I’m a Gen-Xer who read voraciously as a child and was often taken to the library. My idea of a good time In my 20s was having a full day to browse the shelves of the downtown public library, then (painfully) decide which ones to take home with me. Ibroadened my horizons like this before eventually pursuing post-secondary degrees in my 30s and 40s, both of which required a lot of reading.

Eventually, though, due to a very common combination of stressful life events and the cumulative effect of new information technologies (that is, tabbed internet browsing, smart phones, social media, and streaming video) the place that reading books held in my life eroded to the point that I ended up struggling for well over a decade – and not for lack of effort – to find my way back to regular book-reading. Having always thought of myself as a reader, this was psychologically disorienting and very frustrating.

Then I discovered the Tiny Habits method of habit formation. I had success and I’m happy about that. I’ve always enjoyed enjoyed reading both fiction and non-fiction (today’s tastes, link to reviews page).