There's the slow food movement, the slow media movement, the slow fashion movement, so why not the slow read movement?
It's all about quality of reading time over quantity.
Slow reading means that I won't try to speed read through an ever increasing number of books this year. My goal is to take my time and enjoy myself. I'll still set a goal, but it'll be easily doable (for me, that's 24) and I won't be pushing myself to exceed that number.
My Unread Shelf factors into this in a big way. There are books in my home library that have been waiting for a long time to be picked up. I'm continuing to give them a chance this year. I'll read at least 12 pages a day to start, which is a slow but sure progress. No pressure to finish the book in a week or two. I want to say I enjoyed it or, if not, then I decided to give it away. No pressure to finish.
I'll still be reading more than one book at at a time, which seems to be my default setting. Usually one fiction, one non fiction, and one devotional type book are on my book pile.
I want to take time to write down thoughts as I read, and I find that hard to do if I just want to get through the book. More meaningful reading is my goal.
How about you? Do you set reading goals? Love a good challenge? How many books do you read a year?
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