Challenge Your Reading!

A few weeks ago I saw this posted: 40 Tiny Tasks For A Richer Reading Life. Knowing that I won't be able to pry my husband away from the NCAA basketball tournament this weekend, I plan to hang out with him and do a lot of reading.

I love many of the suggestions on this list, like #5, asking others for recommendations. Once while traveling, I went into a tiny indie bookstore and asked the clerk to recommend three books she'd recently enjoyed. That helped me discover new authors! I miss reading aloud to my kids (#11). I can't interrupt my husband's basketball, and I fear reading to my cat would make me more eccentric than I'd like to be--at this point in my life, anyway.

I always enjoy reading novels about places where I'm planning to travel, so I like the suggestion of reading a book about a place I've never considered going (#23). Pretty sure I'll end up wanting to go there, too!

The book abuse doesn't appeal to me. Dog ear a page? (#15) No way! Crack a spine? (#35) Ouch!

I'm also notorious for reading a book because the movie is coming out soon, and loving the book so much that I no longer want to see the movie. The trailer for The Lady In Gold made me grab my copy off the shelf and read it right away. Wow, I loved the book--an intricate, spanning decades of time, well-researched nonfiction story. The movie can never delve into it all… But maybe I'll take on task #37 and see the movie without wanting it to be exactly like the book.


How are you going to challenge your reading?