This year I decided to sign up for a Reading Challenge at my local library. There are fifty different categories and a different book must be read for each category. 50 books in a year!! When I signed up for it, I felt that it was an unrealistic goal that I would not be able to complete. I signed up anyway though, and I have to say that I have enjoyed it immensely. I am also almost halfway done with my 50 books and it is only the beginning of April.
My joy for today is a series of books that I have found as a result of this Reading Challenge. I am a person with a very high level of anxiety and some of the categories caused me a lot of stress when I first read through the list. I have a hard time with horror novels and true crime dramas. These topics just cause me a ton of anxiety and give me more things to worry about, and I don’t need that at all! So someone in the Facebook group for the reading challenge suggested the first book in this serious (the book pictured is the second book). These books are my new obsession. As an anxious person, I can absolutely handle reading them. They are light and funny and yet have crime and mystery in them as well. I have found myself reading them and finding ways to fit them into different categories on the list so that I can continue to read them and complete the reading challenge all at the same time. Being able to read something that in the past I would not have even attempted, out of fear of my anxiety, gives me great joy!
Joyful Mama 