Alessandra is reading…

Great Expectations is putting me into a reading slump. I was doing great and really liking it. And then around page 150 the other day I hit a wall and I can’t get back into it – I do a few pages a day and I can’t focus and am disinterested.

So is it that the book got boring all of a sudden or is it that other things in my life are taking the attention away from Great Expectations? Honestly, I think it’s the latter. I think I’ve just gotten really caught up in Thanksgiving coming up and focused on lifting more – I attempted multiple PRs when working out this week. These combined with how my life’s been going since getting engaged and getting the puppy are probably what’s doing me in with my reading focus.

As long as I keep on reading, no matter the pace, my brain will keep working. I did make up a goal in September of trying to read more pages (not specifically the amount of books, but if that also happened that’d be pretty cool) than I did last year in 2021, but now I think I’ll be changing my personal goal to just reading every day. And enjoying it and thinking. Because that’s all I really should expect of myself. (And maybe finishing GE, but not totally holding myself up to that because Christmas, New Years – more holidays with a potential GE reading slump.)

To get myself out of this, I thought tonight I’ll put GE aside for the moment and look at some art in Vincent Van Gogh’s trees written by Ralph Skea and a nice Hallmark-like holiday book.

Read on, and don’t be afraid to tailor those reading goals to how your life is changing.