So – when you make New Years Resolutions are you the type of person that tells everyone and uses the fact that everyone is watching you to motivate you? Or do you write them down and put them at your desk, or on your mirror, or where ever to self-motivate? Or are you a person who thinks they are ridiculous and you don’t even bother?
Or are you the type of person who clicks a Book Challenge post on January 3rd, googles 7 different ones, thinks I ought to do this, signs up for a WordPress site, and not the cheap one and starts your first blog less than an hour later even though you’ve never done a reading challenge, much less made a resolutions in like 10 years, much less written anything since college and oh god, WHAT have I done?
Sorry. Deep breathing exercises. Okay, so I might have some impulse control problems. But I am so extremely excited for this adventure. Having just finally moved into my new loft apartment I am finally able to get my books out of storage. And sort them and categorize them and stack them and shelve them AND, the purpose of this blog. READ them. Not just look at them. Not just talk about the books that I have and might read one day. But actually read them. But, because obviously I won’t have a book to meet every category in the challenges, it also means I get to go book shopping, which is my favorite kind of shopping.
The challenges I am using as my inspiration are 2017 POPSUGAR’s Reading Challenge and Book Riot’s 2017 Read Harder Challenge. Part of the reason I’m using both it I like the randomness that is the POPSUGAR challenge – I mean really – a book with a red spine? and also, I like the diversity of Book Riot’s challenge. It will make me seek out some books that I might never have read.
Next steps – print out the challenge lists and head down to the basement to find some books that fill some of the items. Oh, and get my office organized enough to actually have shelf space for books. I’ll post my first book of the challenge tomorrow! Wish me luck!
Read Well Read 