First of all Happy New Year!

It’s that time where we both look forward and look back and stock take isn’t it? At the beginning of last year when I start the blog properly one of the internal resolutions that I made in myself was to keep the blog up and not let it run dry. I didn’t do as well at that as I thought I would, I mean I reviewed every book I read but the blogs I had intended to write like ‘why I am obsessed with what everyone else reads on the tube’ and many more never got written but hopefully they will in 2009, I definitely improved toward the end of the year though! I also made some other resolutions on here…

The ones that sadly I failed at were;
- Read a Jodi Piccoult, I have always had something against her books and have absolutely no rational for this, 2008 wasn’t the year that I broke that habit
- The Odyssey, my mum would have been so proud if I had… but nope
- Read harder fiction, well am gunning through Anna Karenina at the moment and Will Self’s ‘The Book of Dave’ wasn’t easy but was extremely rewarding
- Hardy and Trollope, double no
- Revisit old favourites; nope sadly I was focused on getting through my huge TBR
- Give some books a second chance, no I wanted to have a second slog at Lionel Shriver’s ‘We Need to Talk about Kevin’ but I simply didn’t.

The ones I managed were;
- Read more short stories, I read two collections, maybe three but would have liked to read more
- Read a James Bond
- Read Tess Gerritsen, well I definitely did that actually becoming a big fan, managed to save some for this year though
- Read more non fiction, well with the Mitford Letters, a book on ghost hunting and the fabulous Kate Summerscale I did just that

So what about for 2009? What book resolutions have I got this year? Do I want to take any over that I didn’t manage this year? Well the ones I am setting myself this year are;
- Find a new favourite author I haven’t read before but can’t get enough of
- Classics, I want to read a lot more classics both classic classics and modern classics if that makes sense
- Try stuff I wouldn’t normally, this means joining some more book groups me thinks
- The Man Booker-a-thon, I would really like to give this a go this year especially now I know more publishers
- Possibly re-try a few books like ‘We Need To Talk About Kevin’ and ‘Company of Liars’ the latter I really wanted to read but it didn’t grab the mood I was in, oh and Kate Atkinson's 'Behind The Museum
- Not buy as many books; I think this one is unlikely.

I think that’s enough? Is anyone else making any book resolutions this year?