I want to read everything and there isn't enough time

I am part of 2 book clubs and 2 book challenges = internal panic

I enjoy reading but I LOVE talking about the books I have read. I am a speech therapist at my core and my passion is communication. I am signed up to the Service 95 book club (a great resource if you haven’t tried) and a fun friendly book club where me and friends meet each month to chat. I find them a great way to read books I wouldn’t normally pick up. The Service 95 is great platform for expanding my knowledge on the book with the extra interviews and blog posts that month.

I have a book challenge for myself to read two books from each genre: Romance, Sci-fi, Horror, Thriller, Historical Fiction and Biography’s. I was falling into a fantasy smut hole I needed to claw myself out of. This has been great but now I want to read more than two in each genre.

I just finished Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. It’s not until I told my mum about the book that I realised how inspired by it I really was. I used to love classics but fell out of it during my Masters because I found I didn’t have the brain power to engage in them. Now I want to read every classic to help me broaden my understanding of references in contemporary literature. It’s now on my 30 before 30 list to read a ‘100 books to read before you die list’.

I feel like I am drowning in potential books to read. As a result, I am not reading any of them. Procrastination paralysis at its finest. I ended up reading even worse fantasy smut because of the digestible nature. It’s like watching New Girl for the 6th time instead of the series I half started that I wanted to delve into.

Maybe my effort to read a wider variety of books is making me read less! Let’s see how February goes.