2014 New Year’s Reading Resolutions

Since I was 7, books and reading have pretty much dominated my life, so it’s not too surprising that the only New Year’s Resolutions that I can come up with revolve around them. Here are a few to get things kicked off:

• Come up with a response for all the people who say things like, “I notice you’re reading a lot of novels lately” — as if they’re a second-class (or worse) thing to read.
• Think more about what I read (this blog helps, but I need to do more)
• Enjoy what I’m reading more — the process, the moments, the words.
• Re-read more. I think I re-read 6 books last year, not even 5% of my total. I’ve got shelves and shelves of things that I want(ed) to read again — I should do that.
• Do a better job here — in the reviews/rants as well as in branching out — posts about books/authors, not just about a particular book.

On the more micro-side — books in particular — I still don’t have a “big” aim or goal like I have most of the last few years, but I have a few smaller ones.

• Read more Non-Fiction (not a contradiction of the first resolution above, but a realization that I didn’t read a whole lot of Non-Fiction last year)
• You know those books I list that I’m excited about at the end of my Saturday Miscellany posts? I need to read more of those
• Catch up on the Temeraire Series (a holdover from the last two years)
• Finish the Old Man’s War Series (a holdover from the last two years)
• Finish the Lost Fleet Series (a holdover from last year)
• Catch Up on the Greywalker series
• Catch up on the Kara Gillian series
• Catch up on the Longmire Series
• Catch up on the Ceepak/Boyle Series
• Catch up on the Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Series
• Stay current with: Harry Dresden, the Iron Druid Chronicles, Toby Daye, Spenser, Carter Ross, the InCryptid books, Jane Yellowrock, Alex Verus, Charlie Fox, Mercy Thompson, Kitty Norville, Peter Grant, Jack Reacher, Andy Carpenter, The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, Kinsey Millhone, Nick Hornby, Jonathan Trapper, Matthew Norman, Robert Crais, Michael Connelly, Anton Strout, Rick Riordan, Ace Atkins, Rainbow Rowell, Michael Underwood, J. K. Rowling, A. Lee Martinez, and a few others that I’ve left off the list and will feel really bad about soon.
• Discover new (at least to me) SF, Mystery, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, and General Fiction writers

… all in 190 books or so.

Enough blather, gotta hit the books.