What I'm Reading...

My wife gets the credit for super-charging my reading over the past year or so.

It started with me stopping reading altogether. I was sick of leadership, business, productivity, and other "boring" non-fiction books that has consumed my post college years, now half my life or so. I had not previously found them boring of course; I had spent north of a decade with my noses in the pages of classic reads from Peter Drucker and Steven Covey, to Jim Collins in the early 2000s, to modern reads in the early 2010s from business leaders and thinkers like Peter Thiel.

But I think I got tired of coming home and reading serious stuff just before bed. Nothing wrong with non-fiction, of course, but I wanted break. My wife was the obvious consultant... she had been reading 50 to 70 books a year for a few years at that point, probably half of those fiction. She prodded me to reintroduce fiction in my life.

I didn't know where to start, so I reverted back to my last long-term fiction writer I read, way back in my teenager years. Grisham and I about 30 years apart now, but I learned that he hasn't stopped writing, in fact he writes about a book a year now. I could sit here and write many words about his books, some are good, some are amazing. I'm sure there are some "blah" reads of his too, though I've only come across one, out of a dozen or so read in the last year.

But needless to say, that's how I got reading again. And after loads of fiction fun, I was ready to balance my diet back out again, and re-insert non-fiction reading into my diet as well. I plan to start sharing more here about what I'm reading and my thoughts on it -- particularly if I find something I highly recommend.

In the meantime, what are YOU reading right now? I'd love to hear about it in the comments!