This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 448 episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

Podcast.

I haven't been reading as much these last few years as I used to or as much as I would like to. There were a lot of factors to this,

dizziness and distractedness being two of the big ones.

For someone who has routinely read over 100 books a year, I've put in rather

rapport showing these last few years with just around 40 books, many of which were

audiobooks for me this year, a new tack that helped me absorb books even when I wasn't able to sit and concentrate.

But I feel like I'm starting to come back into a good reading space.

Appropriately, the first book I cracked after my move was Sarah Clarkson's

owed to reading, Book Girl, which was exactly the right reinvigorating reminder of the

wonders of reading to start me off on a new leave.

I'm changing up my reading routine though, focusing less on cramming all my daily reading

into a two-hour evening slot and more in dispersing it

throughout the day a poem before I go out walking a snippet of Thomas Merton when I

first sit down at my desk, a chapter of a novel after lunch,

and whatever most interests me, mostly world history right now, for at least a half an hour

before bed.

And I know that it will rocket me back up to my old... at least a half an hour before bed.

And I know that it will rocket me back up

to my old pace of two books a week,

but I am thoroughly enjoying it.

And now I am pleased to announce that today's podcast is sponsored by Damanza, the excellent

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