
Books have always been a huge part of my life. There is this magic that surrounds a book when you get lost in the story and sadness when you read the last sentence. I grew up with Harry Potter. And of course I wanted to be a wizard. I read all books about The Famous Five by Enid Blyton and I wanted to be part of that group. There wasn't a day without reading.
As a young adult I thought reading will be a huge part of my life forever. Well, this was one of the million things I was wrong about my idea about the life of grown-ups. (I thought they can do whatever they want all day long too, it seems that's not true as well, since I have to work all day long and can't do whatever I want)

I still love books and I still own a lot of books. My bookshelf is jam-packed with books. Yes, there is a second row behind the one you see. Libraries and bookstores are my happy places and I can spend hours in them. But there is so little time for reading because there are so many other things I have to do and want to do. In the last couple of years I didn't find a lot of time to sit down to read a book. It takes me weeks or even months to finish a book. This is not how I used to be. I was the one who read at least one book per week. Reading was part of my everyday life like brushing my teeth.
In June I saw this amazing Project Life Card Rachel made and I was blown away. These were the exact same words I was thinking about in the last few days.
And then we got the July prompt for One Little Word®. Among other things, Ali Edwards invited us to pick an action item that is just for ourselves. It was clear, that I chose to make time for reading. To start with reading one book per week was a little bit overwhelming, so I decided to pick three books at the beginning of the month and read them in the following four weeks.
I knew July was going to be a very busy month with the blog launch and there was still a book on my night table I wanted to finish so badly because it's a very good one. So I made the decision to start with this action item in August.
Here I am. It's the end of July, I finished that book on my night table and already picked three books I want to read in August. But this project wouldn't be an Andrea Project if there wasn't something crafty in it as well.
I want to keep track about what I read but didn't want to just write it down in one of my notebooks. So I made a 4x6inch minibook where I added a photo of the three books I'm about to read and at the end of the month I'll take the time to write down my experience with those books I picked.

Product sources: read more books card by Rachel, Made with Love Transparency designed by Nicole Reaves for Studio Calico, yes please Stamp from an older kit by Kelly Purkey.