Summer Goal #1: Be a reader
I made a list of things I wanted to do this summer, but probs won't do most of them.
But one thing that I might (Might) be able to complete, is wrapping up books that I started but never finished over my college career. There's 3 books and roughly 3 weeks til I leave the country, so if I can finish roughly one a week I should be in good shape.
I recently started an initiative at home making my sisters read for 30 mins a day b4 they can start playing games, but it kind of backfired (for the better?) in that now they attack me if I'm on my phone b4 reading.
Here are the books I hope to finish (in order):
Hábitos atómicos (Atomic Habits) by James Clear:
I saw a couple recs for this book on insta, so when I was in Eth-pa-ña for the summer I decided to give it a try. I'm a mega procrastinator and I had other books to try to read so I'm just really getting around to looking at, but the advice offered seems really useful so I'm trying to become a different person based on what James tells me to do. One of the pieces of advice that has stuck with me so far is that instead of focusing on goals, focus on changing your habits / identity to the type of person who would achieve those goals naturally. So instead of being someone who is trying to read more, I am a reader (TM), doing daily reading and finds reading more enjoyable than doom scrolling (not yet, but you got be a little delulu until it hits reality).
The book also stresses the importance of little changes making a big difference in the long run, so even if I can just improve myself by 1% this month then woohoo.
Next, Moriré besando a Simon Snow (Carry On) by Rainbow Rowell:
I got this book in a little ESG Secret Santa freshman year, and I have started and stopped reading this book numerous times, but only really got around to reading it last summer when I was Ethpaña and had to take hour trains each way to get into the main part of the city. It started off kind of slow, and the first time I was trying to read it my esp vocab was so tiny that it was quite difficult, but last summer I was breezing through it and it was starting to get goooood (love a little bit of enemies to lovers, whew). I'm already more than halfway through the libro, but its a big one so hopefully it gets done.
Finally, A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki:
It seems every summer I tried to start up a reader era. This book hails from reading era summer 2021, when I was working at Twitter. I was visiting NYC for a week and one of the people on my team was based there, so we met up for lunch. He was a Big reader and I wanted to read something so I asked for recs and he really liked this book. It tells the story of a woman who finds a diary washed up on shore from a young girl who's family recently moved from the US to Tokyo, and the kids... are not nice to her to say the least. but the book apparently also makes a larger commentary on how a person influences and changes the story they're reading, tho I never made it that far.
oh, I also megaprocrastinated reading the letters ppl gave me the last days of school, but I will do that soon (?)
I swear!