Hi, I’m Anne-Marie.
At the end of 2015, I turned fifty (an event which tends to concentrates the mind). As with many people, when I reached the half century mark, I took stock of my life up to that point and thought about what I wanted the rest of it to look like. Upon reaching this milestone, I could honestly say that I was very happy and very grateful for all of the many blessings in my life.
Since 1994, I have been married to Scot, the love of my life whom I met while we attended USC Law School. We have two amazing teenage children, Nick and Amanda, who are thriving and are a delight to us.
In 2004, we moved from Los Angeles to Boulder, Colorado. We built our dream home in the mountains and we love our life in this vibrant University town in the foothills of the Rockies. For the most part, I had wonderful relationships with my family and friends, enjoyed my part time legal practice, had fun planning travel for my family and friends and was actively involved in the community. Life was good.
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A few months after my birthday, I read The Happiness of Pursuit by Chris Guillebeau, a book about people whose lives were transformed after they embarked on a quest. I became intrigued by the idea of a quest and decided that I also wanted to have a quest. A few years earlier, I had decided to read 100 books in a year. I accomplished this challenge and thoroughly enjoyed myself.
I love reading. Indeed, my name is Anne-Marie Reader. Now I wanted to go bigger. Instead of 100 books, I decided that my quest would be to read 1000 books and to do it during my fifties.
I am also an avid blog reader (mostly on the subject of personal finance) and decided to document my quest to read 1000 books with this blog, thousandbookquest.com.
I hope you poke around my site and find some books to read. If you want to be emailed my quote of the day or my latest book review, sign up here. If you have a book recommendation for me, please leave it here. Happy Reading!
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