Happiness Hack - Re-reading books edition

I have trouble re-reading books even when I want to re-read them. I just love to read so, of course, I have some books that I find worth re-reading but most of them I enjoy them and move on they served their purpose of entertaining me or giving me something to think about and then I move on.  It is fleeting but good.

However, there are books that I want to re-read because they really helped me with something that was going on in my life and I still hold them dear to me.  And I want to re-read them as part of a tune-up if you will of my life.  However, that has been a problem for me and I wanted to solve it because it was actually making me unhappy that I didn't get around to reading them.

As with anything you want to do you need to make time to do it, time won't just magically appear.  This meant I had to find something to motivate me to get it done.  I believe I have stumbled onto something that is working for me, book clubs.  I noticed on my town's library website they were doing a book club for The Happiness Project starting in January 2019, it was serendipity; (1) I wanted to re-read the book and (2) 2019 is my year of happiness (3) I knew that I had to get out of the house and be social which is hard for my introverted self.

With this book club, we took it chapter by chapter and it was only one chapter a month that was easy peasy for me I could fit that in and still read other things.  As the months progressed we even held book club over the summer despite the library being closed on Saturdays (which is when our book club meets).  So it inspired me to re-read another book that was on my list: The Tao of Pooh, but who would be my book club?

I roped my 16 year old niece into it, and while we didn't get all the way through the book together I did read most of it.  We would read a few chapters (2-3) every couple of week and I would call her and we would talk about it.  Ok, I did most of the talking but she said she liked it.  It was a way to connect with her because talking to a teenager isn't always easy for either party even when you want to talk.  I had a lot of fun with it and even though it is one the shelf for now because she has a lot of work for school I am certainly thinking about doing another book club with her over the summer and who knows I may expand it to include some of my other nieces.

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