Reading Goals for 2014
Jan. 11th, 2014 10:05 pmSo, a new year demands New Year's resolutions, and I've made a few about what I want to read this year.
1. The paper TBR pile. As you may know, I have multiple chemical sensitivities (also known as environmental illness). It's been a long time since I could read a paper book without baking it thoroughly to drive out the toxins, and even then I had to put a lot of books inside plastic bags to read them because they didn't detox completely. The sensitivities have been getting more and more severe, and virtually allmy reading is done electronically.
But before things got this bad, I had amassed a very large pile of paper books I wanted to read. I've managed to detox some of them enough that I can read them a few pages at a time, and I've obtained ebooks for a number of them, and I've been chipping away at the pile. But there's still about 175 paper books left in that pile, and my first goal this year is to significantly reduce that number.
2. There are a fair number of series by authors I enjoy that I've kind of let slide. I want to catch up with at least a few of those series. The ones that come to my mind are:
Naomi Novik's Temeraire series
Laurie King's Mary Russell series
Conn Iggulden's Ghengis Khan series
Michelle Sagara West's House Wars series
Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monnette's Iskrayne series
Patricia Morrison's Rennie Stride series
C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner series
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series
3. Maintain diversity in my reading. Particularly with respect to books written by people from cultures and countries outside the mainstream English-speaking world of Canada, Great Britain and the US.
That should be more than enough.