Reading

I read a lot. I read magazines, I read news and blogs on my phone, I read all sorts of things on the internet, I enjoy taking in information. All this is reading, but almost always in short bursts. I’ll read a page on a website then follow a link to something else and move on. I’ll flick through a photography magazine and read articles that grab my attention and skip over others.

Books require a different kind of reading, reading with greater stamina, reading with more commitment. I almost always enjoy reading books, but I’m not as well or widely read as I would like to be.

In an attempt to read more and partly inspired by this blog post and talking to my step father in law about his book group, I am going to set myself a target of reading 30 books this year. It’s not a huge number, but it is a number I think I can realistically hit.

I want to read Christian books to help me understand the Bible better and help me get to know Jesus better and be more like him. I want to read fiction books, both new and classic. I want to read stuff that I wouldn’t naturally pick up and I want to read the Bible more, a lot more.

So my target is 30 books in the ten months left this year. I will try to keep a record of the books I read and want to read as well as posting reviews of some of them.