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Experience Reading in Community - Miss Known
Since I’ve taken this HUGE break to shack thing up on the blog, I never got to tell you how was my first readathon, The BookTube-A-Thon. If you heard, you’ll know it took place at the end of July. Today is September 9th and here I am rambling about something that should have been rambled last month. At that time, I was excited to try this new thing that would bring together a whole community. A few times I cross path with people saying they did not enjoy the idea of making a challenge out of reading. I understand why. Most importantly, you should be reading because you like, not to read more books then person X or accomplish some pointless goal. It’s not a race. Even though I was curious and once I get the curiosity bug only trying out can make it go away. After all, I could quit anytime. Sadly, my experience was cut short since I had to work for the last 4 days of the readathon. Although, it gave me enough time to experience different mind sets that came along. Now thinking about it, I think is so funny how seriously I was going to take this challenge. I made an overall weekly plan of what I should be reading in those days and writing down my process each day. I getter a list of the seven books and how many pages they had giving me the total amount of pages in the end of the week. If I read 240 pages every day I would complete the challenge – and math doesn’t lie! On the first day, I started off really good. I read one book and accomplished one of the challenges. Plus got 100 pages down on the biggest book of the pile. Which put me near the pages per day number. I was excited, motivated and ready for day two. In the following day, I had a breakdown. On the second day of the readathon, I was already sick of it. Don’t ask me what happen that day, just wasn’t a good day for reading. I got nearly half of my daily goal and, in the evening, I did not want to spend time reading. In that moment I started to have the guilty feeling for-not-doing-something-that-you-should or better something-that-your-mind-thinks-you-should. If I wanted to see a movie it was fine, but I was...
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