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The 32 Most Important Books I’ve Read In My Life (So Far)
March 11, 2016/ Articles Reading/ By Elisa Doucette
Updated 8/5/17
Earlier this week I shared with The Writing Rundown crew a basic schedule I adhere to that allows me to get in 3-5 hours of reading daily.
While attending yoga classes, meeting friends for meals and hanging out, writing for 2-3 hours…and running Craft Your Content. Needless to say, I like to get a lot of time out of my days, and only occasionally “waste time” to go on day-long Netflix binges during which I never change out of my jammie pants. But oh, believe me, there are days I go on day-long Netflix binges!
The whole message came about after a friend said to me “Your GoodReads account is like my aspirational reading.”
For a minute, I was flattered, thinking my friend was gushing at my discerning tastes and brilliant literary selections.
“How do you read SO MUCH?!”
Ah, yes, the ever popular quantity over quality quandry. As recent American political discussions have shown, bragging about the size of something often evokes a more popular rapture and interest than the quality of what is at hand.
In The Writing Rundown (do you get this delivered direct to your inbox every other weekend? If not, get on that!), I discussed how I was able to make time for reading so much. Which I appreciate, because a world full of people who are making more time in their lives for reading and learning is a world I want to be a part of.
But there is a growing trend, based in part to the rise of self-publishing and Kindle and Audible, for people to consume mass quantities of books without ever really learning anything from them. Or applying the information they have learned.