So, since I rediscovered my passion for reading, my read count has progressively gotten higher. I started out by chasing 50 books in a year. This goal has since shifted to kind of a two part goal of 50 book-books, digital or physical, excluding audio, and then an overall total goal of 100 that includes audio.
2020 I just about hit 50
2021 I made it 57
2022 I got to 77 overall
2023 I made it to 98 overall
so far in 2024, I’m up to 53 books overall!
Do you know what the secret is to reading more? Besides habit and naturally speeding up with practice? Reading whatever I fucking feel like.
Not what is trending.
Not things people think I ‘should’ read (i.e. classics).
Also, I am unapologetically putting down books I’m not enjoying. No slogging through books that just aren’t for me, there’s not enough time in the day.
So, in case you were looking for permission here it is:
read your trash
read your romance
read your manga
read your epic fantasies
read your romantasy
read your smut
read classics if that’s what you enjoy
read thrillers
read shifter trash
read your horror
No genre is superior. No book length is superior.
It is not a competition. All reading is good reading. Whether it’s 1 book or a hundred.
You are supposed to enjoy reading.
So yeah, in contradiction to a lot of the crap that gets spewed on booktok or booktube, read whatever the fuck you like.
Here is your permission to just have fun with it.
Antonia Bernardin 
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