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Do new things, Read

One new thing about my reading (I’ve read 27 books in 2019)

Quynh

Early 2019 I made a resolution to read as many books as I can. This is one of my 100 new little things. 

Some of you who know me may ask: Why is it a new thing because you have been reading your whole life? 

Yes but well, my reading pace is very slow. In some years I only finished 4 to 5 books, which I suddenly realized that it’s never enough!

So I devised a new tactic to read differently (I wrote a whole article about this tactic, you can check it here). 

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Do new things, Read

How to read differently

Quynh

Yea you may say: “We all know how to read” :))

But somehow the way we read as a habit will not help us in the long run. We come to a bookstore, choose just the books that we wanted to read, or we knew the authors, or we love the genres. Imagine you travel to a different country, wander on strange streets yet find to eat only your hometown dishes? Reading the same genre is similar to having the same dish. Yet a small bookstore could represent the whole world, not just a different nation, so please don’t choose your everyday habit, or your familiar genre!

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