As long as you train your eye to skim over the paragraphs on the minutiae of US domestic policy, your interest will be held.
Nabokov's handwriting (in English) was small and fluid and precise; in books that he took exception to, such as a translation of "Madame Bovary" by Eleanor Marx Aveling, his correcting marginalia climbed all over the paragraphs like the tendrils of a strangler fig. Nabokov was also a professor of literature, and in his copy of the New Yorker anthology he gave every story a letter grade.
The initial Times article itself gave over four paragraphs to caveats about the reliability of the method, then moved on to enshrine value-added as the sole standard parents should embrace to determine if their child's teacher is effective.
I'd repeatedly go over the opening paragraphs of the same story, get halfway through an article and realise I'd forgotten what it was about.
Reading back over the preceding paragraphs, I realise that they run the risk of making My Ántonia sound like some grisly murder ballad; the sort of black-hearted country saga in which starving farmers eat their children and the lonesome woodcutter goes mad with the axe.
Over the following paragraphs, we discuss the clinical context and imaging findings of birth -related injuries categorized by different portions of the neonate's anatomy.
When the discussion was over, the Jets issued a four-paragraph statement that said nothing had been resolved and that talks between the two men would continue, with a definitive announcement about the team probably coming in the middle of next week.
(The sentence suggested is a good one for practice because it is a pan-gram, meaning that it's a phrase that contains all of the letters of the English alphabet).. Another way: Find a small paragraph and practice writing the paragraph over and over again.
"An hour after meeting him," she recalled, "I said, 'Look at the story.' We bonded over the lead paragraph.
At the beginning of "If on a Winter's Night a Traveller," the narrator is addressing the reader in the second person, and he tells you that you see the steam from a locomotive go over the opening paragraph of the book.
If you read a paragraph and have to start the paragraph over, consider skimming over the whole story, or flipping through the book somewhat to get a sense of the plot, the main characters, and the tone of the reading, so you'll know what to focus on as you read more closely.
