Reading

 
One of the challenges I set myself in 2012 was, like many, a challenge on Goodreads for how many books I could read in the entire year. My goal was 50, which I happily managed to achieve at the beginning of December. It was a great way of seeing just how much (or little) I read and actually got me back into reading after having a big break - which for me was weird, I was always the kid with her head in a book after the move I went months without even turning a page.

Luckily we have a really good library in our city and searching around on Goodreads I have a list of books to read that's longer then the day is long. But this year I'm determined to get through the huge mountain of books we have on our bookcase, and on top of the bookcase and now piling around said bookcase. Yeah books are another collection we have and picking up second hand hardback books from the 1940's and 1950's is a particular pleasure of my own. 

There's something magical about hardback books, maybe it's their smell or their bindings to being able to feel their weight - all the total opposites to the ever growing digital reading world we find ourselves increasingly surrounding in. Feeling their weight makes their stories feel more real, more presence then a screen. 

So my mission is to not only achieve another Goodreads challenge - this time 75 books in the next 12 months. This is alongside my mission to work my way through some of the lovely hardbacks we have - a Gone With The Wind edition dated to the 1950's, a gorgeous book on the history of Ballerinas to Wordsworth poems and Churchill's London in WW2.

Are you challenging yourself and your reading list this year? If you're on Goodreads add me - I love seeing other peoples reading lists.