I used to read books like it was my job. And I don’t mean books for school; I mean books for my own personal leisure or growth. After starting college, the number of books I read drastically dropped. Freshman year I don’t think I read a single non-required book during the school year. Well, I might have read one or two over Christmas break. Then school let out at the end of April and I realized that I hadn’t touched the book that I was ten pages into at the beginning of the year.
This year I promised myself I’d be different. I promised myself that I was going to take time and read. Well, it took a while, but I finally finished a book for leisure and it feels like I just finished my own form of a mini-marathon. My schedule is so hectic and full of homework and work that I'm surprised I had any time at all to read.
The book: The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs. It’s a 320ish page account of Jacobs’ year of following the Bible as literally as possible. He spends 8 months in the Old Testament and 4 months in the New Testament. It’s written like a journal and it’s hilarious! But anyway, I’m feeling this huge sense of accomplishment. I enjoy this feeling. Now that Thanksgiving break is basically here, I can get a good start on another book and maybe get through this one faster.
No comments:
Post a Comment