Lately I’ve been reading a lot of books. It’s sort of becoming a habit. And I think that’s a good thing. I find myself often lying on my bed kicked back with a book in hand, eyes tracing over the words. Even with the kids often grabbing my attention, my brain seems to be on book-lock mode, like a homing missile lasered in on its target. Coffee helps.
After a long Spring and Summer of both slogging and racing through all 7 Harry Potter books for the first time, my reading material has been eclectic. I’ve consumed fiction and non-fiction. And I’ve enjoyed diverse topics: dystopia, control, anxiety, racism, poverty, religion, and depression, to name a few big ones. Now that I think about it, wow, that’s kinda heavy stuff.
You can see on goodreads what I’ve read this year so far. I set a feasible goal of one book per month, which I’ve already beat!
There are many avid readers out there who eat up books faster and easier than I eat up my favorite snack: chips-n-salsa. If you know I eat that about every other night, that’s saying a lot. But for me, my reading habits these days far exceed my lack of long-form literature in the past. I once read about zero books a year for the first few decades of my life. So the bar was pretty low!
Earlier this year I wrote how I felt about reading in general. Basically, I discovered the magic of reading books. And I’m happy to say that my love of reading has only grown stronger over the last few months!
It helps a lot that I got an Amazon gift card for my birthday in October just so I could buy a bunch of kindle books and get some good reading on. (I love my kindle.)
Anyways, this post is not parading how awesome I am when it comes to reading. I’m not awesome! This post is about how awesome reading is when it comes to books.
Now if I can just pass along the habit and joy of reading to my 5 sons, then things will be looking really good. I am trying to wean them off of screens (unless they’re e-Readers) and onto books! So guess what my ideas are for my sons’ Christmas gifts this year?
Books! Lots of books.
What about you? Do you love to read books? Comment below! Thanks.
-Jason
Reading IS awesome! I went through a long period of not reading but in the last few years I’ve been making up for it. This year I actually hit my goodreads goal of 50 books. I even started going to the library again – which I think helped in reaching my goal. If I was buying books I would be limiting my monthly purchases.
I think books for presents is a great idea! I hope your boys will love reading as much as you do 🙂
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Thanks! 50, wow! Yep, reading has more value per dollar IMO and better with free library check out. So will you set the same goal of 50 for 2019?
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Love books! Nothing like a good hard copy. I know tech world has brought most books to the screens. But I still read only hard copies lol
Old school I suppose?
I enjoy non fiction mostly. Leadership, anxiety, self help for success, work books to simplify life, devotional daily and definitely nothing like some great personal story blogs!
Chips and salsa is also my favorite. Which will make you laugh because currently I’m enjoying some Santitas chips with tomatilla salsa from my husbands co worker! Ha!
Thanks for sharing Jason! Take care
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Santitas, like the $2 bag? We have those here too. I eat those a lot actually! But I prefer some others like On The Border…
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