Assessing Those New Year's Resolutions

Posted February 19th, 2010 by kerri and filed in small house living
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Books

As I wrote a month or so ago, I only had one New Year’s Resolution: Read 26 books, which is 1 book every other week. I took on this goal after my friend, Heather, almost made it to her goal of 52 books last year.

Within the first few months of mov­ing to The Little House, I found a com­mu­nity book club through our vol­un­teer fire department’s newslet­ter. I’ve enjoyed meet­ing the neigh­bors (some of them live more than 10 miles away, but they’re still con­sid­ered neigh­bors here) and get­ting together with them once a month at their homes where we enjoy some appe­tiz­ers and then a potluck lunch after dis­cussing the cho­sen book for the month. The eclec­tic pick of books ensures that I read some­thing I wouldn’t nor­mally pick, which is also a ben­e­fit of belong­ing to a book club.

The pick this month is “The Book Thief.”

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