Megan’s Book Resolutions
This year, I will try:
- To read more YA. Heather and Chris both read it, and I trust and respect their opinions. I’ve read it on occasion, but I tend to balk when presented with it. Why? Not enough nookie. I like knowing that eventually my hero and heroine will get busy, and with YA, I’m just not sure. That definitely makes me a stereotypical romance reader, and I’m not proud of it. Therefore, will read more YA in 2012.
- To re-read Jane Austen. I read her so much as a teenager, and I haven’t read her since beyond a few pages here and there. I still know sections of dialogue they echo in my mind as I reread, but there are books of hers (Mansfield Park, I’m looking at you) that I haven’t read as much. And I think I will appreciate her in an entirely different way than I did as a teen.
- To read outside of genre once in awhile. I read pretty exclusively within genre—romance, SF/F, mystery—and I used to read the occasional literary fiction book, or even non-fiction. I’d like to return to that balance again.
Christopher’s Book Resolutions
- Be more adventurous with my authors. Typically I reluctantly pick up new authors, more often I stubbornly stick to authors I know I like even if the quality goes down. This past year I started readingthings more outside my comfort zone and was pleasantly pleased, so motto for new year, “if it sounds remotely interesting, read it.”
- Get back to reading non-fiction. I love my fantasy and scifi but I have been neglecting my love of all things science and history. I would like to get back to reading more of it again.
- Quit being such an anti-lit fic snob. I always get made at lit-fic readers for dissing genre and putting it down, but I do the same to their books, which I need to stop.
- Get in a Tolkien Re-read before December. Starting with Hobbit and going through LOTR and Silmarillion. Haven’t decided on the Lost Tales yet.
Heather’s Book Resolutions
- Like Megan and Chris, I want to read more outside the genre. I generally get bored with anything without at least “strong romantic elements,” I know I’m missing out on a lot of great stuff that way. Must step out of the comfort zone every once in a while.
- Pick up a few more vampire books. I confess I get a little weary of ’em and thus haven’t read one in a while, but there are a ton in my TBR pile thanks to recs from bloggers and readers these last several months. Need to get on that.
- Cast a wider net in romance and YA. I read titles almost purely based on recommendations these days, but it’s always a blast to make a discovery myself. I’d like to do more of that.
- Stop spoiling myself for EVERYTHING, including books. I don’t read the last page of a book, but I do tend to flip through the pages as I’m reading, often spoiling myself for future events rather than taking them as they come.
Do you have any book resolutions for the New Year?
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