The phrase "an attempt to read" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort or endeavor to understand or interpret something, such as a text or a situation.
Example: "Despite the complexity of the document, I made an attempt to read it thoroughly before the meeting."
Alternatives: "an effort to read" or "a try to read".
Grinding abstinence — stayed in bed all day … I made an attempt to read Newsweek.
This was the year I reset my alarm in an attempt to read more, and I'm delighted that I did.
So when Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister Thatcher announced earlier this year that they were looking for a new person for the post, they received so many applications that they have already been forced to pull several all-nighters in an attempt to read through them, always with this thought at the back of their minds: What if we make a mistake?
Moreover, it does not have the ability to detect every type of threat, as a hypervisor rootkit is able to monitor and to overturn the lower level of the system in an attempt to read the memory [3].
In an attempt to read the tapes, a few Carnegie Mellon graduate students had to retrofit a Digital Equipment VAX processor with the 1980s-era operating system and software capable of translating the tapes.
Some inmates, while waiting for their allotted hour on the machine, were even seen holding up their microfilms to the light in an attempt to read them.
If you're reading this, you obviously use the internet and know what incredibly sensitive information you put out there each day in an attempt to learn, read, educate yourself and communicate with others.
The literary critic Frank Kermode, in "The Genesis of Secrecy" (1979), a pioneering attempt to read Mark seriously as poetic literature, made a similar point, though his is less historical than interpretative.
Apparently it was a mere attempt to read the future from "symptoms" in the present, much as a physician recognizes the onset of a disease.
A serious attempt to read them abruptly breaks the flow of the text, but they themselves are not, for the most part, seriously designed to illuminate.
Before addressing Objet Un, Delattre opened another box, containing pieces of two scrolls (the institute has six altogether) that had suffered a misguided attempt to read them in 1985.
