How Reading Over 100 Books a Year Changed Me

Since coming back on Goodreads a few years ago, I’ve probally read more books in a few years than I did in my whole lifetime. I always try to read at least one book a week weather it’s paperback, e-book, audiobook or online. I have over 2000 books on my kindle, yet, according to my kindle app, I have only read 132. This count does not include books I have not finished. Nor does it include the books I have physical copies off.

So why do I keep buying and downloading books when I need to finish the ones I’ve read? Well, I read anything and almost everything. What I read also depends on my mood or needs. We read for many reasons; entertainment, education, enlightenment, escapism and empowerment. The five extravagant reasons why I continue to make the effort to read when there are other mediums much easier to absorb.

I have always been an avid reader, but the challenge of reading over 100 books a year has changed the way I have read, and the way I see books. When people say they don’t read, they tend to mean they don’t read books. But when I think about it, we are reading all the time from meme captions, tweets and 800-long fantasy novels, we are always reading, and what we do read, and how we take it, is shaping who we are.