Book Reading: Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
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What you need to know:
To create time, I read on my commute to work and during the weekends.
I am a self-claimed book junkie…I have always been an avid reader but I think my own personal relationship with reading started when I was 11. My best book will have to be Tell the Wolves I am home, a novel by Carol Rifka Brunt. I read it because I enjoy the fact that books provide an escape from reality and are a meaningful way to while away time.
I typically read four to five books in a month. To create time, I read on my commute to work and during the weekends. I use a rewarding system that motivates me to finish my weekly tasks quite early so that I am left with enough free time to read.
To connect with other readers, I run a book club called Between the Lines book club. We are an online book club and we read one book a month according to the pre-determined themes. The 75 of us meet virtually, on the first Saturday of the month to discuss the book we were reading.
What I like most about our book club is that besides being one another’s accountability partner, we read extensively—all genres; nonfiction, different kinds of fiction such as paranormal, historical fiction, romance, and thrillers.
We are reading Song of Achilles this month and some of the lessons I have learnt are the joys of loving freely regardless of whether your parents/family approve or not, the importance of accepting and loving children for who they are not who we hoped they will be or what we hoped they will accomplish, or the pleasure they are able to bring you and the importance of having a friend in your spouse.
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