Confessions of a Bookworm

Have you seen those grown up coloring books that are so popular now? People are desperate for some down time.  And while I am a firm believer in coloring as a relaxing pastime (I love to color with my kids!), my favorite way to relax is to find a comfy spot and pick up a book!

I guess in the age of Nooks and Kindles, there is not as much of a need to go to the library or bookstore, but I'm just an old fashioned girl.  There is just something about having a book in hand that I will never give up.  I have a Nook and I do love it.  But I still love going to the library and just getting lost in the wandering around and looking for something good to read.  I swear my blood pressure goes down just being there.

Last year I wanted to read 20 books.  I honestly never knew how many books I read in a year. I wasn't really sure what kind of goal this was! (I read 24 and really felt like I could have done better!)  There are also lots of reading challenges online to make picking books more fun too!  I found a great one this weekend at my library.  This one is not too long and overwhelming and my girls felt like they could do it too.

I do love wandering around aimlessly at the library but I also like getting recommendations of things I think I will like.

That's where Goodreads comes in.  Are you familiar with the site www.goodreads.com?  I seriously love it!  You can put in books you have read and rate them.  Based on what you have read and liked, it will recommend other books to you.  No more, "I don't know what to read!"  Ever get to the library or bookstore and think, "Now what was that book I read about that I wanted to read?"  If you hear about a book that sounds good, you can look up that book on Goodreads and mark "want to read".  Then next time you are looking for a book, you can pull out your phone and see what it was.  You can even see what your friends are reading or have read and how they liked it.

Here are some books I loved last year!

   

My favorite new author is definitely Sarah Addison Allen.  She always has just a little bit of fantasy in her books, just enough to have you believing it could actually happen in real life.  I could not get enough of her stories!

   

I'll be honest, most of the time I read, it's not "heavy" super intellectual books.  This is my down time so I like to read things to entertain me.  But I am always looking for something I can get lost in.

Want to read more?  Turn off that TV and grab a good book.  And don't forget to set a reading goal for 2016!

Read more...it does a body good!
K