Happy New Year
We’re still easing into the New Year at BGB headquarters, which is violating the spirit, if not the letter, of several resolutions. My wife stumbled noticed a passage in Patti Smith’s Just Kids that I missed at the time: Patti’s mom told her, “how you spend New Year’s day is how you will spend your year.” I guess I’ll be hanging around the house in my jammies all year with nary a book in site. Still, I took time out to read through Jacket Copy’s 31 Literary Resolutions for 2011 collected from various contributors.
I liked quite a few of the resolutions and decided to come up with my own and/or adopt a few of those presented in the article. I plan to continue to “follow my instincts” in choosing my reading, but I also want to be open to more books by female authors, more non-fiction, more books by foreign authors and/or translated works, more graphic novels, more classics, more books from small presses and “indie” authors, and more books that challenge and broaden my comfort zone. I want to post reviews of books in a more timely fashion this year and incorporate more author interviews into the site. I will take more notes on my reading this year. Some of these notes will be in the books themselves. I will find good homes for the books that I do not intend to keep ( agrowing mountain of books).
What are your literary resolutions for 2011?
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By flavawheel, January 4, 2011 @ 9:14 pm
To read a single book. I wish I were kidding. Somewhere along the way, I became a moron. Books and NPR have been replaced by Sports Illustrated and Tosh.0. F’in suburbs.