Ella and I were organizing/cleaning our guest room/storage room this past weekend and I looked at my bookshelves and realized what a complete mess they are! The reason being I haven't put any of the books I've read/bought this summer away. They are just sitting there in front of other books. I hate this. I like to keep all my books so I can look at them anytime and reference if need be. If I can't see them all then how can I do either of those!
Therefore I started putting away the books.. then realized how many there were. So I stacked up the majority of.. some I had lent out and did not have and other were around the house or at work... but after I stacked them up I realized that I have read around 30 books since May. Each book has at least 300 pages.. most have close to 500.
I realize people may think that I have too much time on my hands, but I assure you I haven't been reading my summer away... I am in fact a mother of an 8month old crawler. I rarely read at home and when I do its after Ella goes to bed and it is a very short time because I tend to spend it with my husband and going to bed early. Since my boss was on vacation for most of July I was able to read then.. which tells me that we were very slow that month. It happens though.
I happen to be a fast reader... and some of the books are romance/mystery/fantasy books with which I tend to skim paragraphs .... other books have been very challenging.. and others have hit home to some of my hopes and fears.
I am impressed with myself and love of reading. I hope Ella will have the same joy I do with books.
Enjoy the day!
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