I'm on a 36 day streak of reading a chapter or 2 every day, this is HUGE for me, I haven't read this consistently since... shit, 2008? 2010? When I still had a commute and a stupid phone

(instead of a smartphone to play music on)

mostly thanks to having it as a daily checklist item on Habitica but also because I remembered one of the things I used to do which was have an 'easy' book (YA novel, harlequin romance novel etc.) and a 'hard' book (whatever '''adult''' novel I was reading) and for every 2 chapters of the easy one I was 'allowed' to read

a chapter of the hard one

it was really my parents trying to get me off of 900 first-readers/juvenile fiction books per summer and onto something that was less fluff

but when I tell you it's been working even now? Even though the 'adult' book in this case is also pretty easy (Taste of Gold & Iron - Alexandra Rowland)

I mean 36 days! Consistent!

Nice!

I've also got Dracula Daily going at the same time, but despite the name it is not daily, and sometimes the day's entry isn't even a full page so I can't count it on Storygraph

(maybe this year I'll actually finish it)

Oh, nice!

I've been doing a lot of audiobooks and it's great

yeah! I've got some Audible ones left that I never listened to, I'll probably throw those in for while I do handcrafts

but I like that I'm actually reading again, and I knew I would, it's just hard for me to start new habits/restart ones I've dropped even if I enjoyed them

yeah

as I've progressed to needing reading glasses more, it's just easier

I also remembered that BookCrossing exists, and there's a Little Free Library a couple blocks from us, so if there's stuff in my tbr pile that I don't need to keep, I can tag it on BC and release it in the lil library

/nods