Do you set goals like reading a certain number of books in a year? Participate in reading challenges?
I don’t set goals around reading a certain number of books. Those have always seemed arbitrary and not helpful for my reading. I have done reading challenges in the past, though—the yearly Book Riot Read Harder Challenge, the yearly reading challenge from PopSugar, book bingo. I like those types of challenges for helping me to break out of my comfort zone and try new authors and genres! I’ve also made my own challenges. What are some of your favorite reading challenges?
I finished my English degree decades ago. I remember it took me about 2 years to read a novel after I graduated. I still read a lot, but like magazine articles. I just couldn’t commit to a novel. It was a weird time for me because I had always been at some spot in a book since I was a kid. After a couple of years break, I got back into the groove and have been reading consistently since.
That’s basically what happened to me. I realized that I was reading all the time, but the concentration required for, and enjoyment of, sitting down and reading a book felt like it had disappeared.