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My reading goals in retrospect.<\/p>\n
Do you like to hear the end of a story?<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t mean a storybook story\u2014I take it for granted, if the story is well-written, most people expect to hear the end of it. That\u2019s just part of the bargain with reading.<\/p>\n
But do you like to hear the end of real-life stories?<\/p>\n
So often we read articles which were written before the story was really done. We hear about people\u2019s problems. We hear about their \u201clightbulb moment.\u201d We hear the plan they put in place to overcome the obstacles in their path. We hear how they took the first few steps of the journey. And when a story like this has touched us, or amused us, or sparked our curiosity, we sometimes find ourselves wondering \u201cwhat happened in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n
So for those of you who shared in my reading goals<\/a>\u00a0at the beginning of 2019, here\u2019s a recap of how they went this year.<\/p>\n My first goal this year was to choose books that were spiritually good<\/a>. Thinking back over this past year, (okay, let\u2019s be a bit more honest than that\u2014scrolling backwards through my e-reader index, because my memory wasn\u2019t that strong!) I feel like I did keep this criterion in mind when I was choosing the books I read this year.<\/p>\n For the most part, the fiction I read, and the \u201cadvice\u201d books I read, were Christian books, where the Christian life played a significant role in the narrative. There were some books on that list where the \u201cgood\u201d qualities had to do battle with some \u201cbad\u201d ones\u2014some books I probably won\u2019t read a second time through\u2014but on the whole I do feel like the idea of positive, active spiritual development has become part of what I am looking for when I\u2019m choosing leisure reading material: and that\u2019s exactly how I want it to be!<\/p>\n One area I feel like I can be aware of for the coming year is non-religious non-fiction: how-to manuals, and homemaking books, and certain kinds of history, etc. These can tend to be close to neutral from a moral sense. They\u2019re not harmful, they\u2019re just not spiritually helpful, either. Which is fine, as long as they don\u2019t consume too large a chunk of my life!<\/p>\n My second reading goal for 2019 was to read books that were great from a literary perspective<\/a>.<\/p>\nGoal One: Choose Books That Are Good!<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Goal Two: Choose Books That Are Great!<\/strong><\/h5>\n