I think this goal is one of my very favorites.
For me, it’s the most satisfying, most productive, most enjoyable thing of all the things on my list. Because for me, reading is magic– there is magic in the stories, in the best ones at least, just waiting to be opened and connected with, and for this very reason, I keep reading.
I keep reading and reading and reading.
I can’t remember the exact point in which I became a reader. A real reader. The kind of reader that feels the magic. But I do know that it was some point after I graduated college. Crazy, right? It seems hard to believe that it took me nearly 21 years to become a real reader, but it’s the truth. If I had to pick a time and a place, I think it would be on those long T rides to and from work that I first started to believe in the power of books, to see the beauty in the stories.
Besides being a reader of books, I also happen to be a collector of them. I get that from my mother, and for this I am grateful. But being a collector means there are many books in my home that I haven’t even turned the pages of yet. They are waiting patiently on my shelves to be taken down and opened up. Those books up there in the photograph are a few from the unread pile in the collection. They are first up on my “to-read” list so I can place them into the read pile once and for all. As for the others, I’m going to pick them up as they come– choosing ones friends’ recommend, and even those that speak to me from the shelves of local bookstores. I’m not going worry too much about which ones I end up choosing in the end— as long as I read, I’ll be satisfied. {Also, audio books count, too, just to clarify. Books are books!}
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My 2013 book list {COMPLETE. 37 books. BOOM.}:
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
I Feel Bad About My Neck- And Other Thoughts On Being A Woman
Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
Tiny Beautiful Things // Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar {ALMOST FINISHED!}
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And I know I’ve asked before, but if you have any favorites you think I should know about, send them my way, please and thank you. I’m always interested in hearing what you love.
All the books, my friends. All the glorious books.
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P.S. I made a favorite list once {and updated it recently}. You can take a look at it here.
