ReadAThon – half way there
Half way through the year and my ReadAThon for Schnauzerfest is going well. At the start of the year I set myself a target to read 60 books. For each book I complete I’m donating £5, so my fundraising goal is £300.
I’ve just brought it up to date with the books I read in June. This brings my total number completed to 37 which is good. But as I know that the next couple of months my reading rate will slow a little, it’s good that I’m ahead of where I need to be at this point.
But my ReadAThont isn’t just about ploughing through books. I love books, I love what having a reading habit brings me. A sense of peace, escape from the day to day, appreciation of an author’s skills, invitation to enter other worlds, glimpses into the lives of real people. There’s so much to enjoy about reading and I am thankful that I can do as much as I do. I read a lot as a child, had a brief hiatus in my teenage years and as an adult returned to it in earnest.
Reading at least three books in different genres during the same period is my norm. I can’t read two fiction or two memoirs concurrently. My typical pattern is to have one of each plus a factual book. Since putting aside my resistance to audiobooks a whole new chunk of my day has opened itself to books.I listen to at least one book a month. I highly recommend this if, like I was, you are unsure about it. There are millions of great books available and we’ll only read a fraction, so the more ways to enjoy them the better.
You can see my reading and fundraising on these links:
