For the past couple of years, I have spent countless dollars on books that I have yet to read. This year, 2010, I resolve that I will not buy any books for myself until I read the ones that I already have--a number at the moment that hovers somewhere around 30.
This does not mean I can't check out books from the local library. I most recently finished reading The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance (a terrific memoir), and today I checked out Nurtureshock, which I have had on reserve for about a month.
Some of the books on my shelf I have begun and have never finished, like Reif Larsen's The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet. Others, like Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge, I have never even started.
So here's to a year of reading books that I already own or can borrow from a library. Sorry, Barnes & Noble.
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What a great resolution! I need to do the same!
Um...this makes me want to buy a bunch of books in 2010 so I can steal your resolution in 2011. Seems slightly dysfunctional somehow.=)
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