So this is the first of the personal reflections for 2018. I thought I’d offer up little bits about myself and things I’ve been thinking about this month.
Personal
This month was one of the hardest for me in a while. It’d be lame to say of 2018 right? Not only was I really sick, but everyone in my family was really sick. Healthwise for us, it was a bad month. This brought in additional stress and I wasn’t able to make the most of my time. I fell down on a lot of goals – like keeping track of my habits, my monthly memories, and even just my personal reading journal. Not only that, but career wise I felt like I was at a crossroads. Where I set myself an ultimatum which would have had lasting consequences on my future.
But in other news, I also got a six month job. So that was a lovely surprise – and also what the ultimatum was regarding. But with all large changes, it brought stress in a different way. And while it brought some closure, it also asked me new questions.
Book Related
- What is the purpose of a book? Does it have to teach you something? What should a book show you? A new perspective?
- Do I want to keep setting myself a reading schedule?
I got back into Bookstagram, not taking photos (I’ve been doing that all along), but posting them. So make sure to check them out if you aren’t already.
I don’t have a reading schedule, but I do have my blogging schedule and I strive to maintain that set schedule.
I think the purpose of a book is to transport you to someone else’s life and time. Yes, to show you a new perspective perhaps, especially if it is a different culture than yours. I guess teaching you something goes along with that.
Yes, I think a lot of what a book to me is to teach me something or show me something different!
I think that the purpose of a book (once it’s published & ‘out there’) is determined by the reader. In my case I like to be enlightened, to learn, to think and veer towards those books that accomplish that aim for me. Were I of a different disposition, I’d pick another genre, another title.
Yes I agree with you that learning is a big part of why I read. I like to feel like I have walked away changed, like something that grown a bit, learned a little, and seen a new perspective in their words.