New Year's Resolutions: Reading

Every year, I write down a list of New Year Resolutions, in the hope that I will improve myself and my writing, and achieve some goals. This year is no different, and I've set out some of them below.

Books & Reading

This year I'm looking forward to reading lots of good books. I don't want to set myself goals that would spoil the enjoyment of reading. Often in the past I've had lots of books that I feel I 'should' read from 19th century classics to contemporary critically acclaimed literary masterpieces. I've come to realise however that I am a lazy reader. I like a good story, usually with a fast pace, good characters, good writing and in some cases a fascinating or wondrous subject. Recently I've read mostly crime thrillers, but always used to love SF and fantasy novels and sagas. SF (science fiction) in particular can have a sense of wonder and awe which is lacking in most other books. SF also has a limitless scope to explore different ideas and possibilities. I may therefore have a go at reading some SF & Fantasy again this year.

While not wanting to decide what I should read yet this year, I thought I'd set myself a couple of challenges. The first is to try and read authors begining with each letter of the alphabet in 2007 (though doesn't need to be in order). This is harder than you might think - I tried it a couple of years ago and the authors I wanted to read all seemed to have surnames that began with either 'B' or 'H'! I may not achieve it but it could be fun trying.

The other challenge is to read at least one book from each of the following genres:

Crime
Thriller
SF
Fantasy
Horror
pre 20th century classic
Historical fiction
Biography
New book (HB or PB first published in 2007)
Non-fiction: Historical
Non-fiction: Science

That's it for now, I've run out of time. More later.