{"id":582,"date":"2010-01-01T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2010\/01\/01\/what-are-your-reading-resolutions-for-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-01-01T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T08:10:00","slug":"what-are-your-reading-resolutions-for-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"What Are Your Reading Resolutions for 2010?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/articles\/blog\/660000266\/20100101\/2010_Bsm.jpg\" alt=\"\">Happy New Year, ShelfTalker readers! If you&#8217;re like me and a large section of the population, you&#8217;ve probably been making a few resolutions during the past 24 hours. If so, were any of yours reading-related? In wanting to put together a post about reading-related resolutions I went digging for some examples of the type of challenges we readers&nbsp;sometimes set for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p> Celeste Ng, a blogger for the Huffington Post, recently announced her 10 ambitious&nbsp;&quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/celeste-ng\/readerly-resolutions-for_b_397554.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Readerly Resolutions<\/a>&quot; for 2010, which include her intentions to &quot;borrow a Kindle and read an e book,&quot; &quot;go to more author readings,&quot; &quot;subscribe to a literary journal (not just the New Yorker),&quot; and &quot;re-read an old favorite.&quot;<\/p>\n<p> Last year, Kelly Watson of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.romancingtheblog.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/02\/reading-resolutions-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Romancing the Blog<\/a> resolved, among other things,&nbsp;to read one YA book for every adult book she read, to try to read at least one author that&#8217;s new to her every month, and to read &quot;at least two books from the genres [she] avoid[s] like the plague: Horror and Western.&quot;<\/p>\n<p> Also at the start of 2009, the bloggers of the <a href=\"http:\/\/eleventhstack.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/02\/new-years-reading-resolutions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eleventh Stack<\/a>&nbsp;blog of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh each announced their intentions for the year. I loved reading their well-intentioned and wide-ranging remarks. Renee resolved, for example,&nbsp;to write reviews of everything she&#8217;s read (a resolution I should be making myself); Irene resolved to finally read <em>Moby Dick<\/em> from start to finish; Julie resolved to read or re-read all the books about which she&#8217;d be leading discussions at the library; and Bonnie resolved to &quot;get a bus pass and stop driving to work. Since I got my parking pass, my reading habits have become deplorable. I know that if I&rsquo;m riding public transportation, I have at least an hour of reading time guaranteed every day.&quot;<\/p>\n<p> How about you? What are your reading resolutions? Announce your intentions here and at the end of 2010 we&#8217;ll check back in to see how many of you actually read or did what you resolved to do. Perhaps by publicly announcing your intentions you&#8217;ll be increasing the odds that you&#8217;ll actually follow through!<\/p>\n<p> (The 2010 image at the top of this post is by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedigitalphotos.net\/images\/view_photog.php?photogid=809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Francesco Marino<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year, ShelfTalker readers! If you&rsquo;re like me and a large section of the population, you&rsquo;ve probably been making a few resolutions during the past 24 hours. If so, were any of yours reading-related? 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