poker, meditating, and practicing tai chi.

It is the most incredible fiction novel I've ever read.

Researchers at the New School for Social Research in New York have determined that reading literary fiction — books that have literary merit and don't fit into a genre — enhances what scientists call «Theory of Mind (ToM), or an ability to understand the mental states of others.

Blog Farnam Street recently did readers a favor by compiling several billionaires» favorite fiction reads into one long list.

Hey Caitlin, I know it's been over a year since you posted, but I too love reading and disagree with Financial Samurai — personal finance is the most interesting non fiction literature in the world!!

When she isn't actively momming or blogging, she can usually be found reading, writing, or watching speculative fiction.

Although it seems like fiction, it's actually the best - known version of digital... Read more»

The best stock market fiction that I have read in my whole life.

I read fiction that has stood the test of time; history and historical biographies; books on science; books on art.

His last novel, Seveneves, a science fiction epic that begins with the destruction of the moon, was on then - U.S. president Barack Obama's reading list last summer.

You must abstain from dancing, sports, meat, spi.ces, alcohol, dairy, baking soda, movies, reading fiction, board games, picnics, circuses etc. ad nauseum.

Have the haters and naysayers here never read any fiction?

If you spent more time reading your Bible instead of watching that abominable science fiction, your life would be more joyous and uplifting.

First, both books are some of the best fiction I have read.

I havent read the odyssey so I cant personally make a case that it was written as fiction, I'm relying on the hundreds of critical examinations of it that state it is fiction with some historical facts thrown in.

I just read about their history and can't believe anyone would fall for that crap... In fact if you took away the Racism, Child Molestation, Treason, Blasphemy, Archeological Fiction... It was just be Christanity LOL

Having been raised catholic, I can tell you that there's a cycle of good stories they rotate through every 4 years, leaving out some of the beautiful goodies that would make you think you were reading some kind of bible fan fiction (for bible fan fiction, look up the apocrypha).

That is the same as getting a degree for reading fiction.

She said that Jesus doesn't want people to dance, drink alcohol, smoke, play sports, watch movies, read fiction, eat meat, use spi / ces in their cooking, play board games or anything like that.

I read history books, science fiction, even gothic novels.

So here are my 5 favourite fiction reads and my 5 favourite non-fiction reads of the year — so difficult to narrow it down!

Authors often use an avatar in their fiction stories — it is not Jack that climbs the beanstalk, it is the author... and many times, it is the reader that years later «lives» the story as they read it.

His seven novels, compulsive reading for their adepts, fail all the normal tests by which one would judge the merits of a work of fiction.

When I started reading fiction years ago, I didn't do so because I was seeking anything, except, perhaps, the thrill of saying I'd finished The Brothers Karamazov.

By now, everyone who reads contemporary fiction will have heard of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel's acclaimed historical novels about Thomas Cromwell, the powerful advisor to Henry VIII who all but single - handedly disestablished the Catholic Church in England.

And that is, on the surface, the one qualification for reading fiction.