One of my biggest regrets is that I’m not an avid reader, and to this day, that fact confounds even me. I’ve always loved stories, and any format of fiction, but for some reason I just never seem to have the focus to actually dedicate myself to reading. In recent years, I’ve tried to amend this oversight, but it seems that there are still things that kind of get in the way of picking up a book. The increase in activity in my daily routines restrict any attempt I make to dedicate long stretches to a good book. I can still do laundry, make food, and take care of the baby while watching TV. TV and movies are good for multi-tasking, but reading requires complete dedication, at least for me.
All this aside, next year, starting in January, I’m going to try to improve my reading habits. While I may not, say, attempt to read one hundred books in a year, I am at least going to try to read as much as I can and whenever I can read in lieu of watching TV, I will attempt to do so. I’ll be using the bookshelf application in Facebook to keep track of how much I manage to read. I’m not going to call this a resolution, but, like my 365 project, I’m going to use the new year as an attempt a personal experiment.
Oh, and I’ve begun debating what I will do when I finish with my 365 project. I could just drop it, but part of me says I should start up a second one immediately. No decisions yet, but I know a second year will be almost twice as challenging as the first.
hey, look… a real entry of sorts.
9 replies on “Kacey No Read Good”
I do all those things (laundry, cook, brush my teeth, etc) while reading. It takes nothing to get me involved in a book. My sister hates to read and has no interest in fiction. It makes me sad. So at least you like fiction and stories!
I apparently don’t have the fine motor control to balance a book and a bowl of cereal, no matter how into the book I am. I have to trade off: read a couple pages, do a load of laundry, read a couple pages, eat a bowl of cereal, etc.
“TV and movies are good for multi-tasking, but reading requires complete dedication, at least for me.”
I couldn’t agree more. I can do a dozen things and still follow a television show, but when I read I like to focus on just the book. And, I hate being interrupted when I’m reading…it’s so distracting!
Glad you’re going to try to read more! I have so many books sitting around just waiting for me to pick them up, and your post has inspired me to do just that 🙂
that’s good to hear, that way even if I fail, at least I inspired someone. 😉
Yeah, I hear you with the reading thing. I love fiction but just don’t have the time to read anymore.
No doubt @ a second 365 project. I was only a week in before I started feeling overwhelmed by the desire to throw in my hat… and I like taking pictures! Or at least I did, once upon a time…
It takes practice. It’s a skill you can develop only by being so determined to find out what heppens next that you refuse to put the book down.
oh, in that situation, I just don’t do what I should be doing and just keep reading.
Exactly!