A Short Summary Of The Reading Challenge

Hello everybody!

So my challenge finishes tomorrow, and I will be posting my increasingly melodramatic poem then :)

This has been a nice relaxing challenge at a pretty stressful time of year, so it's been good for me in many ways. I suppose I can't call it the vocabulary challenge anymore, more like 'The Reading Challenge' - and I've read three books and am well into my fourth in just one month! So that is something to be happy with.

At that rate I could be reading over forty books a year! Which would be fantastic!

Now I must admit I've not got too much to say on this challenge. I've already spoken about how great reading is for you and some books that I love. Aside from 'I'm really glad I've pushed myself to read more' there isn't much to report! Just a few small things:

It's clear now that this journey of mine has been all about figuring out what kind of things I like to do, and what kind of person I want to be, and pushing myself into it. There have been many revelations along the way, but now as the challenges are getting easier (I started with the more difficult!) there are fewer big life lessons cropping up. Instead, there's a calm, assured feeling of 'Yes, I can do this.'

As I'm readying for the end of this challenging year (only two left!) I am thinking of the future and more goals I want to set myself. Maybe more thirty day challenges, maybe some long term ones. For example, I've extended my No Sugar challenge for a whole year. I want to keep pushing myself after this is all over.

With that in mind, I think I could continue with this challenge and make it harder. This reading challenge has been really fun because I've been reading some great fiction, but I also have a stack of factual books that I really want to read. I never do, because reading that kind of stuff is actually really hard for me. But as I have learned from many of my challenges, practice makes perfect. So now that I am reading so much, perhaps a long term goal for me could be to make every fourth book I read a factual one, so I can keep challenging myself, train my brain up for harder reading, and hopefully learn some new stuff!!

And that's all folks! I'll post the poem tomorrow (it's very bad but has been quite fun!) and then on to the next one.

Taraar!