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I hope it's okay to post this here, but I've made a NY resolution that I thought you guys might like.
Every time I buy a book in 2007, I will buy a second book to go with it. Or rather, I will buy one extra book every time I go to the bookstore.
This "extra" book will be by an author I haven't read before. It may be a first book by a new author, or it may not. But the point is, whether the book was recommended to me or it just looked interesting, I'm not leaving the bookstore without at least one book by an author I haven't read before.
I'll try to focus on first books by new authors, but that isn't always possible here, because we tend not only to get books after their US release, but sometimes not at all, and stores here don't seem to carry back catalogs or non-best-sellers as much as they do in the states.
I'm trying to avoid bestsellers, book club choices, or award winners. (I can buy them, but not as my "resolution" book.) I want genre. I want midlist. I want to give those authors a sale, hopefully a recommend, and broaden my own reading base as well.
I've put this on my blog (http://decemberquinn.blogspot.com/2006/12/my-early-new-years-resolution.html) and I'm hoping more people join in, give recommendations, take recommendations, etc. I plan to post them about once a month.
It's not a book club, really, because we won't be all reading a book and discussing it. I'm just hoping to have some fun!
Every time I buy a book in 2007, I will buy a second book to go with it. Or rather, I will buy one extra book every time I go to the bookstore.
This "extra" book will be by an author I haven't read before. It may be a first book by a new author, or it may not. But the point is, whether the book was recommended to me or it just looked interesting, I'm not leaving the bookstore without at least one book by an author I haven't read before.
I'll try to focus on first books by new authors, but that isn't always possible here, because we tend not only to get books after their US release, but sometimes not at all, and stores here don't seem to carry back catalogs or non-best-sellers as much as they do in the states.
I'm trying to avoid bestsellers, book club choices, or award winners. (I can buy them, but not as my "resolution" book.) I want genre. I want midlist. I want to give those authors a sale, hopefully a recommend, and broaden my own reading base as well.
I've put this on my blog (http://decemberquinn.blogspot.com/2006/12/my-early-new-years-resolution.html) and I'm hoping more people join in, give recommendations, take recommendations, etc. I plan to post them about once a month.
It's not a book club, really, because we won't be all reading a book and discussing it. I'm just hoping to have some fun!
