{"id":419,"date":"2013-01-22T14:24:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T14:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/cindy2\/index.php\/2013\/01\/22\/literary-resolutions\/"},"modified":"2019-10-23T12:54:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:54:42","slug":"literary-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/22\/literary-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometime around the end of December, someone (Carrie Jones?) posted on Twitter about literary resolutions. At the same time donalynbooks and the Nerdy Book Club talked about Reading Gaps&#8211;areas or genres that are gaps in usual reading.<\/p>\n<p>I realized that I always make literary resolutions: # of books I&#8217;m going to read during the year, # of adult or nonfiction, things like that. I always have piles of books to read and never enough time to read them. My little notebook is filled with lists of books I&#8217;ve heard of and am excited about.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s evidence. These are the books on my &#8220;I want to read them right now&#8221; pile:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cfaughnan.livejournal.com\/pics\/catalog\/383\/57196\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/cfaughnan.livejournal.com\/pics\/catalog\/383\/57196\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IMG_0181\" src=\"http:\/\/ic.pics.livejournal.com\/cfaughnan\/2914931\/57196\/57196_300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0181\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-cke-saved-src=\"http:\/\/ic.pics.livejournal.com\/cfaughnan\/2914931\/57196\/57196_300.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>There are more piles behind them. And on the next shelf. And by the bed. And the last thing I need is another list\/pile of books to read.<\/p>\n<p>But I like the idea of literary resolutions. And I like thinking about my reading gaps (besides adult and nonfiction).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m already reading the Newbery winners in order from 1965 forward with <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"cursor: default;\" src=\"http:\/\/l-stat.livejournal.com\/img\/userinfo.gif?v=100.3\" alt=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" data-title=\"\" data-user=\"jbknowles\" \/><a style=\"color: blue; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/l-stat.livejournal.com\/js\/ck\/\" data-title=\"\" data-user=\"jbknowles\" data-cke-saved-href=\"#\">jbknowles<\/a>. That&#8217;s an easy literary resolution to continue and one I&#8217;m really enjoying. (We&#8217;re up to discussing <em>Summer of the Swans<\/em>, the 1971 winner.)<\/p>\n<p>Carrie had made a resolution to borrow and read two books off a shelf in the library every week for this year. I liked that idea, but changed it to fit a reading gap as well. I will take out 5 random picture books from a new shelf in the library each week and keep track of what I read. So far, I&#8217;m enjoying this. I&#8217;ve taken out my 5 each week plus a few on display. And, because I&#8217;m thinking about picture books, I seem to notice them more in reviews and bookstores, so I&#8217;ve tried to find some of the ones I hear about.<\/p>\n<p>My other reading gap is graphic novels. I&#8217;m going by librarian recommendations on this one since I feel like I know nothing about them. Last week I read and enjoyed <em>Mercury <\/em>by Hope Larson. I&#8217;ll read any by Raina Telgemeier. If you know graphic novels I should read, let me know!<\/p>\n<p>Happy reading!<\/p>\n<p>Current Books:<em> Hokey Pokey<\/em> by Jerry Spinelli <br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <em>Moxie and the Art of Rule Breaking<\/em> by Erin Dionne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime around the end of December, someone (Carrie Jones?) posted on Twitter about literary resolutions. At the same time donalynbooks and the Nerdy Book Club talked about Reading Gaps&#8211;areas or genres that are gaps in usual reading. I realized that I always make literary resolutions: # of books I&#8217;m going to read during the year, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/22\/literary-resolutions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Literary Resolutions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}