A Lifelong Reading Method: Enjoy Every Moment of Reading
Everything about extended reading: choosing, reading, writing, and leaving behind what you need.

They say reading books is a hip hobby.
Reading is no longer a quiet hobby; it's becoming a trendy way of self-expression.
But what is the reality?
There are many cases where people just buy a book, upload it, take a picture of it, and that's it.
I bought it because the cover was pretty and the title was appealing, but it was difficult to actually turn the pages.

Author Kim Seon-yeong, who has been responsible for the reading and writing of 100,000 readers through books such as “Adult Sentence Power” and “Adult Literacy,” proposes that we start the fundamental reading method from scratch through her new work “Lifelong Reading Method Starting Again.”
To help those who have grown distant from books reconnect with them, the bestselling author and long-time reader has generously poured out his expertise.
That's why the name is 'Lifelong Reading Method'.

《Lifelong Reading Method: Starting Over》rebuilds the basics of reading.
Just as a hastily built house under pressure will leak and cracks will appear in the walls after just a year, there is a reason for reading to fail.
If you're going to read for the rest of your life, you need to be meticulous from the very beginning when choosing a book.
This book is a 'reading manual' for those who still feel lost even after reading numerous reading method books, and is also a reading essay by a writer with 19 years of experience.
---From the "Prologue"

By the way, I first came across the book I was deeply impressed by, “Reflections from Prison,” while reading a book by author Yoo Si-min.
After reading the book, I wanted to learn about Mr. Shin Young-bok's solidarity and humility, so I naturally became curious about his life. I also read books like "Biography of Shin Young-bok," "Together Forest," and "Discourse" one after another with great interest.
The same goes for literature.
I first learned about author Eunyoung Choi through “Shoko’s Smile” through a friend’s recommendation, and was so captivated that I continued reading “Bright Night” and “Even with a Very Dim Light.”
Now I'm a fan who buys and reads every book he publishes.
---From "There is more than one recommended book"

As I value practicality, I excluded organizing by color and size.
Organizing books by purchase date was appealing because it allowed me to understand a person's internal changes and growth process through books, but it was practically impossible because I couldn't remember when I bought each book.

In the end, we chose a method that mixed fields and authors.
Literature is divided into novels and poetry, and also into humanities, social sciences/sciences, philosophy, and art.
After that, if there were many books by one author, they were collected together.
I made a separate section for books that I received as gifts because they didn't match my taste.
Finally, I created a corner at the very top called 'Books of Life' and filled it with books that had a great influence on my life.
Organizing it this way made it easy for me to find specific books when I wanted them, and it also made it intuitively clear what areas of knowledge I was lacking.
---From "How to Decorate Your Own Small Study"

Pairing is also valid for reading.
On days when writing feels particularly difficult, I take out Yozoh's "Anyway, Tteokbokki" from my bookshelf and read it.
No matter when I read it, the sentences are easy to read and full of wit, giving me a new realization that 'yes, writing is this fun.'
The problem is that your appetite also increases.
Before I knew it, I had opened the delivery app and was choosing tteokbokki.
Yozoh, a musician and famous tteokbokki lover, said that the best compliment he could give after reading his book was eating tteokbokki. I wonder if I was the only one who praised his book.
After reading "Anyway, Tteokbokki," I felt proud that I had properly done my post-reading activities while eating chewy and spicy tteokbokki.
Indirect experience has expanded into direct experience.
---From "Reading books in pairs doubles the effect"

Hwang Sok-yong's "Three Generations of Railwaymen," which thrilled many readers by being a finalist for the Booker Prize, is a story about a family that has worked on the railway for three generations, as the title suggests, so it was especially necessary to sort out the relationships.
Moreover, the main characters, Lee Il-cheol and Lee Yi-cheol, even have similar names.
Additionally, the main female characters have something in common: the ability to see dead people, and those who appear as Jin-oh Lee's friends are also called by nicknames, which was confusing.
In the end, I created a character relationship chart using the digital mind map program 'Almind' and printed it out on paper.
As I was making the relationship chart, I became familiar with the characters and checked them several times when I was confused, and from the middle part onwards, I was able to understand them without even looking at them.

I thought there might be many people who are confused about the relationships between characters like me, so I posted a relationship chart on my blog. It seems like my prediction was right, as I see that many readers are still coming to the blog by searching for 'relationships between the three major railroad workers'.
I was also proud that I had been able to help others in their reading even a little.

---From "Reading Picture Books While Drawing by Hand"