A Good Year For Books

He says:
Abby and I have never really been into extravagant New Year's Resolutions.  In fact this year I will be continuing my resolution from last year.  Not very original but how many resolutions actually become habits?

A while back I realized that I had a lot of books.  Too many books in fact.  So many that I hadn't even read some of them.  I merely collected them thinking that one day they would be good reads.  This spurred me on to make the resolution of reading 52 books in a year.  I had never read 52 in a year before, but one book a week didn't seem like much (my mom probably reads that much in a month...).  I decided that only books of "substance" would make the list, pretty subjective I know, but I tried not to have much filler.

I ended up reading the 52 books last year so I'm doing it again.  This time with the secondary objective of cleaning out my bookcases.  I would like to only keep the books that I know I'll read again such as my absolute favorites and books that I'll use for reference. Owning books seems sort of strange when cities have public libraries.

I'm off to a good start so far.  I'm powering through some easy reads that have been sitting on my bookshelves, whetting my appetite before I stand tackling some of my big guys, like Stephen King's The Stand.  It's going to be a good year for books.