http://factoidz.com/experts-in/reading/ reading articles on Factoidz en-us http://factoidz.com/10-great-books-you-should-read/ http://factoidz.com/10-great-books-you-should-read/ Reading is a fundamental skill everyone has but many fail to capitalize on.  I believe it is the best form of meditation as it brings the mind to wherever the pages lead, granted it's a good book and the author is painting a good picture.  I was lucky to have teachers that encouraged me... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST reading http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/on-writing-book-reviews.jpg http://factoidz.com/i-feel-the-need%e2%80%a6the-need-to-read/ http://factoidz.com/i-feel-the-need%e2%80%a6the-need-to-read/ One of my all time favorite lines of dialog from the 1986 movie "Top Gun" is "I feel the need…The need for speed." I really love that movie because it brings back one of my childhood dreams, the dream of growing up and becoming a fighter pilot. Even as a child I knew that that was a dream that wou... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST reading http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/the-participle-verbal-adjectives-in-english.jpg http://factoidz.com/are-you-an-autodidact/ http://factoidz.com/are-you-an-autodidact/ What was that? You’re not quite sure if you want to own that or not? Forgive me, that’s my Word for the Day, as my fellow Toastmasters would say. Let me explain. In Toastmasters, we have a Word Master. At the beginning of each club meeting the Word Master picks a word, defines it and gives a few... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST reading http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/are-you-an-autodidact.jpg http://factoidz.com/on-writing-book-reviews/ http://factoidz.com/on-writing-book-reviews/ Writer are also voracious readers so whenever someone asks me what they have to do to become a successful writers or whenever someone asks me what they should write about, the first thing that I ask them is what do they like to read. I never realized until recently tha... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST reading http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/on-writing-book-reviews.jpg http://factoidz.com/on-becoming-a-lifelong-learner/ http://factoidz.com/on-becoming-a-lifelong-learner/ Being successful as a writer is concomitant with being a lifelong learner but what exactly do we mean by a lifelong learning. There are as many definitions for the term “lifelong learning” as there are practitioners of lifelong learn... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST reading http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/on-becoming-a-lifelong-learner.jpg http://factoidz.com/how-many-thesaurusi-do-you-have-on-your-reference-bookshelf/ http://factoidz.com/how-many-thesaurusi-do-you-have-on-your-reference-bookshelf/ My spell checker is actually screaming at me right now over “thesaurusi” but it’s actually a correct alternate spelling for the pluralized form of thesaurus. According to several respected authorities, both thesauruses and thesauru... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST reading http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/how-many-thesaurusi-do-you-have-on-your-reference-bookshelf.jpg http://factoidz.com/the-freelance-writers-online-bookshelf-strunk-and-whites-elements-of-style-turns-fifty-two/ http://factoidz.com/the-freelance-writers-online-bookshelf-strunk-and-whites-elements-of-style-turns-fifty-two/ There are many different “Style Books” for writers-The Chicago Style Guide, The New York Times Style Guide, the APA Style Guide, the MLM Style guide, the MHRA style book, etc. All these style books present essential information that ... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST reading http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/the-freelance-writers-online-bookshelf-strunk-and-whites-elements-of-style-turns-fifty-two.jpg http://factoidz.com/the-freelance-writers-online-bookshelf/ http://factoidz.com/the-freelance-writers-online-bookshelf/ Like every successful writer, I love to read. Some of my most prized possessions are book. I can spend hours browsing in books stores, used and new, and can never leave with just the book I went in to buy. My home office walls are lined ... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST reading http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/the-freelance-writers-online-bookshelf.jpg http://factoidz.com/the-city-of-joy-by-dominique-lapierre/ http://factoidz.com/the-city-of-joy-by-dominique-lapierre/ The City Of Joy Author: Dominique Lapierre No of Pages : 514 About the Author Dominique Lapierre is a French Author born in La Rochelle, France, studied and graduated from Lafayette College, Pennsylvania. He spent 14 years as an international reporter wi... