2014 was the year I learned …

To stop reading a book if I wasn’t enjoying it.

To use a TBR jar to keep my reading varied and exciting.

That I enjoy plays and graphic novels.

To accept that it’s ok for me not to like books.

To use my library again the way that I loved to when I was a child.

To accept that sometimes I just don’t have that much to say about a book.

That books can be talked about without reference to 20th century literary theorists.

To get over my ‘literary shame’.

That sometimes I don’t want to read and that’s ok.

That audio books are brilliant!

That I have enough books to read without buying more.

The pleasure of a good children’s book.

To be confident in my own tastes and opinions about books.

The joy of monitoring your reading.