The Readolution Starts Here

I often hold my breath a little when people start telling me about their New Year's Resolution. What are they giving up, what are they not allowing themselves to do. In fact, the self-flagellation that goes on around NYE is depressing. It's as though people, dissatisfied with one year, come up with ways that they can make the next year less fun.

So I like resos to be a little more fun. Last year was a tour of culinary delights. This year, it'll be a feast of the literary kind. I've decided to try and read the favourite books of my friends - with the aim of both reading something great and also see what people's favourite book says about them.

A quick note on favourite - I've had this question a lot: what do you mean by favourite? Is it a book you keeping going back to? The one that's most influenced you and your view of the world? The one with the biggest font size?

I'm not too worried about how you choose to interpret it. Let's just imagine someone put a gun to your head and said "tell me your fav". First thing that pops into your mind. GO.

I'll write them up here - which will be a very public record of whether I stick to this. Good news then that my other resolution was to stop neglecting blogs (and not to give up self-referencing humour).