Wow! Where do I start? First off, I read aloud between 120 and 150 wmp. 250 would be ridiculously fast.
Second, I read aloud to my wife. It is our way of sharing a book. She does not read to me aloud because of lack of style. We don't read independently to discuss -- she does read to...
I'm not sure I did either. My pronunciations do not always match the Audio Book professionals. Still, I came up with something that resembled the name on the page.
Wow! You jumped right in! Welcome aboard.
I know what you mean about the pronunciations. The readers aren't even consistent with themselves.
I find I need an audience to read outloud. BUT, you do pick up more when reading to someone. For me, it was more like reading WITH someone...
Thank you for your kind comments.
I have read several of Sanderson's other work, starting with the whole Mistborn series. My wife is now reading those at bedtime. We usually have three books each going: One for ourselves at bedtime, one we share outloud, and something lighter.
After...
March 2018 I started reading The Wheel of Time series out loud to my wife. Since then I joined Tar Valon, went through the class. And have availed myself of the library quite a bit. We finished the final Epilogue yesterday.
The series is epic. I started reading the series in 2007. My wife had...
I am re-reading the series and have just finished reading outloud my third book. I started with A New Spring, Eye of the World and now Great Hunt. I am reading these out-loud to my wife, a chapter a day. Originally I read them when she had brain surgery a decade ago.
I pick up so much more...
Voice and piano gives you an edge over us low brass players! I do have an electric set of pipes I can play with headphones. When I got my full set of Great Highland Pipes the neighbor asked my wife how she could stand it. Her husband had just bought a motorcycle, so my wife snarked back, "At...
After the last Harry Potter book came out in 2007, I asked a friend who is also a librarian for suggestions. She said that Wheel of Time was very popular. About that time my wife had major surgery and I was housebound for months, so I sat around reading them continuously. She is well now and...
I am just south of St. Louis. Languages are my weak suit, but I found I can do them and it is helpful for travel! Chinese is hard because it's like learning two languages at once. The Pinyin spellings help, but the logograms seem unrelated.