MY LOVE OF READING
As a child, I moved around quite a bit, from New Jersey all the way to Maine, and attended five different schools from grades K-6. I was introverted and shy and found solace in the books I read. Whenever we moved to a new town, my mom would immediately locate the local library and get me a card. I would spend hours with my nose in a book, devouring entire novels in a day, the characters becoming my companions. This is not meant to make you feel sad for me, it’s just to explain where my love of reading came from. My imagination soared and I was always writing my own stories, first in the back pages of old school notebooks and later on a desktop PC my parents bought me for Christmas one year.
Once I got my first job in NYC, most of my reading was focused around the news and financial markets and my free time was spent shopping and going out with friends. I’d pick up books at Barnes & Noble or Target, but they would sit on a shelf collecting dust. Once I got married and had kids, I read even less(unless you count bedtime stories).
That all changed in 2020. We all can vividly recall where we were on that fateful March day that the world shut down. A few weeks into the lockdown, a friend named Randi suggested a virtual book club and threw out the suggestion of “Where The Crawdads Sing”. A quick add to cart on Amazon had the book in my hands the very next day, and the entire book was finished in 48 hours. In a flash, my love for reading returned! I set a goal to read five books in 2020, which then became ten books in 2021 and I haven’t looked back since. Last year I finished 24 books and my goal for 2026 is 60 books (wish me luck!)
WHAT I AM CURRENTLY READING:
For 2026, I have set a goal to read 5 books and listen to 1 non-fiction audio book each month. Here’s what I plan to read in March! Let me know what you’re reading in the comment box below!
PAST READS
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