My name is Claire, I am 16 years old, and I love reading, watching TV and films, listening to music, writing, drawing, and learning languages. I'm not new to the whole blogging thing, I have had Ears To The Ground going for nearly two years, just rambling about music, and although I sometimes (ahem... at the moment) go for a long time without posting, I still love writing about music...
However, recently I've been moved to write more about other interests of mine... Namely, books (oh, also films, but we'll talk about that on another occasion). I've loved reading since... Well, ever since I learned to read, and reading has also inspired me to write a lot.
There's more to it than just a love of reading, though. I do think that sometimes it is easy to let reading fall by the wayside, especially if (like me, and a lot of other bookworms I know) you're a very busy person. Reading 'a few chapters a day' turns into reading 'a chapter or so a week' and before you know it, you're barely reading a thing.
What with exams, music lessons, good TV and sleep to catch up on, I found that my rate of reading slowed up a hell of a lot last year. And so, I present to you one of my 2013 New Year Resolutions: to read more. It's pretty simple, really, but there's another part to it for me. This year I aim to read a few of those books that I've been meaning to read, books that make '# books everyone should read' lists, maybe a couple of classic novels. I have a (fairly extensive) 'to-read' list, which I've had going for quite a while, and this year I'm making a real effort to knock a few titles off that list.
What with this resolution to stand by, and so many good books to read, I thought 'why not blog about it as well?'. So here I am.
I'll probably post a few book reviews as I finish books, but I'll also post periodically with an update of what I've been reading lately (and what I think of it so far), what I'm planning to read soon, and so on. Between these updates, you can see a list of all the books I'm currently reading over on the right hand side of the page.
Well, that's my introduction over. Hopefully, before long this post will be buried under a treasure trove of book reviews and recommendations.
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