Read more books

I’m currently on book number 16, and we’re just about half way through the year now. This means I’m about 4 books short of where I should be if I’m still aiming for 40. However, we’re also at the beginning of what is going to be a very long summer for me, so hopefully I’ll get quite a lot of reading in now.

As for reading books of more substance, well, I’m not doing badly. I realised shortly after reading ‘Birdsong’ by Sebastian Faulks that my list of ‘decent’ adult books is shockingly low. I’ve really only read Helen Fielding, Nick Hornby, Sophie Kinsella, a little Alexander McCall Smith, and ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ by Arthur Golden. But…I have already noted down some more ‘high-brow’ books that I would like to read this summer. Hopefully I should return in September a more accomplished reader, ready for my As Level English Lit course :)

Oh, and there’s Harry Potter to look forward to in two weeks!

Last year I kept a sort of book-list and I’ve worked out that I read around 24. This year I’m aiming for just less than double that…a nice round 40. It would be great if I could read 52, but I just don’t think that’s realistic (especially not for a person of a procrastinating nature such as I).

I’m also going to try and read books of ‘more substance’...I need to cut down on the Chick Lit definitely :P So as well as reading more, I need to try something new.

I’ve read one so far this year, and I’ve got five more at home that I got for Christmas/from the library. So there’s plenty of scope :)