New Year's Resolutions for Readers

2014 is just around the corner...Have you made any New Year's Resolutions yet?   Here are a few ideas for all you readers out there...

Readers Resolutions  courtesy of Camille DelVecchio of the Penfield Public Library in New York.

This year I will:

1. Reread a book I loved as a child.
2. Finally read that classic from high school I've been avoiding.
3. Find a book of poetry and read some aloud.
4. Spend an hour in aimless browsing at a library.
5. Read a book written in the year I was born.
6. Create a journal and keep notes about the books and magazines I read.
7. Assemble a list of addresses of my favorite people and send them my ideas about books.
8. Read a book to a child.
9. Gather a few friends and read a play out loud.
10. Read a book on the history of my town.  Why not try 20th Century Memoirs of Kirtland  by Grace Parks? 
11. Read a book written from a political point of view totally opposite my own.
12. Read a book about a place I've never been.
13. Reread a book that I just didn't "get" when I was eighteen.
14. Ask my favorite librarian to show me some print and online resources for readers.
15. Read a book written by a non-American.

Have you ever started a book and decided you don't like it, but not put it down because you feel guilty and you're not a quitter!  If you need permission to stop reading a book before you've finished it, try the "Rule of Fifty."

Nancy Pearl, a librarian and readers advisor extraordinaire, developed this simple rule to help readers determine how many pages they should read before they give up on a particular book.   If you are fifty years of age or younger, give the book fifty pages before you decide to commit to reading it or give it up.  If you are over fifty, subtract your age from 100 -- the result is the number of pages you should read before making your decision to stay with it or quit.

What better way to start out the new year than with a good book.  Come to the Kirtland Public Library and check one out today!