brown girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
日本語
僕の洋書を読むスピードは頭が勝手に切り替えてしまいます。読むのが速い順に：
1. ノンフィクション
2. 大人向け小説
3. YA小説
4. 子供向け
5. 詩
6. 漫画
です。
同じ小説というカテゴリーでも本によってスピードは大きく変わるのですが、描写が少なくなると頭で想像する量が増えるためか、文字が少なくなればなるほど読むスピードは落ちてきます。
昨年からですが、頭の中で声を出さなくても小説も読めるようになりました。
文字から勝手ににょきにょきっとイメージが出てくるようになったためで、声を出さなくても楽しめるようになりました。
『brown girl dreaming』という本を昨日読みました。
文字、本、読書、書くことの楽しみを思い出させてくれます。
小さい頃、何故か同じ本（漫画です）を何度も何度も繰り返して読んでいた記憶があります。
お気に入りのシーンがあってそれを声に出したりして、それがとにかく楽しかったんです。
あの頃みたいな読書をしてみたいな、という気持ちにさせてくれました。
大切な一冊となりました。
English
My general reading speed varies according to books (in order of fastest to slowest):
1. Nonfiction
2. Novel (for adults)
3. Novel (YA)
4. Books for kids
5. Poem
6. Comics
Furthermore, among the novels the reading speed changes depending on the difficulty, genre, types of the story, and, date of publication.
I can read without subvocalization (producing voice in your head while you read), so nonfiction is the easiest to read faster because you don't have to imagine the story and characters, unlike fiction books. You can focus on picking up the information from the book.
But last year I became able to read fiction books without subvocalization as well.
As I read a book, images appear from each word as if verdant stems grow from words.
This occurs even when I don't read a loud in my head, helping my read without dropping the reading speed.
But when it comes to easier books (children books) and poems, my reading speed usually drops (significantly for poems).
This is because there are less descriptions in children books; I have to spend much energy and time to imagine the scenes, which is the fun part of reading books though.
I yeasterday finshed reading "brown girl dreaming" written by Jacqueline Woodson.
This is a story of childhood of the author.
She is mesmerized by letters, books, poems, and writing.
she teaches me how to devour
the word
and its taste
and its sound
and its feeling,
by taking much time.
the faster the better?
the slower the better?
as you like.
