The 2010 Reading Resolutions Challenge is being hosted by Jenny at Jenny Loves To Read.

The idea behind it:

• Create your personal reading resolutions for the upcoming year in a post and link to it at the bottom. If you don’t have a blog, that’s cool too. Post your resolutions and updates in the comments of this post.
• Make sure to link back to this page so others can visit your pages and blogs.
• Get started on your resolutions! Once every 2 months, starting on February 15th, I’ll have a post to check-in and see how everyone is doing. Kind of as a reminder to you to check your own progress.
• Challenge runs from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010.

This particular challenge is perfect for me as I was just considering what I’m doing with my book collection.

As those of you who know me know, I love books and I have a lot.  Maybe not as much as some, but I still have a TON of books and my favorite thing to do is to go out and buy more.  So I continue to collect and collect and collect… and never get around to reading most of them unfortunately.

So I’ve got all these books on all these different subjects that I want to read, right?

Well, on top of that, I’m not nearly as well read as I would like to be and, through the magic and the mysteries of the Internet (and Project Gutenberg and stuff like that), I have access to all the classics that I would ever want to read, I’m sure.  So there’s that too.

AND, on top of all that, I have all these books I have chosen to review, right? They’re all from different places, but still. I requested them because I wanted to read them and review them, so I need to keep up my end of the bargain.  I also would like to build up my GoodReads, LibraryThing and Amazon.com reviews.  So, there’s that.

Never mind that I need to set a daily word count goal until my novels are finished.  But that’s going to be a COMPLETELY different post

I’m going to keep my resolutions simple and to the point.

1. I am going to read more of the classics this year.  In the 2010 Original TBR Challenge, I have listed a large stack of books that I want to read, many of them being classics.  I would like to read all 24 books in this list this year.
2. This year, I am NOT going to spend every dime I have buying books that I will not read for over a year.  That is not to say that I will not buy new books, but my resolution concerning book-buying is this: for every ten books I read from my own personal library, I can purchase two new books.  I think that’s reasonable.  Especially since I have so many books already that I need to read. (I’ll need help with this one, believe me!)
3. I will review all the books I read this year and post them to different review sites (GoodReads, LibraryThing, Amazon.com, and here).

And, for the time being, I really can’t think of anything else to say.  If I can think of something by January 1, 2010, I’ll add it here.  If not, these are the three reading resolutions I will abide by.

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1. 5 Book Challenges That I’m Preparing For 2010
2. Happy 2010! Resolutions are a GO GO GO!
3. Writing Resolutions?
4. The Really Old Classics Challenge: Dante’s “The Divine Comedy”
5. The Lure of Collecting

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