New year is a great time for resolving to make changes in your life, but it doesn't always have to involve giving up something fun or tasty in the quest for self-improvement. No, with reading resolutions it means doing more of something you love!
It might be reading more of a particular author or genre, trying a new writer or pledging to read that classic author or book you've never quite got round to. Or perhaps you play the numbers game and resolve to read a certain number of books every month or week (or day...?) in the coming year.
Whatever your reading resolution is, we want to hear it! Email it to childrens.books@guardian.co.uk or tweet it using the hashtag #2012readingresolutions and we'll publish all the resolutions below. We might even revisit this page halfway through 2012 and see how you're all doing...
Your 2012 reading resolutions
DavidTennantFan23
My resolution would be to read every single book I borrow from the library, insted of just buying new books!
Lauren
I am going to try and read a book by a new author that I wouldn't usually pick every month, as well as two others, so that's three every month!
@mkkanaban
To finish all of ArthurRansome's works and to re-read WatershipDown (again!).
@pugsween
To read each new book I buy for our school library!
@kelliethewaffle
Rereading EVERY Georgette Heyer!
@jionalibrarian
Read the fantastic A Monster Calls with my reading group (20 y7-9pupils) & blow them away with the power of a great book
@LibwithAttitude
To read more of the books on my 'to read' pile then donate them to my public library 4 others to enjoy.
@hrtbps
To read more Miroslav Sasek to feed my wanderlust.
@realtessachen
Read more books on my shelf than the manuscripts on my desk. Been worked too much & sometime forget the excitement of reading
@aitcheldee
To introduce my son to Roald Dahl - can't wait to rediscover his books!
@storytellersinc
to finally read The Hunger Games and Chaos Walking Trilogies - and then I can talk about them too
Dannii
My reading resolution is to attempt to read more regularly, as sometimes I become quite slack and don't read for weeks! I am also going to attempt to read between 30 and 50 books this year.
Lilli
I want to read ALL Agatha Christie's novels as I've got a crush on murder-mysteries at the moment. Then I'll be ready to try some other authors and get back to novels again.
Laila
To finally finish The London Eye Mystery
Jamesk96
To review more books for the school library blog
Lauren
I am going to try and read a book by a new author that I wouldn't usually pick every month, as well as two others, so thats three every month!
@annascottjots
more YA fiction from the UK, definitely
@HelenLBeaman
reading Famous Five with my kids & catching up with some fab @margaretatwood writings!
@Library_Quine
Giving 'Divergent' by Veronica Roth a try
@Magic_Kitten
I'm going to start with The Dead and The Fear by @monstroso, then Buffy Season 8 and John le Carre!
@librarymice
to read Jane Austen and N Gaiman's "Stardust"
@LOLinthelibrary
Lots of teen fiction! @GdnChildrensBks Starting with Malorie Blackman
@esotericsips
To actually read the books I buy!
@Swaravali
To make sure I *READ* much much more than I have in 2011and I already know I will :-).
To get all the kids I know to read more merely for the pleasure of it.
Oge_Ejizu
I look forward to reading in 2012 Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper
@SawboCat
Am going to try and finally finish Great Expectations, but... I see the adaptation is on tv,might cheat instead!
@JayOPoet
Read Autobiog of George Mueller, The Cost of Discipleship, a few Watchman Nee books + Ben Hur as well as Iliad + Odyssey
Tjala
1. read 300 books this year
2. read a chapter of jane eyre every night
3. finish jane eyre and read at least one other classic
4. look up and underline the words i do not understand
5. write more reviews of books
Egem
I've started a book challenge named "read as many books as your height" for a local children's blood cancer charity. My goal is to read 144 books (I'm 144 cm now) by 11th October, which happens to be my 12th brthday!
