What I read in 2023

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This article was supposed to be written very fashionably on the 31st December of 2023, but my twins had plans of their own. They are really cute, so I guess I will happily forgive them. (For the parents out there, it isn’t as if we can do anything else once they flash their half-teeth smiles, right?)

2023 was great. I am going to call it the year of healing I did not know I needed. But one thing I really missed was my reading. Once the kids were put to bed, I had to be available to nurse them back to sleep and between the both of them, that meant a lot of night shuttling. I was not able to read conventionally – no physical books, no phone reading, no Kindle light, so at least half the year went by in me not reading a single book.

If you are the kind who doesn’t read, or someone who has lost the habit, I think you somehow miss it but don’t find it easy to go back. We get used to our routines no matter what they are, and making a new habit, reviving an old habit takes its own time and effort.

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