Just started reading How to Reassess your Chess

I hope that this will help me to improve.  Tired of blundering too much.  

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I doubt that the book will teach you to not blunder. It starts out assuming that you no longer blunder pieces. I'd suggest putting it back on the shelf and looking for more basic material. Just my two cents.

Added info - Heisman classifies HTRYC as an advanced book on his book list:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151016142308/https://home.comcast.net/~danheisman/Events_Books/General_Book_Guide.htm

"... Jeremy Silman's How to Reassess Your Chess is an example of a good book which explains many important ideas in clear terms. ..." - GM John Nunn (2006)

It's def an advanced book. If you're not 1800+, you'll be struggling with the tactical refutations of his positional lines that come up often in his analysis.

Dan Heisman's books are definitely more appropriate for the OP and players <1600. All those guys like Pachman, kotov, Yusupov, are so strong that they can't even relate to the terrible level of play that weaker class players do. I have Yusupov's "boost your chess" book #1, and even though it's the most introductory of book of the sets, I'd say the tactics problems in that book are at a minimum 1500, and on average 1700+ (which means too hard for me to get right without cheating on most of them.)

Dan Heisman, while nowhere as strong as those GM monsters, actually does relate to weak club level play, and gives good advice and examples of how to avoid the common club level mistakes that those GM monsters never even bother addressing since they're so talented they never even played at that lowly a level. 

I'm studying Dvoretsky's endgame manual right now in pretty good depth just because I enjoy looking at endgames, but I'll say straight up that the (few) examples I ran into of endgames in Dan Heisman's amateur game book, were much, much more relevant and useful and impactful than the examples I'm going through in Dvoretsky thus far, simply because the endgames I reach aren't balanced affairs reached by GM vs GM, but horribly unbalanced messy positions that you still need to know how to finish even if you're technically winning.

"... while writing in a lively style, [Silman] finds typical and therefore instructive examples. A reader who is given something to focus on in a position, and is directed to its interesting features and challenges, will inevitably absorb a great deal of the kind of knowledge Hendriks himself values, namely pattern recognition and familiarity with the moves that 'go' with a position. ..." - IM John Watson (2013)

IMO this will not be a useful book for you at this time, and wont help your blunder rate.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140626180930/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman06.pdf

(mentions Pachman, Kotov, Dvoretsky, and Yusupov, by the way)

If you're going to criticize someone, it's better not to exaggerate. On the list I linked to, I count 5 of his 11 books. That's a good number, but not quite all of them. (And I would argue that they're good books.)

Also, I guess you missed this note:

"Special note: The most advanced training books are the Dvoretsky series, the Yusupov series, and now Aagaard's Grandmaster Preparation series. These are all recommended for players rated 1900 looking for very serious advanced study."

While not on his list, Heisman has recommended Pachman's "Modern Chess Strategy" in two of his Novice Nooks titled "Chess Books and Prerequisites" and "An Improvement Plan".

If you want to call me ignorant, that's your right. However, I would also claim that you're being disingenuous.

And he mentions them for more developed players. 

Those books are great - but not for beginners like the OP. 

Same with Reassess your chess. It's a perfectly good book - but not for a sub 1200 level player.  (And not even for me, a 1500-1600 level player)

I get the impression that Heisman himself was thinking similarly.

You don't have any chess to reassess.

Yes, that's the obvious takeaway there.

I'm reading Dvoretsky.

It would be TERRIBLE advice to have the OP read Dvoretsky. Wayyy to advanced. 

It's advanced enough that I'm getting no practical value out of it at my lowly level of play. I'm only studying it because I enjoy it.

There is DEFINITELY a role for appropriate leveled instructional material. If there werent', we'd tell kids across america to learn math and engineering to go straight to the highest-level college textbooks and try and 'absorb' knowledge from that method.

Good luck with that. 

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that a large reason why folks who complain that they read chess books seriously but don't improve, is because they're reading books that aren't addressing the key mistakes that have them stuck in their rut. Which for a sub 1200 level player, is NOT because they're missing out on multicombo Silman-style N vs B superiority. 

The OP could spend 6 entire months studying Silman, and unless he addresses the fundamental errors in his basic tactics and VERY basic positional play (which he most certainly is doing if he's 1000 rated), he won't improve at all despite all that time looking at Silman. If you can't do basic addition and subtraction, you can't do calculus until you get basic addition and subtraction right, even if you study calculus for months. Has nothing to do with laziness, and everything to do with inappropriately leveled material.

Anyone can read Pachman.  That doesn't mean it's appropriate.  You wouldn't give Pachman to someone who just learned the moves.

I suggest you read Winning Chess Strategy by Seirawan. That is appropriate for your level.

Your argument that any chess book is appropriate for any level can be easily debunked. Give a beginner an advance chess puzzle book and he will scratch his head.Because even after 1 hour of trying, he can't find the solution. I see many beginner saying that Chess Tactics for Champion is hard for them. But Chess Tactics for Champion is an easy book for good player. If Chess Tactics for Champion is hard for a beginner, what more with more difficult advance puzzle books.

Give a beginner the book Fire on Board by Shirov. He will also scratch his head with that book.

That book teaches you how to create a proper plan based on the imbalances on the board, such as space, development, material, and so on.

It doesn't matter if you're a -1000 rated player or a sub-1800, this book is made so you never have to think something rubbish like ''I have no idea what is going on here.'' or ''I have nothing else to do! i'll just move this pawn forward and see what my opponent does.''

I'm currently reading this book, its helping me a lot, so i recommend it.

Just dont expect any wide endgame/opening/tactics based knowledge in this book.