What Am I Doing?
My challenge to myself in the year 2025 is to read 52 books. I didn’t start the year off with this challenge in mind. It wasn’t any sort of New Year’s resolution. In fact, as I am writing this, it is currently February 26, 2025. So yeah, a bit behind schedule.
This self-challenge happened quite naturally and so did my desire to document it somehow. It has been an unusually cold winter where I live and I have found myself unfortunately simultaneously burnt-out and underemployed. One way to feel productive during these physically and metaphorically dark days was to read books. I would lose myself in the pages and forget all my troubles for a few hours… and I would feel better afterwards based on the content I had read.
My Notes App and journal began to fill with my musings on the books themselves and the effect these books had on me and I began to seek a more organized way to get my thoughts down… and voila! This blog was born!
I am new to blogging but am a voracious journaler. So I will treat this blog as an extension of that. Sort of an open-journal that I share with the world. My goal isn’t to critique the books themselves or catch every nuance within their pages but rather to become a better version of myself through this experience.
I guess this endeavour is a sort of “Eat, Pray, Love” journey where I never leave. It is a journey of the mind and soul only.
Messy Bun Book Lover
(Originally posted on Feb. 26, 2025)