

I kept my Kindle right next to me so I'd have no excuse to do anything else - including eating breakfast or checking unread messages - before I started reading. But I had to at least start reading it before I did anything else. Any book I thought I'd enjoy, whether new, old, or in-progress, was fair game. Since I hate mornings so much, I allowed myself a lot of freedom when it came to what I read upon waking up. So what would happen if instead of blaring alarms and endless mugs of coffee, I tried reading in the morning to wake up my sleepy brain? I figured it was worth a try. Books make some people's eyes tired, but for me, they're like caffeine. until I thought of one more idea.One of the reasons I'm often up so late is because I tell myself "just a few pages" when I open a book for my nightly reading session and end up staying up until some ungodly hour because I can't put it down. I was ready to throw in the towel (and probably fall asleep on it). I've tried everything from coffee to exercise to going to bed earlier in an attempt to teach myself that mornings aren't the enemy, and all of my efforts have proven to be futile. I'm that person who sets ten obnoxious alarms and sleeps through all of them, making me the worst person to live with in the history of mankind. Morning is my least favorite part of the day, and a lot of it has to do with how hard it is for me to wake up. You know how they say there are early birds and night owls? Yeah, I'm definitely not the first one.
