I've been studying essential life and death 1, 2 & 3 (4 is too hard for me).
For those who don't know the books:
Its about life & death (obviously), they start with one problem and work there way through the problem in steps.
Learning key vital points by repition and technique on how to read out life and death in the process.
As such, the books are not so much raw-reading training but vital points & technique studying.
I'm not saying you don't require decent reading howhever
Now one of the good things of this book is that after the first diagram, the second diagram will have one or more moves ahead. Then the next one will potentialy have variations on resistances that white (in case you are black) can do.
Now my problem is that I tend to miss a lot of variations. I do come to the final result by reading most of the main sequences which is good.
But some of the not so obvious repsonses I tend to miss a lot.
Does anybody else experienced this and has resolved it in their reading ?
How did you do it ?
I also notice this in some of my games, I read quite deep but only to realise that my oponent does something completely unexpected which leaves me having to re-read everything. It seems as if I'm having problems with knowing what to read.
Btw: I can give practical examples if you should not understand what I mean.
Cheers,
Otenki
obviously does not work because of White's common Tesuji at 
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to safely connect - Great! (Throw-In at 'a' does not work here because it puts White in Atari.)
and after 
White is dead due Miai.