Bet you didn’t think you’d get a bonus post today! Consider it a New Year’s present. I wanted to do this second post as it didn’t quite fit in with my usual TBR Tuesday post. I’m not ashamed to admit that I am a slow reader. However, I make up for this by being consistent. I make a point to read every single day. I want to extend this habit by taking a handful of much longer books I’ve been putting off reading and spread them across the year. A thousand pages seems a lot less daunting when you divide it by three-hundred sixty-five. Suddenly, you only have to read three pages per day. That’s quite manageable! (Plus, books with denser topics – like all of the ones I’ll be working on – become more digestible.) These are the books I plan to do this with:
- “The Origin of the Species” and “The Voyage of the Beagle” by Charles Darwin (I’m counting these as one book as I have them in a combined volume.)
- “The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allen Poe” The Modern Library Edition
- “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” by Joseph Campbell
It’s easy to see how this method will make each of these books simpler to get through. For Charles Darwin’s works, 913 pages becomes a simple two and a half to three pages per day. Poe goes from 1,026 pages to just three a day. And finally, “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” goes from 337 to two pages. (No, I didn’t get my math wrong, I just plan to get this read in six months, rather than taking the whole year.) Combined, these books only require me to read eight pages every single day. More than doable, if you ask me. You can expect updates regarding my progress on these books throughout the year.
How will you implement this concept for yourself? Do you have books you’ve been avoiding because they’re a hefty tome or dense topic? I’d love to know!
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