My Reading Project

So I've decided to read all the books I've cheated myself out of during middle / high school and early college. I had the habit of reading a few pages, the back cover, then listening to a few comments about the reading from classmates then fabricate a very strong opinion to the point that by conviction alone, everyone would believe that I must have read the book to have such a strong opinion.

While I learned a valuable skill doing this, BS and chicanery is my bread and butter sometimes, I think I really gypped myself out of something more valuable I could have gotten, personally, from the reading.

To this day, books like Siddhartha, Ender's Game, The Alchemist, and Perks of Being a Wallflower stand out in my mind and really impacted how I often looked at my life, not just because they were amazing, but because they're among the only books I've read, drowned in, surfaced for air, then returned to. I love these books, but maybe some of the other books I skipped over for not wanting to do the work would have had just as heavy an impact on how I view the world.

So I'm returning to them.

I've already ready two of them in the last two or three weeks: As I Lay Dying and The Bell Jar. I wish I had reflected on them as I was reading them, but I'm going to use this blog to reflect on what I recall from them and then, moving forward, I'll comment on the reading as I go.

Ready? Set? Go!