The readers who feel no need for speed

'Tis the season when many readers begin eyeing their yearly total of books consumed.

The Guardian's Susie Mesure is among them ... but she's ready to make a slight change.

The self-described "archetypal impatient reader" recently found herself intrigued by the advice of author and professor Yiyun Li.

Li often tells her creative writing students that there's power in reading slowly — and she walks that talk, taking up three weeks to finish a novel.

Head to the Guardian to see how Mesure put this slow-reading principle into practice and what she feels she gained from it. 

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