[ r e a d t r e a t ] - July wrap up and new dates
[ July wrap up ]
Hi
One month in! A big thank you if you joined the first *ever* [ r e a d t r e a t ] events last month. We had bookworms from Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne in Australia, Santiago in Chile and the Assam region of India (who joined at 1.30am!), reading across fiction and non-fiction categories.
What we read together in July...
📚 The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker by Forte Nielsen and Sarah Thurber
📚 Death by Meeting by Patrick Lencioni
📚 Strive by Dr Adam Fraser
📚 Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
📚 Drive by Daniel Pink
📚 How Cities Work by Jen Feroze
📚 Psycho-cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
📚 A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
📚 The Life Plan by Shannah Kennedy
📚 Immunity to Change by Dr Robert Kegan & Dr Lisa Lahey
📚 Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
📚 Raising Boys by Steve Biddulph
📚 The Responsibility Process, Christopher Avery
📚 Know Your Onions: Graphic Design by Drew de Soto
Personally, I had a monster reading month in July with 8(!) books read. Although I'll admit, a couple of them were very short reads. This saw me overtake my 2019 total books read total (32 books) in just seven months which I'm quite pleased about. I'm moving house over the next couple of weeks so I feel that July helped me get ahead for August.
I also found that being 'ahead' in my reading for the year, gave me the feeling of 'permission' to get back into a book which I started over a year ago but didn't get too far through - Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. It's a thick book and I was travelling a lot when I started reading it (remember those days?!) so its lack of portability stopped me getting far into it. It feels good to be reading something both different and incredibly relevant.
In the middle of the month, I took 10 days off, which felt a bit strange in the midst of a pandemic and with Melbourne in stage 3 lockdown (although did significantly contribute to that reading total). I mused on my 'lockdown holiday' here, if you're interested.
Would love to hear what you're reading at the moment and how this whole pandemic thing is impacting your reading habits. Are you reading different books? At different times? At a different pace? Hit reply and let me know.
[ upcoming dates ]
[ B.A.F.F.F. (aka bring a friend for free) ]
Firstly yes, I did want to call this 'bring a real friend for free, or BARFFF', but I resisted.
Anyway, I'd love for everyone to bring a friend and create a social element to the readtreat sessions. It's one of the things you can do together but apart whilst many of us are still in various stages of lockdown.
How, you ask?
1) tell your bookish friend all about it by sending them this email or a link to www.readtreat.space
2) ask them to book in for a session using the BAFFF ticket type
OR
3) you book a BAFFF spot for them and send them a lovely note telling them
Easy peasy.
[ readtreat treats ]
Don't forget, readtreat attendees can get 15% off your own copy of Archley's beautiful book journal, The Book of Books. A great way to capture what you're reading, your top take aways from the book and what else was going on at the time.
Of course it also makes a perfect gift for the bookworm in your life (especially if that bookworm is yourself).
Photo by the talented Nina Malling
[ how readtreat works ]
Finally, if you haven't made it to a session yet, here's how [ r e a d t r e a t ] works.
[ DO THIS BIT RIGHT NOW ]
– book a spot at one of the upcoming dates using the buttons above
– put it in your diary (there’s a handy option to add it to your calendar when you book)
- tell a friend about it or share on your social media (you can tag @stephsbizbookshelf on Instagram)
You’ll receive a link to the online reading room one day before the session.
[ ON THE DAY ]
– make sure you’re in a comfortable spot (tea and snacks are strongly encouraged)
– log into our Zoom library (witty & punny name for this space still pending!)
– turn up with your latest reading material (fiction, non-fiction, magazine… it’s up to you)
– say a quick hi to your fellow bookworms
– enjoy the uninterrupted dedicated reading time
That’s it.
If you’ve got small people, big people or animals who would like to enjoy this communal, quiet reading space with you, they are always very welcome.
Looking forward to reading together.