With updated criteria, I have to change my reading level to Possessed - reading 50 e-books this year. I would like to do more and may but I figure I should try a more realistic goal - never know what will happen during the year. I do have to say, since getting my NOOK, I'm reading even more than I did before. Maybe it's the newness of the device but I'm addicted to the NOOK. I never leave home without it and it's easier to carry than the usual paperback because it takes up less room in my bag.
Back to reading.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
I think I was born with a book in my hand. Books have always been an addiction I can't avoid. I blame it on my mother. (Mothers always get the blame, you know.) As a small child we had a set of Childcraft books with beautiful pictures, stories, poems, and nursery rhymes. I spent hours looking through these books and begged my mother to teach me to read. She refused, saying only a teacher could teach me to read properly. I think that refusal meant there were hidden things that I couldn't reach because I wasn't old enough - I didn't go to school yet so I couldn't read.
Learning to read became the number one goal in my life and reading became an obsession. Obsession to the point that I have rooms in the house which contain nothing more than books. I have spent hundreds of hours and dollars moving these books with me everytime I changed locations over the years. I have books from my childhood, high school, college, and all the years since. Because of my addiction, my husband bought me an e-reader for Christmas this year. He decided he couldn't break the addiction, so in an effort to gain back some space in the house, he bought a Nook. Since New Year's day, when I started downloading, I've finished reading two books with others waiting on the shelf.
Then, I found "reading challenges" on the internet. OK, I love to read, so why not a challenge? So this is my little blog about the books I read for the challenges.
I have signed up for 2011 e-reader challenge at http://theladybugreads.blogspot.com/2010/12/2011-e-book-reading-challenge.html. Of course, I have to do the obsessed level of 20 books for the year. I will post the titles as I finish the books. I'm not a "planner" so there aren't any books I plan to read. I prefer to just let the books find me.
Learning to read became the number one goal in my life and reading became an obsession. Obsession to the point that I have rooms in the house which contain nothing more than books. I have spent hundreds of hours and dollars moving these books with me everytime I changed locations over the years. I have books from my childhood, high school, college, and all the years since. Because of my addiction, my husband bought me an e-reader for Christmas this year. He decided he couldn't break the addiction, so in an effort to gain back some space in the house, he bought a Nook. Since New Year's day, when I started downloading, I've finished reading two books with others waiting on the shelf.
Then, I found "reading challenges" on the internet. OK, I love to read, so why not a challenge? So this is my little blog about the books I read for the challenges.
I have signed up for 2011 e-reader challenge at http://theladybugreads.blogspot.com/2010/12/2011-e-book-reading-challenge.html. Of course, I have to do the obsessed level of 20 books for the year. I will post the titles as I finish the books. I'm not a "planner" so there aren't any books I plan to read. I prefer to just let the books find me.
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