“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
- All the Bright Places, 2015
One of my main resolutions for 2020 was to read more. When I was little kid I used to read all-the-time. Whenever I came back home from school I grabbed a book, at the dinning table I was reading books, and even during car rides I'd get sick because I was reading.
Reading was my way of pulling myself back from the outside world. I was a kid with a manual. I still am. I remember my teachers found it hard to get a hold of me and had a hard time communicating with me. My mum always told them: "Just let her sit in the corner and give her a book. That's the only way''. And damn right she was! But as I went to high school I lost my appetite for reading books. I think maybe that was because of all the readings you had to do for school but the result was that I stopped reading.
So I took it upon myself to start reading books again. I finished high school and my one year if studying in Amsterdam and took a gap year. Around june I told myself I'd read 25 books in 2020. And I did it. Had my ups and downs with it. In September I read 6 books, the enitre month of November I read only 50 pages, and last month I hadn't touched a book at all. But I still completed my goal.
Enough rambling, here are all the books I've read this year.
Every year I'm going to read just a few more books until I
hit the number 52 books. One book every week. My intention
for 2021 is to read at least 30 books. maybe even more.
But first, lets see where those 30 books will take me ;)
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