Ready, Steady, Read!

The summer is a funny time for a person making their way through education. It’s a large but delineated expanse during which the onward progress of the normal way cannot continue, so it needs to be filled with something else.

For me, the normal way – university life – didn’t permit much time for leisurely reading, something which I missed an awful lot. Last summer such was my need that I ended up overdosing –I spent about two and half weeks solidly reading, interrupted only by the need for sleep (taken between the hours of 3am and 11am) and food and occasional human contact. It was an enjoyable but utterly surreal existence and now that I once again have time to read I intend to do things rather more sensibly.

Indeed, since my journey through education has now come to an end, the normal way will hopefully include time for reading. So, inspired by Jude, I’m going to attempt to read a certain number of books in this, my first year of post-education life. To read 100 books in a year seems overly ambitious at the moment so I’m going to try for 25 fiction and 25 non-fiction.

I’ve already got one of each on the go; await reviews with anticipation!