The Beginning

Welcome to my New Year's resolutions, 50 books in a year!  I stumbled upon this challenge the same way I discover most things, the internet.  I was watching one of my favorite vloggers on youtube when he mentioned that the end of the year was drawing close and he hadn't quite finished his 50 book challenge, vowing to read away the last few days of December in a last ditch effort to reach his goal.  Listening to his tails of literary conquest I began to count the books I'd read that year.  The small number surprised me, I used to read non stop.  Where had all the books gone?  School took up a great deal of time, but did I spend those evening hours curled up with a good book as I used to?  No.  Recently those hours have been spent in front of a computer.  I decided to take the challenge.
I think I'm prepared.  I have a suitcase full of unread books ready for the trip to my new home later this month, and lists of books to be bought and shipped to the same address as the year progresses and I begin to earn my keep.  Now I have the last piece, something to keep me motivated, this blog.  In July, when the year's half over and I'm not half done, I won't be able to shrug and give up, meekly shrinking away from the challenge, nothing won nothing lost.  I have said it out loud to the big wide internet.  Someone will have heard me and, in my mind at least, will be there to shake their head in shame if I give up.  So I won't!
For the coming year I plan to post reviews of every book I read, starting with my first book City of Thieves by David Benioff.
I prefer the young adult genre somewhere in the world of sci fi/fantasy/adventure, although I do stray from my home genre from time to time (City of Thieves is an adult novel about Leningrad during world war II, a bit outside of my comfort zone). My favorite author at the moment is Scott Westerfeld (who unfortunately won't be publishing anything this year), although I love Sir Conan Doyle and Eoin Colfer as well (I believe Artemis Fowl, books 1 and 2, will always be my favorite books).
Stay tuned, enjoy and read along!