Stay at Home? No prob! Just hand me a book!
"Reading gives us someplace to go when you have to stay where you are." - Mason Cooley I've always loved losing myself in a book, but this year, I truly lived by the above quote. From heading to Chicago and D.C. with Michelle Obama in her autobiography, Becoming, to heading back in time to the 1940s in New York City with Vivian in City of Girls , I went places this year. The comfy corner of my couch and favorite yellow throw were my travel companions. My time was not only spent traveling, but it was also spent challenging my thinking. Many of the nonfiction books I read this year challenged my perceptions about racism. I learned so much about how my experiences have shaped my thinking and how that thinking needs to evolve. Here were the goals I set for reading in 2020: Read 36 books Read more nonfiction Try at least one audiobook. With the help of a global pandemic, I crushed those goals. I read 58 books this year. Out of 58 books, 17 were nonfiction. I li...