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST reading http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/the-city-of-joy-by-dominique-lapierre.jpg http://factoidz.com/synoposis-of-freakonomics-by-steven-levitt-assume-nothing-question-everything/ http://factoidz.com/synoposis-of-freakonomics-by-steven-levitt-assume-nothing-question-everything/ About the Author(s) and the Book Steven D. Levitt is an Economics Professor at the University of Chicago.His idiosyncratic economic research into areas as varied as guns and game shows has triggered debates ..He has received the American Association's John Bates Clark Medal, awar... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST reading http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/synoposis-of-freakonomics-by-steven-levitt-assume-nothing-question-everything.jpg http://factoidz.com/a-sincere-tale-of-victimization/ http://factoidz.com/a-sincere-tale-of-victimization/ On a rather warm August evening, the walk-in refrigerator converts to a reclusive hide out, at least in the mind of Rachael. It's less than half an hour before closing time. Sh... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST reading http://factoidz.com/images/p/default-14.jpg http://factoidz.com/fairy-tales-fables-and-non-fiction-tips-on-reading-to-your-kids-at-bedtime/ http://factoidz.com/fairy-tales-fables-and-non-fiction-tips-on-reading-to-your-kids-at-bedtime/ In today's literary world with Disney characters and talking cars, fables with morals and ethics tend to take a back seat. I would like to remind parents that reading to you youngsters not only develops their reading skills but enhances their trust and security in you. By reinforcing that reading is... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST reading http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/fairy-tales-fables-and-non-fiction-tips-on-reading-to-your-kids-at-bedtime.jpg http://factoidz.com/is-your-down-time-bringing-you-down/ http://factoidz.com/is-your-down-time-bringing-you-down/ You have just spent the last half hour in a bubble bath reading your favorite book yet you still feel blue, what gives? Is your down time bringing you down? With the current woes of the nation there is no shortage of bad news so naturally we turn to our “free minute” activities to give us a lit... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST reading http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/is-your-down-time-bringing-you-down.jpg http://factoidz.com/ernest-hemingway-understanding-%e2%80%9cindian-camp%e2%80%9d-as-a-reflection-of-nick%e2%80%99s-growth/ http://factoidz.com/ernest-hemingway-understanding-%e2%80%9cindian-camp%e2%80%9d-as-a-reflection-of-nick%e2%80%99s-growth/ “Indian Camp” – Hemingway Indian Camp: a Reflection of Nick’s Growth Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST reading http://factoidz.com/images/p/default-6.jpg http://factoidz.com/effective-annotation-while-reading/ http://factoidz.com/effective-annotation-while-reading/ As a philosophy major I spent a lot of time reading… I spent less time retaining.  I quickly learnt that I spent less time reading to retain than I did when I read to get it over with.  It is a skill that must be continually practiced and over time honed. The key is to read slowly.  If you d... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST reading http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/effective-annotation-while-reading.jpg http://factoidz.com/how-to-read-and-understand-plato/ http://factoidz.com/how-to-read-and-understand-plato/ Plato and Aristotle are not dead, they live on as the basic dichotomy of philosophical positions.  Most philosophers today would agree that first and foremost any given person is either a Platonist or an Aristotelean.  For this reason it is most important to understand both philosophers. Plato ... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:29 CST reading http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/how-to-read-and-understand-plato.jpg http://factoidz.com/got-a-bored-teenager-at-home-for-the-holidays/ http://factoidz.com/got-a-bored-teenager-at-home-for-the-holidays/ Give them an adventure to follow. The "Baby Grape and Huskey" book is the first of a series that offer adventures of teens in the 1845 era. The stories are a glimpse into the past and will show them what life was like during that time in a first hand manner. Any reader that enjoys adventure will ... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:28 CST reading http://factoidz.com/images/p/default-16.jpg http://factoidz.com/best-online-sites-to-track-your-daily-horoscope/ http://factoidz.com/best-online-sites-to-track-your-daily-horoscope/ Keep in mind that when many people say "horoscope", they think of the sun signs printed in the paper. Astrology is much more complicated than lumping 1/12 of the population into their little envelopes. What a boring world that would be!!! Astrology takes into account when planets are angular at t... Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:28 CST reading http://factoidz.com/wp-content/themes/gabtheme/images/best-online-sites-to-track-your-daily-horoscope.jpg