Audiobooks are just the best! Since I started reading audiobooks, the number of books I can read in a year has skyrocketed, because I'll listen while cooking, doing housework, even in the shower! And I'm finding that, when an audiobook has a fantastic narrator, I can enjoy the book even more than I might have if I read it in print. In the last five years, four of my favorite books of the year were audiobooks. That can't be a coincidence!
I love how you used the word ‘systems’ and not goals. I’m reading Atomic Habits atm. Its helped me get back into reading, which I used to do quite fluently-multiple books at once. Been in a dry spell of reading for years. Now, I keep my book sitting on my reading nook and sit down to read 1 chapter each day. Its helped me find a rhythm again. My system now is just to read…. One chapter. And I’ve got endless books to read. Glad I was able to break the dryspell. I’m reading daily again!! Its been weeks, already!
My reading goal is to finish my research for my upcoming project after my WIP, which includes one psychology book, three about viking age litterature/mythology and one work on military history, I also plan to read a history book that hopefully will give me ideas on how to make the plot work for a project that I have postponed due to lack of ideas. Fiction I will read as much as I will read. My best strategy to finish a book I would otherwise DNF is to bring it when I have nothing else to do. On the tram, while waiting for sword or dance class to begin and after swimming when I need to sit on the cliff and relax. I have finished Moby Dick, Master and Commander, The Reality Dysfunction and Dreamcatcher that way. Currently I read The Trial by Kafka in that manner.
Great tips! What are your thoughts on rereading books? Sometimes I just feel like reading a favorite book again, especially if it’s been a long time since I first read it. Sometimes you get something completely different out of it.
Audiobooks are just the best! Since I started reading audiobooks, the number of books I can read in a year has skyrocketed, because I'll listen while cooking, doing housework, even in the shower! And I'm finding that, when an audiobook has a fantastic narrator, I can enjoy the book even more than I might have if I read it in print. In the last five years, four of my favorite books of the year were audiobooks. That can't be a coincidence!
I love how you used the word ‘systems’ and not goals.
I’m reading Atomic Habits atm. Its helped me get back into reading, which I used to do quite fluently-multiple books at once.
Been in a dry spell of reading for years. Now, I keep my book sitting on my reading nook and sit down to read 1 chapter each day. Its helped me find a rhythm again. My system now is just to read…. One chapter. And I’ve got endless books to read.
Glad I was able to break the dryspell. I’m reading daily again!! Its been weeks, already!
Great tips - thanks! I REALLY struggle to DNF. You're awesome ❤
I've read a single book, not because I'm slow, but I'm reading a 1,157-page book, IT. How does Stephen King do this-
I listened to a total of 19 audiobooks last year.
My problem is not wanting to read. It’s finding books that are written and or edited well. That’s the challenge.
My reading goal is to finish my research for my upcoming project after my WIP, which includes one psychology book, three about viking age litterature/mythology and one work on military history, I also plan to read a history book that hopefully will give me ideas on how to make the plot work for a project that I have postponed due to lack of ideas. Fiction I will read as much as I will read.
My best strategy to finish a book I would otherwise DNF is to bring it when I have nothing else to do. On the tram, while waiting for sword or dance class to begin and after swimming when I need to sit on the cliff and relax. I have finished Moby Dick, Master and Commander, The Reality Dysfunction and Dreamcatcher that way. Currently I read The Trial by Kafka in that manner.
So when do you find time to write?
Great tips! What are your thoughts on rereading books? Sometimes I just feel like reading a favorite book again, especially if it’s been a long time since I first read it. Sometimes you get something completely different out of it.
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