{"id":5352,"date":"2015-07-17T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghostblogwriters.com\/?p=5352"},"modified":"2015-07-17T10:00:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T15:00:32","slug":"getting-back-into-reading-thanks-to-my-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghostblogwriters.com\/getting-back-into-reading-thanks-to-my-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Back Into Reading Thanks To My Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4866\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4866\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4866\" src=\"https:\/\/ghostblogwriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/20121130_sarah_dayne_079-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Dayne &amp; Sarah Shuda\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My wife got me back to the library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At most points in time you can find me reading at least one book.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve fallen into the habit of reading books on iBooks on my iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard some feedback on that and how it&#8217;s probably not good for my eyes. I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s true. My eyes can go a little wonky after reading on that small screen for a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>And it does get annoying to continually swipe to turn hundreds of pages.<\/p>\n<p>But the phone has worked pretty well for me over the years.<\/p>\n<h2>Back To The Library<\/h2>\n<p>But last week my wife and I went to the local library.<\/p>\n<p>It was an idea she had been working on for some time. She&#8217;d mentioned that she wanted to go and finally she made the commitment and I went along.<\/p>\n<p>We walked in and signed up for our cars. That process only took a few minutes. Then we were on our way into the heart of the building where all the books were.<\/p>\n<h2>A Huge Selection Of Books<\/h2>\n<p>When we started walking around the library with all the books I couldn&#8217;t believe it. I don&#8217;t know why I was surprised because the point of a library is to see a lot of books.<\/p>\n<p>My wife had a few books she wanted to check out first so we went to that section and found the books.<\/p>\n<p>After that we started browsing the non-fiction area and we went our separate ways for a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>When I met back up with my wife she had a handful of books and I teased her a bit.<\/p>\n<p>But the same thing had happened to me. There were a ton of books that I wanted to checkout.<\/p>\n<p>I felt like a kid looking at all the information that was there just waiting to be consumed. I felt that urge to learn and to build wisdom and learn about things I&#8217;m interested in, but not well versed in.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up selecting just one book. I thought I should pace myself to read one book at a time. I&#8217;ll read it and then take it back.<\/p>\n<h2>The Benefits Of The Library<\/h2>\n<p>So at the moment I&#8217;m reading one book on my phone, one on our Kindle and one physical book. All three are golf books.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m about midway through the one I got from the library. I had been reading it pretty solidly for a few days, but then got back into the book on the Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>My plan now is to read through all three and especially the ones on the devices. I want to get through those so I can focus only on library books.<\/p>\n<p>The obvious benefit of the library is the price: FREE!<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t believe it and I should have known that fact.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be nice not having to spend $10-$15 on books anymore. I probably still will. The selection was pretty impressive to me with the number of books our local library had including some hard-to-find classics and some new books.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little cash, maybe $15\/mo, that I spend on books, but that will be nice.<\/p>\n<h2>Thanks To My Wife<\/h2>\n<p>My wife brings a lot of good to my life and this is another example. I don&#8217;t think I would have ever thought to go back to the library without her. Now I think I might get hooked. We both might get hooked.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s one more thing we can share together.<\/p>\n<p>Next up is setting aside time for reading each day. It&#8217;s obviously easier if the books you&#8217;re reading are interesting. But with only so many hours in the day it probably means cutting out some other things and for me that&#8217;s probably TV. I don&#8217;t think I watch a ton right now, but maybe even cutting out TV all together.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;ll be that much of a challenge especially with the thought of gathering great knowledge from all the books in the library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week my wife wanted to go to our local library. I hadn&#8217;t been in a library for many years. I was surprised how excited I got when we arrived and walked around. 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