I don't make meaningful yearly resolutions for one very simple reason: I suck at them. From past experience, I know that I break them as quickly as I make them. I used to have two standard resolutions - to be more patient, and to swear less. I'd chuck a few more on top - things like 'Drink less' and 'Be kind to people,' you know the sort of thing. I've never managed to consistently keep them. A few years back I stopped making them altogether. This year, though, I decided that if Justin Timberlake could bring sexy back (I'm still not 100% certain that he totally did, but okay), then I could bring resolutions back. Kinda. I think where I failed before is that all of my previous resolutions were about things that I don't think I really wanted to achieve. Surely, if they were, I'd have made more of an effort? This time, I'm keeping it simple. My goals for this year are going to be based only around things that 1) I really want to do and that 2) interest me, which is what prompted my fandom resolutions post from the other day and, now, these bookish resolutions. Both of these activities - indulging my fangirl and reading like a fiend - are things I do everyday, and with great enjoyment, so I think that extending those just a little isn't going to be a hardship. If anything, I think it'll increase my love of them (and for them). This is going to sound ridiculously dorky but I'm going to say it, anyway. I am forever grateful to my parents for teaching me to read, for encouraging me to make up stories as a child, for not once telling me what I should/shouldn't be reading (I know that you know that I read Judy Blume's Forever at 10 and that I really wasn't ready for it but you didn't judge me for it or make a federal case out of it), and for allowing me to fangirl over Bromhead's cartoon editorials at the dinner table. Et voilà, here are my 5 bookish resolutions for 2013!
