A new year is once again upon us, and it is time to once again delude myself with the goal of reading a book a week for the entire year, totaling 52 books in 52 weeks.

In years past, I’ve had a low point of 8 books.  I’ve hit a high point of  31 books twice.  Last year, I finished with 24 books finished, less than half of my goal and a somewhat surprising disappointment, since I was basically locked in the house for 9 months due to the corona virus.

Since I have nothing but time again this year, at least until the vaccine starts to make its way to the general population, I’m going to give it another go.  I’ve got plenty of new books stocked up in the Kindle app on my iPad, not to mention one or two birthday and Christmas presents, so I’ve got a good pile to start with.  As a reminder, the rules I am using are:

• You can count a book as read as long as you have completed the book in 2021 and at least 50% of that reading takes place in 2021
• Any book counts as long as you’re not embarrassed to count it.
• Poetry collections do indeed count.
• Re-reading a book is okay as long as it isn’t done this year. (Reading Twilight twice in 2021 only counts as 1 read)
• Audiobooks also count.

My first book of the year looks like it will be the high school memoirs of the musical group Tegan & Sara, which I’d hoped to sneak in under the wire in December.  With at least another 6 months of being stuck at home, 2021 should be another good year.