2015 reading challenge

I used to read all the time. As in, my mother would send us outside to play and I would sneak a book out with me and read instead. Sometimes, I'd stay up really late reading a book by the light from the hall that shone in through the crack under my bedroom door. And most days, I'd read while I ate both breakfast and lunch.

Somewhere in the insanity that was college, I lost that.

Now, I have the time, but I spend it doing other things, mostly watching television. This year, I want that to change. I want to relearn the love of reading that I had as a kid, and I figure the best way to do that is simply to start reading again.

So when I saw this reading challenge on my FB newsfeed, it seemed like just what I needed to reboot my enjoyment of all things literary.

Credit to modernmrsdarcy.com

The variety of this list really appealed to me, as did the freedom to choose whatever books I wanted, within the listed categories, of course. So this is one of my reading goals for this year - to read at least twelve books in twelve months, using this list to help broaden my reading horizons. (If left to my own devices, I would totally just read The Dresden Files and call it quits. This should give me more variety in those twelve books...)

My other reading goal involves only one book (or sixty-six of them, depending on how you count). For the first time in a long while, I'm trying to read through the whole Bible in a year. I've only actually managed that once in my life, but I'm hoping that, with some much-needed discipline, I can do it again.

Anyone who wants to join me on either of these challenges is more than welcome - in fact, I'd love company on this, and other people to talk with about the books or Bible passages being read. Either way, if this goes as planned, I'm going to be writing a mini review on this blog of each of the books I read for the challenge, so this hopefully won't be the last you hear about this.