Reading Challenge for My 60th Year (2018)

These are some books from my bookshelf.

How do you improve yourself? 

• Take classes at the local college or online?
• Hire a personal trainer or coach?
• Participate in health or financial challenges with your mates?
• Regularly follow your morning and evening routines?
• Create and follow S.M.A.R.T. goals?

All if the above ideas are great ideas. But my favorite way to improve myself is by reading.

Below are 3 benefits of reading from my post, 13 Benefits of Reading,

1. ,Exposes us to novel ideas, actions, geography and people so that we become more culturally, emotionally, politically, and historically aware.
2. Clarifies difficult topics.
3. Gives us the opportunity to learn from the mistakes and wisdom of others.

Every year (around my birthday), I decide what reading challenges I will do that year. My reading challenges this year are as follows ..

• Read 2.018 minutes a month.
• Read 60 books from the library, friends, etc.
• Read the ABC’s from my own bookshelves. The list is here.
• Read books for my monthly book club.
• Read Don Quixote as part of my classics education.
• Finish Mrs Dalloway.
• Participate in the Austen in August Reading Challenge.
• Leave Amazon reviews for books of people I know.

If I add anything else to this reading challenge for my 60th birthday year, I will update this post.

Your Turn . . . What is on your reading list for this year?  . . .  What would you add to my list?

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