Set times, always carry a book, make a list, find a quiet place, reduce tv/internet, read to you kid, keep a log, have a library day, go to used book shops, read fun and compelling books, make it pleasurable, blog it, set a high goal, have a reading hour or a reading day...
It doesn't seem difficult to follow. I make it easier for myself. Putting 'have a library day', have a reading hour or reading day' together....I mean if there are no libraries around what I can do everyday is to spread all the books that I have around me so it feels like I'm in a library. Put the new one somewhere in the middle and then look for it. "Books are very good friends" so I show them my congeniality, "Ooooo darling I finally found you" and give it a warm hug and a kiss. Then I lean on a cushion and put two more cushions on both sides and one under my feet and here I go, I enjoy my reading. In winter it becomes cozier, you know, I spread my comforter all over the cushions and on me putting my feet outside.
I set time to an hour. To make the hour more pleasurable, I would make me tea or a coffee or lassi and have some snack. I don't think that I have to reduce TV/internet time because it's more fun doing all these things together because all the pleasures of the life are interlinked.
There can't be a place quieter than Mazar-e-Quaid or my own balcony, early morning.
"Read fun and compelling books", I don't agree with that. I can read "The Return of the Pharaoh" by sister Ghazali with the same interest as any other book.
'Always carry a book' and 'blog it'...good idea, I do carry books but I never blogged them. I'll try this one now.
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