I started out the year alternating fiction and nonfiction, then modified it to alternating current fiction with nonfiction or classic. I stuck to this pattern through the end of June, then decided to liberate myself from that rigid schedule and just read whatever I feel like reading for the rest of the year. That decision is based in part on the flood of new books from favorite authors this summer, and in part on NINETEEN library holds coming through on one day last week (about half of them books I'd recommended long ago and had either obtained from other libraries or purchased, but still a heck of a lot of new reading).
Though I'm glad I forced myself to read more nonfiction and more classics, I feel so much better without the self-imposed restrictions.
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