{"id":11366,"date":"2025-08-15T17:46:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/how-to-plan-your-perfect-reading-retreat\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T17:46:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:46:55","slug":"how-to-plan-your-perfect-reading-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/how-to-plan-your-perfect-reading-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"How to plan your perfect reading retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Recently, my sister Elizabeth and I returned from our Reading Retreat 2025, in Los Olivos, California.<\/p>\n

This year, our yearly challenge is to “Read 25 in ’25,” so we’ve been doing many different things to spend more time reading. For instance, we’re doing Simon Haisell’s Slow Read of War and Peace<\/em>, and we both did “Read 25 Day” in June. A retreat seemed like another fun way to bring more reading into our days.<\/p>\n

Several months ago, we’d had the idea for the retreat, and we’d been trying to figure out when and where to have it.<\/p>\n

Then I found out that I needed to travel to L.A. for work. Because I was planning to stay with Elizabeth in Encino, we decided to tack the retreat onto my trip. That way, for the two of us, we had fewer flights to book and less time spent traveling. It also eliminated the decision-fatigue of when to hold the retreat: it had to be before or after my work commitment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We chose Los Olivos as a spot within driving distance of Elizabeth’s house; chose our hotel, The Inn at Mattei’s Tavern; booked a room; and before long, we were spending two blissful days reading.<\/p>\n

We learned a few things:<\/p>\n