what i read in May.
8 books...SERIOUSLY?! I can hardly recognize myself.
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Whoa, May started quietly. A month like any other. Juggling many books at once. I never expected to be able to finish them all in time. But, at the end of the month, I checked StoryGraph and I had my confirmation: 8 books read.
Maybe for many of you it won't be a lot, for others it will be an unlikely number to reach. The fact is that, for me, it's the first time. In 31 years of life, I have never read so many books in a month.
And if I have to "analyze" the how, the why, I can only give two reasons:
I started reading many more ebooks, and I noticed that I read much faster and much more during the day, compared to paperbacks.
I was overcome by such a longing feeling, a yearning, waiting for something personal to come to fruition, that I needed a distraction, something to occupy my mind with and make the time pass quickly.
As it happens, I have to s…
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