Picking up a lost hobby
Casual reading is a hobby that is steadily on the decline for me since the past few years, especially since I graduated and started working. As a meme goes, sometimes I do wonder if I am the same 14-year-old girl who had managed to squeeze all those novels into my daily evening schedule among the heaps of homework and assignments that the teachers used to bless us with. Somewhere along the line, I shifted to reading blog posts and small write ups instead of committing myself to books. Occasionally, when I do pay a visit to Goodreads, I become conscious of the various books that I had opened and left incomplete. It is a list of various grades of ‘incompleteness’ in a way. An accumulation of this guilt over a long time finally made me take up a rather doable Goodreads challenge for 2024; to complete atleast 12 books by the end of the year. I am happy to say it’s been going rather well so far. However, I am still not able to stick with one book and finish it before picking up anot...