I love reading. Last year I read over 60 books. I always try to read a mixture of genres, authors, etc so I end up reading quite a bit of non-fiction books. So the idea of reading 10 pages daily of non-fiction wasn’t completely outlandish! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Though some days it would’ve been easier not to read. Or it would’ve been more enjoyable to spend my reading time caught up in a fictional world. I was able to get this part done relatively easily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the beginning of the challenge I would read my 10 pages and stop. At some point I realized that I could read more than that and actually needed to so that I could keep up with returning the books to the library on time! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
By the end of my 75 days I’ve finished 16 books total and finished my 17th on the 76th day. And 7 of those were non-fiction, finishing the 8th the day after. I’m also about half way through a big 700 page book too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ll follow up with a list of my non-fiction books soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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