Start a book club and read at least 6 books a year.

“While lazing on my sofa and looking at my fully loaded bookshelf, and before I could ‘overthink it to death’ (if there was an award for it — I would win hands down!), I downloaded the app and just created a new book club group! [...] For the first meeting I picked one of my favourite local cafes as the location to meet, fool proofing the plan this way in my head, because if no one showed up then I will at least have a nice Cappuccino along with some people watching or reading a book — an evening well spent. 5 people showed up to this first meeting! It was a great evening meeting new people with interesting conversations about books. [...] The book club meets monthly to review a different book every time. This gives me the motivation (or ‘deadline’ for lack of a better word) to finish reading the book before the meeting (because as the host I constantly strive to avoid the embarrassment of showing up for a meeting without having fully read the book!). It has made reading a part of my life and routine again and as a result on an average I read 15–16 books a year — a HUGE achievement for me!”

“Our book club was not a social club when we first formed it, and to be frank, we usually do read the book and talk about it in depth. But it has also led to amazing friendships. While I knew several of the people in the book club before we started meeting, there were some new people too, and my friendships have grown deeper and wider as a result. Book clubs give you a shared reason to be together and help guide the conversation, removing any barriers of what to talk about. [...] To date, we've read around ten books, and instead of meeting at the brewery, we now rotate between each other's houses and apartments.”