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The Ballymena Today office is always full of books whether we are reading and blogging about our latest Ballymena bookclub choice, a graphic novel, cookbook or a textbook they are everywhere. Books are something which we now love but it wasn’t always like that. A few years ago I probably only managed to read one book in the whole year, however last year I read around fifty books and so far this year I have managed over thirty. Today, 8 September 2015, is International Literacy Day and to celebrate here are our tips for anyone who would like to enjoy reading more. 1/ I set myself the challenge to read 50 books in a year – I never through I would do it but when the challenge was there it gave me a purpose to start reading. Knowing I had a challenge encouraged me to find times when reading could be squeezed in easily, for example at lunchtime, on the bus, during the advertisements of my favourite television show etc. 2/ I joined a local bookclub – Knowing that you have to finish a book within a month gives you another deadline worth keeping. Nothing is worse than turning up to bookclub with a half finished book! Being in a bookclub has lots of great benefits which I didn’t expect. You meet lots of new and interesting people in a bookclub....