In the past, I’ve always felt at peace with abandoning a book before finishing it. But morning reading? I’m all for it, and for the tone it sets for the rest of my day.Īs the year progressed, I read several books I wasn’t wild about. I’ve never been able to read before bed because I fall asleep mid-page. Instead of lighting up my phone screen the moment I woke up in the morning, I’d open a book instead, reading on the couch with my first cup of coffee. I liked my new reading pace, making haste with books. To track my progress, I used the Goodreads Reading Challenge, which informs you when you’re ahead of schedule, on track, or behind on your reading goal. I started out strong, finishing four books in January, then five in February. Plus, I liked the way it felt in principle: If I stayed on track, not only would I get a clean slate at the start of the work week, I’d get a second clean slate in cracking open a new book. Surely I could handle 12 more titles than I’d read the year before. I was intrigued by the 52 books in 52 weeks reading challenge I’d seen on Nicole Zhu’s blog. I wanted to catch up with my own compulsive bookstore purchases and watch that pile on my nightstand shrink even more rapidly. Moving into 2019, I resolved to raise my reading goal. I set my first annual reading goal at 40 books, finishing the final page of book number 40 before the ball dropped that New Year’s Eve. The outer accountability of habit tracking has helped me form healthier routines and utilize my time more wisely. For a while, I even tracked the minutes I wasted on social media (I don’t recommend this-it’s too depressing). I’d jumped on the habit-tracking train before: daily words written, weekly miles run. So, in an effort to maintain positive habits after graduation, I decided to track my reading. My writing professors touted the importance of students reading thousands of books before taking a stab at penning their own. I’ve loved books since I was a kid, but I didn’t identify as a voracious reader until grad school.
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