A Quest to Read a Book a Day for 365 Days

I did it for maybe two weeks during a summer back when I was 14... Very gratifying experience, it's sort of like going to the theatre every night, except it doesn't get boring.

Now I'm lucky if I read a book a week, sometimes even a month, with the amount of work I have all these years later. But I still remember that stretch where Wheaton Public Library was my best friend and a little smile comes to my face.

Of course, ask me if I can remember the plot of any of those books, even in the most general of terms, and I'll be instantly stumped. Even re-reading them, sometimes I'm not sure if I ever read that book before. Apparently, the brain's simply overloaded with info and just commits everything to temporary short term memory, being unable to store it all for future reference.

Me and a friend once vowed to write 'festive' articles for an online magazine we wrote. In the '25 days of christmas', we'd each write an article every other day. It was pretty intense - though we managed it - and we swore never to attempt it again.

As for reading, when I was 14 I could read 3 books a week (I used to read while I was walking to school, literally!), now I can manage 1 a week at best.

I've always been amazed at people who can read books very quickly. By comparison, I'm a slow reader, and I find myself reading paragraphs over and over since I rush it a bit.

Yeah, I could do a lot of fun things if I didn't have to work.

Her website: http://www.readallday.org/

Incredibly, she hasn't monetised her site and hasn't put amazon affiliate links for every book on there

You have to take this with a grain of salt: Those are fiction books. I suspected something like this when I read the title, and remembered a professor showing us 3 books and saing 'In each of these books, I was stuck on a chapter for around a week'.

Dude, you're gonna hurt yourself. I say this as a lord high master of the reading arts crafts and sciences. Don't do it.