So it’s January and the start of another year, the Christmas holidays really did speed by, didn’t they! The New Year brings with it both good and bad things: the realisation that Christmas is 355 sleeps away, a new school term, the appearance of Easter chocolate in the shops (yes really!) and of course New Year resolutions. Now I love making resolutions at the start of a New Year. It’s just the perfect excuse to try something new or put an end to that bad habit.
But historically I’m not the best at resolutions, mainly because I choose ones that are just too hard. For example last year I came up with the idea of only eating chocolate once a week, I mean seriously that was never going to work was it? Similarly the idea of walking home from work every day (only an hour a day) was a big fat fail when it rained on January 5th. So this year I was determined to come up with a more realistic resolution and so I’ve settled on the idea of a reading resolution, so in 2012 I’m going to read more. 52 books to be precise, one book a week for the whole year. I think this is a fairly realistic resolution and will be a lot of fun (although ask me again in December when I still need to read 20 books in three weeks)!
Coming up with my reading themed New Year resolution got me thinking about what other resolutions you could make that are related to books and reading. So below I’ve shared some of the ideas I’ve come up with, who knows it might inspire you to make your own reading New Year resolution.
Read every book written by Roald Dahl – Roald Dahl is the World’s Number 1 Storyteller so reading all his books would be a fantastic treat. What fun it would be to be transported to the wonderful world of The Twits, James and the Giant Peach and Danny the Champion of the World.
Read all the Puffin Classics – Anne of Avonlea, What Katy Did, Wuthering Heights, Peter Pan, Black Beauty, The Wizard of Oz and The Railway Children. There are so many fantastic Puffin Classic books available that I wouldn’t know where to start with this, but it would certainly get me reading more!
Read all the books featured on the Puffin blog – this would be a fun reading challenge and help me keep my resolution of reading more books in 2012. It would also involve quite an eclectic mix, a bit of Wimpy Kid, a dash of Wereworld and finishing off with everyone’s favourite The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Read one new book a month – Here at Puffin we publish lots of books each month for children of all ages; from picture books like Happy Birthday in Dragon Wood to fantastic series like Spy Pups and books for teenagers like The Lunar Chronicles: Cinder. So it would be great to read a brand new book each month, who knows I might find a new favourite book!
What do you think, do any of these reading-related resolutions tickle your fancy or are you going to stick to more traditional New Year resolutions like eating better and playing more sports? Whatever resolution you choose, fingers crossed you have a reading-filled and absolutely splendiferous 2012.
Fiona Evans
Marketing Executive
Media and Entertainment and Puffin
