Day Backwards Post Blog a Write Not Is This
So I won't be doing that for the rest of this article. But consider it I did.
Reading a book backwards requires several things.
- You need a book, preferably one you haven't read before.
- You have to be someone who doesn't care about discovering whodunit (or the equivalent in a non-mystery) way too soon.
- You need the ability to "translate" what you're "reading" into proper English (or whatever language the book is in - and I'm not going to tackle Hebrew here).
You only have to do this for one day to celebrate January 9 properly, so if you choose a longer book (and you're not a speed reader), you probably can start reading it normally tomorrow. But you can continue reading back to front until you're done if you find you like what you've started.
It might actually be best to pick a children's book though - say, a Dr. Seuss book. You could finish one of those in a relatively short period of time, and it still might make sense without "translating" it. Maybe you could try reading it aloud to a child just for fun.
I think the organizers of International Read a Book Backwards Day may have had a couple of purposes in mind.
This process definitely makes you think in a new way. You might even call it a creative way. If that improves you brain activity, that's a good thing.
Celebrating this day makes you actually pick up a book and start "reading" it. I guess electronic books qualify here too. I didn't notice anything in the "rules" that would exclude them. Actually, this special day may have started before they were invented.
If you choose to (try to) celebrate this special day, let Da Unyun know how far into the end of your book you get - a few sentences, paragraphs, pages, chapters - or the whole book.