Let's Read a Book, Shall We?

Anyone else out there a total bookworm? I was a little book NERD back in the day but between middle school and now, I've had less and less time to sit down and read as my life has gotten more and more full with real school and work and a social life.

In recent years, I've started books and had them sitting for MONTHS before I get a bug up my butt to finish them. When I was younger, I would be reading 4 or 5 books at a time. The state of my literary life is just downright depressing. And I would like to change that. 

Now, in 2014, I've made it my goal to read one book each month. I'm working right now to finish up Veronica Roth's Allegiant, the third installment in her Divergent series. For some reason, with her books, I start them, put them off for a couple of months and then devour them whole out of nowhere. Couldn't tell you why. I just can't get into it right now. So while I'm putting that off, I'm watching Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman online. My goal is to start the book up again on Sunday since it is a truly free day for me, and then read it by the end of next week.

We'll see how that works...shall we?

Next on the list though, I'm reading The Geography of Bliss. I can't remember which celebrity's Instagram that I saw it on, but I saw it and well, I had to read it.

Here is the summary from Amazon:

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? With engaging wit and surprising insights, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.

I thought it sounded like a pretty solid book to start off the new year, right? 

I'll let you know how it turns out. I'm really hoping my little plan is going to work out well.