Book-related New Year Resolutions

Read lots of fun stuff: SFF, crime, comics
Read the Critique of Pure Reason

Read a few of them instead of just using them to cover the bed with

Finish Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries. I loved Vol.1 then shit happened.

Downloaded the goodreads app so I will know what I've read through the year.

Just read Swann's way,and intend to start the year working my way through the remaining novels in the series. Have been meaning to get round to Proust since my first year of university, half my lifetime ago

What’s a good Rebus to start with, koogs? Have struggled with Rankin’s on-the-nose style in the past, but wouldn’t mind trying again.

Hoping to work my way through some Pym and Ross Macdonald this year, the three Robert Shearman doorstops, and finally finish some longer novels I’ve left hanging - Middlemarch, It, Twenty Years After...

Also have a lot of heavy academic reading this year so i’m looking for good, funny, short novels to ease my load (something like Heartburn or Excellent Women or At Freddies)

The Rebus novels are in real time, ie he ages as things go on (which caused problems when he got to retirement age) and they do refer back to previous books, albeit lightly, so I'd say start towards the beginning, if not necessarily the first (which I remember as being less good). You can get cheap omnibus editions too, first 3, second 3, bundled together, often for pennies second hand on Amazon.

just reminded myself, I don't really do resolutions but a couple of notions I had for 2021: read some comics (I have fun home on my shelf & satoshi kon's opus on my tablet); buy fewer books (was originally thinking "stop buying books" but there are publishers, bookshops &c I would like to support in These Trying Times)(I am absolutely resolved not to buy any books thru amazon, except for my audible sub I guess lol); keep posting fun pics of what I'm reading to insta (I am terrible at remembering to do this tho)

look forward to being reminded of this at year's end having done none of it obv