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2012: Reading resolutions and recommendations (3 posts)

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  • Profile picture of Jane Bradley Jane Bradley said 4 months, 2 weeks ago ago:

    Most of us are back at work by now, but before those weeks of lazing around in a slanket accompanied by Quality Street, booze and books fade into a hazy memory, we want to know whether you made any new year’s resolutions relating to reading? Finally going to finish every Penguin Classic? Going to kick the Harry Potter erotica habit? Tell us your reading resolutions, and make sure you come back and keep us posted on your progress…

    And if you want to rave or rant about what you read over the break, this is the place to do it. Tell us what we should (and shouldn’t) spend those Christmas pennies on…

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  • Profile picture of charlotte charlotte said 4 months, 2 weeks ago ago:

    I’ve set myself a reading challenge~~ on GoodReads, but not really decided to read more or less of any one type of book since I’m sure I’d find it difficult to stick with. But then again, I have resolved to read more poetry – more poetry books, blogs, magazines, and everything else.

    I just read Stuart Evers’s Ten Stories About Smoking, which is fine. Not wonderful, but fine. But I also read Rosemary Clement-Moore’s book Texas Gothic, which is wonderful – funny and romantic fantasy YA, without being too fluffy or flowery or absurd. It’s made me want to read more books set in Texas, too.

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  • Profile picture of Sarah Kiddle Sarah Kiddle said 2 months, 3 weeks ago ago:

    I’ve set myself a challenge to read lots of my to-be-read pile, based on a model I found online (http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/799082-challenge-rules) but adapted slightly. I was a bit worried to realise that even aiming for Everest (100 books this year) my TBR pile remains enormous! I’ve just started ‘The Golden Notebook’ by Doris Lessing and am already awed by her intellect. I’m also on the last of Jennifer Worth’s memoirs, ‘In the Midst of Life’, which examines how our society views death and treats the dying. I’ve found the whole series inspiring, humbling and fascinating in equal measure. Like Charlotte my plan this year encompasses a whole range of genres, but I will be reading some sci-fi classics lent to me by a friend – ‘Ender’s Game’ is one but I can’t recall the others – I’ve been putting it off for too long!

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