This June, I committed to start reading again and making an hour daily to do that. I got inspired by my friend @silvercrown1 who started blogging about his reading journal on Hive Book Club. In the past, I tend to force myself reading more than an hour and finding it challenging to stop. However, these days, I have a timer and I am okay with stopping after an hour. This is how my daily schedule looks like whenever it comes to reading. Around these hours, I am somewhat alert but also need a way to quiet down my brain, so reading has been a great way for me doing that, adding more distraction to my brain and actually learn something new.

In the past, I wasn’t so open minded about e-book and was pretty much against it. But now, I am okay with reading from an e-reader or an e-book as long as it has the book that I badly want to read. At the same time, reading an e-book gives me a way to filter which book is worthy to buy and which one it isn’t.

Where I am from, international and English books aren’t easy to find. Some titles aren’t available locally and the only thing I can find is through buying the e-book version of Shopee. Honestly, I feel guilty and it’s probably my sin as a book nerd to buy things from shoppee especially the e-book version but if that means later on I could pick and choose which one to get and saves me time and money, why not? I could really playing the devil’s advocate on my own but I decided to just YOLO.

These are my June E-book Shopee haul. The one I am currently reding is The Intelligence Trap by David Robson. This books attempts to layout why high IQ doesn’t always equate to success and it has some interesting terminology that can be used in our day-to-day conversation. Just by reading words on the book alone, it makes you feel a little smarter.

One of my latest habit is reading backwards. Typically people read from the introduction to the ending but for me, I find more convenience reading it from the last page working my way to the first page. By reading backward, to my brain makes quite a perfect sense. It’s like knowing the answer first then figuring out and finding out the details as to why certain things work that way. Have you ever tried doing that? if not, it’s a great way spicing up your reading habit and the way you approach a book.

While I might not finish everything by 23/7, I am deserving a pat on the back for starting to read again and learning something new.