Who Here Likes to Read?!

I'm just going to come out and say it-

I think reading is becoming a dying art.  So many of us are too busy and our time is pressed so much that reading takes a backseat to other activities.  Plus with vortexes like Youtube, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, who really wants to crack open a book?

But let me tell you, that even reading a chapter a day/night of a really really really good book is a form of this self-care trend that is all the rage.

I started 2019 out with a goal to read at least 12 books.  I'm currently reading book #14 of the year and it's definitely a book that I'm enjoying every minute of reading. 

One of my biggest struggles is to find a book that can catch and keep my attention.  I can get easily bored with a book and put it down with the vain hopes of "I'll read it over the weekend."  Along with my goal I also promised myself to not stay stuck on a "bad book."  Or a book that's not a good fit for me.  Accept the defeat that I don't want to read it and find a book that I do want to start and finish.

So tonight as I read for about an hour or two - I got up to refill my tumbler with water and thought, "There is no way to describe how satisfying it feels to read a really really really good book."

So my advice to anyone reading this is to find something, anything, that you like to read.  The media doesn't matter.  Whether it's fiction, non fiction, self-help, business, magazines, beauty blogs, anything.  Allow yourself to be transported somewhere else.  "Meet" new people/characters.  Get wrapped up in the story.  You won't be sorry.

Before I sign off and get ready for tomorrow's work day I'll leave you readers with my list of 2019 read books:

1. Circe - Madeline Miller
2. You - Caroline Kepnes
3. Cruel Harvest - Fran Elizabeth Grubb
4. The Life We Bury - Allen Eskens
5. An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
6. The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
7. A Simple Favor - Darcey Bell
8. The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris
9. Alice in Wonderland 0 Lewis Carroll
10. Bachelor girl - Kim Van Alkemade
11. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton
12. Pretty Girls - Karin Slaughter
13. Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
14. The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller *currently reading*