The third step to reading like a grownup is thinking through what you’ve read. This video teaches you the important questions to ask about your reading.

Resources:

Reading Resources

• “The Big Two-Hearted River” by Ernest Hemingway–This is the story we’ll be using throughout this course to practice the Read Like a Grown Up method.
• My Reading Journal Notes for “The Big Two-Hearted River”–A pdf containing all my reading notes for this story.

Evernote Resources

Looking for a digital notebook?  Be sure to check out Evernote:

• Evernote Software–Download your copy of this incredibly powerful productivity software.
• Evernote Essentials, Brett Kelly–This e-book was invaluable when I started using Evernote.  Without it, I wouldn’t have realized the full power and usefulness of Evernote for years.  It isn’t free, but I highly recommend it to ever Evernote user–especially beginners.

Further Reading

To dig deeper into the topics discussed in the video, check out these books:

• The Well-Educated Mind:  A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, Susan Wise Bauer–If you need more help analyzing your books, this is the place to start.  Bauer gives a lot of helpful and applicable questions and guidelines for analyzing different genres of books.

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