The Challenge
I’m a book lover. Books were my first love and I was even a lit major in college (for a little while, anyway). I aspire to one day have my very own library in my house, complete with a library ladder.
However, as I looked at my bookshelves, I’m afraid that I may enjoy buying books a little more than I actually enjoy reading them. I’ve read a lot of books and I love to read, but I realized that I own lots of books that I’ve never read. Actually, the number of unread books looked about equal to the number of books I’ve read on my shelves. I was more than a little embarrassed to realize this about myself. Apparently I’m quite easily seduced by cover art and a promising story line but don’t always follow through with actually reading the story.
So, I decided to challenge myself to read all of the unread books on my bookshelf before the end of the year. I extended this challenge before counting the unread books on my bookshelf. They happen to number 34. Today is September 29th, which leaves me roughly three months to read 34 books, or approximately one book every three days. That’s a pretty daunting task but after all, that’s what a challenge is supposed to be, right?
