Discussion: What are your reading routines and habits?
Tell me about your reading life.
I get asked about my reading life a lot. (You can read about my own routine here.) Today, I’m flipping the question around to you.
What do your reading routines and habits look like in the course of a day, a week, or a month? Are there long-ingrained habits? Spells of binge-reading followed by more fallow periods? I would love to hear from you.
I imagine that hearing from others will inspire you to reflect on and perhaps even change your habits so that you can read more books and get more out of your reading.
I think I’ve written about this before but I always read something from a writer (fiction, drama, poetry), scholar (history, philosophy, reference), and teacher (essays, memoirs, scripture). So sometimes I’m reading anywhere from 3-9 books at a time. I find this formula helps me to not get into reading ruts and have a lot of diversity. I probably read anywhere from 50-100 pages a day (that includes audiobooks, which I use a lot for fiction, poetry, and courses).
I wake up early too, take a walk, then read, before I jump into the shower and get ready for work. That’s around 30 mins. At work, if I’m not busy, I sneak in reading time too. Thank god my job isn’t that demanding. Then when I clock out, I immediately grab my book. If I don’t have a new show to watch or a video game to play. In a day I can easily read minimum 50 pages. On the weekends, I get all my chores done then enjoy my day off with a book. Honestly, aside from basic human function things we need to do, all I ever do is read.